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The Alan Wake Intro Only Exists Because Stephen King Sold His Quote For $1
23.6.2023
The opening shot of Alan Wake, the 2010 action-adventure horror remastered fairly recently, in 2021, finds us winding around a dusky mountain pass. As we watch spruce trees come and go and the orange sunset give way to chalky fog, protagonist Alan Wake says the following in a voiceover: “Stephen...
AR, VR, and a Model for 3D in HTML
27.1.2023
Tucked down somewhere in the Safari Technology Preview 161 release notes is a seemingly innocous line about support for a new HTML element and attribute:
Added support for <model src> and honor <source type> attributes (257518@main)
Anytime I …
AR,...
More Than “Slapping Paint on a Website”
29.11.2022
I’m a sucker for anything about front-end job titles.
Anselm Hannemann:
CSS evolved and we’re beyond the point where everyone can just do it as a side interest. We all can learn it and build amazing stuff with it,
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WordPress Developer Blog
22.11.2022
Well, hey check this out. Looks like there is a brand spankin’ new blog over at WordPress.org all about WordPress development. In the original proposal for the blog, Birgit Pauli-Haak writes:
The Make Core blog has a heavy
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A Couple Changes Coming in Chrome 108
4.11.2022
“A change to overflow on replaced elements in CSS”:
From Chrome 108, the following replaced elements respect the overflow property: img, video and canvas. In earlier versions of Chrome, this property was ignored on these elements.
This
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A Couple Changes...
FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Backtracks on $1B Political Donation, Calls It 'Dumb Quote'
14.10.2022
The head of crypto exchange FTX is a political mega-donor and had earlier said he might donate up to $1 billion in the 2024 U.S. presidential election
CSS Rules vs. CSS Rulesets
21.9.2022
The latest spec:
A style rule is a qualified rule that associates a selector list with a list of property declarations and possibly a list of nested rules. They are also called rule sets in CSS2.
Louis Lazaris:
As the above quote from W3C indicates...
Bunny Fonts
30.6.2022
Bunny Fonts bills itself as the “privacy-first web font platform designed to put privacy back into the internet.”According to its FAQ:
With a zero-tracking and no-logging policy, Bunny Fonts helps you stay fully GDPR compliant and puts your user’s personal
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Bunny Fonts...
Text-overflow: ellipsis considered harmful
30.6.2022
Eric Eggert:
There are a few legitimate use cases for this technique. For example, you might have a table with titles and descriptions. To preserve more space for the title, you constrain the description to one line on small
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Am I on the IndieWeb yet?
9.6.2022
Can’t smash the Like button hard enough for what Miriam Suzanne has to say on the challenging technical hurdles of implementing Webmentions:
The first round required several online services along with HTML & JS changes to my static site, just to verify my
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Am...
SPAs, Shared Element Transitions, and Re-Evaluating Technology
1.6.2022
Nolan Lawson sparked some discussion when he described a noticeable shift away from single-page applications (SPAs):
Hip new frameworks like Astro, Qwik, and Elder.js are touting their MPA [multi-page application] with “0kB JavaScript by default.”
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SPAs, Shared Element Transitions,...
Verevolf
20.5.2022
Zeldman:
You may not know his name, but he played a huge part in creating the web you take for granted today. And he’s back—kind of.
That would be Glenn Davis and the Verevolf site Zeldman’s talking about. The …
Verevolf originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get...
Let’s Create a Tiny Programming Language
10.5.2022
By now, you are probably familiar with one or more programming languages. But have you ever wondered how you could create your own programming language? And by that, I mean:
A programming language is any set of rules that convert
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My white whale: A use case for will-change
24.2.2022
 Nic Chan:
[…] the will-change property landed in major browsers in August 2015, and I’ve been on the lookout for when to use it ever since. It might seem self-evident to apply it to commonly animated properties such
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Before I go: When it comes to complaining about web browsers
22.2.2022
That’s a damn one-two punch from Dave. He goes for the ultimate clickbait title¹, then follows up with a pile of epic advice for us all. If you want web browsers to get better, listen up:
Complaining on
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GSAP Flip Plugin for Animation
15.2.2022
Greensock made the GSAP Flip plugin free in the 3.9 release. FLIP is an animation concept that helps make super performance state-change animations. Ryan Mulligan has a good blog post:
FLIP, coined by Paul Lewis, is an
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Your CSS reset needs text-size-adjust (probably)
12.2.2022
Kilian Valkhof:
[…] Mobile Safari increases the default font-size when you switch a website from portrait to landscape. On phones that is, it doesn’t do it on iPad. Safari has been doing this for a long time, as a
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Your CSS reset needs text-size-adjust (probably) originally...
Metaphors We Web By
1.2.2022
Maggie Appleton gets into what is perhaps the foremost metaphor the web is founded on: paper.
Paper documents were the original metaphor for the web. […]
The page you’re reading this on still mimics paper. We still call it
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The Optional Chaining Operator, “Modern” Browsers, and My Mom
30.1.2022
Jim Nielsen’s mom couldn’t open a website. Jim worked on confirming the issue and documented how he got to the bottom of it:
“[…] well it can’t be a browser issue. It’s not like my Mom is using Internet Explorer!
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Parcel CSS: A New CSS Parser, Transformer, and Minifier
12.1.2022
Hot off the presses from Devon Govett, creator of Parcel, is Parcel CSS:
A CSS parser, transformer, and minifier written in Rust.
Nice. The CSS world could use a little processing shake up like this.
I just wrote a …
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