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How to Get Handwriting Animation With Irregular SVG Strokes
11.9.2020
I wanted to do a handwriting animation for calligraphy fonts — the kind where the words animate like they are being written by an invisible pen. Because calligraphy fonts have uneven stroke widths (they actually aren’t even strokes in terms of SVG), it was near impossible to do this sort of thing...
Trader Who Earned USD 11m Shares Trading Techniques, Offers Advice
19.8.2020
A bitcoin (BTC) trader has shared the story about how he earned over USD 11,000 million, and offered some technical advice for beginner traders.
The trader told his story in an interview with bitFlyer Japan, a trading platform, which described him as one of "the most famous" of...
Defcon Speaker Discusses Liberating $300K Worth of Bitcoin From an Encrypted File
12.8.2020
This year due to the coronavirus outbreak the world-famous hackers’ convention Defcon held it’s 28th annual event with virtual presentations in “safe mode.” One of the presentations was from an executive from Pyrofex, Michael Stay, who discussed how he broke into...
Hide Scrollbars During an Animation
24.6.2020
CSS still can’t animate to auto dimensions.
.dropdown {
transition: 0.2s;
height: 0;
}
.dropdown.open {
/* the height will change, but it won't animate. */
height: auto;
}
There is JavaScript trickery you can try. Brandon Smith outlined several techniques here a little while back....
Easing Animations in Canvas
19.6.2020
The <canvas> element in HTML and Canvas API in JavaScript combine to form one of the main raster graphics and animation possibilities on the web. A common canvas use-case is programmatically generating images for websites, particularly games. That’s exactly what I’ve done in a website...
New Ransomware Uses Sophisticated Evasion Techniques
11.6.2020
Recorded Future says that Thanos deploys a particular encryption technique in its attack and offers a revenue-sharing scheme for external hackers
Traditional Stock Market Valuation Techniques Reveal Overvalued DeFi Projects
14.5.2020
Applying stock market valuation methods to DeFi leads to surprisingly tame results, all things considered
Create a Responsive CSS Motion Path? Sure We Can!
15.4.2020
There was a discussion recently on the Animation at Work Slack: how could you make a CSS motion path responsive? What techniques would be work? This got me thinking.
A CSS motion path allows us to animate elements along custom user-defined paths. Those paths follow the same structure as SVG paths....
Why Do Some HTML Elements Become Deprecated?
2.4.2020
The internet has been around for a long while, and over time we’ve changed the way we think about web design. Many old techniques and ways of doing things have gotten phased out as newer and better alternatives have been created, and we say that they have been deprecated.
Deprecated. It’s a word...
4 Ways to Animate the Color of a Text Link on Hover
3.3.2020
Let’s create a pure CSS effect that changes the color of a text link on hover… but slide that new color in instead of simply swapping colors.
There are four different techniques we can use to do this. Let’s look at those while being mindful of important things, like accessibility, performance,...
Image Dragging Effects
3.2.2020
A set of playful dragging effects for images using various techniques.
Image Dragging Effects was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
Strategize Your Financial Goals With These SMART Techniques
3.2.2020
Every December, we start thinking about our New Year’s resolutions. The goals are usually along the lines of eating healthier food, exercising more, and saving up for that exotic trip or that sleek car. Other goals are bigger, bolder, and more crucial to our future. However, in most cases,...
Hacker Group Lazarus Uses Fake Exchanges, Telegram Groups in Latest Malware Attacks
11.1.2020
A new report shows that North Korea-linked Lazarus Group has adapted and evolved new techniques since initial attacks, and are using phony trading platforms linking to Telegram channels which distribute malware, as well as making their malware more stealthy by “adding an authentication...
WDRL — Edition 279: Inclusive docs, Microbrowsers, Kind Companies, and CSS Subgrid Techniques
17.12.2019
Hey,
It’s the last update for this year as the new year holidays are coming up and I’m gonna take a break from web development as well during this time. Time to work on other things like woodwork, or preparing and planning the next year’s Gardening season. I’m going to build a CSA and next year...
Scroll, Refraction and Shader Effects in Three.js and React
16.12.2019
Discover how to use react-three-fiber and combine some common techniques to create a Three.js powered layout with shader effects.
Scroll, Refraction and Shader Effects in Three.js and React was written by Paul Henschel and published on Codrops
Techniques for Rendering Text with WebGL
6.12.2019
As is the rule in WebGL, anything that seems like it should be simple is actually quite complicated. Drawing lines, debugging shaders, text rendering… they are all damn hard to do well in WebGL.
Isn’t that weird? WebGL doesn't have a built-in function for rendering text. Although text seems like...
Techniques for a Newspaper Layout with CSS Grid and Border Lines Between Elements
20.11.2019
I recently had to craft a newspaper-like design that featured multiple row and column spans with divider lines in between them. Take a look at the mockup graphic here and see if it makes you sweat at all. If you’re like me, you have been around a while and know just how difficult this would have...
Clipping, Clipping, and More Clipping!
8.10.2019
There are so many things you can do with clipping paths. I've been exploring them for quite some time and have come up with different techniques and use cases for them — and I want to share my findings with you! I hope this will spark new ideas for fun things you can do with the CSS clip-path...
A Glassy (and Classy) Text Effect
29.8.2019
The landing page for Apple Arcade has a cool effect where some "white" text has a sort of translucent effect. You can see some of the color of the background behind it through the text. It's not like knockout text where you see the exact background. In this case, live video is playing underneath....
Get the Best Domain Name for your New Website
8.8.2019
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If you're on CSS-Tricks, we can probably bet that you're in the process of building a really cool website. You've spent your time creating content, applying appropriate UX design techniques, coding it to perfection, and now you're about ready to launch it to the world.
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