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SVGcode for “Live Tracing” Raster Images
9.2.2022
Say you have a bitmap graphic — like a JPG, PNG, or GIF — and you wish it was vector, like SVG. What do you do? You could trace it yourself in some kind of design software. Or tools within …
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JavaScript Class Privates
1.2.2022
One of my aspects of JavaScript that drew me to it as a young developers was that its syntax was loose and I could code quickly. As you gain experience as an engineer, you start to realize that some traditional coding structure is a good thing, even if it slows you down. Using Jest or […]
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Easy Asset Access with the Cloudinary Media Library Browser Extension
31.1.2022
Readers of my blog will know that I’ve been banging the Cloudinary drum for years. Their awesome media capabilities allow users to optimally deliver images, video, and audio in any format and to any device. Performance, customization, flexibility, optimized delivery… Cloudinary makes...
I Love You, Ringo
27.1.2022
Some things happen in your life at exactly the right time. It could be meeting the right person, discovering an open source project you go on to join, or even starting a blog when you’re bored with a job you don’t enjoy. All of those things happened to me at the right time and brought...
Using SVG in WordPress (2 Helpful Plugin Recommendations)
21.1.2022
SVG is a great image format, so it's nice to able to use it in WordPress. If you're looking to be using SVG in WordPress. , we've got you covered here with all the best options.
Using SVG in WordPress (2 Helpful Plugin Recommendations) originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get...
Animate Anything Along an SVG Path
19.1.2022
Learn how to code creative animations using SVG paths and the getPointAtLength() function.
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Amazing Text Editing Experiences with UltraEdit (Sponsored)
19.1.2022
There’s a common saying that adults spend more time with coworkers than family; for us software engineers, we spend more time with our text editor than our families. And why shouldn’t we? They’re our main tool to do a variety of things, and as these editors evolve, they’re...
More Awesome Git Aliases
17.1.2022
In the last article in this series, Awesome Git Aliases, we took a look at some awesome aliases for Git. However, the true power of Git aliases comes from writing custom scripts. These allow you to build Git commands that can do anything you can imagine. In this article, I’ll show you how...
Immediately Executing setInterval with JavaScript
14.1.2022
Employing setInterval for condition polling has really been useful over the years. Whether polling on the client or server sides, being reactive to specific conditions helps to improve user experience. One task I recently needed to complete required that my setInterval immediately execute and then...
How to Flatten git Commits
7.1.2022
One of my least favorite tasks as a software engineer is resolving merge conflicts. A simple rebase is a frequent occurrence but the rare massive conflict is inevitable when many engineers work in a single codebase. One thing that helps me deal with large rebases with many merge conflicts...
JavaScript S
27.12.2021
Replacing a substring of text within a larger string has always been misleading in JavaScript. I wrote Replace All Occurrences of a String in JavaScript years ago and it’s still one of my most read articles. The confusion lies in that replace only replaces the first occurrence of a substring...
Froala: The Next Generation WYSIWYG Editor (Sponsored)
16.12.2021
There are a number of utilities required to really power a content management system and its users. One of the most important utilities is a performant, feature-rich WYSIWYG editor. We’ve always had to choose between the two exiting editors, CKEditor and TinyMCE, but now we have Froala,...
Log a User Out from Command Line
14.12.2021
Automation is a system administrator, support agent, and tech savvy person’s dream. Automating tasks via scripts remotely helps to get clients out of trouble or even the organization itself. Oftentimes big updates can require users log out. Logging a user out from command line is super easy...
navigator.clipboard API
13.12.2021
Reading from and writing to the user’s clipboard can be both a very useful and dangerous capability. Used correctly and it’s a huge convenience to the user; used dubiously and the user could suffer catastrophic consequences. Imagine a wrong account number or wallet address being copied...
Fractional SVG stars with CSS
2.12.2021
Some ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ star rating systems aren’t always exactly even stars. Say you want to support rating something 2.25 stars. To do that you could “fill” the shape of the stars partially. I like this idea by Samuel...
Which SVG technique performs best for way too many icons?
23.11.2021
Tyler Sticka digs in here in the best possible way: by making a test page and literally measuring performance. Maybe 1,000 icons is a little bit of an edge case, but hey, 250 rows of data with four icons in …
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GraphQL Editor – The Journey from Initial Release to Version 5.0
22.11.2021
From the very beginning of our adventure with GraphQL, we were impressed by how great its community is. The amount of content, libraries and great tools generated by GraphQL users amazed us from the very start. The more time we spent working with GraphQL the more things we saw that could...
Array.prototype.at
8.11.2021
Working with arrays is an essential skill in any programming language, especially JavaScript, as we continue to rely on external data APIs. JavaScript has added methods like find and `findIndex recently, but one syntax I love from languages like Python is retrieving values by negative indexes. When...
Favicons: How to Make Sure Browsers Only Download the SVG Version
5.11.2021
Šime Vidas DM’d me the other day about this thread from subzey on Twitter. My HTML for favicons was like this:
<!-- Warning! Typo! --<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" size="any"<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.svg" type="image/svg+xml"
The attribute size is a typo there...
Fast, Accurate Geolocation Data with IPWHOIS.io (Sponsored)
3.11.2021
In the world of marketing and content targeting, having accurate geolocation data can be the difference between a thriving enterprise and a floundering business. Accurate data is everything, especially in the targeted marketing. When you need trustworthy geolocation data, IPWHOIS.io is a great...