James Bridle – whom you might know from his autonomous trap for self-driving cars – on the dangers of leaving your children on YouTube unattended: Writer and artist James Bridle uncovers a dark, strange corner of the internet, where unknown people or groups on YouTube hack the brains of young children in …
Great work by Heydon Pickering, in which he lets a flexbox layout respond to the size of its container, and not the viewport Sometimes you want your items to wrap in a very particular way. For instance, when you have three items, you’ll be happy with the three-abreast layout and accepting of the single-column …
Dimensions.Guide is a comprehensive reference database of dimensioned drawings documenting the standard measurements and sizes of the everyday objects and spaces that make up our world. Created as a universal resource to better communicate the basic properties, systems, and logics of our built environment, Dimensions.…
The Night Sky lets one create a map of the stars, as seen at a certain time and location. Was it your first kiss, the birth of a child or that moment you realized your world had changed. Give a gift of the stars to always remember that special night. Prints (rather expensive ones if you ask me) can be …
Scott Jehl, from Filament Group: The select element has long been difficult to style consistently across browsers. To avoid its shortcomings in the past, we have used workarounds like styling a parent element, adding pseudo-elements, and even using JavaScript to construct a select-like control out of different …
Today Signal v Noise announced they have moved from Medium to WordPress and there main reasoning seems to be because of the change in how Medium is ran. I personally tried out Medium back when they originally switched and had high hopes, Medium said they were going to work for the writers but more and more you …
POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT! If you haven’t watched Avengers Infinity War and don’t know the ending, I suggest you look away now. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! The new Spider-Man trailer has hit us today, and I am excited. He is heading to Europe on this adventure and Mysterio is appearing. What strikes me and others, he is …
Signal v Noise post from the year 2000. The more things change, the more they stay the same
Three years ago we embraced an exciting new publishing platform called Medium. It felt like a new start for a writing community, and we benefitted immensely …
On Thursday, November 8, Basecamp 3 went down for almost five hours. It was the worst outage to hit the company in a decade and a stress test of Basecamp’s …
Quitting Facebook. Renouncing Uber. Avoiding Amazon. There have never been more or greater reasons for turning your back entirely on much of Big Tech. The …
By Chris Tankersley The tech industry is always awash with new ideas that are actually old. One which gained traction in the last ten years is the idea of “DevOps.” This term is the combination of “Development” and “Operations” and is meant to show these two roles can be combined for more efficiency. Get the …
Since the dawn of the web, performance has been an important factor for web development because slow speeds often lead to a loss of visitors and, ultimately, …
https://youtu.be/oalx7kxSU7s One of the most impressive parts of Visual Studio Code is customizability, especially via extensions. With tons of developers …
407 Proxy Authentication Required is an error a HTTP proxy returns if it requires authentication. It’s really similar to 401 Unauthorized . Example HTTP/1.1 407 Proxy Authentication Required Proxy-Authenticate: Basic; realm="Secured area" As you can see above, the response looks pretty similar to 401 …
Laravel Translations Loader is a web pack loader to import your Laravel translation files (PHP or JSON) by Luís Dalmolin and Kirschbaum Development Group. …
The main thought behind hexagonal architecture is that by isolation the core logic of your app, adding more inputs (like an API or console app) or outputs …
Dear friend, The book “Conspiracy” deals with the Hulk Hogan/Gawker trial that eventually bankrupted Gawker. It is a fascinating case study on hubris. At several points it is pointed out that if Gawker had publicly apologized for publishing the video and for its condescending attitude towards Hogan, things would have …
In this episode, we'll wrap every task within a form so that we may easily update its description or completion status with the click of a button. View the …
If you have recently moved or are thinking of moving to the nodejs Express framework than you should primarily get acquainted with its routing and middleware concepts, as an Express application is essentially a series of middleware function calls. Middlewares in Express are functions executed after the incoming …