Written by Sebastian De Deyne
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on Nov. 4, 2020
Masonry layout support has been added to the CSS grid specification! 🎉 A Level 3 of the CSS Grid specification has been published as an Editor’s Draft, this level describes a way to do Masonry layout in CSS. A masonry layout is one where items are laid out one after the other in the inline directio…
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on Oct. 21, 2020
Today, my colleague Freek asked for help embedding the webview of an email campaign in an iframe. He needed it in an iframe because embedding the HTML directly caused layout issues because the website’s CSS clashed with it. After setting up the iframe, we needed to find a way to dynamically resize…
Written by Sebastian De Deyne
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on Oct. 20, 2020
I recently stumbled across an over 5 year old comment on Hacker News about performance. Lots of people make the mistake of thinking there’s only two vectors you can go to improve performance, high or wide. High - throw hardware at the problem, on a single machine Wide - Add more machines There’s a…
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on Oct. 19, 2020
Last week, Unsplash added “blurhashes” to their API. Blurhashes are 20-30 character strings that represent a blurred placeholder of an image. Blurred image placeholders aren’t new, but I was completely stomped to see what kind of gradient maps are generated with only 30 characters. In short, BlurHa…
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on Oct. 9, 2020
Ryan Singer talked about how they (don’t) deal with roadmaps on the Signal v. Noise blog. In short: roadmaps are a bad idea because they can create uncertainty, false expectations, and guilt. My favorite argument against long term roadmaps is the uncertainty. We don’t have a crystal ball. Say we ha…
Written by Sebastian De Deyne
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on Oct. 8, 2020
If all went well, this post was published automatically. I added the ability to schedule posts on my static blog (built with Hugo). I wrote a short GitHub Action to trigger a build on Netlify every morning. By default, Hugo doesn’t build pages that have a date in the future. During development, you…