Lean Rada

leanrada.com

A webapp that shows the diversity of languages in the Philippines. Learn about the local languages. Listen to local songs and other media. Made in vanilla JS with D3.js. Passion project.

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Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders

2025470 points75 comments Web & Frontend details

Here’s a CSS technique that produces blurry image placeholders (LQIPs) without cluttering up your markup — Only a single custom property needed!

Sort, sweep, and prune: Collision detection algorithms (2023)

2024340 points58 comments Math & Algorithms details

Sweep-and-prune is my go-to algorithm when I want to quickly implement collision detection for a game. I think it’s an awesome and elegant algorithm, so I wrote a post about it.