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When measuring the size of a two-dimensional digital picture, the unit pixel is used in a weird overloaded way. Sometimes, it is used as a unit of linear length. For example, each frame of an animation is 1920 pixels wide and 1080 pixels tall. The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) web standard has px as a unit of length…
I'm Brad Frost, an independent creator, web designer & developer, teacher, speaker, writer, musician, and artist based in Pittsburgh, PA.
Let me begin by saying that I love Windows 8. I have it on all of my computers and I find that is the best OS for productivity and awesomeness. OS X is good looking and polished, especially with the Mavericks update (A.K.A. fake leather killer), but I find that it is lacking some productivity detai
React is very popular at the moment, and I can see why: its developer ergonomics are very attractive. JSX and vDOM are really nice to work with, and it certainly enables composability. But, being the performance-minded person that I am, I wanted to test the claims that it's default-fast.
A Lonely Planet project
Something something Amplify is bad
I wrote about this problem in May, without showcases, just a theoretical post http://homakov.blogspot.com/2013/05/do-not-use-rjs-like-techn...
For a long time one of the recommendations for a faster site has been to “serve your static content from a cookieless domain”. This sugges...
Our web app allows users can change the length of a song or find loops present in it for infinite listening, remixing, or for their next next video edit or performance. After uploading a song, there is an initial server-side analysis step after which...
A couple of tries at generating more interesting image previews using imagemagick with the mini_magick gem.
Friends! Pals! CSS deviants! One thing I’ve always loved about CSS, besides its obvious and immediate effect on a webpage—wow this table is now red!—is that...
continuing with the DNA theme… In Catalyst, a WebAssembly implementation of the OpenSmalltalk virtual machine, there are three linguistic levels in play: Smalltalk, JavaScript (JS), and WebAs…
When it comes to static sites, there are a myriad of solutions for authoring and compiling, but talk about hosting these static sites, and we are still in the early 2000s. I discuss the challenges one faces when hosting, and even make a proposal to solve some of these.
I've learnt I don't need to keep up with the hectic pace of Front End development news.
A Date in JavaScript always represents a point in time (i.e. milliseconds since epoch). This is more apparent when printing out the full date string:
I've developed a few browser extensions, and every week I receive numerous emails with "revenue offer". Some experienced developers know that offers like these will inject malware into the browsers of your users, but scammers who make these offers will not tell you about it. They offer "integrations" that don't look…
Yet another existential threat to PainScience.com.
Author: IdeogramAI Prompt: The image shows a typical Google Takeout interface with a large error message indicating that the service is unavailable. In the background, there are frustrated users trying to download their data with unsuccessful attempts, represented by repeated “Failed” and “Retry” notifications. My…
Just days before Andy revamped his (more) Modern CSS Reset, Dave and I were line-by-lining it on ShopTalk Show. Mouthblogging is fun and all, but so is Writemouthblogging, known colloquially as …
I recently started compiling a list of defunct blogging platforms . It’s been interesting to see how websites die — from domain parking pages to timeouts to blank pages to outdated TLS cipher errors, there are a multitude of different ways.
This is slightly embarrassing: Instapaper doesn’t show Retina-resolution graphics on the new iPad yet.
In my previous post , I explored how programming with promises can be made close to programming with values. After some more work on it, and some learning from bluebird , I came to conclude that my brain doesn’t think well with promises. So I wrote a macro for Javascript that expands “tasks” into async state machines…
I'm Tav, a 28-year old from London. I enjoy working on large-scale social, economic and technological systems.
Like any good web developer, I have a tendency to poke around at people’s web sites to see if I can figure out how they’re implemented. After poking at enough sites, I started noticing that people were putting some weird and interesting stuff in their HTTP headers. So, a couple of weeks ago, I decided to actually go…
