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by kilian 4y ago
My personal pet-peeve is devs using the number input for things that contain digits but aren't "numbers" (credit card numbers, 2fa codes, postal codes etc)[0]. Number input provides a lot of footguns and you're usually b
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On better browsers: arbitrary media queries and browser UIs(kilianvalkhof.com)
1 points by kilian 4y ago|0 comments
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by kilian 4y ago
If you're looking for a GUI for most of these on Linux, you can use Trimage[1] which I created a long long time ago, but it still works. It runs images through a bunch of optimizers, but only compresses losslessly. [1] https:/&#x
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by kilian 4y ago
I trained an ML model on 15K headlines from the local (Dutch) populist newsletter and use that model to tweet a new headline every 30 minutes, for the past three years. To make it look like tweets from the actual newsletter, I take the firs
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Polypane 9: Screenshot editor, structured data support and new debug tools(polypane.app)
1 points by kilian 4y ago|0 comments
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by kilian 4y ago
Interesting. As someone using webviews extensively[1], the main issue is that the "iframe" model of security many operate on makes sense on the web, but not in native apps. When it comes to embedding third party content with ifram
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Forced Colors Explained(polypane.app)
16 points by kilian 4y ago|7 comments
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Forced colors explained(polypane.app)
53 points by kilian 4y ago|2 comments
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Always open localhost in your development browser(polypane.app)
5 points by kilian 5y ago|0 comments
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The EyeDropper API: Pick colors from anywhere on your screen(polypane.app)
2 points by kilian 5y ago|0 comments
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Detecting media query support in CSS and JavaScript(kilianvalkhof.com)
1 points by kilian 5y ago|0 comments
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by kilian 5y ago
That's fair. For what it's worth: the code runs fully in the browser and never calls out or uses any external service. It's just a bunch of CSS and JS files on disk :)
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by kilian 5y ago
Will definitely tackle iOS when I get started on the Safari version, but I'm not too familiar with what's possible on Android.
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by kilian 5y ago
Not open source, it's based on code I built for https://polypane.app But I am planning on making an extension for every (modern) browser that can have one.
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Show HN: Fix contrast, a free browser extension that fixes text contrast issues(fixa11y.com)
23 points by kilian 5y ago|11 comments
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by kilian 5y ago
They have Geckoview on Android but from what I've heard there was no interest in making that available for other platforms, and this was before they fired a ton of their technical staff. A shame really!
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by kilian 5y ago
> As a content consumer I'm frequently annoyed, when I have to wait for images to load while scrolling. That's the experience most javascript solutions gave you. This browser native solution will load images _before_ they'
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by kilian 6y ago
Thanks for sharing this! The concept has been in my mind for well over a decade (initially with the decision to make https://trimage.org not have any settings) but it's really been taking shape the past few years. We hire s
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by kilian 6y ago
This site is a prime example of a Mac developers using overflow: auto when they should use overflow: scroll[1]. [1] https://kilianvalkhof.com/2021/css-html/you-want-overflow-au...
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by kilian 6y ago
I really wanted to like Budgie but it has so many nits/broken things when I tried it two years ago that I moved away. The thing that finally got me was that the workspace switcher came with a 300ms timeout before switching workspaces a
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Faking container queries with CSS Grid(polypane.app)
1 points by kilian 6y ago|0 comments
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Creating websites with prefers-reduced-data(polypane.app)
20 points by kilian 6y ago|1 comments
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I want my own media queries in browsers(kilianvalkhof.com)
1 points by kilian 6y ago|0 comments
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by kilian 6y ago
We also have Alfred J. Kwak[1], which looking back on it is surprisingly on-the-nose with a lot of topics that completely passed me by as a child. The israel/palestine conflict, apartheid and fascism to name just a few. [1] https:&#x2
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Beautiful CSS 3D Transforms(polypane.app)
8 points by kilian 6y ago|0 comments
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Supercharging <input type=number>(kilianvalkhof.com)
1 points by kilian 6y ago|0 comments
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Beyond screen sizes: responsive design in 2020(heartinternet.uk)
2 points by kilian 6y ago|0 comments
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by kilian 6y ago
It's good to realize "dyslexia" is different for different people, with a subset of them seeing "dancing letters" like this visualization shows. It's still incredibly worthwhile to experience visualizations lik
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For many, accessibility is an unknown unknown(kilianvalkhof.com)
4 points by kilian 6y ago|0 comments
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Your dark mode toggle is broken(kilianvalkhof.com)
2 points by kilian 6y ago|1 comments

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