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myfonj
7y ago
There are regional keyboard layouts lacking backtick completely. (I would have to use alt+96 or switch keyboard from my default (and only) Czech QWERTZ layout to type `, if I hadn't more convenient AutoHotkey shortcut in effect.)
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OT question from non-native speaker: those commas that mimics speech pauses are syntactically acceptable in English? (Or Greek?) > In Greece, we have a similar phrase [...] > Readable code, is a piece of code [...] > In Germany, t
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7y ago
For those wondering what "Opera Unite" means, some archived resources from 2009: https://web.archive.org/web/20090618010520/http://unite.oper... Introduction: https://web.archive.org
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It would be nice to see what sites it is going to open. And maybe worth mentioning you can use Container Tab (or maybe even anonymous window) to test/verify this without compromising your real fondly crafted advertising profile.
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7y ago
TIL glass is not supercooled liquid after all.
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7y ago
Google Dictionary (that one you get while querying "define word") has nice collection of record samples from native speakers (unlike Google Translate where samples are synthetized). I like to compare British and American accents.
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I thought the same, but on the other hand, these are the things that are usually just "one page" away. This concrete page / blog post doesn't even have a link to the root section where one would seek other posts and cat
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Analog Box (circuit modular synth in assembly) left by its creator Andy Turner
(groups.google.com)
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For variable amount of "cards" that could eventually wrap this really is not possible to do in pure CSS without subgrid, as sibling comment confirmed. It is possible for fixed amount of cards: simple grid with named areas; it
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I find it mildly amusing that until advent of this cutting edge subgrid feature it wasn't possible to get simple "table-like" cards with matching "header - body - footer" of dynamic heights: +---+ +---+ +---+
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7y ago
It is addressed in https://zzz.dog/extras#z-fighting as a feature: > Z-fighting in Zdog is the natural result of its pseudo-3D engine. Zdog’s 3D shapes are actually 2D projections, rendered without any accounting for col
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(Here is realization of that "plain SVG in SVG in CSS" approach: https://codepen.io/myf/pen/QRgVdN It is in fact nothing more than body { background-color: dimgray; background-image: url(&#
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7y ago
Or https://www.heropatterns.com/ seems nice. Not CSS "gradient shapes" like Lea's collection but SVG background images.
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7y ago
Nice demo. Reflecting complex content like text with effects is hard and this reflection technique could definitely help, but for simple geometry and tiling it is quite trivial to put "pure SVG" into CSS as a background-image and
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Rollcage Redux (2015)
(codemonkey.me.uk)
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8y ago
I'm using Firefox since version circa 1.5 and I think some of your arguments regarding "very important features Google introduced." are slightly off: > Draggable, swappable tabs I cannot recall Firefox lacked such feature.
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8y ago
Seeing you around, I wonder: is Handsontable's soon-to-be-released Spreadsheet Viewer [0] using SheetJS (Pro [1]) / js-xlsx or is related in any way? [0] https://handsontable.com/spreadsheet-viewer/ [1] http
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8y ago
And are you sure they were all real PNGs? You know, displayed suffix means nearly nothing nowadays, you can serve JPEG image as ".png" file with "image/png" mime header and browser would not even raise its eyebro
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8y ago
First, really nice app, nice to see clean line graphics constructed with real lines (strokes) and exploiting its benefits. I often find myself writing such icons by hand because I want them to be like this and it feels mostly faster to m
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Or just inherit colour that was set for text. path { stroke: currentColor; } https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value...
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Back in the days of yore, I've made a super simple userscript [1] that was used in my close circles exactly for this purpose; basically is just window.find(document.location.hash.substring(1)) And yes, it was really convenient
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Fun fact: this is the first stable version that can start even without internet (LAN) connection on latest Windows 10 update 1809. (Mentioned as first Notable fix [0], fixed by updating Electron to v3.) https://code.visualstudio.
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Yes, I had no luck even with QR reader integrated in Nightly Android [0]. Sadly, copypasting resulting URI as plaintext is most probably the only option for modern browsers, because any other way of top level frame navigation to dataURI doc
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8y ago
Yes, such "offline bookmarked dataURI applications" are great, underappreciated and ancient things. Sadly, current trend in modern browsers is to suppress them in sake of security, because in the past some crooks misused them the
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System on my old laptop had somewhat broken battery indicator in systray, so I ended up using simple HTML page polling / listening to navigator.battery changes [0] and displayed it, even in a "graph" form (in fact, just didn&
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Upload? Come on, just load it as dataURI, bookmark it and you have offline "application" at your disposal. And as a bonus, here, have this "distributed app store" you can even print on paper [1]. [1] http://
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8y ago
Ah, it is interesting insight, and sure, debugging with such broken middlebox must be serious bummer I believe. Are they really that frequent? (I'm not devop, so asking in all sincerity, since I cannot recall dealing with them myself
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8y ago
Caching, or more precisely the benefit of ability to cache HTTP response payloads (on shared caching proxies for example) is, to my surprise, actually not mentioned in the article. I'd expect it to be the number one reason to stick wi
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For desktop devices (without gyroscope but with cursor) this quite asks for "cursor following tilt", like https://micku7zu.github.io/vanilla-tilt.js/ .
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Future of ChakraCore
(github.com)
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myfonj
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