Even though I am the kind of front-end engineer who manually cleans up SVG files when they are a mess, I never expected to become one of those people. You know, those crazy people that draw with code. But here we are. I dove deep into SVG specs last winter when I created a project […]
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I’m working on a refresh of my personal website, what I’m calling the HD remaster. Well, I wouldn’t call it a “full” redesign. I’m just cleaning things up, and Polypane is coming in clutch. I wrote about how much I enjoy developing with Polypane on my personal blog back in March 2023. In there, I
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This article is a sponsored by SVGator SVGator has gone through a series of updates since our last article, which was published in 2021, when it was already considered to be the most advanced web-based tool for vector animation. The first step toward more versatile software came with the mobile export feature that made it
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Only Chris, right? You’ll want to view this in a Chromium browser: CodePen Embed Fallback This is exactly the sort of thing I love, not for its practicality (cuz it ain’t), but for how it illustrates a concept. Generally, tutorials and demos try to follow the “rules” — whatever those may be — yet breaking
I’m a big Lynn Fisher fan. You probably are, too, if you’re reading this. Or maybe you’re reading her name for the first time, in which case you’re in for a treat. That’s because I had a chance to sit down with Lynn for a whopping hour to do nothing more than gab, gab, and
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Discover how NETINT, Supermicro, and Ampere collaborated to build a groundbreaking 300 channel live stream video server. Continue reading Building A 300 Channel Video Encoding Server on SitePoint.
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The text-box-trim and text-box-edge properties in CSS enable developers to trim specifiable amounts of the whitespace that appear above the first formatted line of text and below the last formatted line of text in a text box, making the text box vertically larger than the content within. This whitespace is called leading, and it appears above and below (so it’s two
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I collect a bunch of links in a bookmarks folder. These are things I fully intend to read, and I do — eventually. It’s a good thing bookmarks are digital, otherwise, I’d need a bigger coffee table to separate them from the ever-growing pile of magazines. The benefit of accumulating links is that the virtual
This article is a sponsored by Luzmo In this article, I’ll introduce you to Luzmo Flex, a new feature from the Luzmo team who have been working hard making developer tooling to flatten the on-ramp for analytics reporting and data visualization. With Luzmo Flex, you can hook up a dataset and create beautifully crafted, fully
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Discover five techniques to lazy load images for better website performance. Learn how to add lazy loading in HTML, JavaScript, and on scroll. Continue reading Five Ways to Lazy Load Images for Better Website Performance on SitePoint.
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