In September I had a pleasure to give a short talk as a Lightning Talks speaker at Smashing Conference in Freiburg. The topic is IDN, something I also wrote on this blog already. Since it was my very first public talk about technical things I was quite stressed but after checking it on Vimeo I […]
Author: Szymon Nowicki
Whoa! Long post title for a long story about: how to get a container height of exact n line-heights (tldr; use display:grid with grid-template-rows) how to make use of it by creating a cool dynamic paragraph placeholder with quite elegant CSS an HTML How did this start? I was assigned to a task that required placeholders […]
In the previous article, it’s explained why you don’t want to use a localized e-mail address. This article explains the opposite – how to implement IDN in your app. Why even bother? You might ask, why implement something for a small fraction of users? It is true, that in most cases it would not make a lot […]
1. Looks good, but not everyone can type it You might think that “my-wörk.de” is a cool name for your website and hällo@my-wörk.de is even better (Unicode in username is currently not available), but the problem is that not everyone knows how to type umlauts. Some people say it’s possible on Windows with an English […]
Short note with quick solution. For some time my react app was constantly refusing to run on localhost:3000. For some time I thought that maybe there’s some forgotten node process still running in the background. After some investigation I found that something changed on MacOS High Sierra networking setup and localhost is often not resolved […]
Since ES6 popularity grows, Javascript Promises use is getting more and more attention. Many forget that Promise is not just a nice way to simplify callbacks it’s much more – keeping the resolution state as long as the Promise is kept in a memory. Let’s imagine a scenario that we have a module that will fetch some information from localStorage […]
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CSS image transition and memory leaks
CSS transitions are features we all love and admire. They allow us to communicate with browser rendering engine and make cool things we were never able to do so fast and easy. We also assume that we just have to use CSS as an API and don’t really need to care about memory management. Everything […]
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Cunning way of sanitizing options
How to deal with juggling the options through multiple private methods or how to overengineer sanitize functionality.
How to make a real Singleton object prototype in javascript and make it really unique. What is object prototype and how the hell primitive object use extended properties.