Dan Cătălin Burzo

Creative coding.

CSS.

The new CSS.

This edition was stuck in draft-mode since 2020.

One of my current passions is to publish interesting public domain Romanian books on llll.ro.

This year has seen a ton of new releases from musicians both familiar and unknown-to-me.

The other day I ran into an interesting puzzle, which was fun to sort out, and I learned enough in the process that I thought I should write it down.

In this article we'll be poking around ImageMagick from the command-line to get it to make great looking PNG previews of sample text typeset in various fonts, like the one below.

As you can notice, 2019 had a bit of a work-in-progress vibe to it.

Browsers.

Browsers.

Was out of the loop for a little while — slowly catching up.

Behold a horizontally-scrolling element: .reel { display: flex; overflow-x: scroll; } This pattern is particularly useful on mobile devices as an alternative to stacking for breaking a grid apart, but its utility is not limited to small screens.

Adrian Roselli describes a quick, effective way to make HTML inputs inherit the styles of the page they’re on, rather than deriving their appearance from operating system conventions.

As browsers are starting to ship parts of the Media Queries Level 5 spec, recent discussion on CSS media queries understandably revolves around using these new features to better adjust web pages to users' needs and preferences.

I've recently come across Gajus Kuizinas' Favorite CSS hack.

Browsers.

Web platform.

Today I learned Yak shaving Recently I've made some updates to Marcel, my personal take on static site generators.

Web Platform.

CSS.

CSS.

Web Platform.

CSS.

Web Platform.

Web platform.

Web Platform. dimport, run ES Module syntax (import, import(), and export) in any browser (even IE) / A canary version of the Chromium-based Edge is now available for macOS Specs. hOCR / hocrjs / hocr-proofreader CMS / SSG / WYSIWYG.

Web platform.

Web platform.

Web platform.

CSS.

Abul Mogard - Above All Dreams Against All Logic - 2012 - 2017 Alva Noto - Unieqav Amen Dunes - Freedom Amnesia Scanner - Another Life Aphex Twin - Collapse EP Autechre - NTS Sessions 1 AWVFTS - Long it May Sustain Balmorrhea - Clear Language (Reworked) B…

React.

All I want is to be someone that makes new things and thinks about them. — a haiku by John Maeda React. react-beautiful-dnd has just hit version 8, and seems a robust and comprehensive library for drag-and-drop interactions / react-keyboardist is for addi…

React. react-sizeme sounds like it could be useful for measuring DOM nodes after they're rendered / The React folks are working on a Profiler tool, which may make performance enhancements easier than with packages such as why-did-you-update / react-pdf pr…

React. react-window looks like a fast way to render lots of objects in a viewport, without compromising the performance; seems to be a refresh of react-virtualized?

Here's this year's records, listed alphabetically, with favorites in bold.

It's been a great year for soundtracks, ambient, and modern classical music.

You want to pull some information out of a JavaScript string and you have a pattern (regular expression, that is) to match against.

Time for another listicle sans commentary!

Ben Fry's project All Streets left quite the impression on me back in 2007 and it's stayed in the back of my head ever since.

1.

Great albums released this year, A-Z with favorites are in bold.

Every sentence in Walden that contains the words I and walk.

In no particular order: Album ♫ Mogwai – Rave Tapes ♫ A Winged Victory for the Sullen – Atomos ♫ Scott Walker + Sunn O))) – Soused ♫ Sharon Van Etten – Are We There ♫ This Will Destroy You – Another Language ♫ Fennesz – Bécs ♫ Flying Lotus – You're Dead!

Reading Simon Reynold's Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction To Its Own Past explores the recent phenomenon of near-past nostalgia.

Linked is where I rummage through my notes and bookmarks for bits and bobs around a subject.

Reading Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin in the Middle Taiga by Sylvain Tesson, a journaled account of the six months he lived in a small cabin next to lake Baikal in Siberia.

Wherein I describe a pretty nice workflow for creating and maintaining an SVG icon set that will make it easy to tweak/extend your set of icons in the comfort of your favorite vector graphics application (as long as your favorite vector graphics applicati…