Understanding CSS Grid: Grid Lines — Smashing Magazine
In the first article in this series, I took a look at how to create a grid container and the various properties applied to the parent element that make up your grid. Once you have a grid, you have a set of grid lines. In this article, you will learn how to place items against those lines by adding properties to the direct children of the grid container.
Workshop Tip: Shellac conversion tables give ratios for small amounts - FineWoodworking
Further, I often mix up a heavier “cut” and then dilute some of it into lighter mixes for certain coats. That raises a second question: How much denatured alcohol must I add to turn a heavy cut into a lighter one?
I came up with these simple tables as a quick guide. Copy them and hang them in the shop. Then all you need is a scale to weigh your supplies.
Warmup Exercises for Runners | Three-Move Warmup for Runners
- Low Lunge With Twist
Fresh Folk
an illustration library of
people and objects
What I Like About Eleventy - daverupert.com
Over the last month so, I’ve been working with Dr. Julian Jones to port some design system projects from Jekyll over to Eleventy, the feral possum of static site generators. Why undertake a whole replatforming initiative? Well, there were two primary issues we were trying to solve:
https://github.com/madebymike/supermaya
Supermaya is an Eleventy starter kit designed to help you add rich features to a blog or website without the need for a complicated build process.
Bend and twist artwork to create different poses |
Change your character's pose in Adobe Illustrator without redrawing the entire figure.
With the grouped objects selected, click the Puppet Warp tool. Some pins appear, indicating “joints” you can manipulate. Click and drag pins to transform the art, adding more pins as needed to sculpt your artwork. For example, we added a pin to anchor our character’s elbow joint and curved the arm up. To delete pins, select and press Delete.
Excalidraw
Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.
Tonal values: Everything you need to know | Creative Bloq
Mastering JS console.log like a Pro - JavaScript in Plain English - Medium
Use placeholders
There are different placeholders that can be used as listed below
%o — which takes an object,
%s — which takes a string, and
%d — which is for a decimal or integer
Interviewing at Microsoft— JavaScript Assessment Questions
Below are 3 questions from Microsoft’s Online Assessment 2019 for developers
What Happened When I Recorded Myself Speaking Every Single Day
Give yourself a 30-day challenge. As you watch your recordings, look for areas where your body language, facial gestures, and tone can improve. Find spots in your responses where you can slow down or pause in order to drive a point home. The difference between the first take and your 20th will astound you.
5 Tips to Speed Up Your MacBook Productivity - Level Up Coding
Reset the NVRAM & PRAM
- Shut down your Mac.
- Turn it on and immediately press and hold these four keys together: Option, Command, P, and R.
- You can release the keys after about 20 seconds, during which your Mac might appear to restart.
Reset the SMC
- Shut down your Mac.
- Turn it on and immediately press and hold these four keys together: Shift, Control and Option, then press the power button at the same time.
- Hold these keys and the power button for 10 seconds and then release them. In case you have a MacBook Pro with Touch ID, the Touch ID button is also the power button.
- Restart your MacBook pressing the power button.
Clean the system cache
- Remove files from ~/Library/Caches folder
Abs Workouts at Home | 4 Core Workouts You Can Do At Home
How to do each workout: See the exercises and circuits below. Repeat each exercise for 30 seconds, followed by a 15-second rest between moves, for a 5-minute circuit. You can add one circuit to the end of your run as a finisher or use it as a part of your cross-training workouts.
- X-Mountain Climber
- Squat Thrust
- Plank March
- Windshield Wiper
- Crab Kick
JavaScript Design Patterns - Better Programming - Medium
The underlying concept of design patterns has been around in the software engineering industry since the very beginning, but they weren’t really so formalised. Design Patterns: Elements Of Reusable Object-Oriented Software written by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides — the famous Gang of Four (GoF)—was instrumental in pushing the formalised concept of design patterns in software engineering. Now, design patterns are an essential part of software development and have been so for a long time.
Build Body Awareness Upside Down | Breaking Muscle
The biggest limiting factor to handstands is a lack of body awareness upside down. People kick up but then they freak out because they have no idea which way is up and which way is down.
Thus, gaining body awareness is the first step in being comfortable upside down.
Below are five progressive exercises to focus on to build that body awareness.