The Missing Bit

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Mitigating CSS gradient banding
2016-09-16

While working on a design that included a gradient, I noticed banding when the gradient was rendered by the browser.

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Notes about localization
2016-08-12

Living in a multilingual country, nearly all apps I make are localized.

At least in french and english, but also often german. Having to deal with 3 languages on all my apps wasn’t always easy.

In this article I share some experience and thoughts about localization.

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Keeping an ordered collection in PostgreSQL
2016-08-10

I’m hitting an issue I’m quite sure a thousand developers encountered before me: how to keep an ordered collection in an SQL database.

Keeping an ordered collection seems trivial at first, but can soon become quite complicated.

Lets summarize: what we have is a table A, referencing a table B via a foreign key, and we want to keep the B rows belonging to A sorted.

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Introducing backy, PostgreSQL background jobs for elixir
2016-08-09

 

Safari performance problem with absolute positioning
2016-08-08

While working on a React project, I noticed abyssal performances on Safari only.

It took me some time to figure out, but the culprit was the use of absolute positioning.

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