2021 week 46—CSS Shadow Generator, tldraw, Learning RegEx
Links worth sharing for web technologies.
It was a compact week. I wrote 5 posts in a series. I have had classes for every day except yesterday evening. There were Python classes, Adobe classes, and PHP classes. I was teaching 30 hours in total.
Links worth sharing this week
→ Programming / Algorithm Archive
https://www.algorithm-archive.org/
This website provides many algorithms with different languages implementation.
→ Book / The iOS App Icon
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flarup/the-ios-app-icon-book
This Kickstarter project collects the gorgeous app icons over the decade. We can appreciate the creativity from the icon designers.
→ Tool / Caffeine: A very basic REST service for JSON https://github.com/rehacktive/caffeine
A lightweight RESTful tool for prototyping.
→ CSS / Shadow Palette Generator
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/shadow-palette/
When we talk about CSS shadow, often we meant only applying one shadow. Indeed, the shadow will looks more nature when we apply calculated multiple shadows. This generator does the maths for us and we can have beautiful shadows with simple drag and drops.
→ RegEx / Interactive Regex learning
https://regexlearn.com/learn
This tool is like the CSS Diner but with regular expression. Your goal is to follow the instructions per level and type the correct RegEx combination.
→ Tool / tldraw
https://www.tldraw.com
This responsive web drawing tool allows me to quickly explain something via hand-drawing or flow chart with the rounded rectangle and arrows tools. It even support multiple pages drawing.
→ CSS / Improving Radios and Checkboxes with 3 lines
https://css-tricks.com/zero-trickery-custom-radios-and-checkboxes/
Not perfect, but a good start with just 3 lines of CSS code.
Until next week,
Thomas Mak
