CSS position:absolute rendering bug on legacy Android: empty sibling ignored in coordinate origin. Technical breakdown and clean CSS pseudo-content fix.
A recap of my participation in the Hack.Developers Italia 2017 hackathon with the SPID smart button project: code style, linting, FOUC prevention, Autoprefixer, Jasmine unit testing, and Istanbul code coverage for a PA-ready JavaScript widget.
Three days in Budapest for the official 10-year EPAM and Hotels.com partnership celebration (Expedia Group): the milestone event for the Hotels side of the alliance and my on-the-ground experience, with the Work Hard Play Hard culture woven through conferences and parties.
In Internet Explorer 8, box-sizing has a nasty edge case: dynamic table layouts with percentage padding do not honor border-box the way you expect. Legacy box model, a Can I use pointer, and a small test snippet.
Since Chrome 56, the browser natively handles above-the-fold content changes by adjusting the scroll position on its own. Learn how to detect this behaviour and adapt your JavaScript accordingly.
A non-exhaustive list of the many things, told and untold, that we tend to take for granted that make the work of a front-end developer as complex as it is interesting.
StartCom StartSSL, a free SSL certificate provider for HTTPS, was distrusted by Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome following findings of fraudulent certificate issuance. Here is what happened and the free alternative I switched to.
My path through Codemotion 2016 in Milan: two days of tech talks covering async/await, Angular 2, Progressive Web Apps, microservices, and Atlassian’s coding culture.
This invaluable page lists every kind of CSS hack for any browser combo you might imagine, and also shows you which apply in the very browser you’re visiting from, by Jeff Clayton, is a mandatory bookmark and go-to resource when a CSS hack is needed, period.
If you run your own payment page, you probably know by now that the MasterCard 2-series BIN expansion is coming, and having some test cards to run against validators is always useful to check that your front-end update is going well—but where do you get them? There are many websites that provide generators that produce … Continue reading Luhn-valid credit card number generator for arbitrary BIN
