Massimo Artizzu articles - 24 total
Shadow DOM makes perfect sense
(Cover: illusion installation by Daihei Shibata) When it comes to Web Components, I think one of the...
Dynamic image creation with service workers
Service workers are a fantastic technology. You may know them in relation to the term Progressive Web...
JavaScript is not the problem
The other day I was asked to examine a performance issue on an Angular 11 app. Simply typing in an...
Let's develop a QR Code Generator, part X: creating larger codes
We're so close! We're just about to create a QR of any of the standard sizes, so nothing will stop us...
Let's develop a QR Code Generator, part IX: structuring larger versions
The cover image will make sense later, I swear! 😅 In the last part, we came to know how to split our...
Let's develop a QR Code Generator, part VIII: different sizes
At this point in the series, we know how to creare a QR Code with numeric, alphanumeric, ISO-8859-1...
Let's develop a QR Code Generator, part VII: other kinds of data
So now we're able do create QR Codes for certain data. Specifically, short Latin-1 strings (i.e.,...
Let's develop a QR Code Generator, part VI: mask optimization
In part 5 we've created our first QR Code. Our code is not complete, but rather it's specific to our...
Let's develop a QR Code Generator, part V: masking
It's time for the final step to get our first working QR code! If you remember the final result from...
Let's develop a QR Code Generator, part IV: placing bits
Ok, now we've finally got our error correction data, and it's time to place all those codewords into...
Let's develop a QR Code Generator, part III: error correction
Now comes the hard part. Most of the Math in QR codes in performed in the Galois Field of order 28 =...
Let's develop a QR Code Generator, part II: sequencing data
Now that we've covered the basics, the next step is sequencing the data
Let's develop a QR Code Generator, part I: basic concepts
The beginning of a series of posts illustrating how to generate a QR code. In JavaScript, but adaptable to other languages
CSS logical properties and why they're awesome
If you regularly read news about upcoming CSS features, you've probably heard of CSS logical properti...
Why EventEmitters instead of Subjects in Angular
Recently I was thinking about how Angular uses the awesome library RxJS, and specifically when observ...
CSS Tip: hide content in short containers
The problem I was recently asked: "Show the percentage on the progress bar, but only if it...
Pattern matching in JavaScript
Pattern matching is a pretty common action performed on entities in order to check if they follow som...
Percentages in CSS: you're using them wrong
... if you do one of the things I'm going to explain. The motivation for this post came after a coll...
The new (and old) CSS units you've never heard about
Exploring the newly defined CSS units that have been recently or are going to be implemented in browsers. Plus some other older trivia.
What I think is bad about Microsoft acquiring GitHub
Random thoughts after a hectic day. On Microsoft, GitHub, OSS and the development community in general
Gotchas about async/await and Promises
A little tour about common pitfalls when using async/await in JavaScript
CSS for an encapsulated web
How to (d)evolve from convoluted coding conventions to simpler rule definitions
On lowering the bar
A detailed post about the fallacies on James Damore's manifesto, and why diversity is important in every business
