8 articles tagged javascript.
Google Meet only lets you share a full window or a Chrome tab. What if you only need to show a small region of your screen? Screen Portal uses the Screen Capture API to crop and relay any area of your screen into a shareable Chrome tab.
Playback speed options now appear on some YouTube videos, and vanish on others. This lightweight bookmarklet lets you toggle playback speed controls on any YouTube video.
How can we best showcase a portrait image in an application designed for landscape images? TV news has the answer! With a small bit of CSS, we can achieve an eye-catching "blurred background" effect.
On several recent projects I’ve been using VirtualBox and Vagrant to spin up new development machines. My code was mounted from a windows host, and initially all was going well. Then suddenly my app started spitting out javascript errors. Digging in to chrome’s error console, it looked like the last 40 or 50 bytes of the file were missing. Same for the CSS files. A frustrating investigation had begun...
Recently I was working on a new project on a virtual box set up through vagrant. For those of you who haven't used it, vagrant is an amazing tool that makes it crazy-easy to set up and deploy uniform development environments on virtual servers. However, I ran in to a very frustrating issue when trying to install the node.js framework express through npm.
Bookmarklets allow us as a user to add some basic functionality to a web site from our browser, without needing to have access to that site’s server. Once the bookmarklet is clicked, whatever javascript it contains will execute on the current page.
Twitter recently launched “Hovercards” on the web interface. Whenever I move my mouse up, down or across my timeline, these hovercards are springing up and obscuring other tweets in the timeline. Personally, I’ve been finding this feature far more annoying than useful, so would like to turn it off. Let's try this with a bookmarklet.
DeClutter is a javascript bookmarklet which will remove from your timeline any tweets which match a “blacklist” of keywords you’ve defined.