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CSS trigonometry functions are here! Well, they are if you’re using the latest versions of Firefox and Safari, that is. Having this sort of mathematical power in CSS opens up a whole bunch of possibilities. In this tutorial, I thought we’d dip our toes in the water to get a feel for a couple of the...
The new API, which will be made available through DataStax’s Stargate, will allow JavaScript developers to leverage Astra DB as a vector database for their large language model (LLM), AI assistant, and real-time generative AI projects.DataStax on Tuesday said that it was releasing a new JSON API in...
Last year, we partnered with the team at gSkinner to develop Wonderous, a reference app to showcase the high-quality experiences possible with Flutter. One of the goals for creating Wonderous was to provide an open-source example that demonstrates best practices. In that same spirit, we audited Wond...
Beijing-based company Egret Technology is planning to combine two of the most important modern technologies, HTML5 and blockchain, in a project called Egretia. The idea behind Egretia is solving some technical issues in the HTML5 game industry—such as multiplayer matchmaking, digital item marketplac...
Hello everyone, and welcome to the WordPress Briefing, the podcast where you can catch quick explanations of the ideas behind the WordPress open source project, some insight into the community that supports it, and get a small list of big things coming up in the next two weeks. I’m your host, Joseph...
In a year when frugality has been the rallying mantra for the technology world, expectedly so the ET Startup Awards jury kicked off the discussions for this year’s ‘Bootstrap Champ’ category taking note of the scale and profitability achieved by the nominees without having raised any external funds....
Adobe wants the next Instagram to be a web app. The company is hard at work porting filters and effects from Photoshop to the web. The latest experimental builds of both Chrome and Safari add support for the company’s proposed CSS fragment shaders — think Photoshop blending modes like multiply or ov...
React JS has become one of the go-to tools for building super cool web apps.And when you’re creating apps that need to talk to the internet and fetch stuff, you’ve got to know how to do it right.In this blog, I’m going to show you the new, hip way to fetch data in React using hooks and the fetch API...
The first release candidate for the upcoming PHP version, PHP 8.3 is now available for testing. The first generally-available PHP version is scheduled for November 23 of this year, and the first Release Candidate for PHP 8.3 is a significant pre-release milestone as it indicates all of the changes f...
The Flutter team has been running a quarterly user survey program since its 1.0 release in 2018. The 19th survey was announced in the first quarter of 2023, collecting 13,378 responses over the 14-day window. The survey intended to collect timely feedback from Flutter developers, and included questi...