Exifshot App

Every now and then you might want to share a photo that also shows its metadata. For that one use case, Exifshot App is really handy. But beware, it only really works well in Chrome or Firefox. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

March 30, 2020 · 1 min · 54 words

CSS Shadows

Writing shadows in CSS by hand is possible, but it’s a pain. There have been various tools for years to visually create nice-looking shadows. Another tool is from Philipp Brumm. Smooth Shadow For anyone who doesn’t know what I mean, a simple shadow in CSS can look like this: box-shadow: 0 2.8px 2.2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.02), 0 6.7px 5.3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.028), The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...

January 17, 2020 · 1 min · 81 words

Carbon Calculator

How environmentally friendly is your website? The Carbon Calculator tries to estimate this using the following factors. Calculating the carbon emissions of a website is somewhat of a challenge, but using five key pieces of data we can make a pretty good estimate: Data transfer over the wire Energy intensity of web data Energy source used by the data centre Carbon intensity of electricity Website traffic – Website Carbon Calculator Even though I scored a perfect 100%, you shouldn’t take the result too seriously. ...

January 2, 2020 · 1 min · 101 words

Chmod Calculator

I’m by no means a Bash pro and feel like I have to look up every third command. When it comes to access permissions on Unix systems, I also keep forgetting the right command. The tool Chmod Calculator helps me here — I had to use it in my last Raspberry project. Good tools need to be self-explanatory, and that’s true for the Chmod Calculator. Just click together what you need and paste the command it spits out into the terminal. ...

August 30, 2017 · 1 min · 108 words

Caprine

Caprine is a very nice client for Facebook Messenger that, in addition to the usual features, also includes a dark mode. Very handy when the lights are a bit dimmer. You can toggle dark mode in the View menu or with Cmd D / Ctrl D. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

May 30, 2017 · 1 min · 63 words