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

Images are not displayed in WordPress

I recently had the problem that when I wrote a post from the iPhone or from Windows Live Writer, the image code was broken. I had written the following HTML code: <img src=”http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/test.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”DSA00005.JPG” width=”431″ height=”284″ /> But the blog received the following: img src=”http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/test.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”DSA00005.JPG” width=”431″ height=”284″ / So all < and > were removed. I searched through several German WordPress forums, but in the end I found the solution in the official English WordPress forum. ...

May 8, 2009 · 1 min · 161 words