Today I Learned

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• how to work with Algolia’s InstantSearch

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• how to cache resources write an offline-first app with service workers
• that CSS gradients can look funny on iOS Safari and we might want to utilize (inset) box shadows instead

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• how to create a theme in Hugo and actually created one for my new project

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• about the 47 rōnin
• that support for IntersectionObserver is kinda poor by the time of this writing. Namely, Safari (both mobile and desktop) doesn’t support it at all

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• that there’s a “Metal Church” in Wacken, and that copies of so-called “Metal Bible” (or “Metal Bibel” in German) are distributed for free in the town

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• that Calibre has a built-in web server to expose the library over the internet
• how to create and use two Mink sessions in Behat testing

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• that the famous line illusion

<---->
>----<

is called the Müller-Lyner’s illusion and there are several variations of it

• of table methods (insertRow(), insertCell() et. al.), toggle(), matches() and other HTML element methods that are not very popular but can certainly come in handy one day
• of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, or the “Father of the Turks,” the first president of Turkey
• that the book The Bridge on the Drina brought its author, Ivo Andrić, the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961

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• that local seems to be a reserved keyword and can’t be used in dnsmasq’s config to auto-resolve .local domains

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• that “Goodbye” comes from the 16th century, when someone wrote “God b w ye” as a contraction of “God be with ye.”

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• that you can now point arbitrary text to URLs (ala HTML anchors) in supported terminals and there’s a package for that