Alex Normand

How to unzip a zip archive through a unix pipe with bsdtar

Posted: Sun May 31 2015

When I'm busy working on a Front-End project I mainly use chromium as my development browser to test the latest bleeding-edge features which have just been pushed to the dev tools.

The latest chromium builds are easily downloadable from download-chromium.

Simply download the zip archive, unzip it and you're done!

How to enhance a static site with pjax and the responseType XHR2 attribute

Posted: Fri Jul 04 2014

In this post, we'll study how to progressively enhance a static website (e.g. generated using a SSG like jekyll or wintersmith) by using pjax (HTML5 pushState + AJAX) and responseType (an attribute introduced by XHR2) in 40 lines of vanilla JavaScript.

How to show/hide an element and add/remove classes from an element with Snap.svg

Posted: Sun Mar 09 2014

These last couple of weeks I've been working a lot with Snap.svg. Snap.svg is a revamped version of Raphael which only supports modern browsers, i.e. those who fully support SVG. This allows Snap.svg to support all of SVG's cool features such as masking, clipping, groups, ...

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