Line-Clamping — Multiline truncation using CSS.

Its good to know a lot of javascript hacks which we used purely for presentation is slowly becoming a css thing. Simple things like truncating a multiline content and showing ellipsis used to be hard using pure CSS. This was hard because…

ES6 Tagged Template Literals.

Along with string interpolation, ES6 introduced Tagged Template Literals. As the name speaks, you will be tagging a template literal with a function. In ES6, a template literal is any string which is wrapped around ``and it might have an embedded expression in it.

Simple fix to fasten node docker builds.

BEFORE:

FROM node:9.6.1 as builder
RUN mkdir /usr/src/app
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
ENV PATH /usr/src/app/node_modules/.bin:$PATH
COPY . /usr/src/app
RUN npm install yarn
RUN yarn install
RUN yarn build

Covert multipage PDF to an image

ImageMagick provides powerful tools to manipulate images. I was surprised to learn that it can even handle PDFs. To convert a multipage PDF to a single image with all the pages (vertically lined), you just need one command

convert some_file.pdf…

Dockerfile for create-react-app using multistage builds.

Simple POMODORO app using Vue.js.