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This is the 13th episode of wildlife travel by Henriette and Ferdy, and the very first for our niece Ymke. Ferdy Christant. Aug 3, 2019. Color for the Color-challenged. A RAW CONFIDENCE IN COLOR. A JOURNEY TOWARDS BETTER COLOR It’s a plastic multi page booklet containing color patches, white balance patches and middle gray patches. It was an impulse buy for experimenting with white balance and middle gray. Just to get those two things out of the way, a fun little detour: This weird scene was lit by heavy frontal flash, indoors. ES6 MODULES AS COMPONENTS. A FUTURE-PROOF ARCHITECTURESEE MORE ONFERDYCHRISTANT.COM
MASTERING COLOR PALETTES WITH SASS It does this mix action before doing the tone and alpha manipulations, and therefore it works on your entire palette. The keep parameter indicates how much of the original color you want to keep. By setting it at 100%, no mixing will occur. If we would set it A DIFFERENT TAKE ON MASTHEADS IN WEB DESIGN Mastheads, or master headers, are a popular web design pattern nowadays. All over the web you see huge background images with a captivating titles in the foreground trying to grab your attention. Here’s an example in the wild: A masthead as seen on 500px. Visually, the pattern is to have a background image covering a container, and within WHY YOU SHOULD VISIT MADAGASCAR Giant Leaf-tailed gecko — by Ferdy Christant. No matter your specific interest in nature, Madagascar will deliver. It will blow your mind. And when you return home, in turn it will blow the minds of your friends and family. Much of Madagascar’s wildlife is JUNGLEDRAGON REACHES 100K. A GIANT LITTLE MILESTONE 🐉 This tree of life is entirely fueled by JungleDragon photos on which the species was identified.It currently describes a stunning 24,451 species.. With about 86K photos having their species identified and this leading to 24K species documented, it becomes clear that JungleDragon is a photography-driven wildlife observation platform that documents biodiversity, not mass occurrence. AMP: THE MISSING CONTROVERSY. HOW GOOGLE CHEATS WITH AMP, Accelerated Mobile Pages, is a technology first launched in 2015 by Google. The main goal of the initiative is to drastically speed up the loading of web pages on mobile. Sorely needed, as the PLEASE HELP MAKE BACKDROP-FILTER A REALITY Backdrop-filter is an emerging CSS feature that allows you to apply a filter to the background of an element. That filter could be one of many, but by far the most popular example is the frosty glass effect. Example: My earliest recollection of seeing this frost effect is in the Aero theme of Windows 7, where the chrome of application windows KEYBOARD STUCK IN IOS ADD TO HOMESCREEN APP? What made this problem so hard to track down is the wide array of keyboard issues on iOS 13 in general. There’s tons of generic OS-level issues reported. There’s even more issues reported regarding 3rd party keyboards. None of the resets and workarounds helped me. I had no 3rd party keyboard installed, and still managed toreproduce the
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This is the 13th episode of wildlife travel by Henriette and Ferdy, and the very first for our niece Ymke. Ferdy Christant. Aug 3, 2019. Color for the Color-challenged. A RAW CONFIDENCE IN COLOR. A JOURNEY TOWARDS BETTER COLOR It’s a plastic multi page booklet containing color patches, white balance patches and middle gray patches. It was an impulse buy for experimenting with white balance and middle gray. Just to get those two things out of the way, a fun little detour: This weird scene was lit by heavy frontal flash, indoors. ES6 MODULES AS COMPONENTS. A FUTURE-PROOF ARCHITECTURESEE MORE ONFERDYCHRISTANT.COM
MASTERING COLOR PALETTES WITH SASS It does this mix action before doing the tone and alpha manipulations, and therefore it works on your entire palette. The keep parameter indicates how much of the original color you want to keep. By setting it at 100%, no mixing will occur. If we would set it A DIFFERENT TAKE ON MASTHEADS IN WEB DESIGN Mastheads, or master headers, are a popular web design pattern nowadays. All over the web you see huge background images with a captivating titles in the foreground trying to grab your attention. Here’s an example in the wild: A masthead as seen on 500px. Visually, the pattern is to have a background image covering a container, and within WHY YOU SHOULD VISIT MADAGASCAR Giant Leaf-tailed gecko — by Ferdy Christant. No matter your specific interest in nature, Madagascar will deliver. It will blow your mind. And when you return home, in turn it will blow the minds of your friends and family. Much of Madagascar’s wildlife is JUNGLEDRAGON REACHES 100K. A GIANT LITTLE MILESTONE 🐉 This tree of life is entirely fueled by JungleDragon photos on which the species was identified.It currently describes a stunning 24,451 species.. With about 86K photos having their species identified and this leading to 24K species documented, it becomes clear that JungleDragon is a photography-driven wildlife observation platform that documents biodiversity, not mass occurrence. AMP: THE MISSING CONTROVERSY. HOW GOOGLE CHEATS WITH AMP, Accelerated Mobile Pages, is a technology first launched in 2015 by Google. The main goal of the initiative is to drastically speed up the loading of web pages on mobile. Sorely needed, as the PLEASE HELP MAKE BACKDROP-FILTER A REALITY Backdrop-filter is an emerging CSS feature that allows you to apply a filter to the background of an element. That filter could be one of many, but by far the most popular example is the frosty glass effect. Example: My earliest recollection of seeing this frost effect is in the Aero theme of Windows 7, where the chrome of application windows KEYBOARD STUCK IN IOS ADD TO HOMESCREEN APP? What made this problem so hard to track down is the wide array of keyboard issues on iOS 13 in general. There’s tons of generic OS-level issues reported. There’s even more issues reported regarding 3rd party keyboards. None of the resets and workarounds helped me. I had no 3rd party keyboard installed, and still managed toreproduce the
JUNGLEDRAGON REACHES 100K. A GIANT LITTLE MILESTONE 🐉 This tree of life is entirely fueled by JungleDragon photos on which the species was identified.It currently describes a stunning 24,451 species.. With about 86K photos having their species identified and this leading to 24K species documented, it becomes clear that JungleDragon is a photography-driven wildlife observation platform that documents biodiversity, not mass occurrence. THE WORLD’S MOST OVERLOOKED WEB OPTIMIZATION FOR IOS Ever since iOS has carved out a sizable chunk of the smartphone market, web developers have made small optimizations to their websites that specifically target Mobile Safari. Examples include the fav icon, launching the web page in full screen mode, disabling zooming, and more. The most important optimization, however, is often missed or COLOR FOR THE COLOR-CHALLENGED. READ THIS IF YOU SUCK AT Introduction. Rather than placing web folks into the bucket Developer or Designer, I think many people would find themselves somewhere in the gray zone in between, not at the extreme ends.. I most certainly feel that way about myself. I’m primarily a developer, yet with some creative tendencies (I used to draw a lot when I was younger and I’m passionate about photography). SENSIBLE THEMING WITH SASS !DEFAULT Sensible theming with SASS !default. The male of the Malagasy Paradise Flycatcher, which occurs in two ‘themes’, orange and the more rare white. One of the pillars of the SASS CSS preprocessor language is variables. Using variables, your stylesheets can be made DRY. Unsurprisingly, variables are often used to make a design themable. THE STATE OF WEB BROWSERS. LATE 2018 EDITION The above desktop-only view of browser market share is telling. There’s Chrome, and there’s everybody else. Everybody else can be split into two groups: Firefox and the pit of despair: a larger group of small browsers with no meaningful market share. 50K WILDLIFE PHOTOS ACROSS 13K SPECIES JungleDragon started out as a basic photo sharing platform exclusively focusing on nature. V2 added species integration, which changed the entire fabric of the platform, its goal and its mission. We still share photos, yet aim to turn them into meaningful observations by identifying the species and adding the location. ALL BIRDS COLOMBIA. APP REVIEW Just one day before leaving for a wildlife trip to Colombia (full travel report) I was doing some general searching around Colombian birds when I stumbled upon the All Birds Colombia app.I hadn’t heard about it before, and it seems to be the only app to focus fully onbirds in Colombia.
PLEASE HELP MAKE BACKDROP-FILTER A REALITY Backdrop-filter is an emerging CSS feature that allows you to apply a filter to the background of an element. That filter could be one of many, but by far the most popular example is the frosty glass effect. Example: My earliest recollection of seeing this frost effect is in the Aero theme of Windows 7, where the chrome of application windows THE ONLY PHOTO OF A LIVING SMICROPUS BOGOTENSIS ON THE Flavinia bogotensis — source: Smithsonian National Museum of History. Flavinia bogotensis is the former name of Smicropus bogotensis. The pinned specimen photo you see above is the only other photo online (according to Google image search) of both aliases. HERCULES RISING. NIKON D850 HANDS-ON, THE FIRST FEW… When Nikon launched the D800 back in 2012, it made a sizable impact for providing an ultra high resolution full frame sensor at 36MP, whilst still offering aFERDY CHRISTANT
This is the 13th episode of wildlife travel by Henriette and Ferdy, and the very first for our niece Ymke. Ferdy Christant. Aug 3, 2019. Color for the Color-challenged. LATEST STORIES PUBLISHED ON FERDY CHRISTANT Read the latest stories published by Ferdy Christant. Web guy. Amateur wildlife photographer. Founder of jungledragon.com. ABOUT FERDY CHRISTANT Read more about Ferdy Christant. Web guy. Amateur wildlife photographer. Founder of jungledragon.com. ES6 MODULES AS COMPONENTS. A FUTURE-PROOF ARCHITECTURESEE MORE ONFERDYCHRISTANT.COM
MASTERING COLOR PALETTES WITH SASS It does this mix action before doing the tone and alpha manipulations, and therefore it works on your entire palette. The keep parameter indicates how much of the original color you want to keep. By setting it at 100%, no mixing will occur. If we would set it A DIFFERENT TAKE ON MASTHEADS IN WEB DESIGN Mastheads, or master headers, are a popular web design pattern nowadays. All over the web you see huge background images with a captivating titles in the foreground trying to grab your attention. Here’s an example in the wild: A masthead as seen on 500px. Visually, the pattern is to have a background image covering a container, and within WHY YOU SHOULD VISIT MADAGASCAR Giant Leaf-tailed gecko — by Ferdy Christant. No matter your specific interest in nature, Madagascar will deliver. It will blow your mind. And when you return home, in turn it will blow the minds of your friends and family. Much of Madagascar’s wildlife is PLEASE HELP MAKE BACKDROP-FILTER A REALITY Backdrop-filter is an emerging CSS feature that allows you to apply a filter to the background of an element. That filter could be one of many, but by far the most popular example is the frosty glass effect. Example: My earliest recollection of seeing this frost effect is in the Aero theme of Windows 7, where the chrome of application windows THE WORLD’S MOST OVERLOOKED WEB OPTIMIZATION FOR IOS Ever since iOS has carved out a sizable chunk of the smartphone market, web developers have made small optimizations to their websites that specifically target Mobile Safari. Examples include the fav icon, launching the web page in full screen mode, disabling zooming, and more. The most important optimization, however, is often missed or THE ONLY PHOTO OF A LIVING SMICROPUS BOGOTENSIS ON THE Flavinia bogotensis — source: Smithsonian National Museum of History. Flavinia bogotensis is the former name of Smicropus bogotensis. The pinned specimen photo you see above is the only other photo online (according to Google image search) of both aliases.FERDY CHRISTANT
This is the 13th episode of wildlife travel by Henriette and Ferdy, and the very first for our niece Ymke. Ferdy Christant. Aug 3, 2019. Color for the Color-challenged. LATEST STORIES PUBLISHED ON FERDY CHRISTANT Read the latest stories published by Ferdy Christant. Web guy. Amateur wildlife photographer. Founder of jungledragon.com. ABOUT FERDY CHRISTANT Read more about Ferdy Christant. Web guy. Amateur wildlife photographer. Founder of jungledragon.com. ES6 MODULES AS COMPONENTS. A FUTURE-PROOF ARCHITECTURESEE MORE ONFERDYCHRISTANT.COM
MASTERING COLOR PALETTES WITH SASS It does this mix action before doing the tone and alpha manipulations, and therefore it works on your entire palette. The keep parameter indicates how much of the original color you want to keep. By setting it at 100%, no mixing will occur. If we would set it A DIFFERENT TAKE ON MASTHEADS IN WEB DESIGN Mastheads, or master headers, are a popular web design pattern nowadays. All over the web you see huge background images with a captivating titles in the foreground trying to grab your attention. Here’s an example in the wild: A masthead as seen on 500px. Visually, the pattern is to have a background image covering a container, and within WHY YOU SHOULD VISIT MADAGASCAR Giant Leaf-tailed gecko — by Ferdy Christant. No matter your specific interest in nature, Madagascar will deliver. It will blow your mind. And when you return home, in turn it will blow the minds of your friends and family. Much of Madagascar’s wildlife is PLEASE HELP MAKE BACKDROP-FILTER A REALITY Backdrop-filter is an emerging CSS feature that allows you to apply a filter to the background of an element. That filter could be one of many, but by far the most popular example is the frosty glass effect. Example: My earliest recollection of seeing this frost effect is in the Aero theme of Windows 7, where the chrome of application windows THE WORLD’S MOST OVERLOOKED WEB OPTIMIZATION FOR IOS Ever since iOS has carved out a sizable chunk of the smartphone market, web developers have made small optimizations to their websites that specifically target Mobile Safari. Examples include the fav icon, launching the web page in full screen mode, disabling zooming, and more. The most important optimization, however, is often missed or THE ONLY PHOTO OF A LIVING SMICROPUS BOGOTENSIS ON THE Flavinia bogotensis — source: Smithsonian National Museum of History. Flavinia bogotensis is the former name of Smicropus bogotensis. The pinned specimen photo you see above is the only other photo online (according to Google image search) of both aliases. LATEST STORIES PUBLISHED ON FERDY CHRISTANT Read the latest stories published by Ferdy Christant. Web guy. Amateur wildlife photographer. Founder of jungledragon.com. ABOUT FERDY CHRISTANT Read more about Ferdy Christant. Web guy. Amateur wildlife photographer. Founder of jungledragon.com.PHOTOGRAPHY
Nikon D850 @ 9FPS What it sounds like. Just a quick post to demonstrate what a Nikon D850 sounds like at 9 frames per second. I’ve been waiting and collecting the parts needed to upgrade from 7 to 9 FPS since October, but due to poor availability, I just couldn’t get the whole COLORS – FERDY CHRISTANT Read writing about Colors in Ferdy Christant. Web guy. Amateur wildlife photographer. Founder of jungledragon.com. SENSIBLE THEMING WITH SASS !DEFAULT Sensible theming with SASS !default. The male of the Malagasy Paradise Flycatcher, which occurs in two ‘themes’, orange and the more rare white. One of the pillars of the SASS CSS preprocessor language is variables. Using variables, your stylesheets can be made DRY. Unsurprisingly, variables are often used to make a design themable. THE WORLD’S MOST OVERLOOKED WEB OPTIMIZATION FOR IOS Ever since iOS has carved out a sizable chunk of the smartphone market, web developers have made small optimizations to their websites that specifically target Mobile Safari. Examples include the fav icon, launching the web page in full screen mode, disabling zooming, and more. The most important optimization, however, is often missed or HOW TO PHOTOGRAPH HAIRY MACRO SUBJECTS A few days ago, JungleDragon moderator Christine Young posted the above photo and described how frustrating it is to get this complicated creature in focus. We exchanged a few thoughts whereby I suggested a personal technique I use, which is to imagine a top view of the situation as that makes it more clear where the problem and solution in this specific situation are. FRONTEERS 2018. EARLIER THIS WEEK, I ATTENDED THE… Fronteers 2018. Earlier this week, I attended the Fronteers conference in Amsterdam, for the 3rd year in a row. Here’s a brief write-up of the sessions and how I experienced them. This year’s conference was hosted by Martin Splitt, who I’ve seen speak at an earlier edition on WebVR. Martin is naturally funny, charming, welcoming and COLOMBIA 2017 TRAVEL REPORT. UPDATE: FULL PHOTO SET IS NOW Henriette and I just came back from an awesome wildlife adventure throughout Colombia, our 2nd visit to the country (2016 travel report).This was our 10th anniversary wildlife travel of the series Costa Rica, South Africa, Malaysia, Brazil, Madagascar, Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Madagascar (again), Colombia, and Colombia again. MOTH WEEK 2018. READY TO BECOME A MOTH-ER? From July 21–29, it is National Moth Week.At JungleDragon, we’re taking this event international and dedicate a full week to these lovely creatures in the following ways:. On Saturday (today) we’re doing a homepage take-over where only moths are allowed on the homepage. For the rest of the week, we’re encouraging members to open their archives to post any moth photo not yet sharedFERDY CHRISTANT
This is the 13th episode of wildlife travel by Henriette and Ferdy, and the very first for our niece Ymke. Ferdy Christant. Aug 3, 2019. Color for the Color-challenged. LATEST STORIES PUBLISHED ON FERDY CHRISTANT Read the latest stories published by Ferdy Christant. Web guy. Amateur wildlife photographer. Founder of jungledragon.com. ES6 MODULES AS COMPONENTS. A FUTURE-PROOF ARCHITECTURESEE MORE ONFERDYCHRISTANT.COM
A RAW CONFIDENCE IN COLOR. A JOURNEY TOWARDS BETTER COLOR It’s a plastic multi page booklet containing color patches, white balance patches and middle gray patches. It was an impulse buy for experimenting with white balance and middle gray. Just to get those two things out of the way, a fun little detour: This weird scene was lit by heavy frontal flash, indoors. NIKON D810 — BASE ISO64 TEST. IN 2013, I UPGRADED TO FULL Nikon D810 DSLR with 14–24mm lens. In 2013, I upgraded to full frame (Nikon D800) and in the 3 year since, I’ve been acquiring the ridiculously expensive lenses to match the format. WHY YOU SHOULD VISIT MADAGASCAR Giant Leaf-tailed gecko — by Ferdy Christant. No matter your specific interest in nature, Madagascar will deliver. It will blow your mind. And when you return home, in turn it will blow the minds of your friends and family. Much of Madagascar’s wildlife is A DIFFERENT TAKE ON MASTHEADS IN WEB DESIGN Mastheads, or master headers, are a popular web design pattern nowadays. All over the web you see huge background images with a captivating titles in the foreground trying to grab your attention. Here’s an example in the wild: A masthead as seen on 500px. Visually, the pattern is to have a background image covering a container, and within AMP: THE MISSING CONTROVERSY. HOW GOOGLE CHEATS WITH AMP, Accelerated Mobile Pages, is a technology first launched in 2015 by Google. The main goal of the initiative is to drastically speed up the loading of web pages on mobile. Sorely needed, as the THE WORLD’S MOST OVERLOOKED WEB OPTIMIZATION FOR IOS Ever since iOS has carved out a sizable chunk of the smartphone market, web developers have made small optimizations to their websites that specifically target Mobile Safari. Examples include the fav icon, launching the web page in full screen mode, disabling zooming, and more. The most important optimization, however, is often missed or KEYBOARD STUCK IN IOS ADD TO HOMESCREEN APP? What made this problem so hard to track down is the wide array of keyboard issues on iOS 13 in general. There’s tons of generic OS-level issues reported. There’s even more issues reported regarding 3rd party keyboards. None of the resets and workarounds helped me. I had no 3rd party keyboard installed, and still managed toreproduce the
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This is the 13th episode of wildlife travel by Henriette and Ferdy, and the very first for our niece Ymke. Ferdy Christant. Aug 3, 2019. Color for the Color-challenged. LATEST STORIES PUBLISHED ON FERDY CHRISTANT Read the latest stories published by Ferdy Christant. Web guy. Amateur wildlife photographer. Founder of jungledragon.com. ES6 MODULES AS COMPONENTS. A FUTURE-PROOF ARCHITECTURESEE MORE ONFERDYCHRISTANT.COM
A RAW CONFIDENCE IN COLOR. A JOURNEY TOWARDS BETTER COLOR It’s a plastic multi page booklet containing color patches, white balance patches and middle gray patches. It was an impulse buy for experimenting with white balance and middle gray. Just to get those two things out of the way, a fun little detour: This weird scene was lit by heavy frontal flash, indoors. NIKON D810 — BASE ISO64 TEST. IN 2013, I UPGRADED TO FULL Nikon D810 DSLR with 14–24mm lens. In 2013, I upgraded to full frame (Nikon D800) and in the 3 year since, I’ve been acquiring the ridiculously expensive lenses to match the format. WHY YOU SHOULD VISIT MADAGASCAR Giant Leaf-tailed gecko — by Ferdy Christant. No matter your specific interest in nature, Madagascar will deliver. It will blow your mind. And when you return home, in turn it will blow the minds of your friends and family. Much of Madagascar’s wildlife is A DIFFERENT TAKE ON MASTHEADS IN WEB DESIGN Mastheads, or master headers, are a popular web design pattern nowadays. All over the web you see huge background images with a captivating titles in the foreground trying to grab your attention. Here’s an example in the wild: A masthead as seen on 500px. Visually, the pattern is to have a background image covering a container, and within AMP: THE MISSING CONTROVERSY. HOW GOOGLE CHEATS WITH AMP, Accelerated Mobile Pages, is a technology first launched in 2015 by Google. The main goal of the initiative is to drastically speed up the loading of web pages on mobile. Sorely needed, as the THE WORLD’S MOST OVERLOOKED WEB OPTIMIZATION FOR IOS Ever since iOS has carved out a sizable chunk of the smartphone market, web developers have made small optimizations to their websites that specifically target Mobile Safari. Examples include the fav icon, launching the web page in full screen mode, disabling zooming, and more. The most important optimization, however, is often missed or KEYBOARD STUCK IN IOS ADD TO HOMESCREEN APP? What made this problem so hard to track down is the wide array of keyboard issues on iOS 13 in general. There’s tons of generic OS-level issues reported. There’s even more issues reported regarding 3rd party keyboards. None of the resets and workarounds helped me. I had no 3rd party keyboard installed, and still managed toreproduce the
LATEST STORIES PUBLISHED ON FERDY CHRISTANT Read the latest stories published by Ferdy Christant. Web guy. Amateur wildlife photographer. Founder of jungledragon.com. ABOUT FERDY CHRISTANT Read more about Ferdy Christant. Web guy. Amateur wildlife photographer. Founder of jungledragon.com. NORTHERN MADAGASCAR. TRIP ROUNDUP Female Silky Sifaka in Marojejy, Madagascar. One of the rarest mammals on the planet. By Ferdy Christant. Late last year I’ve written and shared a detailed travel report of our adventurous trip throughMadagascar.
SENSIBLE THEMING WITH SASS !DEFAULT Sensible theming with SASS !default. The male of the Malagasy Paradise Flycatcher, which occurs in two ‘themes’, orange and the more rare white. One of the pillars of the SASS CSS preprocessor language is variables. Using variables, your stylesheets can be made DRY. Unsurprisingly, variables are often used to make a design themable. THE STATE OF WEB BROWSERS. 2019 EDITION 2019 edition. Two days ago, I published a bitter sweet article on the state of web browsers, triggered by the news that Microsoft would abandon their EdgeHTML engine, replacing it with Chromium. Which was the final nail in the coffin, effectively establishing Chromium as the web’s engine, combined with Safari’s webkit. HOW TO PHOTOGRAPH HAIRY MACRO SUBJECTS A few days ago, JungleDragon moderator Christine Young posted the above photo and described how frustrating it is to get this complicated creature in focus. We exchanged a few thoughts whereby I suggested a personal technique I use, which is to imagine a top view of the situation as that makes it more clear where the problem and solution in this specific situation are. THE ONLY PHOTO OF A LIVING SMICROPUS BOGOTENSIS ON THE Flavinia bogotensis — source: Smithsonian National Museum of History. Flavinia bogotensis is the former name of Smicropus bogotensis. The pinned specimen photo you see above is the only other photo online (according to Google image search) of both aliases. PLEASE HELP MAKE BACKDROP-FILTER A REALITY Backdrop-filter is an emerging CSS feature that allows you to apply a filter to the background of an element. That filter could be one of many, but by far the most popular example is the frosty glass effect. Example: My earliest recollection of seeing this frost effect is in the Aero theme of Windows 7, where the chrome of application windows BROWSER HEURISTICS SUCK. A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT This is a little opinion piece. Last week, Mozilla published their take on the growing misuse of websites requesting notification permissions in user-hostile ways. The article describes a plan to experiment with heuristics, some form of intelligence to let these requests through or not. MEGAPIXELS ARE JUST MARKETING. NIKON’S D850 RESOLUTION High-end camera manufacturers have been misleading the public about the importance of more megapixels for years. It is common wisdom by now that megapixels don’t matter. It’s FERDY CHRISTANTFERDY BATHTUBSFERDY MAYNEFERDY FREESTANDING TUBSFERDY MAYNE ACTORFERDY FREESTANDING TUBS REVIEWS This is the 13th episode of wildlife travel by Henriette and Ferdy, and the very first for our niece Ymke. Ferdy Christant. Aug 3, 2019. Color for the Color-challenged. LATEST STORIES PUBLISHED ON FERDY CHRISTANT Read the latest stories published by Ferdy Christant. Web guy. Amateur wildlife photographer. Founder of jungledragon.com. ES6 MODULES AS COMPONENTS. A FUTURE-PROOF ARCHITECTURESEE MORE ONFERDYCHRISTANT.COM
A RAW CONFIDENCE IN COLOR. A JOURNEY TOWARDS BETTER COLOR It’s a plastic multi page booklet containing color patches, white balance patches and middle gray patches. It was an impulse buy for experimenting with white balance and middle gray. Just to get those two things out of the way, a fun little detour: This weird scene was lit by heavy frontal flash, indoors. WHY YOU SHOULD VISIT MADAGASCAR Giant Leaf-tailed gecko — by Ferdy Christant. No matter your specific interest in nature, Madagascar will deliver. It will blow your mind. And when you return home, in turn it will blow the minds of your friends and family. Much of Madagascar’s wildlife is NIKON D810 — BASE ISO64 TEST. IN 2013, I UPGRADED TO FULL Nikon D810 DSLR with 14–24mm lens. In 2013, I upgraded to full frame (Nikon D800) and in the 3 year since, I’ve been acquiring the ridiculously expensive lenses to match the format. A DIFFERENT TAKE ON MASTHEADS IN WEB DESIGN Mastheads, or master headers, are a popular web design pattern nowadays. All over the web you see huge background images with a captivating titles in the foreground trying to grab your attention. Here’s an example in the wild: A masthead as seen on 500px. Visually, the pattern is to have a background image covering a container, and within AMP: THE MISSING CONTROVERSY. HOW GOOGLE CHEATS WITH AMP, Accelerated Mobile Pages, is a technology first launched in 2015 by Google. The main goal of the initiative is to drastically speed up the loading of web pages on mobile. Sorely needed, as the THE WORLD’S MOST OVERLOOKED WEB OPTIMIZATION FOR IOS Ever since iOS has carved out a sizable chunk of the smartphone market, web developers have made small optimizations to their websites that specifically target Mobile Safari. Examples include the fav icon, launching the web page in full screen mode, disabling zooming, and more. The most important optimization, however, is often missed or KEYBOARD STUCK IN IOS ADD TO HOMESCREEN APP? What made this problem so hard to track down is the wide array of keyboard issues on iOS 13 in general. There’s tons of generic OS-level issues reported. There’s even more issues reported regarding 3rd party keyboards. None of the resets and workarounds helped me. I had no 3rd party keyboard installed, and still managed toreproduce the
FERDY CHRISTANTFERDY BATHTUBSFERDY MAYNEFERDY FREESTANDING TUBSFERDY MAYNE ACTORFERDY FREESTANDING TUBS REVIEWS This is the 12th episode of wildlife travel by Henriette and Ferdy, and the 3rd in a row to Colombia. This isn’t going to be short LATEST STORIES PUBLISHED ON FERDY CHRISTANT Read the latest stories published by Ferdy Christant. Web guy. Amateur wildlife photographer. Founder of jungledragon.com. ABOUT FERDY CHRISTANT Read more about Ferdy Christant. Web guy. Amateur wildlife photographer. Founder of jungledragon.com. ES6 MODULES AS COMPONENTS. A FUTURE-PROOF ARCHITECTURESEE MORE ONFERDYCHRISTANT.COM
A RAW CONFIDENCE IN COLOR. A JOURNEY TOWARDS BETTER COLOR Above three versions of “Neutral”, from Nikon Capture NX-D, Adobe Lightroom and CaptureOne Pro 21, in random order. Although admittedly they are pretty similar, look closer and you’ll find differences in color rendering, temperature as well as tonality. NIKON D810 — BASE ISO64 TEST. IN 2013, I UPGRADED TO FULL Nikon D810 DSLR with 14–24mm lens. In 2013, I upgraded to full frame (Nikon D800) and in the 3 year since, I’ve been acquiring the ridiculously expensive lenses to match the format. WHY YOU SHOULD VISIT MADAGASCAR Henriette and I have a long-running mission of visiting a remote wildlife destination each year. In order, we have visited Costa Rica, South Africa, Malaysia, Brazil, Madagascar, Tanzania, Sri A DIFFERENT TAKE ON MASTHEADS IN WEB DESIGN Mastheads, or master headers, are a popular web design pattern nowadays. All over the web you see huge background images with a captivating titles in AMP: THE MISSING CONTROVERSY. HOW GOOGLE CHEATS WITH AMP, Accelerated Mobile Pages, is a technology first launched in 2015 by Google. The main goal of the initiative is to drastically speed up the loading of web pages on mobile. Sorely needed, as the THE WORLD’S MOST OVERLOOKED WEB OPTIMIZATION FOR IOS Update September 2017: As of iOS 11, the below technique for enabling inertia scrolling on the web is no longer needed as it has become the default.More here.. Ever since iOS has carved out a sizable chunk of the smartphone market, web developers have made small optimizations to their websites that specifically target Mobile Safari. LATEST STORIES PUBLISHED ON FERDY CHRISTANT Read the latest stories published by Ferdy Christant. Web guy. Amateur wildlife photographer. Founder of jungledragon.com. ABOUT FERDY CHRISTANT Read more about Ferdy Christant. Web guy. Amateur wildlife photographer. Founder of jungledragon.com. NORTHERN MADAGASCAR. TRIP ROUNDUP Female Silky Sifaka in Marojejy, Madagascar. One of the rarest mammals on the planet. By Ferdy Christant. Late last year I’ve written and shared a detailed travel report of our adventurous trip throughMadagascar.
SENSIBLE THEMING WITH SASS !DEFAULT Sensible theming with SASS !default. The male of the Malagasy Paradise Flycatcher, which occurs in two ‘themes’, orange and the more rare white. One of the pillars of the SASS CSS preprocessor language is variables. Using variables, your stylesheets can be made DRY. Unsurprisingly, variables are often used to make a design themable. THE STATE OF WEB BROWSERS. 2019 EDITION 2019 edition. Two days ago, I published a bitter sweet article on the state of web browsers, triggered by the news that Microsoft would abandon their EdgeHTML engine, replacing it with Chromium. Which was the final nail in the coffin, effectively establishing Chromium as the web’s engine, combined with Safari’s webkit. HOW TO PHOTOGRAPH HAIRY MACRO SUBJECTS A few days ago, JungleDragon moderator Christine Young posted the above photo and described how frustrating it is to get this complicated creature in focus. We exchanged a few thoughts whereby I suggested a personal technique I use, which is to imagine a top view of the situation as that makes it more clear where the problem and solution in this specific situation are. THE ONLY PHOTO OF A LIVING SMICROPUS BOGOTENSIS ON THE Flavinia bogotensis — source: Smithsonian National Museum of History. Flavinia bogotensis is the former name of Smicropus bogotensis. The pinned specimen photo you see above is the only other photo online (according to Google image search) of both aliases. PLEASE HELP MAKE BACKDROP-FILTER A REALITY Backdrop-filter is an emerging CSS feature that allows you to apply a filter to the background of an element. That filter could be one of many, but by far the most popular example is the frosty glass effect. Example: My earliest recollection of seeing this frost effect is in the Aero theme of Windows 7, where the chrome of application windows BROWSER HEURISTICS SUCK. A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT This is a little opinion piece. Last week, Mozilla published their take on the growing misuse of websites requesting notification permissions in user-hostile ways. The article describes a plan to experiment with heuristics, some form of intelligence to let these requests through or not. MEGAPIXELS ARE JUST MARKETING. NIKON’S D850 RESOLUTION High-end camera manufacturers have been misleading the public about the importance of more megapixels for years. It is common wisdom by now that megapixels don’t matter. It’sHomepage
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The rise, fall and resurrection of Flickr The rise, fall and resurrection of FlickrIntroduction
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Classic SSR + New JS Classic SSR + New JS On demand ES6 Components without bundlingFerdy Christant
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Color for the Color-challenged Color for the Color-challenged Read this if you suck at picking colorsFerdy Christant
Apr 20, 2019
Browser heuristics suck Browser heuristics suck A dangerous precedentFerdy Christant
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The State of Web Browsers The State of Web Browsers2019 edition
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Colombia 2018 Travel Report Colombia 2018 Travel Report This is the 12th episode of wildlife travel by Henriette and Ferdy, and the 3rd in a row to Colombia. This isn’t going to be short…Ferdy Christant
Nov 9, 2018
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Earlier this week, I attended the Fronteers conference in Amsterdam, for the 3rd year in a row. Here’s a brief write-up of thesessions…
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Oct 6, 2018
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Moth Week 2018
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Jul 21, 2018
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