If you had to guess, what’s the longest distance between the camera and the object that can be seen in the picture taken by it, how far would you go? Well, it turns out that the world record is 443 kilometers, which is way more than what I was expecting. I thought it’d be within the 100 kilometers. But 443 is crazy! Here’s the map that shows a different perspective.
Markdown Here is a browser extension (for all sorts of browsers too) that enables quick and easy rendering of the Markdown text into the HTML. This works well in a number of scenarios – Gmail email composition, WordPress post editing, and a few other.
My brother is blogging about a really weird issue we had today. Apparently, the old school approach of working with disk volumes, and mounting them is not enough anymore. These days, systemd is responsible for part of that workflow and it can bite you in the behind if you are not careful.
Solution: run “systemctl daemon-reload” whenever you edit /etc/fstab.
Run boy run! This world is not made for you …
“A Look Back at the History of CSS” is a nice trip down the history lane as to where and how CSS came about. It’s hard to imagine these days that CSS wasn’t always around and the web looked like whatever your browser decided to make it look like.
Daniel Göransson, a web developer with vision impairment, put together this ultimate guide to the image alt texts. Unlike all the keyword stuffing SEO guides, his focuses on making alt texts useful for people who are using screen readers and other assisting technologies.
If you’ve never browsed the web with a screen reader switched on, this guide is the next best thing for you to understand the issues and make your sites better.