Quick Talk
14 April 2025 by erwan | Leave a Comment
Ever experienced repetitive fine tuning of threeJS scene ? and camera controls revert back to original position, and you end up wasting time finding right position to check the modifications visually ? the localStorage / sessionStorage javascript objects allow you to store this information and restore it at reload time. All you need is to […]
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7 April 2025 by erwan | Leave a Comment
Playing with AI generation is showing massive improvement in 1. prompt understanding and 2. proper response. Demo of a single prompt javascript generated shoot them up game
2 April 2025 by erwan | Leave a Comment
switching back and forth from google search to gemini seems to bring the best fo both worlds. I asked Gemini to code a pure javascript accordion , it answered with alpine js code which is not too bad. Then a simple search query on google for "tailwind plus minus number alpine" led me to penguinui […]
31 March 2025 by erwan | Leave a Comment
with tailwind css there's nothing like native features. For example native tailwind transition properties provide a range of hover or loop animations. If you need to get animations on scroll, you can use intersect library (demo here). And if you want to get more creative with texts, try letter animations with Fancy Commonents for react […]
Application Development
24 February 2025 by erwan | Leave a Comment
speaking of database, I've had my share of user interfaces. As far as I can remember, Microsoft as the first big player to democratize database user interfaces with its famous Access software, not to mention Excel which is still today probably the most popular single table manager tool. For Web based database management, phpmytadmin is […]
20 January 2025 by erwan | Leave a Comment
That's it i've made the big move, like many others. After twenty years of wordpress development, I have to learn it all again. SEO, forms, page building, everything comes free and open source with statamic, unlike wordpress which requires a few hundred bucks to build serious web content management. Of course, on the long run, […]
29 December 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
It took me quite a while to understand that in order to add action to statamic field, you have to read extending the control panel first. Yes read docs. Did you manage to add your first field action ? for myself I will document here the hards steps that took me to a great feature […]
LizzardJs
22 December 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
I have used this feature a lot on web site development, but never really investigated how it works : fixed header that shrinks when user scrolls down is a nice way of putting a bigger logo without comprising further reading. requirements : tailwind, only ! we'll use pure javascript and a bit of css first […]
1 December 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
database / nocode Tailwind tools reponsiveness Tailwind components Javascript sliders here we sort best mobile touch enabled sliders + carousels, with last github update. All these sliders share common characteristics Glide : just out ! SWIPER : 2024 SLICKSLIDER : 2017 Splide JS : 2022
26 November 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
Well, have you moved away from twitter ? me, not yet, I have opened a bluesky account, but still find extremely relevant info on twitter, especially reports of amazing apps built with AI. So, having a coming simple web design project to implement, I was trying a few things. Statamic, as a WordPress replacement, is […]
14 November 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
using the now more than famous ACF module, you can a the ACF Leaflet field type that allows to geo code an adress within any post type and easily integrate post map within content. But even better, you can query posts and make an aggregated map, easily !! Yes, Open Street Map ACF field can […]
amazing the number of new ui kits coming on the freelance ecosystem. inspira ui is one of them and features nice effects for nuxt developers. Inspired by next libraries that use motion animation, they bring fun to nuxt, gradients, visual effects like many occurences of text reveal effects.
28 October 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
It's easy to integrate google analytics (GA) or Google Tag Manager in Nuxt applications, as there a plugins for that, and many tuts, like this one that describes how to include a script from nuxt config file. What's not covered though, is the possibility to use GTM , for instance, in a single layout using […]
16 October 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
Recent drama about relationship between WordPress.org and WpEngine, creator of the popular ACF module, have frightened me. My trust in WordPress has for twenty years been based on a reasonable mix of opensource background and business involvement, but above all the reliability of upgrades : my original blog ecolopop has been running on wordpress for […]
16 September 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
image giving out 3D components for web portfolio design ? Next JS is definitely creative design oriented, as illustrated by tremendous developments from ThreeJs Fiber. Today I focus on another opensource library, ui layout, which among other nice goodies, has a rotating globe and a nice touch enabled carousel library. Clone UI Layout from github […]
3 August 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
After testing a few scripts for displaying galleries, I chose Swiper. FrankenUi Carousel Slider and Slideshow elements are nice but they did not integrate well with Nuxt, my favourite framework, not in ten minutes anyway, styling was not great, same issue for TinySlider, all of them being touch enabled, which is important for me. And […]
22 July 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
Asset management (mainly, in my case , images and PDF), is a big thing. In a review of KirbyCMS, I pointed out the importance of this feature . In my opinion, these days, after trying a few dozen content management systems with integrated asset management, I have to say that it could be much more […]
9 July 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
It took me 5 prompts to get a marquee text slider working continuously. Interesting, but what about power consumption ? here are the 5 prompts that finally generated what I need, a nice smooth continuous cycling text scroller.
2 July 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
Hey, i'm trying to get rid of wordpress, not so easy !! Filament PHP is a good candidate for building serious Content Management System, and I have started working on Repeater Fields, including editorJs field, image Field, and selector for choosing templates... Combined with Laravel Blade templating, this is a good prototype for a future […]
24 May 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
a very nice prototyping feature given by FilamentPHP is the possibility to create select multiple values in the form with options from a class scoped array , without creating BelongToMany relationships that involve an extra table. The kind of issue for which sushi package was created, but we don't need that here, or I might […]
21 May 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
While searching for new ways of dealing with custom tailwind css templates within modern CMS, I searched wysiwyg editor news. Components https://editorjs.io has block management, and can convert a block type : imagine you start typing a text and want it to be a header, editor js allows that. Gutenberg does not . https://quilljs.com/ looks […]
6 May 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
started working with tailwind css, at first it really seemed impossible to code responsive menu with hierarchy in nuxtjs. NextJs has lots of nice template but nuxt seems behind , cruip sells templates for vue but not for nuxt 3, not yet though , and I finally found a nuxt2 template , which has been […]
3 May 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
there is a long discussion on nuxt forum on how to properly integrate AOS animation library. The objective here for me is to experiment this light animation library without using npm with the aos nuxt module , instead i want to use CDN. This is quite straightforward with Nuxt and good alternative if you don't […]
2 May 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
After finding a solid basic tailwind starter on stackblitz (github repository), I go on further creative stuff. template requirements this template is a vue / vite / Tailwind responsive website with top navigation hierarchical menu : a good start for developing most web sites. First thing is to fork the starter to start working on […]
