Dimitris Sakellariou

Seven days on, seven questions about the US-Israeli war on Iran One week on from the first strikes, we look at why the war started, what the cost has been and what may come next The US-Israeli war on Iran, now into its seventh day, has set the Middle East alight, threatening millions of people’s lives and livelihoods as the violence spreads in widening arc stretching from central Asia to the edge of Europe. The joint operation, named “Epic Fury” by the US and “Roaring Lion” by Israel, has been sold as a high-impact show of intimidating power, but its impact so far beyond the chaos and bloodshed is unclear. What is certain is that predictions that this type of war would destabilise the region have indeed rapidly materialised. Continue reading...

Seven days on, seven questions about the US-Israeli war on Iran

Europeans feel meh about democracy, study finds “The low percentage of consistent support for democracy is truly worrying,” warns NGO chief.

A new study published today suggests that Europeans are becoming increasingly disillusioned with democracy.

I got 12/28...and I was pissed middle way through it. Now please can we have temporal?
Excellent line of questions, give it a try guys.

ITS HAPPENING

Firefox 127 shipped today making it the first browser to support Temporal - the new API for working with Dates, times, timezones + durations

Live from the CSS WG F2F:

…not only is corner-shape coming

…not only do we get squircles in CSS

…it will even be possible to *animate* between corner shapes because under the hood they'll all be expressed via the same function! 🤩

Props to @nomster.bsky.social for leading this work!

This is brilliant!

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Europe’s economic apocalypse Stagnation, flagging competitiveness, Donald Trump — the continent is facing “an existential challenge.”

Europe is running out of time.

An Introduction To CSS Scroll-Driven Animations: Scroll And View Progress Timelines — Smashing Magazine 10 years after scroll-driven animations were first proposed, they’re finally here — no JavaScript, no dependencies, no libraries, just pure CSS.

No JavaScript, no dependencies, no libraries — just pure CSS

Keep it up guys, one of the best products that I have used in the past three years for sure. 🚀

CITYJS ATHENS NOV WARMUP EVENT YouTube video by CITYJS CONFERENCE

CityJS in Athens, GR, starts in a few minutes, and Kyriakos Vogiatzis ( @kayveecodes.bsky.social) will rock the stage with his presentation on how to migrate an enterprise scale project from #Webpack to #Vite.
Go for it man 🚀🔥
You can join the livestream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NvK...

S01E01 - Software Engineering: Θεωρία, Πράξη και F1 Control Alt Life · Episode

For any Greek audience out there, my two beloved colleagues (@kayveecodes.bsky.social) are taking a huge leap of faith and have started a new #greek #tech #podcast.
First episode dropped a couple of days back, so give them some much deserved love:
open.spotify.com/episode/27NC...

Oh...

About time... video calling with Viber and other applications always felt better.

Welcome to the bright side @directus.io

Overview of the CSS code taken from the provided link

💡 CSS Tip!

Do you want to know the scrollbar width? It's possible using only CSS and a few lines of code! You can get the pixel value within a CSS variable and use it everywhere.

As a bonus, you can also have an integer value and show it!

A demo here: css-tip.com/width-scroll...

#CSS #HTML

Awesome!

After a couple of weeks that I've been a user to BlueSky, I believe it is a good time to share with the world the project I've been working on for the past year.

(Another) weather application with some heavy GIS elements, fueled by #Directus, #NodeJS with Express & #NextJS in the FE.
myweathr.com