Mar 20Faroe Islands — Day 1 — ArrivalThe Faroe Islands, a place of rugged cliffs, deep fjords, and green hills. A land of ethereal beauty that makes the heart skip a beat. …Travel5 min readTravel5 min read
Nov 28, 2021What are Lightroom presets, and why are they not always perfect? — ItsMeNatalieWhat is a preset? And why should I use it? A Lightroom preset is a list of editing settings that help you achieve a certain style or mood on your photo. With just one click you can change your photo by applying those pre-determined settings of colours, hues, shadows, highlights, contrast, and more! …Photography5 min readPhotography5 min read
Jan 20, 2020box-decoration-break propertyIntro, motto, greeting or tagline. A brief paragraph is the first thing you can see on most of the websites when you enter them. Most of them are multi-lined but also boring and plain. While breaking the text into multiple pieces you can create interesting effects that can convince the…CSS3 min readCSS3 min read
Oct 22, 2019How to create a classy slider with pure CSSIt doesn’t matter whether you are creating a website or an app — you don’t want to use the default style of a slider. It won’t match any of the modern sexy designs. You could use external libraries like Bootstrap or Foundation but most of the time, you don’t want…CSS4 min readCSS4 min read
Sep 10, 2019backdrop-filter property“Frosted glass” effect kicked around the Internet more than 10 years ago and it’s still popular. You can create a faded background effect and other complex design effects with just a single line of CSS! The backdrop-filter is an animatable CSS property which allows applying various graphical effects to the…CSS3 min readCSS3 min read
Aug 11, 2019background-blend-mode propertySome people think that stunning image effects can be achieved only in graphic editors — nothing could be further from the truth. Adobe’s Photoshop did not invent blend modes and you can use them to style your image dynamically with CSS. Blend modes are used to decide how elements’ backgrounds…CSS4 min readCSS4 min read
Jul 25, 2019Connecting Redux Form with React ReduxDealing with forms in React can be troublesome sometimes. You need to take care of proper state management, smooth user experience, simple form declarations, reusable components, etc. But the reason I moved to Redux Form was validation. I wanted to make the implementation of forms easier and quicker without adding…React4 min readReact4 min read
