ImageMagick has a command line tool called identify which can read image metadata:

>identify -verbose DSC00136.JPG
Image: DSC00136.JPG
  Format: JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format)
  Class: DirectClass
  Geometry: 5472x3648+...

Summary

• We want to move away from jQuery in future projects
• Motivations are performance, bundle size and general trends for the web platform.
• The native DOM API is much nicer than it used to be, and we can polyfill the missing pieces
• Un...

jQuery doesn't store information about event listeners and data values with the element itself. This information is instead stored in a global, internal jQuery cache object. Every time you add an event listener or data value to a jQuery object, ...

If your external displays not switching on or showing a weird behavior (for e.g. all displays getting the same configuration all the time) you can fix it by switching off all external displays and re-enabling only one in the first step. Afterwards...

Warning: Because of (unclear) rounding issues and missing decimal places (see examples below),
do NOT use this when dealing with money. Use our amount helper instea...

There are several tools for DNS debugging which offer you more or less information. Most of the time the more simple ones, like host oder nslookup will be sufficient.

host

simple DNS lookup utility.

>host heise.de
heise.de has addr...

A primer on vector graphics

For rastered image formats like JPG or PNG, each pixel is basically drawn on a fixed size canvas. To display such an image in a different size (say: 1.5 times larger than original), the renderer (your Browser / GPU...

Intro

Embedding videos on a website is very easy, add a <video> tag to your source code and it just works. Most of the time.

The thing is: Both the **operating system and Browser of your client must support the container ...

Sometimes you need to monitor a connection from your machine to a specific, single host or network in order to identify which network hop between your machine and the target causes trouble. You can use the following shell script to easily achieve ...