Christian Heilmann

CSS Mirror Editing in Edge DevTools for VS Code

September 16th, 2021

Summary: With the release of 1.3.1 of the Edge Tools for VS Code we introduce a better way to get changes you made in the Styles tool back into your source code. We’d love to know what you think of it and what we can do better. There’s a GitHub issue dedicated to feedback. Developer […]

Using console.log() on any website? Logpoints let you do that!

August 24th, 2021

If you want to know the value of a certain expression in any JavaScript on the web, you can use logpoints for that. It is like injecting a console.log() anywhere you want. Here’s a quick demo: Here’s how the demo works: Open https://codepo8.github.io/dog-browser/ in the browser Open Developer Tools, go to the Sources tool Locate […]

Quick tip: creating round “talking heads” videos in Screenflow

August 23rd, 2021

Adding your face in a small circle to videos has become fashionable lately and some extensions do that automatically for you. Good old Screenflow, which I’ve used for years now, has no masking option though. But you still can achieve round videos using a setting and learning that screenflow’s sliders are weird. By default, Screenflow […]

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