Parallel Transport

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Latest Notes

Kartik Prabhu
@neilhimself I know everyone is raving about ep. 6, and justifiably so. I want to add that ep. 5 is a brilliant horror short film. I knew every beat of the story from the comics, and it was still tense and chilling. Kudos to everyone involved 👏

Latest Articles

<href> in SVG

While creating an animated SVG logo for indietech.rocks we ran into a strange problem where the SVG would display in some browsers and not in others. The issue is the different ways browsers handle XML — yes SVG is XML! So here is the problem and its solution.

Placeholder Images

The size of my images changes fluidly with my responsive layout. Since the browser does not know their heights a priori, the space collapses while the images are still loading. Once the images load the entire page reflows and the rest of the content jumps around to make space for them. It would be much better if the space for the images was reserved from the start and, as a bonus, if some lower resolution version of the images displayed, while the images load. Here is how I do it.