Roadrunner – High-performance PHP application server, load-balancer, and process manager written in Golang

RoadRunner is an open-source (MIT licensed), high-performance PHP application server, load balancer, and process manager. It supports running as a service with the ability to extend its functionality on a per-project basis. RoadRunner includes PSR-7 compatible HTTP server. RoadRunner runs your application in the form of workers. The workers are kept alive in between requests. …

A Complete Guide to Data Attributes

I like using data attributes in my markup (data-*), CSS ([data-*]), and JS (el.dataset). This post on CSS-Tricks writes down exactly how I use them. Especially the different type of attribute selectors are really powerful: // Seven different types of CSS attribute selectors // This attribute exists on the element [value] // This attribute has …

Execute commands over SSH from PHP with spatie/ssh

A new PHP package released by the fine folks at Spatie is spatie/ssh. Leveraging Symfony\Component\Process\Process it allows you to execute commands over SSH from within your PHP code. spatie/ssh is probably the easiest way to perform a quick SSH command. It doesn’t have a lot of features, but that’s ok. It’s intended as something very …

Take charge of the iOS/tvOS/watchOS simulators with Control Room

Nice tool by Paul Hudson: Control Room is a macOS app that lets you control the simulators for iOS, tvOS, and watchOS – their UI appearance, status bar configuration, and more. It wraps Apple’s own simctl command-line tool, so you’ll need Xcode installed. Some features, such as sending example push notifications or move between light …

React Refs, both Class and Function Components

Good post by Lachlan Young with a simple use case for using createRef (Class Components) and useRef (Function Components): focusing an external component (here: TextField from Material UI) when your own parent component mounts. I especially like the final thoughts at the end of the post: If you had no need for a ref besides …

GitLens – Git Supercharged Extension for Visual Studio Code

GitLens supercharges the Git capabilities built into Visual Studio Code. It helps you to visualize code authorship at a glance via Git blame annotations and code lens, seamlessly navigate and explore Git repositories, gain valuable insights via powerful comparison commands, and so much more. Just installed it and must say it’s really nice. Here’s an …

Beware when base64-encoding on the CLI using echo

Recently I needed to base64-encode a string. To do this I turned to the CLI and piped the output of echo to base64. # Don’t use! Correct command further down this post. $ echo ‘test’ | base64 dGVzdAo= Although the output looks quite good, things didn’t quite work out when using the string: it failed …

Netlify Forms – Manage forms and submissions without any server-side code

Wow, this is an awesome addition to Netlify: On Netlify, any HTML form can instantly accept submissions—no backend code or infrastructure required. As soon as your form is deployed, you start seeing submissions appear in your Netlify dashboard. Just add the netlify attribute to any form and everything gets wired up automatically. Netlify will automatically …