A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Photo by Tim Gouw on Unsplash One moment you’re excited about your son who’s about to be born, the other moment you’re in fear that he might not make it. One moment you’re overly happy because your son did make it thanks to the help of doctors and medical staff, the other moment you’re shocked …
I’m proud to announce that my son NOAH was born on January 22, 2020. It was a long and bumpy road to get to the finish line, but all turned out well in the end. I’m very grateful that we have the means for and access to such a good healthcare system; without the help …
Hugo Giraudel, engineer at N26: In the last few years, we have seen more and more ways to build highly interactive web applications relying almost exclusively on JavaScript. To the point where we almost wonder whether we forgot from where we come from. Not so long ago was a time was JavaScript was just sprinkled …
google/cloud-functions-framework – Google Cloud Functions Framework for PHP
google/cloud-functions-framework is an open source FaaS (Function as a Service) Framework for writing portable PHP functions. An example function looks like this: <?php use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request; function helloHttp(Request $request) { return "Hello World from PHP HTTP function!" . PHP_EOL; } One can invoke it locally by executing the included router as follows: export FUNCTION_TARGET=helloHttp export FUNCTION_SIGNATURE_TYPE=http …
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In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to set up webhooks by Zapier to send information to a third-party service and how to integrate them into your JAMstack site using Netlify Functions. This combination allows you to quickly and easily create dynamic functionality on your JAMstack site and create services that do things existing APIs …
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deno.town – A web REPL for experimenting with the Deno API
deno.town is a REPL to play with the aforementioned Deno, a new take on Node as if it were designed today. deno.town → ⁉️ If you’re looking for a shorter intro to Deno, this talk by Bert Belder at DotJS has got you covered:
react-three-fiber – React renderer for three.js
This is a React renderer for Threejs on the web and react-native. Building a dynamic scene graph becomes so much easier when you can break it up into declarative, re-usable components that react to state changes. This is less of an abstraction and more of a pure reconciler (like react-dom in relation to HTML). It …
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Page editors are a great way to provide an excellent user experience. However, to build one is often a pretty dreadful task. Craft.js solves this problem by modularising the building blocks of a page editor. It provides a drag-n-drop system and handles the way user components should be rendered, updated and moved – among other …
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The folks at IAmsterdam have released a map that measures distances not in miles / kms but in time. Select a spot + a means of transportation + a desired travel time and it’ll show you how far away (in time) you can get. From what I can tell European countries such as Belgium, France, …
Sparked by an idea by Wes Bos, John Papa has created and released a first version of Cloak: Cloak hides/shows your secrets in environment files, to avoid accidentally sharing them with everyone who sees your screen. Handy when doing screencasts and the like. Do note that it only visually hides the secrets, no changes are …
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