A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Your drawings probably look rubbish because you’re using an old biro that happened to be laying around. Nobody’s used one of these since cassette tapes stopped needing to be fixed, so throw that in the drawer full of batteries, twine and assorted electrical tape from whence it came. Instead, go thicker. Go felt tip. Go …
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The problem in business is we have lopsided metrics. We have a million-and-one metrics to measure someone’s performance, and negligible to no metrics to measure someone’s trustworthiness. 👉 You might know Simon from other videos such as Millennials (in the Workplace) or Why Leaders Eat Last. Totally worth your time.
There’s a bug in Guzzle 6.5.0 in which it does not play nice with systems that have an older ICU library (which PHP’s Intl extension uses). CentOS 6 for example ships with a very old ICU version, without any (offical) means of updating it. The bug should be fixed in (the unreleased) Guzzle 6.5.1. It …
Measuring time is a complicated thing. Computers, banks, and stock markets in Denmark all use UTC, the international standard: but according to the law, they shouldn’t. 🤓 Also see Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones
:is() selector will simplify things
One of the selectors in CSS Level 4 is :is(). It is the successor to :any() and :matches() (which are supplanted by :is()): The :is() CSS pseudo-class function takes a selector list as its argument, and selects any element that can be selected by one of the selectors in that list. This is useful for …
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<details> is Not an Accordion
Dave Rupert on why that (wonderful) way of Using the <details> element to create modals and menus is not good for semantics. Because <summary> has role=”button”, it eats the semantic content of elements inside it. So that big <h1> inside of your <summary> becomes just another piece of text, sans semantics. I especially like this …
When done well, dark themes have many benefits. They reduce eyestrain. They are easier to read in low light. And, depending on the screen, they can greatly reduce battery consumption. However, it is difficult to create a delightful dark theme. We cannot simply reuse our colors or invert our shades. If we do, we will …
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Reactime is a debugging tool for React developers. It records state whenever it is changed and allows the user to jump to any previously recorded state. This dev tool is for React apps using stateful components and prop drilling, and has beta support for Context API, conditional state routing, Hooks (useState, useEffect) and functional components. …
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Reduce hosting costs. Stop wasting time and energy finding, building and maintaining your own stack. We cover it all, from PHP to database, search, security and performance. Enable any service by adding a few lines in a configuration file. SymfonyCloud supports all PHP versions. Each service is deployed in its own custom, lightweight container for …
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If you’re building Laravel-based app and don’t want to burdened with the infrastructure side of things, check out Laravel Vapor which was announced last summer. Laravel Vapor is a serverless deployment platform for Laravel, powered by AWS. Launch your Laravel infrastructure on Vapor and fall in love with the scalable simplicity of serverless. Next to …
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