A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
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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Alex MacArthur: The advantages of Web Workers are many, but things really clicked for me when it came to the several DOM event listeners in any given application. These all necessarily live on the browser’s main thread, and if that thread is congested by a long-running process, the responsiveness of those listeners begins to suffer, …
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When having fullwidth content strips on your site CSS Grid is a thankful piece of technology. You can use it to place items between the first and last grid-line, as detailed in Breaking Elements out of Their Containers in CSS 💁♂️ Alternatively you can also use this .full-bleed utility class To lay out the content …
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Ruben Van Assche from Spatie: When GitHub released its new product: GitHub Actions a whole new world opened for developers. Let’s dive right in and see what it brings for the Laravel community. In How to set up PHP for use in a GitHub Action I’ve layed out how to use shivammathur/setup-php@v1 in GitHub Actions. …
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