A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Paul Hudson, creator of Hacking with Swift: 🧐What if I said I was thinking of writing a book about all the SwiftUI techniques I've learned? 😳What if I said I'd ALREADY written it? 🤩What if I said I was making videos too? 🤯What if I said it was online NOW, free? Wonder no more, folks: …
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useMemo and useCallback
Insightful post by Kent C. Dodds on the costs and benefits of React’s useMemo and useCallback. We hear a lot that you should use React.useCallback to improve performance and that “inline functions can be problematic for performance,” so how could it ever be better to not useCallback? Just take a step back from React and …
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PHP Insights is a Static Analysis Tool for your PHP code. It contains built-in checks for making code reliable, loosely coupled, simple, and clean. Works out-of-the-box with the current set of popular frameworks. # First, install: composer require nunomaduro/phpinsights –dev # Then, use it: ./vendor/bin/phpinsights PHP Insights →
When you first start planning a big trip, step one will likely happen at the Google search bar. Step two might be clicking onto the images of your target destination. The North Face, in a campaign with agency Leo Burnett Tailor Made, took advantage of this consumer behavior to keep its name top of mind …
“Unraveling the JPEG” is a great deep dive into the JPEG image format. This article is about how to decode a JPEG image. In other words, it’s about what it takes to convert the compressed data stored on your computer to the image that appears on the screen. It’s worth learning about not just because …
Yesterday, apart from revealing a $999 monitor stand, Apple announced SwiftUI which got me quite excited. SwiftUI is an innovative, exceptionally simple way to build user interfaces across all Apple platforms with the power of Swift. Build user interfaces for any Apple device using just one set of tools and APIs. With a declarative Swift …
At JSConf EU 2019, CJ Silverio – former CTO at NPM Inc – gave this talk on why a VC-funded private package registry (read: the one ran by NPM Inc) holds many dangers. The JS package commons is in the hands of a for-profit entity. We trust NPM Inc with our shared code, but we …
A tweet that’s been making rounds this week is on how to disable macOS Mojave’s floating screenshot preview thumbnail (and remove that delay along with it). PSA: If you’re on macOS Mojave, you can revert to the old, good, screenshot behavior (no floating screenshot thumbnail, no delay before file shows on desktop) ✨1: ⌘+Shift+52: Click …
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Sarah Drasner (@sarah_edo), now at Netlify, created a handy tool to visually create CSS Grid Layouts. Handy if you’re not all to familiar with it, yet. CSS Grid Generator →CSS Grid Generator Source (GitHub) →
I’ve been enjoying – and have linked to – the videos by Vox quite a lot, especially those from Vox Earworm. This video on how disco’s newly invented vinyl format – the 12-inch single – revolutionized pop music in the ’70s, is something right up my alley: