Great theory on who Rey – introduced in The Force Awakens – could be. I think this one will hold up as all the clues are there and it makes total sense. (via Michel)
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Distributing your React Component as a Standalone Version
At work we’ve been building quite some stuff on top of React the past few months. We use Grunt (and more recently Webpack) to run browserify with the babelify transform to transpile our ES6 code into ES5. Earlier this week I came to the point where I wanted to distribute a built component as a …
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Node.js “Hackathon Starter”
If you have attended any hackathons in the past, then you know how much time it takes to get a project started: decide on what to build, pick a programming language, pick a web framework, pick a CSS framework. A while later, you might have an initial project up on GitHub and only then can …
Validating SSL certificates with PHP
Great stuff again by Freek Murze from Spatie: A PHP class to easily check the validity of an SSL Certificate. Easily? Yes, easily: $certificate = SslCertificate::createForHostName(‘spatie.be’); $certificate->getIssuer(); // returns “Let’s Encrypt Authority X3” $certificate->isValid(); // returns true if the certificate is currently valid $certificate->isValid(domain.com); // returns true if the certificate is currently valid for the …
Cauditor – PHP Code Audit and Visualisations
Great tool by Matthias Mullie, to analyzing your PHP code (in the screenshot above you can see the analysis of ansi-php): Figure out complexity hotspots in the blink of an eye from a couple of very simple charts [generated by Cauditor]. The charts will help you understand the architecture of the project & make it …
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Pokémon Go GPS Hack
Don’t want to go outside to play Pokémon Go? Some guys came up with this clever hack: generate your own GPS signal. Simulating GPS data with poor software was yesterday! We are generating the real GNSS data with our R&S SMBV and feeding the signal directly into the mobile device. […] The setup is a …
CSS vs. SVG Gradient Angle
Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL
Postgres served us well in the early days of Uber, but we ran into significant problems scaling Postgres with our growth. In this article, we’ll explore some of the drawbacks we found with Postgres and explain the decision to build Schemaless and other backend services on top of MySQL. Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres …
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Web Design in 4 Minutes
CSS Code Review by Jonathan Snook
Some time last week Brad Frost asked on Twitter for some feedback on a bit of markup he had built: Hey web forms and BEM aficionados, anyone care to review some form markup I've been writing? https://t.co/SyACn1LZ9s — Brad Frost (@brad_frost) July 15, 2016 Jonathan Snook took the time to give Brad some feedback, which …