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Automatically buy a Twilio phone number and forward calls/SMS to another number with `create-phone-number-forwarding`

Stefan Judis, devrel at Twilio, has created a CLI tool named create-phone-number-forwarding: A small CLI utility that buys a Twilio number and forwards incoming calls/SMS to your own number I like the fact that at its core it’s basically a shell script wrapping around the twilio binary (combined with tools like jq), also making use […]

react-native-background-fetch – Periodic background tasks for React Native Apps

Background Fetch is a very simple plugin which will awaken an app in the background about every 15 minutes, providing a short period of background running-time. This plugin will execute your provided callbackFn whenever a background-fetch event occurs. import BackgroundFetch from "react-native-background-fetch"; export default class App extends Component { componentDidMount() { // Configure it. BackgroundFetch.configure({ […]

Roadrunner – High-performance PHP application server, load-balancer, and process manager written in Golang

RoadRunner is an open-source (MIT licensed), high-performance PHP application server, load balancer, and process manager. It supports running as a service with the ability to extend its functionality on a per-project basis. RoadRunner includes PSR-7 compatible HTTP server. RoadRunner runs your application in the form of workers. The workers are kept alive in between requests. […]

How were the portals in Portal created?

YouTube user DigiDigger shows us how to recreate the portals from Portal. Highly interesting imo. 🤔 What happens when you mix Portal with Super Mario Bros? You get Mari0!

A Complete Guide to Data Attributes

I like using data attributes in my markup (data-*), CSS ([data-*]), and JS (el.dataset). This post on CSS-Tricks writes down exactly how I use them. Especially the different type of attribute selectors are really powerful: // Seven different types of CSS attribute selectors // This attribute exists on the element [value] // This attribute has […]

Execute commands over SSH from PHP with `spatie/ssh`

A new PHP package released by the fine folks at Spatie is spatie/ssh. Leveraging Symfony\Component\Process\Process it allows you to execute commands over SSH from within your PHP code. spatie/ssh is probably the easiest way to perform a quick SSH command. It doesn’t have a lot of features, but that’s ok. It’s intended as something very […]

Take charge of the iOS/tvOS/watchOS simulators with Control Room

Nice tool by Paul Hudson: Control Room is a macOS app that lets you control the simulators for iOS, tvOS, and watchOS – their UI appearance, status bar configuration, and more. It wraps Apple’s own simctl command-line tool, so you’ll need Xcode installed. Some features, such as sending example push notifications or move between light […]

React Refs, both Class and Function Components

Good post by Lachlan Young with a simple use case for using createRef (Class Components) and useRef (Function Components): focusing an external component (here: TextField from Material UI) when your own parent component mounts. I especially like the final thoughts at the end of the post: If you had no need for a ref besides […]

GitLens – Git Supercharged Extension for Visual Studio Code

GitLens supercharges the Git capabilities built into Visual Studio Code. It helps you to visualize code authorship at a glance via Git blame annotations and code lens, seamlessly navigate and explore Git repositories, gain valuable insights via powerful comparison commands, and so much more. Just installed it and must say it’s really nice. Here’s an […]