A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Wait, we don’t like .reduce() now? I loved using reduce. Man, Twitter, I just got done refactoring all my code to hooks, binary templates, and async/await and now this. Twitter-driven-development is hard. 😓 — Brian Holt (@holtbt) February 24, 2019
php-timecop – A PHP extension providing “time travel” capabilities
Now this looks handy, especially when you’re writing/testing code that’s dependent on the system’s time: php-timecop is a PHP extension providing “time travel” and “time freezing” capabilities Freeze time to a specific point. Travel back to a specific point in time, but allow time to continue moving forward from there. Scale time by a given …
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It looks like an ordinary Lightning to USB Cable from Apple, yet it’s not: it’s got built-in Wifi and can receive payloads which get executed on the machine it’s plugged in 😱 However, let this be a reminder to never trust external cables (or USB outlets for that matter!), found USB sticks, etc. O.MG Cable …
At the top of Creating vs. Shipping there’s a featured image that contains the quote I mentioned in the post itself. To create that image, I turned to an online tool named “BeFunky Photo Editor”. Even though the more advanced stuff (or extra variants of a brush) requires a paid account, it’s more than enough …
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As mentioned in How to publish your PWA onto the Google Play Store it’s now possible to publish your PWA’s onto the Google Play Store. Thanks to PWA2APK you no longer need to manually create your APK: “just” enter the URL of your PWA and an APK – which you’ll need to publish manually – …
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Another great entry in the “Making Future Interfaces” video series by Heydon Pickering. This one here is a basic introduction to SVG. Like with his other videos: even if you already know about the topic he’s talking about: just watch it, the presentation style and puns are great 🙂 Related: Here’s a post of mine …
tailflix – A drop-in replacement for tail -F that asks you if you are still watching
Worth a peek, to see how it’s built. I like how the .cells__number cells are locked to the first column, independent of their order in the source code: grid-column: 1 / span 1; CSS Grid: Excel Spreadsheet →