A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
setInterval Declarative with React HooksDan Abramov’s blog Overreacted is pure gold and contains a ton of information. Take today’s post “Making setInterval Declarative with React Hooks” for example, in which he explains why setInterval and Hooks (which should be released in today’s planned React 16.8 release) don’t play that nice together out of the box. // This won’t work …
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Thanks to the Trusted Web Activity feature in Chrome 72 on Android, the Google Play Store is now open for Progressive Web Apps. Chrome 72 for Android is now shipping from the Play Store to all users and this version included Trusted Web Activity (TWA), that in a nutshell is a way to open Chrome …
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Remember the dialup sound of your modem from back in the day? Those beeps and glitches aren’t just random garbage, but they’re the handshake between two modems trying to agree on which language they’ll be speaking to one another. Oona Räisänen has created this nice poster of a spectogram of said handshake, detailing what each …
useHooks(🐠) – Easy to understand React Hook recipes
Hooks are an upcoming feature that lets you use state and other React features without writing a class. This websites provides easy to understand code examples to help you understand how hooks work and hopefully inspire you to take advantage of them in your next project. useHooks(🐠) → 💁♂️ Not familiar with Hooks? The announcement …
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If you’re looking to get started with React, then the (massive) React Handbook will come in handy. The React Handbook follows the 80/20 rule: learn in 20% of the time the 80% of a topic. Best part of it all is that it starts with a big section on Modern JavaScript (e.g. ES2015 and newer) …
Creating is easy. Shipping is the hard part, and countless companies never quite figure it out. Sure, they might release their software, but that’s not the same as shipping. No company is perfect, but it makes a big difference when they genuinely care. Shipping is about consistency. It’s regularly updated help documents. It’s responsive and …
Good writeup by Freek on how to get PHP-CS-Fixer and Prettier up and running. When working on a project with other people, it’s important to pick a coding standard. Agreeing on a coding standard makes the code more readable for all developers that need to touch the project. It’s easy to make mistakes against those …
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Retired astronaut Chris Hadfield helps debunk (and confirm!) some common myths about space. Is there any sound in space? Does space smell like burnt steak? Is NASA working on warp speed?
Ire Aderinokun on why you should use the :lang pseudo-class over the lang attribute selector (e.g. [lang]) for language-specific styles: The problem with having language-specific styles based on the [lang] attribute selector is that the selector isn’t actually aware of the language of the element. It’s just like any other “dumb” attribute selector. This can …
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