Always great stuff, by The Nerdwriter: About two years ago I started watching Star Wars with my children. Whilst watching the first movie (Episode IV) I kind of found Darth’s role quite disturbing. He was just floating there in the background, and all stuff that we associate with him wasn’t that well expressed. It’s only …
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Swoole – PHP asynchronous programming framework
Swoole is an high-performance network framework using an event-driven, asynchronous, non-blocking I/O model which makes it scalable and efficient. It is written in C language without 3rd party libraries as PHP extension. It enables PHP developers to write high-performance, scalable, concurrent TCP, UDP, Unix Socket, HTTP, WebSocket services in PHP programming language without too much …
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CSS shape-outside Experiments
I like these pens by Kristopher Van Sant using shape-outside to wrap text in a shape. Take this heart for example: CSS Shapes Experiments → 🤓 Back in 2006 (!) I created a small site/tool named “The Box Office” to fake that. It took the line-height and floated a truckload of boxes to one side …
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Components and Concerns
Jeremy Keith, on Separation of Concerns and how that comes into play where one’s dealing with Component based design: My point is this: Separating structure, presentation, and behaviour is a good idea. Separating an interface into components is a good idea. Those two good ideas are not in conflict. They work best when they’re done …
Fixing common performance problems in React Navigation
If you’re using React Navigation in your app(s) you might have noticed these two issues the folks over at November Five have written about: On a few screens – specifically those with lots of components – we started noticing a few things… Right off the bat, there is a substantial delay between the user pressing …
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Clearfix: A Lesson in Web Development Evolution
A lesson in webdev history by Jason Hoffman: The clearfix, for those unaware, is a CSS hack that solves a persistent bug that occurs when two floated elements are stacked next to each other. When elements are aligned this way, the parent container ends up with a height of 0, and it can easily wreak …
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JavaScript engine fundamentals: Shapes and Inline Caches
Mathias Bynens and Benedikt Meurer: As a JavaScript developer, having a deeper understanding of how JavaScript engines work helps you reason about the performance characteristics of your code. I especially like the part where they take a look into an JS engine’s Object Model: How do JavaScript engines implement the JavaScript object model, and which …
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A minimal guide to ECMAScript Decorators (and Property Descriptors)
Very insightful piece by Uday Hiwarale on ES Decorators (Class Method Decorators, Class Instance Field Decorators, and Class Decorators). Right now (June 2018), Decorators are in stage 2 and we have Babel plugin to transpile decorators babel-plugin-transform-decorators-legacy. In stage 2, as syntax of the feature is subjected to change, it’s not recommended to use it …
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