A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Shahak Shapira: Over the last months, I reported about 300 hate tweets. Twitter failed to delete most of them, so I sprayed them in front of their office. Nice guerilla action. Hopefully this will now get Twitter’s attention. Sidenote: Dustin Curtis recently tweetranted (ranttweeted?) a few things Twitter could do to improve. Of course the …
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For over 10 years, we didn’t have a handbook. In those 10 years, when a new person joined the company, they were expected to figure things out for themselves. But when we grew from a company of 10, 20, 30 employees to a company of over 50, our “introduction by immersion” style stopped working. New …
From time to time I’ve seen good things about Expo fly by on the Twitters, which piqued my interest: Expo is a set of tools, libraries and services which let you build native iOS and Android apps by writing JavaScript. Expo apps are React Native apps which contain the Expo SDK. The SDK is a …
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With the Intersection Observer coming to Firefox, a nice article covering it appeared on Mozilla Hacks. The IntersectionObserver interface of the Intersection Observer API provides a way to asynchronously observe changes in the intersection of a target element with an ancestor element or with a top-level document’s viewport. To use it, create a new instance …
Like Flexbugs, but then for CSS Grid Layout: Inspired by Flexbugs this list aims to be a community curated list of CSS Grid Layout bugs, incomplete implementations and interop issues. Grid shipped into browsers in a highly interoperable state, however there are a few issues – let’s document any we find here. By Rachel Andrew …
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phpunit-watcherNice new package by Freek from Spatie.be. Think of it like Jest, but for PHP: Wouldn’t it be great if your PHPUnit tests would be automatically rerun whenever you change some code? This package can do exactly that. By default it will watch all files in the src, app and tests subdirectories in the directory …
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Some folks have been poking around in the HomePod Firmware update. Doing so they’ve unearthed the existence of an upcoming face unlock feature using and infrared camera and face detection, the new iPhone’s bezel-less form factor, and its resolution of 1125 x 2436 (375 x 812 points rendered @3x). Me too. New bezel-less form factor …
The folks over at The New York Times have made change to using React, Relay and GraphQL for the new version of their website (which they are rolling out over the coming months): We thought it would be nice if there was one place to add and retrieve data and one way to authenticate against …
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With Chrome 59 came the ability to run a Headless Chrome. Controlling it via code isn’t that easy nor elegant. Enter Chromeless (not be confused with Mozilla’s Chromeless): With Chromeless you can control Chrome (open website, click elements, fill out forms…) using an elegant API. This is useful for integration tests or any other scenario …
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