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Creating a React app with create-react-app
Tyler McGinnis, after having been involved in quite a lot of tutorials/courses/workshops teaching on how to build a React app: Throughout all of these workshops, one thing was consistent: getting started with a React application was pretty overwhelming, for both beginners and senior developers alike. I can confirm this I must say. The tutorials and …
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CSS Only Scroll Indicator
There’s a pen embedded in this post. Visit this post on the Bram.us website, or see the Pen CSS only scroll indicator on CodePen. I was interested to see if I could make a scroll indicator with just CSS. You can! But maybe you shouldn’t. This is an interesting consequence of a bunch of hacks …
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Star Wars Fan Theory: Who is Rey?
Node.js “Hackathon Starter”
If you have attended any hackathons in the past, then you know how much time it takes to get a project started: decide on what to build, pick a programming language, pick a web framework, pick a CSS framework. A while later, you might have an initial project up on GitHub and only then can …
Validating SSL certificates with PHP
Great stuff again by Freek Murze from Spatie: A PHP class to easily check the validity of an SSL Certificate. Easily? Yes, easily: $certificate = SslCertificate::createForHostName(‘spatie.be’); $certificate->getIssuer(); // returns “Let’s Encrypt Authority X3” $certificate->isValid(); // returns true if the certificate is currently valid $certificate->isValid(domain.com); // returns true if the certificate is currently valid for the …
Cauditor – PHP Code Audit and Visualisations
Great tool by Matthias Mullie, to analyzing your PHP code (in the screenshot above you can see the analysis of ansi-php): Figure out complexity hotspots in the blink of an eye from a couple of very simple charts [generated by Cauditor]. The charts will help you understand the architecture of the project & make it …
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Pokémon Go GPS Hack
Don’t want to go outside to play Pokémon Go? Some guys came up with this clever hack: generate your own GPS signal. Simulating GPS data with poor software was yesterday! We are generating the real GNSS data with our R&S SMBV and feeding the signal directly into the mobile device. […] The setup is a …