Styling Broken Images

Turns out it’s possible to style broken images. You know, from this: To this: But just “how”, one might ask? Because the <img> element is a replaced element controlled by an external source, the :before and :after pseudo-elements typically shouldn’t work with it. However, when the image is broken and not loaded, these pseudo-elements can …

Laravel Backup

If you’re a developer using Laravel I’d strongly recommend “Laravel Backup”, a package developed by the folks over at Spatie. Version 3 just got released: Laraval Backup can backup the files and databases of your application to one or more external filesystems. It uses Laravel’s native cloud filesystem to do this. The package can also …

Maybe we could tone down the JavaScript

Doing mostly JavaScript stuff it might sound weird to some that I wholeheartedly agree with this piece: I’m not saying that genuine web apps like Google Maps shouldn’t exist […] I’m saying that something has gone very wrong when basic features that already work in plain HTML suddenly no longer work without JavaScript. JavaScript is …