PHP Scalar Type Hints, Follow-up

The vote for the RFC “PHP Scalar Type Hints” got cancelled, after the author of the RFC – Andrea Faulds – posted “I Quit” on the internals list: For my own reasons, I have decided to cease my involvement with PHP development. […] I’m no longer contributing to PHP, and all four active RFCs authored …

Compositing And Blending In CSS

Before the Compositing and Blending specification was introduced, CSS allowed one type of composite operations: simple alpha compositing. This is what the opacity property is for. By changing an element’s opacity, the browser makes it translucent so that the colors of its backdrop can show through. Today, two main properties exist that allow us to …

Deployment with Envoy

// Contents of Envoy.blade.php @servers(['web' => 'deploy-ex']) <?php $repo = '[email protected]:Servers-for-Hackers/deploy-ex.git'; $release_dir = '/var/www/releases'; $app_dir = '/var/www/app'; $release = 'release_' . date('YmdHis'); ?> @macro('deploy', ['on' => 'web']) fetch_repo run_composer update_permissions update_symlinks @endmacro @task('fetch_repo') [ -d {{ $release_dir }} ] || mkdir {{ $release_dir }}; cd {{ $release_dir }}; git clone {{ $repo }} {{ $release …

Inside AirBnB: New York City

Inside Airbnb is an independent, non-commercial set of tools and data that allows you to explore how Airbnb is REALLY being used in New York City. By analyzing publicly available information about Airbnb’s New York City listings, Inside Airbnb provides filters and key metrics so you can see how Airbnb is being used to compete …

Super Mario World “Credits Warp”

Fascinating trick in which one actually reprograms Super Mario World by just playing it to make it start playing the end credits upon triggering a crash: The goal of this run is to trick the game into playing the credits in the first level. It works by using a glitch to allow yoshi to eat …