A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Brent shares his Laravel knowledge in a series of blog posts: In this series, I’ll write about the knowledge we gained over the years in designing Laravel projects. I will take a close look at the Laravel way, and what did and didn’t work for us. This series is for you if you’re dealing with …
A small utility to demystify CSS selectors, explaining them in plain English. Best part of it all: it updates the URL upon entering a selector so you get directly shareable links 🙂 Selectors Explained →
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The fine folks at GOV.UK: Until now, the GOV.UK Design System date input component used the HTML element <input type=”number” /> to provide a number keypad when a user enters dates. However, we recently moved away from <input type="number"> to <input type="text" inputmode="numeric" pattern="[0-9]*"> Why the GOV.UK Design System team changed the input type for …
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Nice demo by Adam Argyle to create a 4 Corner Gradient in CSS: Even though working with gradients has gotten some improvements, you’ll still need a trick to achieve this one: stack 2 simple linear gradients and use a linear mask to blend them together: mask-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, transparent, black);
I’ve been following Sebastian on Twitter for quite some time and am very excited to see that Rome – which he has been talking about for quite some time – has been released into the open … Rome, an experimental JavaScript toolchain, is now open source and available for contributors 🥳🏛️📜 It's far from production …
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Something we already knew, but that’s now written down by Adrian Roselli in a nice post: Regardless of what accessibility conformance level you target, do not arbitrarily open links in a new window or tab. If you are required to do so anyway, inform users in text. Great to see that the statement is backed …
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Stefan Judis, devrel at Twilio, has created a CLI tool named create-phone-number-forwarding: A small CLI utility that buys a Twilio number and forwards incoming calls/SMS to your own number I like the fact that at its core it’s basically a shell script wrapping around the twilio binary (combined with tools like jq), also making use …
Background Fetch is a very simple plugin which will awaken an app in the background about every 15 minutes, providing a short period of background running-time. This plugin will execute your provided callbackFn whenever a background-fetch event occurs. import BackgroundFetch from "react-native-background-fetch"; export default class App extends Component { componentDidMount() { // Configure it. BackgroundFetch.configure({ …
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RoadRunner is an open-source (MIT licensed), high-performance PHP application server, load balancer, and process manager. It supports running as a service with the ability to extend its functionality on a per-project basis. RoadRunner includes PSR-7 compatible HTTP server. RoadRunner runs your application in the form of workers. The workers are kept alive in between requests. …
YouTube user DigiDigger shows us how to recreate the portals from Portal. Highly interesting imo. 🤔 What happens when you mix Portal with Super Mario Bros? You get Mari0!