Category Archives: Original Content
Missing ~/.valet folder?
Earlier today I updated my Valet installation from version 2.0.x to 2.1.1. To my surprise the ~/.valet/ folder had gone missing, immediately making me think the update process somehow had gone wrong (even though Valet kept on serving sites). Turns … Continue reading
RE: The React is “just” JavaScript Myth
🗣 This was originally posted as a reply over at Dave’s blog. Unfortunately Disqus – the commenting system Dave uses – thinks it’s spam, so I’m posting it here as a full post instead. In his blogpost The React is … Continue reading
Using @supports to detect if a browser supports CSS Variables
As tweeted by Ire Aderinokun: @supports (color: var(–)) { /* has support */ } Not too surprising if you’ve used Feature Queries before, but what does surprise me is that you can make it work by only passing the prefix … Continue reading
Enabling experimental Developer Tools Experiments
Using chrome://flags/ it’s possible to enable “Developer Tools Experiments”. On the most recent Fronteers Conference, Umar Hansa showed that there are even more DevTools Experiments that one can enable: Enable “Developer Tools Experiments” via chrome://flags/ if you haven’t already In … Continue reading
Emoji Compositions — Create your own emoji by combining existing ones (👱♂️ + 🎩 + 🔎 = …)
Last Friday Max Lynch sent out this tweet: I'm still not over Apple killing the best emoji there ever was pic.twitter.com/gVOMhEP3Mn — Max Lynch (@maxlynch) March 15, 2018 Inspired by an idea that first came to my mind after seeing … Continue reading
Working with symlinked packages in React Native
For an RN app I’m co-developing we have several repos that work together. One of the repos acts a library for other repos to use. During development, in order to test a few things out, we sometimes need to have … Continue reading
Grid Time (or “Why are clocks in Europe lagging behind by 5 minutes?”)
Yesterday I heard on the news that clocks in Europe have started to lag behind on the official time. The culprit is a fluctuation in Europe’s electricity grid. Clocks, like the ones in your microwave, that are reliant on Grid … Continue reading
MySQL ST_Distance_Sphere Polyfill
One of the cool things about MySQL 5.7 is the fact that it sports a few spatial convenience functions (since 5.7.6), allowing one to do operations on geometric values. One of those convenience functions is ST_Distance_Sphere, which allows one to … Continue reading
React’s new context (React 16.3.0)
One of the new things in React 16.3.0 is a new context API: Typically, data in a React application is passed top-down (parent to child) via props. But sometimes it’s useful to pass values through multiple levels of abstraction without … Continue reading