For more than a year it’s been bugging me that iTunes “sometimes” would auto-rate played tracks. It happened on some albums, yet not all albums. Back in May 2018 I posted this video on YouTube showing the behaviour: As you can see iTunes here automatically rates “En Masse” (track 10) from the moment it starts […]
Category Archives: Original Content
Building Better Forms™ by not taking away affordances
Don’t fiddle too much with your forms‘ look and feel. A small innocent-looking piece of CSS, even when combined with semantically correct HTML, could leave you with a degraded User Experience and make your forms less Accessible. Yesterday I went to see Girl at Kinepolis. Whilst ordering tickets I ran into an issue though: after […]
Laravel Valet Environment Variables
To set/override Environment Variables in Laravel Valet, one had to manually edit the Nginx config files and restart Nginx after doing so. With the release of Laravel Valet 2.1.6 this is no longer needed: Valet 2.1.6 contains a merged PR that provides built-in support for an specific file named .valet-env.php in which you can set […]
Upgrading from React Native 0.53.x to 0.57.4 (and to Xcode 10 and Gradle 4 along with that), a journey
Back in November, after 6 months of working on other projects, I picked up development for the EV-Point Mobile App again. The app is built using React Native and is available on both iOS and Android. As Xcode got a new major release (from Xcode 9 to Xcode 10) since my last time working on […]
ESNext: Proposals to look forward to
Yesterday I was invited as a speaker at the Full Stack Antwerp December 2018 Meetup at icapps. At the meetup I gave an adaptation of my talk “What’s Next for JavaScript”. The talk itself – which got renamed to “ESNext: Proposals to look forward to” – goes more into depth onto the proposals themselves, and […]
Fixing the valet share 301 Redirect Loop
One of the nice things of Laravel Valet is that it includes an easy way to make your local site available publicly. For this it has the aforementioned Ngrok built-in. To use it, just run the valet share command, and your local site will be shared through a *.ngrok.io subdomain. However, when combining valet share […]
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 out that the ~/.valet/ folder got moved to ~/.config/valet/ with the release of Valet 2.1.0. […]
Switching PHP versions with Laravel Valet
⚠️ Running Valet 2.x in a PHP version lower than 7.1 won’t work, until this issue is resolved. You can still switch to that version for use on the CLI. You just won’t be able to use it with Valet 2.x ℹ️ UPDATE 2018.10.23: Freek has developed some handy aliases to easily switch PHP versions. […]
JavaScript async–await: Resolving Promises in parallel
Recently I saw a colleague implement some functionality in which he required two results from an API using async–await. The piece of code looked something like this: The code looks fine, is syntactically correct, and works … but there’s one big problem with it: the calls are made sequentially. To run these calls – which […]
Tips for improving performance of React Native apps
While researching a performance issue in a React Native app by doing a deep dive into the bridge, I stumbled upon this nice list of tips by jamsch. The list – which touches react-navigation, the types of lists one can use, etc. – was originally posted as a comment on a Github Issue, but deserves […]