When developing a PHP library/package, you most likely also have a project on disk that consumes said library. Take a WordPress plugin for example: to test it, you need a WordPress installation — both are linked but separate projects. To speed up development you can tell Composer to use the local version of the package, […]
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Overriding the PHP version to use when installing Composer dependencies
If you have a (legacy) PHP project running on a legacy server (running PHP 5.4.27 for example), but are locally developing with a more modern PHP version (PHP 7.4 for example), you might end up installing dependencies that are not compatible with the PHP version on the server. To bypass this, you can tell Composer, […]
ESNext: Immutable Datastructures in JavaScript with Records & Tuples
A new ECMAScript Proposal that I’m looking forward to is this one which introduces the Record and Tuple value types. In short: Records are immutable Objects that are compared by value. Tuples are immutable Arrays that are compared by value. The proposal is currently Stage-1. Stage-1? Stage-4? 💁♂️ The TC39 Committee, which is concerned with […]
How Facebook 3D Photos work, and how to create one yourself
💡 Sparked by the 3D Ken Burns Effect from a Single Image post, I was reminded of a few other 3D photo things … About a year ago, Facebook announced a feature named “3D Photos”, a way to show photos taken with Apple’s “Portrait Mode” (or any other device that does the same) interactively: Whether […]
Today I Learned, the Google Cloud Platform / Terraform Edition
🌍 This week I’ve been goofing around with Google Cloud Platform and Terraform to manage it. I’ve learned quite a few things, that might be of help to others, so here goes … There’s a difference between IAM policy for service account (google_service_account_iam) and IAM policy for projects (google_project_iam_member). The former is used to allow […]
RE: Overengineered packages?
ℹ️ This is a reply to Johan Ronsse’s post “Overengineered Packages?”. Be sure to read it first. After having posted about the class-names package, Johan turned to Twitter to state that the package overengineered. In a follow-up blogpost he argues that: At the moment I feel like it’s only invented because of a deeper problem: […]
Getting correctly signed SSL Certificates for cPanel/WHM Services
Back in the day I set up a few VPSes with WHM/cPanel on to host some sites. As back then the certificates for the cPanel services (FTPD, SMTP, WHM, …) were self-signed and Let’s Encrypt was still in its early days, I also ordered a wildcard certificate for *.3rds.be along with that and configured WHM […]
React-Native “Could not find iPhone X simulator”
One of my React Native projects recently decided to no longer launch any of the iPhone Simulator devices anymore. When running react-native run-ios I was greeted with an error stating that the simulator could not be found. bramus in ~/repos/projects/react-native-maps-directions-example on master* $ react-native run-ios –simulator="iPhone X" Found Xcode project RNMapsExample.xcodeproj Could not find iPhone […]
Hierarchic Indeterminate Checkboxes with JavaScript (Vanilla)
Earlier today Chris Coyier tweeted that he was in the process of rewriting one of his pens without jQuery: Been trying to re-write this without jQuery: https://t.co/xvsZMKsfvL I’m like 70% there but haven’t quite gotten it. jQuery is doing so much helpful DOM traversal here it’s a pain in the ass without it. — Chris […]
Open your React Native’s Xcode project file from the CLI with xed
For a long time I always used the open command to open the Xcode project file contained inside React Native Projects. bramus in ~/repos/projects/react-native/example $ open ios/Example.xcodeproj It wasn’t until I recently started a new React Native project that react-native init afterwards informed me to use xed instead. The xed tool launches the Xcode application […]