Category Archives: Original Content

About the HTTP Expect: 100-continue header …

TL;DR HTTP clients may send a Expect: 100-continue header along with POST requests to warn the server that they’re about to send a large(ish) payload. At that point the server can: Decline, by sending back 401/405 and successively closing the connection. Accept, by sending back 100 Continue, after which the client will send over the […]

How to enable HTTP3 in Chrome / Firefox / Safari

Mattias recently tweeted that his website can now be served over HTTP/3 “even though no browser supports it yet”. While it’s true that no browser supports it out of the box right now, there are options to enable HTTP/3. Here’s how. 🧪 As with all experimental technolgy/features: things might break! Be warned! ~ Google Chrome […]

Speed up your Docker builds in Google Cloud Build with Kaniko Cache

When building Docker images locally it will leverage its build cache: When building an image, Docker steps through the instructions in your Dockerfile, executing each in the order specified. As each instruction is examined, Docker looks for an existing image in its cache that it can reuse, rather than creating a new (duplicate) image. Therefore […]

Tweet from the Firefox Address Bar by adding a Bookmark

In succession to Tweet from the Chrome Address Bar by adding a Custom Search Engine, you can also do this in Firefox. Simply define a bookmark (containing a %s wildcard) with a linked keyword and you’re good to go: Name: Compose Tweet Location: https://twitter.com/compose/tweet?text=%s Keyword: tweet You can now use the tweet keyword to start […]

Tweet from the Chrome Address Bar by adding a Custom Search Engine

TIL: Chrome allows you to define a Custom Search Engine (CSE) by which you can search sites. The cool part is that you’re not really limited to search only, and that you can abuse these CSEs to become more productive. In this post I’ll show you how to tweet from the Chrome Address Bar. 🦊 […]

Easily install local NPM packages by simply referring to their local path

Directly installing a package with npm install and referring to its local path is a quick way to work with a local package. To be safe though, the usage of npm link is still recommended. To work with local NPM packages on can reside to using npm link. You make a package available locally with […]

Convert between Symfony HttpFoundation Request / Response and Swoole Request / Response classes with swoole-http-message-bridge

Today I was implementing an HTTP Server using Swoole. At its core, the code looks just like the Swoole HTTP Server example: <?php $http = new \Swoole\HTTP\Server("127.0.0.1", 9501); $http->on('request', function (\Swoole\HTTP\Request $request, \Swoole\HTTP\Response $response) { // … $response->end(); }); $http->start(); In that same project I was also looking to use a package that evolves around […]

CSS :nth-of-class selector

One thing that bothers me with CSS :nth-of-type/:nth-child selectors is that you can’t combine them with CSS classes. The selector below for example won’t work as you’d first expect it to work: .bar:nth-child(2) { color: red; } No, the selector above won’t color the second .bar element red, something I had somehow expected it to […]