A tweet that’s been making rounds this week is on how to disable macOS Mojave’s floating screenshot preview thumbnail (and remove that delay along with it). PSA: If you’re on macOS Mojave, you can revert to the old, good, screenshot behavior (no floating screenshot thumbnail, no delay before file shows on desktop) ✨1: ⌘+Shift+52: Click […]
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Symfony Form Validation: Validating a date range
One of the (Symfony based) PHP projects I’m working on contains a form which allows the user to generate video clips from CCTV footage. To do this the user can enter a start and stop DateTime. For this to work the submitted input data is then checked: both start and stop must be dates, and […]
Bash/Shell Autocompletion for Composer
The other day I opened up a PHP project that I hadn’t worked on in a while. No longer remembering which Composer Scripts I had defined for it, I needed to take a peek inside composer.json to see which ones were available to me. Then it hit me: why is there no autocompletion for composer […]
Disable Hardware Media Keys Support in Chrome
A new feature that landed in Chrome 73 is support for hardware Media Keys. Whenever you press one of the play/pause/next/prev buttons on your keyboard, Chrome can now respond to this and will pause/play the actively playing element. Whilst this might be a good addition for many, it doesn’t work me, as I’m constantly playing […]
bramus/enumeration – A Package to work with Enumerations in PHP
Earlier this week I released a new package on Packagist. It’s a Package to work with Enumerations in PHP, named bramus/enumeration. The package is my own take on Enumerations in PHP, which grew over time. 👨💻 Looking back at the code that eventually would form the basis for this package, I can see – thanks […]
GitHub Toggle Chrome Extension – Quickly toggle between a GitHub Repo and its GitHub Pages by the click of a button.
Last week Christian Heilmann (codepo8) released a handy bookmarklet that lets on switch between the GitHub Pages URL of a repo hosted on GitHub and the repo contents itself. This afternoon I took the liberty of transforming it into a Chrome Extension, mainly as an exercise to myself. The extension adds a small button which […]
ESNext: Proposals to look forward to (Full Stack Ghent)
Yesterday I was invited as a speaker at the March 2019 Meetup by “Full Stack Ghent” (their first one!) at the Clarabridge CX Social offices. At the meetup I gave a reprise of the talk “ESNext: Proposals to look forward to”, which I had already done at a Full Stack Antwerp meetup, a few months […]
iTunes auto-rating all played tracks …
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 […]
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 […]