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 with 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 asyncawait: 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 …

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 “just” JavaScript Myth, Dave Rupert said this: React shows up on the scene with Babel, …

What’s next for JavaScript? – A talk on ESNext by @bramus

I’m currently in Utrecht for Frontend United and have just finished my talk ”What’s next for JavaScript?”. Earlier this week I also gave a shortened version of this lecture at JSConf.be With ES2015 a lot has changed in JavaScript-land. Lesser known releases are the ES2016 and ES2017 releases. This talk not only touches these two …

How to reposition multiple iOS apps at the same time

TIL: You can move multiple iOS apps at the same time. Tap and hold to start wiggling one, move it a little, then tap other apps to add ‘m to the stack you’re moving. Did this help you out? Like what you see?Consider donating. I don’t run ads on my blog nor do I do …

Using @supports to detect if a browser supports CSS Variables

UPDATE: The code snippet has been updated to use –custom instead of –. When Ire originally tweeted this — was a valid name for a custom property. This is no longer the case. As tweeted by Ire Aderinokun: @supports (color: var(–custom)) { /* has support */ } Not too surprising if you’ve used Feature Queries …

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 the DevTools, go to Settings and select Experiments Hit SHIFT 6 times After having done …