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ESNext: Relatively format time with Intl.RelativeTimeFormat
A proposal to the ECMAScript Internationalization API Specification (ECMA-402) that just moved to Stage-4, is Intl.RelativeTimeFormat. It’s a way to format time in a relative manner – e.g. “10 minutes ago” or “in 3 quarters” – while also taking a language into account. const rtf_en = new Intl.RelativeTimeFormat('en'); console.log(rtf_en.format(-1, 'day')); // ~> 1 day ago …
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Countries, An example GraphQL API
If you’re looking for an example GraphQL API to play with, check out Countries. A public GraphQL API for information about countries, continents, and languages. curl ‘https://countries.trevorblades.com/’ \ -H ‘Content-Type: application/json’ \ -d ‘{“query”:”{ country(code: \”BE\”) { name, native, emoji, currency, languages { code, name } } }”}’ The schema’s available on the playground. Countries …
How to set up PHP for use in a GitHub Action
To use PHP in a GitHub action there’s the magnificent setup-php action. It also allows for installing extensions and setting several php.ini directives. steps: – name: Checkout uses: actions/checkout@v1 – name: Setup PHP uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v1 with: php-version: '7.4' extensions: mbstring, intl #optional, setup extensions ini-values: post_max_size=256M, short_open_tag=On #optional, setup php.ini configuration coverage: xdebug #optional, setup …
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mermaid – Generation of diagram and flowchart from text in a similar manner as markdown
Markdownish syntax for generating flowcharts, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, gantt charts and git graphs. The code for the sequence diagram at the top is this: sequenceDiagram Alice ->> Bob: Hello Bob, how are you? Bob–>>John: How about you John? Bob–x Alice: I am good thanks! Bob-x John: I am good thanks! Note right of John: …
Use a Github repository branch or commit as a dependency in package.json
Recently I needed to test a branch of a forked GitHub repository inside a project. Instead of cloning the fork and symlinking the package locally, I installed the remote dependency directly into the project. To achieve I used the following command: Using NPM: npm install [email protected]:user/repo.git#branchname or npm install git+ssh://[email protected]:user/repo.git#branchname Using Yarn: yarn add ssh://[email protected]:user/repo.git#branchname …
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Software Updates
How to Perform Calendar Calculations in Your Head
In case you want to impress your family over Christmas’/New Year’s Dinner: A so-called calendrical savant (or calendar savant) is someone who despite their intellectual disability (typically autism) can name the day of the week of a given date, or visa versa in a few seconds or even a tenth of a second (Kennedy & …
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Getting Closure on React Hooks
Ace talk by Shawn Wang: The design of React Hooks requires a good understanding of closures in JavaScript. In this talk, we’ll reintroduce closures by building a tiny clone of React! This will serve two purposes – to demonstrate the effective use of closures, and to show how you can build a Hooks clone in …