A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
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, …
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At CSS Day 2019, I was fortunate to see Hakim El Hattab bring his talk Building Better Interfaces. A recording of his talk – and all other talks – are available on YouTube: This session is a deep-dive into the areas of interface design that Hakim has specialized in for over a decade—interactivity and animation. …
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Gergely Orosz: Plenty of people and organizations have shared their code review best practices and what the definition of good code reviews mean to them. Below is my personal take on what good code reviews look like and what great ones – better than good – are. Some very good tips! In my own personal …
Andy Bell: In this modern era of web development, we don’t really need a heavy-handed reset, or even a reset at all, because CSS browser compatibility issues are much less likely than they were in the old IE 6 days. That era was when resets such as normalize.css came about and saved us all heaps …
If you’re having this “double key press” issue, Unshaky is a software solution that will help you get by. Unshaky tries to address an issue on the butterfly keyboard (Macbook, Macbook Air 2018 & MacBook Pro 2016 and later): Double Key Press. Unshaky might save your keyboard by dismissing such “second key hits” (any key …
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It’s very easy for unoptimized images to end up on a production site and slow down its initial load considerably. Inexperienced devs usually aren’t aware of this potential problem. They also aren’t aware of a wide range of tools and approaches for optimizing images. This article aims to cover most of the tools and approaches …
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From the folks at FormidableLabs: urql is a GraphQL client that exposes a set of React components and hooks. It’s built to be highly customisable and versatile so you can take it from getting started with your first GraphQL project all the way to building complex apps and experimenting with GraphQL clients. // App.js import …
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Imgur user JJSmooth44 scraped The Animal Planet endangered animals list and generated photos of several animals where each “pixel” represents one actual animal running around. The more pixelated the image, the closer it is to extinction. There are about 2500 Bengal Tigers, so the picture above consists of 2500 “pixels”: The Amur Leopard is less …
Interesting work by Algolia, to more easily release new versions of your packages: When releasing, you go through something like the following: Update the version in package.json Update the changelog Actually release it (e.g. yarn build && yarn publish) Create a git tag As such as manual process is prone to errors, they’ve developed 🛳 …
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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. Update 2020.07.22: the proposal has now advanced to Stage-2! As …
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