Great stuff again by Freek Murze from Spatie: A PHP class to easily check the validity of an SSL Certificate. Easily? Yes, easily: $certificate = SslCertificate::createForHostName(‘spatie.be’); $certificate->getIssuer(); // returns “Let’s Encrypt Authority X3” $certificate->isValid(); // returns true if the certificate is currently valid $certificate->isValid(domain.com); // returns true if the certificate is currently valid for the …
Cauditor – PHP Code Audit and Visualisations
Great tool by Matthias Mullie, to analyzing your PHP code (in the screenshot above you can see the analysis of ansi-php): Figure out complexity hotspots in the blink of an eye from a couple of very simple charts [generated by Cauditor]. The charts will help you understand the architecture of the project & make it …
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Pokémon Go GPS Hack
Don’t want to go outside to play Pokémon Go? Some guys came up with this clever hack: generate your own GPS signal. Simulating GPS data with poor software was yesterday! We are generating the real GNSS data with our R&S SMBV and feeding the signal directly into the mobile device. […] The setup is a …
CSS vs. SVG Gradient Angle
Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL
Postgres served us well in the early days of Uber, but we ran into significant problems scaling Postgres with our growth. In this article, we’ll explore some of the drawbacks we found with Postgres and explain the decision to build Schemaless and other backend services on top of MySQL. Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres …
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Web Design in 4 Minutes
CSS Code Review by Jonathan Snook
Some time last week Brad Frost asked on Twitter for some feedback on a bit of markup he had built: Hey web forms and BEM aficionados, anyone care to review some form markup I've been writing? https://t.co/SyACn1LZ9s — Brad Frost (@brad_frost) July 15, 2016 Jonathan Snook took the time to give Brad some feedback, which …
Pokemon Locator Apps
With the launch of Pokémon Go, a truckload of Pokémon locator apps/websites have appeared. Fons Van Damme (not related) created Pokemon Locator. And then there’s the more powerful Pokévision (pictured above): Pokevision is a Pokemon tracker/locator for the mobile game Pokemon Go. It uses the Niantic API to grab the location of all Pokemon near …
Transit Maps: Apple vs. Google vs. Transit App
The folks who created Transit App, which sports very nice transit maps: We wanted the prettiness of Apple’s slow solution, but the scalability of Google’s automatic process. In short, we wanted algorithms to draw beautiful transit maps. It’s in the details, people! Transit Maps: Apple vs. Google vs. Transit App →