Run Composer Scripts in Parallel with veewee/composer-run-parallel

Nice addition to Composer by Toon Verwerft which allows you to run your custom commands in parallel This composer plugin allows you to run the tasks inside your composer file in parallel. No more waiting on one specific task! Say you have these two custom commands: { "scripts": { "php1": "@php -r 'sleep(3); echo \"1\";'", …

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Send mail with Exim from the CLI

I needed to test whether mail relaying worked with Exim or not. To do so I used this command: exim -v [email protected] After this type in your mail contents as shown below and hit CTRL+D afterwards to send it: From:[email protected] Subject: Hello From the CLI This is a test from the CLI It’s also possible …

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ibis — A PHP tool that helps you write eBooks in markdown and convert to PDF

Mohamed Said recently wrote the book “Laravel Queues in Action”. To create the book he wrote it Markdown and then used his self-created tool ibis to generated the PDF and ePub versions. Installation per Composer: composer global require themsaid/ibis After which you start a new project with ibis init Check out the preview of “Laravel …

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Customise the caret color with the CSS caret-color property

Thanks to this tweet by Álvaro Trigo I found out that you can change the color of the caret — that little blinking | in text inputs — using the caret-color CSS property: There are CSS properties I never heard of before! Hello `caret-color` 👋 pic.twitter.com/ndcDUjN13R — Álvaro Trigo 🐦🔥 (@IMAC2) November 24, 2020 Example: …

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BlurHash — Low-res Blurred Placeholder Images Represented as Text

If you’re dealing with images it’s quite common to show a small placeholder while the image is loading. You could go with grey placeholders, but a low-res blurred version of the original is preferred. That way you can, in the example use case of a website, use the Blur Up technique once the image is …

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