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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Skypack — Load optimized npm packages with no install and no build tools

I was delighted to read that CodePen now has built-in support for Skypack. This is a huge step forward to working with packages on CodePen. Great addition to the product! But what exactly is Skypack? Well, it’s the successor to the aforementioned Pika CDN with some extra juice: Skypack not only serves packages that export …

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The 6 Stages of Spam Protection

The journey of the folks over at Laracasts on how they stopped spam (for now) on their forums. Keyword Censoring Email Confirmation Language Detection Throttling Honeypots reCAPTCHA Comes with (Laravel) code snippets to go along with that. The 6 Stages of Spam Protection → Yes, that dreaded reCAPTCHA. Hate it all you want, but it …

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Front Line PHP – Building modern web applications with PHP 8

The folks over at Spatie are at it again, this time with Front Line PHP. An ebook on cutting edge tactics in PHP 8, accompanied by videos and practical examples. The videos covering the new additions to PHP 8 are free to watch, and should give you an idea of what you can expect. At …

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