A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
The folks at Tighten: In this post, I’ll present some strategies we use at Tighten to convert legacy apps to Laravel gradually over time, without needing to perform a full rewrite. Whether you’re upgrading from an old framework or moving to a framework for the first time, following these steps will let you start benefitting …
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With Masonry being specced in Grid Layout Module Level 2 – and already being implemented in Firefox – Ana Tudor looked into whipping up a lightweight fallback for browsers that don’t support it. 🤔 Masonry Layout? Masonry is a grid layout based on columns, as popularized by Pinterest. Unlike other grid layouts, it doesn’t have …
In Chrome 86, we’re going to experiment with how URLs are shown in the address bar on desktop platforms. Our goal is to understand — through real-world usage — whether showing URLs this way helps users realize they’re visiting a malicious website, and protects them from phishing and social engineering attacks. A shame they didn’t …
Lea Verou on how Optional Chaining affected her code, along with caveats and scenarios where it couldn’t be used. Now that optional chaining is supported across the board, I decided to finally refactor Mavo to use it. This is a moment I have been waiting for a long time, as I think optional chaining is …
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Great site that explains the difference between not-so-different frontend terms. Think of things like: CSS display: none; vs [hidden] DOM currentTarget vs target HTML alt vs title … this vs that &rarr
Pawel Grzybek has set up a workflow that uses GitHub Actions’ Scheduled Events to automatically update his profile README.md. It runs every 6 hours and pulls in his RSS feed to populate the README.md import fs from "fs"; import fetch from "node-fetch"; import parser from "xml2json"; const FEED_URL = "https://pawelgrzybek.com/feed.xml"; const TAG_OPEN = `<!– FEED-START …
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Some nice examples of defensive programming in CSS by Ahmad Shadeed. The just in case mindset aims to educate designers and developers to think ahead of time of some possible failure scenarios for a component. I called it just in case because that’s literally what it means. Just in case the title got longer, do …
No new features, but a lot of changes, paving the way for future releases. The React 17 release is unusual because it doesn’t add any new developer-facing features. Instead, this release is primarily focused on making it easier to upgrade React itself. We’re actively working on the new React features, but they’re not a part …
closest() Method to Capture a “Click outside” an Element
In Practical Use Cases for JavaScript’s closest() Method, Andreas Remdt talks about some nice use cases that use Element.closest(). I especially like this example with a menu. Click on one of the links and it will show the menu which has the class menu-dropdown. Clicking outside said menu will close it. It’s that latter one …
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