A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Simo Ahava: The purpose of ITP is to prevent tracking tools’ access to data stored and processed in the browser. This involves things like blocking all third-party cookies and restricting the lifetime of first-party cookies. In this article, I want to show you how to use the ITP Debug Mode. It’s a console logger that …
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For those thinking about switching from Bootstrap 4 to 5, the good news is that in terms of CSS and default components, not much has changed. The classes and logic are quite similar from 4 to 5. The Bootstrap team seems to have settled on a “stable API” i.e. to not change class names too …
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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Handy website by Harry Roberts and Ryan Townsend to mimic slow loading CSS or JS files. Basic params to tweak are the type and delay ones. The resulting HTTP Status Code (status) and max-age can also be tweaked. Slowfil.es →
The results for The State of CSS 2020 are in! Forget everything you know about CSS. Or at least, be ready to reconsider a lot of it. If like me you’ve been writing CSS for over a decade, CSS in 2020 looks nothing like what you were used to. Instead of breakpoints, we can now …
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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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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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 …
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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Earlier this week WPGraphQL 1.0 got released. It adds a GraphQL server to WordPress. WPGraphQL →WPGraphQL Docs →