A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
RoadRunner is an open-source (MIT licensed), high-performance PHP application server, load balancer, and process manager. It supports running as a service with the ability to extend its functionality on a per-project basis. RoadRunner includes PSR-7 compatible HTTP server. RoadRunner runs your application in the form of workers. The workers are kept alive in between requests. …
I like using data attributes in my markup (data-*), CSS ([data-*]), and JS (el.dataset). This post on CSS-Tricks writes down exactly how I use them. Especially the different type of attribute selectors are really powerful: // Seven different types of CSS attribute selectors // This attribute exists on the element [value] // This attribute has …
spatie/ssh
A new PHP package released by the fine folks at Spatie is spatie/ssh. Leveraging Symfony\Component\Process\Process it allows you to execute commands over SSH from within your PHP code. spatie/ssh is probably the easiest way to perform a quick SSH command. It doesn’t have a lot of features, but that’s ok. It’s intended as something very …
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Nice tool by Paul Hudson: Control Room is a macOS app that lets you control the simulators for iOS, tvOS, and watchOS – their UI appearance, status bar configuration, and more. It wraps Apple’s own simctl command-line tool, so you’ll need Xcode installed. Some features, such as sending example push notifications or move between light …
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Good post by Lachlan Young with a simple use case for using createRef (Class Components) and useRef (Function Components): focusing an external component (here: TextField from Material UI) when your own parent component mounts. I especially like the final thoughts at the end of the post: If you had no need for a ref besides …
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GitLens supercharges the Git capabilities built into Visual Studio Code. It helps you to visualize code authorship at a glance via Git blame annotations and code lens, seamlessly navigate and explore Git repositories, gain valuable insights via powerful comparison commands, and so much more. Just installed it and must say it’s really nice. Here’s an …
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When tuning php-fpm‘s settings you have to do some calculations to get the correct values for pm.max_children, pm.start_servers, etc. This tool by Chris Morrell will take care of that for you. Let’s let the computers do math for us. Tuning dynamic php-fpm settings → Via cron.weekly
Wow, this is an awesome addition to Netlify: On Netlify, any HTML form can instantly accept submissions—no backend code or infrastructure required. As soon as your form is deployed, you start seeing submissions appear in your Netlify dashboard. Just add the netlify attribute to any form and everything gets wired up automatically. Netlify will automatically …
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Mike Grabowski on the recent changes in React Native CLI: In this short article, I want to give you an overview of what’s new and what’s coming up in React Native CLI. Also, I’ll tell how do we plan our work going forward on it. The fact that React Native now shares the build cache …
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Bootstrap 4 no longer bundles (a subset of) glyphicons. Instead, Bootstrap recommends to buy the full set or use a different set of icons. However, if you want to quickly copy-and-paste some stuff over from a legacy Bootstrap 3 project, the easiest of getting the old icons is through loading bootstrap4-glyphicons. It’s a project that …
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