A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Here’s the source of a Google Cloud function that, using Puppeteer, takes a screenshot of a given website and store the resulting screenshot in a bucket on Google Cloud Storage: const puppeteer = require('puppeteer'); const { Storage } = require('@google-cloud/storage'); const GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT_ID = "screenshotapi"; const BUCKET_NAME = "screenshot-api-net"; exports.run = async (req, res) => { …
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Rector is a reconstructor tool – it does instant upgrades and instant refactoring of your code. Why refactor manually if Rector can handle 80% for you? Installation per Composer: composer require rector/rector –dev For example, to upgrade the contents of the ./src folder: vendor/bin/rector process src –set php74 The cool thing is that Rector uses …
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Nice work by Alyssa X: Flowy makes creating WebApps with flowchart functionality an incredibly simple task. Build automation software, mind mapping tools, or simple programming platforms in minutes by implementing the library into your project. Flowy Source →Flowy Demo →
Photo by Jasper Garrat on Unsplash In his post “Inversion of Control” Kent C. Dodds starts off with a simple filter function and how it can quickly become a mess as features creep in. Using IoC it’s possible to keep the implementation, diverting some responsibilities away from it: We changed the responsibility of deciding which …
A new extension that comes with PHP 7.4 (which was released today 🎉) is Foreign Function Interface. On the JoliCode Paris website there’s a nice article introducing it: PHP Foreign Function Interface, or FFI for fans, is a PHP extension that allows you to include with ease some externals libraries into your PHP code. That …
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If you’re looking to spiff up your code comments with some major artwork, be sure to check out Textik. Using it you can easily draw/resize/move boxes/lines/text and export it as ASCII. Textik →
Ooh, I like the organic feel on this “Hold to Confirm” button: Nice combination of CSS Custom Properties, CSS Transitions, and SVG Animations using stroke-dashoffset/stroke-dasharray.
A commit that landed in Chromium (and which will be available in Chrome 80) is support for SVG favicons. 🎉 🦊 Firefox already has support for SVG favicons, ever since version 41 Since most (all?) browsers always make a request to favicon.ico you can also serve an SVG at that location with the image/svg+xml MIME …
Solid writeup by Anthony Morris on the recent React Conf. Well React Conf ⚛️ is officially over. There were a lot of great talks, human beings, activities, and of course food. I’m still digesting the whole event but, as far as conferences go, this has been the best one I’ve attended so far. This post …
A nice commit migrating away from AMD Modules to ECMAScript modules recently landed in the jQuery repo. Once published as a new release, you’ll be able to actually import $ using the modern ES module syntax: import $ from "jquery"; $('#message').text('Hi from jQuery!'); Handy if you’re modernizing a legacy project that still uses jQuery. 💡 …
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