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Y2Z/monolith

⬛️ CLI tool and library for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file - Y2Z/monolith
Tags: #tools #webdev
Saved on: 2024-03-25

php.hospital - A pragmatic approach to modernizing legacy PHP code

A pragmatic approach to modernizing legacy PHP code
Saved on: 2024-03-20

A quick guide to JWTs in PHP – Rob Allen

An article by Rob Allen
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PostgreSQL is eating the database world

PostgreSQL isn’t just a simple relational database; it’s a data management framework with the potential to engulf the entire database realm. The trend of “Using Postgres for Everything” is no longer limited to a few elite teams but is becoming a mainstream best practice.
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40 years of programming

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Breaking Down Tasks

Something missing from this series on estimation, until now, has been a discussion of how to “break down” a project into a well-defined task list. I’d not previously written about this because, to me, it’s largely intuitive. But it isn’t for everyone, so this post fills the gap, and explains in detail how I break down projects into a task list.
Saved on: 2024-03-12

How to Measure Your Type Coverage | Tomas Votruba

When we come to a new code base, we look for a code quality metric that will tell us how healthy the code base is. We can have CI tools like PHPStan and PHPUnit. PHPStan reports missing or invalid types, and PHPUnit reports failing tests. But how do we know if 10 passing or 100 passing tests is enough? What if there are over 10 000 cases we should test?
Saved on: 2024-03-12

bruno

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My talk on CSS runtime performance

A few months ago, I gave a talk on CSS performance at performance.now in Amsterdam. The recording is available online: (You can also read the slides.) This is one of my favorite talks I’ve ev…
Saved on: 2024-03-07

Interactive SQLite Documentation: Experiment with Queries in Real-Time!

At SQLite Cloud, we are dedicated to making database management as seamless and intuitive as possible. Today, we are thrilled to unveil a groundbreaking addition to our platform - the Interactive SQLite Documentation! Now, alongside our comprehensive...
Saved on: 2024-03-07

dekuNukem/bob_cassette_rewinder

Renew and Refill Bob Cassettes for 98% Cost Saving! - dekuNukem/bob_cassette_rewinder
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Fonts are still a Helvetica of a Problem

CVEs in three strange places and the unique problem of safely processing and handling fonts.
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Library of Juggling

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CSS for printing to paper

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Blazer

Business intelligence made simple
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CodeMate

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Welcome

Community website for Apache Superset™, a data visualization and data exploration platform
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Infrequently Noted

Cupertino's attempt to scuttle Progressive Web Apps under cover of chaos is exactly what it appears to be: a shocking attempt to keep the web from ever emerging as a true threat to the App Store and blame regulators for Apple's own malicious choices. By hook or by crook, Apple's going to maintain its home screen advantage.
Saved on: 2024-02-26

Narrowing types for static analysis | Jordi's Ramblings

Lessons learned migrating big old codebases to strict PHPStan configs
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(49) LARACON EU 2024 - YouTube

Amsterdam, Netherlands Muziekgebouw Feb 5-6, 2024 Laracon is an annual gathering of passionate web developers that love building software using Laravel. Whet...
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Lessons from my third year running a SaaS - Max Rozen

I've run this business for three years now, and I'm only just now starting to *get it*.
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Privacy Isn't Dead. Far From It. | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Welcome! The fact that you’re reading this means that you probably care deeply about the issue of privacy, which warms our hearts. Unfortunately, even though you care about privacy, or perhaps because you care so much about it, you may feel that there's not much you (or anyone) can really do to...
Saved on: 2024-02-23

Why is Prettier rock solid?

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A beginner’s guide to making beautiful slides for your talks · ines.io

I love designing slides for my talks, so here are some of my not-so-secret secrets and three beginner-friendly steps for how you can up your slides game.
Saved on: 2024-02-19

UI = f(statesⁿ)

“UI is a function of state” is a pretty popular saying in the front-end world. In context (pun intended), that’s typically referring to application or component state. I thought I’d pull that thread a little further and explore all the states that can effect the UI layer…
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Popular git config options

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(37) PHP UK Conference 2024 - YouTube

Share your videos with friends, family, and the world
Tags: #php #videos
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Component Party

Web component JS frameworks overview by their syntax and features: Svelte 5, React, Vue 3, Angular Renaissance, Angular, Lit, Ember Octane, Solid.js, Svelte 4, Vue 2, Alpine, Ember Polaris, Mithril, Aurelia 2, Qwik, Marko, Aurelia 1
Saved on: 2024-02-14

Is something bugging you?

At first glance, Antithesis couldn’t be more different from FoundationDB (our last company), but it’s a continuation of that story in a funny sort of way.
Saved on: 2024-02-13

SSH Port

The SSH port is 22. This is the story of how it got that port number. And practical configuration instructions.
Saved on: 2024-02-12

IdreesInc/Miracode

A sharp, readable, vector-y version of Monocraft, the programming font based on Minecraft - IdreesInc/Miracode
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(Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years ru

Assortment of technology startup infrastructure recommendations
Saved on: 2024-02-10

One Minute Focus

Science backed method to leverage focusing visually for 1 minute to increase mental/cognitive focus
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About pandoc

Saved on: 2024-02-02

The business of check cashing

Check cashing, as a business, is a poorly understood "alternative" financial service.
Saved on: 2024-01-31

httpareacodes

A super silly idea
Saved on: 2024-01-31

Variable Fonts (v0.2)

A simple resource for finding and trying variable fonts.
Saved on: 2024-01-29

I looked through attacks in my access logs. Here's what I found

I've been self-hosting for over a decade. It's freeing because I own my data, and do not depend on any platform other than my cloud host, which I can easily switch off. Self-hosting gives much insight into what it takes to run a cloud service. Anyone who's had some practice doing this will likely tell you that the internet is a dangerous place. 🖖If you found this helpful or insightful leave a comment to let me know, or follow me on Mastodon - @nish@social.nishtahir.com Exposing any IP onto th
Saved on: 2024-01-28

Tips for optimizing integration tests

While unit tests are known for their speed compared to integration tests, the latter offer heightened confidence in the system’s functionality. Thus, avoiding integration tests is not advisable; instead, it’s crucial to strike a balance by writing tests at an appropriate level to ensure high confidence in the codebase. Achieving this equilibrium between time efficiency and confidence is paramount. Rapid feedback is essential for a smooth workflow, and today, I’ll share concise tips to enhance the efficiency of your integration tests. The effort invested is worthwhile, as swift feedback is indispensable for seamless operations, and each minute of improvement is magnified by the frequency of executions and the number of developers in the company.
Saved on: 2024-01-26

Code of Conduct

Saved on: 2024-01-26

Python & JavaScript Libraries

The initial versions of the Ollama Python and JavaScript libraries are now available, making it easy to integrate your Python or JavaScript, or Typescript app with Ollama in a few lines of code. Both libraries include all the features of the Ollama REST API, are familiar in design, and compatible with new and previous versions of Ollama.
Saved on: 2024-01-25

Modernize Symfony Configs

Symfony configuration is one of the changes that are difficult to spot until they're removed in the next major version. Then you must Google the "invalid option id error message" and hope for a solution. That doesn't sound like an excellent way to spend your weekend, does it? Symfony actually adds a deprecation message to those options, but they're not easy to spot. Today, we'll show you how to spot them with the help of Rector, PHPStan, and one other fantastic tool.
Saved on: 2024-01-24

Why You Want React Query

Let's take a look at why you'd want a library like React Query, even if you don't need all the extra features it provides...
Saved on: 2024-01-23

Loadership

Loadership is your go-to tool for generating and customizing loading spinners. Easily configure and copy-paste spinners in HTML/CSS, or SVG to enhance your web projects with smooth, professional loaders.
Saved on: 2024-01-19

Pines - Alpine and Tailwind UI Library

Pines is a library of animations, sliders, tooltips, accordions, modals, and more!
Saved on: 2024-01-13

3 Signs Your Project is Becoming Legacy - Arrays Creep

In [the first post](/blog/3-signs-your-project-is-becoming-legacy-and-how-to-avoid-them), we looked at the long-term effects of our decisions. Turning a legacy project into a fresh one is a matter of the "just do it" approach. But there are 3 things we should take with care even if our project seems outside the legacy project category. First of those are arrays.
Saved on: 2024-01-09

How Google perfected the web

How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same.
Saved on: 2024-01-08

HTMX Playground

Learn HTMX with examples, and use the playground to write code in a backend-like environment, running entirely inside the browser. You can define endpoints within server.js and render your own templates. It will run a mock server that intercepts outgoing requests from HTMX.
Saved on: 2024-01-08

An app can be a home-cooked meal

I made a messaging app for my family and my family only.
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Paper Sizes and Formats Explained: The Difference Between A4 and Letter

Paper sizes and formats explained: learn more about the difference between A4 and Letter paper formats.
Saved on: 2024-01-05

Push Notifications - What to Push, What Not to Push, and How Often

Sending helpful & engaging pushes, filtering annoying pushes, and finding the frequency sweet spot.
Saved on: 2024-01-02

10 reasons why Unpoly may be a better choice than htmx | Matteo Contrini

htmx and Unpoly are JavaScript libraries that add interactivity to multi-page applications (MPA). Here’s why Unpoly might be better choice.
Saved on: 2023-12-27

Architetture dimenticate: la stazione di servizio AGIP che sembra una navic

Sono i primi anni Cinquanta quando Enrico Mattei, fondatore di Eni, incarica l’architetto Mario Bacciocchi di ideare una serie di edifici per la neo-azienda multinazionale. A Milano conserviamo ancora un ricordo meraviglioso di quel periodo, e si trova proprio in viale Certosa.
Tags: #art
Saved on: 2023-12-27

Reminiscing CGI scripts

I’ve always had a thing for old-school web tech. By the time I joined the digital fray, CGI scripts were pretty much relics, but the term kept popping up in tech forums and discussions like ghosts from the past. So, I got curious, started reading about them, and wanted to see if I could reason about them from the first principles. Writing one from the ground up with nothing but Go’s standard library seemed like a good idea.
Saved on: 2023-12-27

A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

Some of the hidden norms about Hacker News not otherwise covered in the Guidelines and the FAQ. - minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
Saved on: 2023-12-27

Hacking htmx applications

With the normal flow of frontend frameworks moving from hipster to mainstream in the coming few months, during a test, you bump into this strange application that receives HTML with `hx-` attributes…
Saved on: 2023-12-23

10 Tips For Building SSR/HDA applications

In this guide, Carson Gross provides ten practical tips to help developers transition from Single Page Applications (SPAs) to Server-Side Rendering and Hypermedia-Driven Applications, focusing on essential mindset shifts and architectural advantages.
Saved on: 2023-12-22

Introducing the new Wasmer JS SDK

Dive into a world where running any WASI and WASIX package in your browser is a breeze. Whether it's Python, Bash, FFmpeg, or [any package published](ht...
Saved on: 2023-12-22

Deep Cloning Objects in JavaScript, the Modern Way

It’s been a long time coming, but we finally now have the built-in `structuredClone` function to make deep cloning objects in JavaScript a breeze
Saved on: 2023-12-22

SMTP Smuggling - Spoofing E-Mails Worldwide

Introducing a novel technique for e-mail spoofing
Saved on: 2023-12-22

Leonardo Da Vinci’s Self-Powered Cart

A club for Meccano enthusiasts in London, holding four meetings each year and a public Meccano Show in Falconwood.
Saved on: 2023-12-22

About time - how to unit test code that depends on time

Suppose that the logic of your program depends on time. That is, you need to keep track of when something in the past happened, and what tim...
Saved on: 2023-12-20

Distill — Latest articles about machine learning

Articles about Machine Learning
Saved on: 2023-12-20

The Secret Father of Modern Computing

How Ed Roberts created the personal computer industry—and then walked away
Saved on: 2023-12-19

S3 Express One Zone, not quite what I hoped for — Jack Vanlightly

AWS just announced a new lower-latency S3 storage class and for those of us in the data infrastructure business, this is big news. It’s not a secret that a low-latency object storage primitive has the potential to change how we build cloud data systems forever. So has this new world arrived with S
Tags: #aws
Saved on: 2023-12-17

Form and Matter: Hylomorphism

This essay provides an overview of the main claims and basic motivations for hylomorphism, the view that all material objects consist of both matter and form.
Saved on: 2023-12-17

Remembering things that haven't happened yet

How will I know what I need to hear in a future I can't anticipate? Who will I be, and what will she want?
Saved on: 2023-12-14

Correctly Configure (Pre) Connections – Harry Roberts – Web Performance Con

We’re probably familiar with preconnect, but are we getting it right?
Saved on: 2023-12-10

A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32

On the 4th of November 2010, a Qantas Airbus A380 was rocked by a catastrophic engine failure minutes after takeoff from Singapore, hurling fragments of a turbine disk through its wings and fuselage…
Saved on: 2023-12-10

Scrambling Eggs for Spotify with Knuth's Fibonacci Hashing

In this blog post, we explore Spotify's journey from using the Fisher-Yates shuffle to a more sophisticated song shuffling algorithm that prevents clustering of tracks by the same artist. We then connect this challenge to Fibonacci hashing, and propose a novel, evenly distributed artist shuffling method.
Saved on: 2023-12-09

Christmas on the Moon

Baby, it's cold outside! Especially when you spend the holidays in a tent full of explosives.
Saved on: 2023-12-09

Pacchetto di CSS: 2023!

Il 2023 è stato un anno fantastico per CSS. Scopri quali contenuti sono arrivati quest'anno a Chrome e alla piattaforma web.
Tags: #css #webdev
Saved on: 2023-12-08

Goodbye, Clean Code

Let clean code guide you. Then let it go.
Saved on: 2023-12-08

file to life

Saved on: 2023-12-06

EHTML

EHTML (or Extended HTML) can be described as a set of custom elements that you can place on an HTML page for different purposes and use cases. The goal of this library is to provide a convenient way to eliminate JavaScript code on the client side as much as possible for basic and routine tasks. The biggest focus of this library is to offer the easiest way to perform **AJAX** operations just by using HTML. Also EHTML treat your HTML code code not only as a markup language but also as a templating language.
Saved on: 2023-12-05

Let’s learn how modern JavaScript frameworks work by building one

In my day job, I work on a JavaScript framework (LWC). And although I’ve been working on it for almost three years, I still feel like a dilettante. When I read about what’s going on in …
Saved on: 2023-12-04

Stop building databases

Join me as we take a look at common application data patterns, and how they relate to the inner-workings of databases. In this post, we discuss data caching, indexing, optimistic mutations, and recursive cache invalidation. We will see how life might be easier if we could just use a frontend optimized database like SQLSync instead.
Saved on: 2023-12-02

How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations

Choosing good colors for your charts is hard. This article tries to make it easier.
Saved on: 2023-12-01

Generative AI for Beginners

Description
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CSS Animations with No-Code

Convert MathML to LaTeX online with MathConvert. Free, fast, and accurate converter for mathematical equations. Perfect for students, educators, and researchers.
Saved on: 2023-11-25

A Complete Guide to CSS Grid

Our comprehensive guide to CSS grid, focusing on all the settings both for the grid parent container and the grid child elements.
Saved on: 2023-11-24

Retries – An interactive study of common retry methods – Encore Blog

Visually explore different methods of retrying requests to learn why some methods are dangerous and what the best practice is.
Saved on: 2023-11-23
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