The productivity tax you pay for context switching

"You probably won’t finish this article. In fact, I may have already lost you to another tab in your browser. Or an email from your boss. Or a ping from a coworker. Or any number of other digital distractions that have come to define modern life."

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RedwoodJS vs. BlitzJS: The Future of Fullstack JavaScript Meta-Frameworks

"Redwood and Blitz are two up-and-coming full-stack meta-frameworks that provide tooling for creating SPAs, server-side rendered pages, and statically generated content, providing a CLI to generate end-to-end scaffolds."

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Upgrading Bash on macOS

"One thing that many macOS users don’t know is that they are using a completely outdated version of the Bash shell. However, it is highly recommended to use a newer version of Bash on macOS, because it enables you to use useful new features. This article explains how to do this."

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How to run Minikube on an Apple M1 chip without Docker Desktop

"Docker Desktop failed me, and at the time (13th July 2022) of writing this article, Hyperkit, VirtualBox, and other hypervisors specified here don’t work on the Apple M1 chip. Weeks ago, while using Docker Desktop, it suddenly got stuck in a start-stop loop."

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A Functional authentication and authorization System using JWTs

"A secure authentication system is an important part of most full stack web development projects."

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Accessibility Check #1

"Today I'm starting my very first accessibility check. I'll be auditing websites to see how well they implement accessibility and pointing out the problems and items that need improvement."

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The Slotted Counter Pattern

"It is a common database pattern to increment an INT column when an event happens, such as a download or page view. You can go far with this pattern until bursts of these types of events happen in parallel and you experience contention on a single row."

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Traits

"PHP implements a way to reuse code called Traits. Traits are a mechanism for code reuse in single inheritance languages such as PHP."

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When to use a trait? — Matthias Noback : Blog

"When to use a trait? Never. On the other hand, there are several problems with traits. For instance:"

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State management in Corvid

"Thanks to the Wix editor, when working with Velo you don’t need to deal with html/css when developing UI. Instead you get a full blown WYSIWYG editor where you can create the UI for your application."

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Blade Templates

"Sage uses Laravel's Blade(opens new window) templating engine. This gives you access to the Blade templating language, which includes a number of useful features."

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Building a Reactive Library from Scratch

"In the previous article A Hands-on Introduction to Fine-Grained Reactivity I explain the concepts behind fine-grained reactivity through example. Now let's look at building a reactive library ourselves."

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How to create a React.js app with serverless

"In this example we will look at how to use React.js with a serverless API to create a simple click counter app. We’ll be using the SST and the SST ReactStaticSite construct to deploy our app to AWS. Let’s start by creating an SST app."

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JavaScript Proxy the Fetch API

"If you go on and google search for JavaScript Proxy, you'll see many articles explaining the core concepts. But there is one powerful thing almost nobody tells you about. That one thing is:"

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Pure vs Impure Functions

"Software engineering is full of jargon. Occasionally, to grasp the true meaning of the seemingly simplest of words, one must waddle through many murky layers of complexity (fancy defining this, anyone?). Thankfully, other times, outwardly inaccessible words can be demystified pretty easily."

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Writing value objects in PHP

"If you already have heard about DDD (Domain-Driven Design), you probably also may have heard about Value Objects. It is one of the building blocks introduced by Eric Evans in "the blue book". A value object is a type which wraps data and is distinguishable only by its properties."

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How We Built Eightshift: A Premiere

"It finally happened – eightshift.com is out! Drumroll please. To celebrate this long-time coming event, I will reveal how we brought this beautiful website to life bit by bit."

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WordPress Handbook

"Unit testing is a level of software testing where individual units/components of software are tested. The purpose of unit tests is to validate that each unit of software performs as designed. In terms of PHP and WordPress, a single 'unit' is a function or a class."

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Component Driven User Interfaces

"The development and design practice of building user interfaces with modular components. UIs are built from the “bottom up” starting with basic components then progressively combined to assemble screens. Modern user interfaces are more complicated than ever."

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