My PHP enum style guide

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PHP in 2022

"Modern websites require complex backends, and I don't see how PHP can compete with languages such as Go, Python or Ruby in the future. PHP is not a likable language but it's probably not going away any time soon."

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How do Nike and Apple make such smooth and touch friendly carousels with pure CSS?

"VotePosted by47 minutes ago OCPlay0:000:00SettingsFullscreen96% Upvoted"

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React and React Native finally feel the same

"If you're a developer of both React and React Native apps, it can be tough to switch between platforms because they feel so different. And in many ways React Native feels relatively... well, backwards."

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Zaplib post-mortem - Zaplib docs

"Welp, this is a weird blog post! Very unexpectedly, we quickly invalidated some of the core hypothesis that make Zaplib work as a startup."
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My 16 Favourite Finder Tips for Mac

"My most successful post so far was a list of tips I put together for using Preview on the Mac (You can find that here). I thought I may as well share some of my other tips with you all, this time for Finder."

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3 Interview Questions to Spot "Fake Agile" Software Engineering Teams

"Last week, I wrote about how software companies can claim to "do the Agile" while implementing waterfall or spiral models of software development. If "fake agile" is the norm, asking a hiring team "do you do real agile?" is pointless. Nor is it helpful to ask about various agile-related ceremonies."

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Implications Of WordPress Joining The Block Protocol

"18 min read Apps, WordPress, Tools, Techniques, Workflow Share on Twitter, LinkedIn Building Headless Storefronts Build in-demand skills like UX, UI and HCI — Northwestern online MS in Info."

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Memory leaks: the forgotten side of web performance

"I’ve researched and learned enough about client-side memory leaks to know that most web developers aren’t worrying about them too much."

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Being Glue — No Idea Blog

"You know that thing where everyone on a software engineering team turns up and just writes code for eight hours a day and then later the project is successful? No you don't. Projects don’t work like that! Of course coding is an important skill in a software engineering team."

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Why Efficient Hydration in JavaScript Frameworks is so Challenging

"Hydration is the name given to the process in JavaScript frameworks to initializing the page in the browser after it has previously been server rendered."

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A to Z Linux Commands

"There are numerous Linux commands out there. There are a subset of built-in shell commands like cd and then there are the ones from GNU coreutils like less. In addition to that there are additional CLI utilities like curl, wget etc."

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The Return of Server Side Routing

"Return? It never went away. Or at least that is what some smug "told you so" is going to say. But for those who haven't been living under a rock for the past decade, for better or for worse much of the web has been moving to client-side navigation on their sites."

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PHP: Frankenstein arrays

"One of the core data types in PHP is the array. Mostly unchanged since the early beginnings of the language. The name "array" is a bit unfortunate, as well as the implementation. It is not really an array."

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Experiment on your code freely with Git worktree

"Git is designed in part to enable experimentation. Once you know that your work is safely being tracked and safe states exist for you to fall back upon if something goes horribly wrong, you're not afraid to try new ideas."

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git-switch Documentation

"NAME git-switch - Switch branches"

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AWS Free Tier Data Transfer Expansion – 100 GB From Regions and 1 TB From Amazon CloudFront Per Month

"The AWS Free Tier has been around since 2010 and allows you to use generous amounts of over 100 different AWS services. Some services offer free trials, others are free for the first 12 months after you sign up, and still others are always free, up to a per-service maximum."

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Svelte's lifecycle methods can be used anywhere

"I don't think it's widely known that you can call the Svelte lifecycle methods (onMount, onDestroy, beforeUpdate, afterUpdate) outside of a component. It is mentioned in the Svelte docs and tutorial, though it's easy to gloss over."

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Choose Boring Technology

"Probably the single best thing to happen to me in my career was having had Kellan placed in charge of me. I stuck around long enough to see Kellan’s technical decisionmaking start to bear fruit. I learned a great deal from this, but I also learned a great deal as a result of this."

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Visitor Pattern

"The Visitor Pattern isn't used often. This is because there are few situations in which it is applicable or even makes sense. However, it's a nice pattern to know and to have in your tool belt when the time comes. Let's look at how this pattern can be applied in a PHP environment."

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