Protect our Git Repos, Stop Foxtrots Now!

"Reading Time: 6 minutes Dancers gearing up to do the Foxtrot First, what is a foxtrot merge? A foxtrot merge is a specific sequence of git commits. A particularly nefarious sequence. Out in the open, in lush open grasslands, the sequence looks like this: But foxtrots are rarely seen in the open."

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8 Useful JavaScript Tricks

"Each programming language has its own tricks up in its sleeve. Many of them are known to developers, and yet some of them are pretty hackish. In this article, I will show you a couple of tricks I find useful. Some of them I've used in practice and others are the new way of solving old problems."

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PHP: Setters and Getters have died

"PHP is very flexible, but sometimes developers don’t want to allow too much flexibility into their libraries for sake of properly using their software as intended."

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So you thought call_user_func() was just another way to call a PHP method...

"In most cases, call_user_func() and call_user_func_array() are just slower but more flexible ways to call functions or methods. But it turns out they are not entirely equivalent where methods are involved. Consider this fragment, and guess the output."

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vimeo autoplay=1 no longer working in Chrome

"I recently developed a website that has a streaming video as its full-screen background that autoplays & loops when the website loads. It was working in Chrome until very recently. Google changed their policy on autoplaying video in April, so I believe this may be the reason."

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Build your own Command Line with ANSI escape codes

"Everyone is used to programs printing out output in a terminal that scrolls as new text appears, but that's not all your can do: your program can color your text, move the cursor up, down, left or right, or clear portions of the screen if you are going to re-print them later."

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JavaScript error reference

"Below, you'll find a list of errors which are thrown by JavaScript. These errors can be a helpful debugging aid, but the reported problem isn't always immediately clear. The pages below will provide additional details about these errors."

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Player

"An instance of the Player class is created when any of the Video.js setup methods are used to initialize a video. In the following example, the data-setup attribute tells the Video.js library to create a player instance when the library is ready."

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How to use iOS Safari localStorage and sessionStorage in Private Mode

"In short, you can’t, but you can set a cookie via JavaScript ? Safari on iOS supports localStorage, but in Private Mode it simply throws an error when you try to save anything to it, which is not great. Also it breaks the behaviour of your app on iPhones and iPads."

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