Conditional Fields in Paragraphs Using the Javascript States API for Drupal 8

"While creating content, there are pieces of information that are only relevant when other fields have a certain value."
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Adding assets (CSS, JS) to a Drupal module via *.libraries.yml

"This documentation is for modules. For themes, see Adding stylesheets (CSS) and JavaScript (JS) to a Drupal theme. In Drupal 8 and later versions, stylesheets (CSS) and JavaScript (JS) are loaded through the same system for modules (code) and themes, for everything: asset libraries."

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Stop mocking about: Event Dispatcher

"I don't like mocks in unit testing (I use them, but don't like them). It often results in tests that only assure some specific method was called with certain parameters. It is this approach that may lead some to think that writing tests is writing the code twice, and therefore a waste of time."

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Serverless PHP Applications on Digital Ocean Functions

"Digital Ocean Functions is a serverless compute product Digital Ocean recently launched. It supports PHP as one of the runtimes, along with Node.js, Python, and Go."

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Introducing the New WebPageTest Recorder Chrome Extension

"WebPageTest’s custom scripting functionality unlocks some very powerful testing capabilities, including being able to test multi-step user journeys and flows through your site and application. Writing those scripts, however, can sometimes be challenging."

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COUNT(*) vs COUNT(id) in MySQL

"TL;DR: Use COUNT(), not COUNT(id), when you want to count rows. You have probably read in a bunch of different places that you shouldn't use SELECT() in MySQL when you don't need all the data. SELECT(*) selects all the columns in the table, not just the ones that you might need."

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Key Takeaways from the DynamoDB Paper

"In 2007, a group of engineers from Amazon published The Dynamo Paper, which described an internal database used by Amazon to handle the enorous scale of its retail operation."

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How technology literally changes our brains

"Nicholas Carr on deep reading and digital thinking. In 1964, the Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan published his opus Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. In it he writes, “In the long run, a medium’s content matters less than the medium itself in influencing how we think and act."

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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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