Sharing lessons learned, usually around code and business. Building side-projects such as RankLetter!
Again, open the browser console quickly to figure something out. This time, I need the width and height of the current window for clublink.to: These words keep going through my mind (it goes through any developer's mind actually):: This shouldn't ta...
Inspired by TailwindUI's references. I've started looking into AlpineJS and found it really neat: It's minimalistic, comes without any preparation steps and, similar to TailwindCSS, just gets added to your HTML. I've made the call to use it for the w...
Regularly, I discover myself thinking "wow, that's so simple I can build this in a weekend". My rational brain kicks in at some point: "Waaaaiiit a second, if it's so simple, why am I not seeing this done a million times?". Here I usually start bette...
I've just spent two hours talking to the duck. I hope this post will avoid the same for you. This is how I got the intl extension installed in docker on Alpine Linux: RUN set -xe \ && apk add --update \ icu \ && apk add --no-cache --v...
Websockets are powerful and give your site or project really dynamic. You can directly influence the visible frontend for a particular user from the backend. Magic ✨️ Yet, they can be a pain setting up. Especially, if you are opting to go with native...
As much as I love open-source, not every project or package is meant to become open-source. Especially commercial projects are usually not released under an open-source license. For these cases you can use: Private NPM/yarn packages with a license d...
A while ago I found Goutte by the Symfony Team on one of my scouting missions on GitHub. It's a really neat library, assisting anyone scraping websites or simply processing some data coming from external websites. While working with Goutte for a bit,...
If you are running a Linux development (or even Mac or Windows) machine as I am, you might have noticed that your node version is quite outdated at times. The official dependency channels are usually several versions behind the latest version. Here, ...
This is one of the small articles I wish I had found while researching a problem I encountered. So I hope it solves your issue without much fuss. If you are into the static generator 11ty like me you might stumble upon one of these messages: "Bash" ...
