2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi masterpiece – seems an appropriate place to start a blog about typography in sci-fi. Amongst other delights, it offers a zero-gravity toilet, emergency resuscitations, exploding bolts, and product placement aplenty.
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How Livewire works (a deep dive) | Caleb Porzio
The experience of using Livewire seems magical. It’s as if your front-end HTML can call your PHP code and everything just works. For this writeup, we’re going to use the example of a simple counter component. Here’s what the Livewire component looks like:
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Using the Symfony Messenger component
When developing a large scale application the software often needs to do a lot of different tasks. These tasks can consume a lot of time. Because you want your application to be fast and offer a great user experience you don’t want to process these tasks immediately.
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20 Things I've Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer - Simple Threa
You’re about to read a blog post with a lot of advice. Learning from those who came before us is instrumental to success, but we often forget an important caveat. Almost all advice is contextual, yet it is rarely delivered with any context.
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Custom Route Files | Laravel News
One morning I woke up to Slack notifications. That's never a good sign. Overnight, my Redis instance had filled completely up. We use Redis for two things:
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How do you know what people have been working on?
Losing the sense of being in the know about what's going on at the company is one of the most common concerns I hear regarding working remotely. Both at the managerial level and between coworkers.
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Increment: Frontend
This issue surveys the breadth and depth of frontend development, from its principles, tools, and frameworks to its shifting scope and far-reaching fringes. Visit the Increment Store to purchase print issues.
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A Project Manager’s Top Tips | Tighten
Just as each workday is a little different, the same can be said about digital projects. Some digital projects are big and require large teams, months of collaboration, and brand new everything to bring them from beginning to end.
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So many little design helper sites! | CSS-Tricks
DigitalOcean provides cloud products for every stage of your journey. Get started with $200 in free credit! I had one of those little single-serving designer helper sites bookmarked the other day: getwaves.io.
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PHP 8.0: How to Get Started & The Most Interesting New Features - Wizeline
PHP 8 is a major update to the PHP programming language, released on November 26, 2020. According to the official page, this most recent version contains several new features and optimizations.
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Learn How Others Are Running Your Favorite Web Frameworks and Tech Stacks in Production
A podcast where folks talk about running small & large web apps in production. Topics include tech stacks, lessons learned and DevOps / deployment tips. Full stack developer. Author of web development and deployment courses. Technical death metal enthusiast.
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How We Got to LiveView
I’m Chris McCord. I work at Fly.io and created Phoenix, an Elixir web framework. Phoenix provides features out-of-the-box that are difficult in other languages and frameworks. This is a post about how we created LiveView, our flagship feature.
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Motion One: The Web Animations API for everyone
Motion One provides the performance of native browser APIs in a user-friendly package. Go beyond the browser with springs, independent transforms, timeline sequencing and more.
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The truly epic BYTE magazine covers by Robert Tinney
They just don’t make computer magazines like they used to. The computer mags of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s had style. Attitude. There was something truly special about them.
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HackerNews Readings
Daniel Kahneman, Patrick Egan, et al. David Thomas, Andrew Hunt, et al.
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7GUIs
7GUIs by Brad Woods =================================================================================================================================================================== 7GUIs (7 Graphical User Interfaces) is a programming benchmark to compare implementations in terms of their notation
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Validating an upload as an image OR a video with Laravel - DEV Community
Laravel's Validator makes it simple to validate a request's file field as an image using the 'image' rule, and you can hack together rules for validating a video by restricting MIME types.
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Web Vitals patterns
This collection includes patterns that are often tricky to implement without hurting your Core Web Vitals scores. Use the code in these examples to help ensure your projects stay on the right track.
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Where do types come from? — Matthias Noback - Blog
In essence, everything is a string. Well, you can always go one layer deeper and find out what a string really is, but for web apps I work on, both input data and output data are strings.
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Design Principles
Design Principles are a set of guidelines that empower a team to make wise decisions and appropriate trade-offs when designing, building and innovating. Applying design principles fosters a cohesive problem-solving approach, promoting efficiency, consistency and user-centricity.
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Infrastructure overview
MangaDex is bigger than you think. No, really. People are often surprised (and/or sneer) at the complexity of some of the technical details we mention, but we do not engage in complexity for fun's sake.
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WaterBear - Watch. Connect. Take Action
Discover your role in changing the world with captivating films and thought-provoking series on WaterBear. Always free. No ads.
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Building a serverless email delivery service on AWS | by Joakim Wånggren |
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Old and spectacular photos of Bedouin nomads, 1898 - Rare Historical Photos
These rare photos from the end of the 19th century capture a range of Bedouins at a time of change.
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Quick Testing Tips: Self-Contained Tests — Matthias Noback - Blog
Whenever I read a test method I want to understand it without having to jump around in the test class (or worse, in dependencies). If I want to know more, I should be able to "click" on one of the method calls and find out more.
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Building a serverless GIF generator with AWS Lambda: Part 1 | AWS Compute B
Many video streaming services show GIF animations in the frontend when users fast forward and rewind throughout a video. This helps customers see a preview and makes the user interface more intuitive.
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Design Patterns in JavaScript - DEV Community
We will discuss implementation of Design Patterns by using JavaScript ES6 classes. Design Patterns in JavaScript on Udemy by Dmitri Nesteruk.
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Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack? | Hacker News
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Introducing Riverside 2.0: A Powerful Content Creation Platform
We continue to strive to create the ultimate content creation platform, and as such, we are thrilled to announce some new features!
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LaravelDaily/laravel-tips: Awesome tips for Laravel
It's horrible to see what is happening now in Ukraine, as Russian army is bombarding houses, hospitals and kindergartens. Please check out supportukrainenow.org for the ways how you can help people there. Spread the word.
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Email Authenticity 101: DKIM, DMARC, and SPF
Password resets, two factor codes, business secrets, private conversations… Email is at the centre of most of life and business, and so we must ensure it is trustworthy and authentic.
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analog audio tape cassette nostalgia
Tapedeck.org is a project of neckcns.com, built to showcase the amazing beauty and (sometimes) weirdness found in the designs of the common audio tape cassette.
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The 5-hour CDN
The term “CDN” (“content delivery network”) conjures Google-scale companies managing huge racks of hardware, wrangling hundreds of gigabits per second. But CDNs are just web applications. That’s not how we tend to think of them, but that’s all they are.
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It looks like a product but is secretly a subscription
In my parents' childhood it was more common for milk to be delivered weekly (or twice weekly) by a milkman than to go to a shop to buy it. Milk was a subscription service and that made a lot of sense, especially as the milkman also sold eggs, bread and other staples.
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Laravel vs. Symfony: A Side by Side Comparison
When facing the start of a brand new PHP application, there is one decision that can’t be overlooked: which framework should you use? And when it comes to PHP frameworks, the "fight" is often Laravel vs. Symfony.
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Learnings From a WebPageTest Session on CSS-Tricks | CSS-Tricks
DigitalOcean provides cloud products for every stage of your journey. Get started with $200 in free credit! I got together with Tim Kadlec from over at WebPageTest the other day to use do a bit of performance testing on CSS-Tricks.
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Michael Dyrynda | Building an app to scale on Laravel Vapor
If you've ever fallen victim to missing scheduled tasks and, of course, not finding out about it till hours, days, or even weeks later, check out thenping.me where you can get started with hands-free scheduled task monitoring for your Laravel applications from just $9/month. Running thenping.
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Crunchy Data: Postgres for Cloud, Kubernetes, or Enterprise
This site uses cookies for usage analytics to improve our service. By continuing to browse this site, you agree to this use. See our privacy policy to learn more.
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Kablamo Engineering Blog
CSS can be hard to grasp when you're starting out. It can seem like magic wizardry and you can very easily find yourself playing whack-a-mole adjusting one property only to have something else break.
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25 Vue Tips You Need to Know - DEV Community
Learning to be a better Vue developer isn't always about the big concepts that take time and effort to master. It's also about the short tips and tricks that can make your life a whole lot easier — without a whole lot of work.
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Use The 'tail' Command To Monitor Everything
This article is about how to use the 'tail' command. Here is an overview of how you can use the 'head' and 'tail' commands to output different parts of a file: Use The Following Commands to output the last 3 lines of the file/steam.
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Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
A lot of Engineering Managers and leaders studied for years and years to become the best Engineer they possibly could be… and then they were promoted.
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Things I wish Git had: Commit groups
But before I tell you about it, let’s talk about GitHub. Merge commit, squash, or rebase? There’s no single best answer to that question.
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Cheap email for everyone
Cheap, no-nonsense email Let's get straight to the point: We host your email address. We're IMAP and POP3 compatible, so we work with most mail apps. No arbitrary limits. Have as many users and store as much mail as you want. Bring as many of your own domains as you want, or use one of ours.
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An Elixir Adoption Success Story
How a team that was new to Elixir over-delivered a big project in just three months. Adopting a new language is more than just a technical journey. A language is only the right tool for the job if your engineers can wield it well.
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No, Utility Classes Aren't the Same As Inline Styles | frontstuff
Half a decade after the first commit of the pioneering ACSS, utility-first CSS is more popular than ever. With success comes many adepts but also a fair share of criticism. It’s a good thing: polarized opinions mean topics matter enough for people to care.
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Hacking Laravel - Custom Relationships with Eloquent
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My Software Estimation Technique - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Last time, I explained that, although estimating software project timelines is hard, you should do it anyway. With that background, I want to go into some detail and share the technique I use when I need to develop a project timeline.
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Software Estimation Is Hard. Do It Anyway. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
It’s well-established that estimating software projects is hard. One study by HBR found that one in six IT projects had cost overruns of over 200% and were late by almost 70%. Another study by McKinsey found that IT projects are on average 45% over budget and 7% over schedule.
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Optimizing Vue for Speed, Performance, and Core Web Vitals | MattStauffer.c
Last week I gave a talk at AlpineDay entitled "From Vue to Alpine: How & Why". In the talk I shared a few situations in which I've moved applications that were previously using Vue to use Alpine instead, for the sake of Google's Core Web Vitals.
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Underjord | Onboarding to Elixir
Underjord is a tiny, wholesome team doing Elixir consulting and contract work. If you like the writing you should really try the code. See our services for more information.
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10 things I wish every design student knew | by Cameron Moll | Medium
This week I had the privilege of speaking to design students at two universities about my career. Here are some of the things I shared, most of which were answers to their questions. 1. The greatest output of your careers will be relationships.
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An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding | by Cami
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Your product is a joke
Improv comedy is a kind of theatre where performers create unscripted scenes based on prompts from the audience. I've been doing improv for 3 years and I often catch myself thinking that the framework used in improv applies to product pretty well.
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[Common mistake] Sharing session across multiple Laravel subdomain - DEV Co
To Share session across domain and it's multiple especially when you have large ecosystem were multiple applications communicate with one database So when a user authenticates any of these apps, they will be logged in everywhere. For example, when a user AUTH into http://mywebsite.
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A Complete Guide To Accessibility Tooling — Smashing Magazine
19 min read Accessibility, Tools Share on Twitter, LinkedIn Try monday dev for free! The Power of Storytelling, with Chiara Aliotta Building Modern HTML Emails, with Rémi Parmentier SmashingConf New York 2024 Try monday dev for free! Smart Interface Design Patterns, 10h video + UX training 11 Habit
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Writing better Regular Expressions in PHP • PHP.Watch
Regular Expressions are powerful, PHP but they are not known to be readable, and more often than not, maintaining a regular expression is not a straight-forward task. PHP uses PCRE (PCRE2 since PHP 7.
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Making Instagram.com faster: Part 1 | by Glenn Conner | Instagram Engineeri
In recent years, instagram.com has seen a lot of changes — we’ve launched stories, filters, creation tools, notifications, and direct messaging as well as myriad other features and enhancements.
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Pushing the boundaries of Eloquent
Part 1: Dynamic Page Size. Part 2: User Defined Sorting.
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Our Favourite Uses of Typography in Watches
Good typography should be almost unnoticeable. Blending seamlessly into the rest of the design, it should tell you everything you need to know, without you being aware of it.
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Beginner JavaScript Notes - Wes Bos
Hey! Welcome to my Beginner JavaScript Notes + Reference. These notes are a free resource, based on my Beginner JavaScript Video course .
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Core Web Vitals Tracking via GA4, BigQuery and Google Data Studio
For our BigCommerce Tag Rocket subscribers with GA4 switched on, you are already most of the way there. Just follow our simpler article on how to set up BigQuery and the report. Update: In August 2022 the web.
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(1) Robert G. Reeve su Twitter: "I'm back from a week at my mom's house and
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What it means to run a monolith on AWS Lambda
Let's talk about the elephant monolith in the room. It's easy to associate monoliths with legacy, weird, outdated, insecure code. A beast developed for decades that nobody wants to touch because they'll break it and it is impossible to wrap your head around everything.
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Deep Dive into Reactive Programming with RxJS
Key Takeaways You can use observables and RxJS to write clean and efficient code for handling asynchronous data in your application. With observables, you can construct continuous data streams that emit data over time. Observables can be subscribed to, canceled, or completed at any moment.
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wickedblocks
Over 120 fully responsive component and blocks you can copy paste into your Tailwind projects. Use it in as many projects you want to and as many times you need too. A beautiful collection of premium block components for Shadcn UI & Tailwind. Try the free blocks.
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A Single Div
A Single Div: a CSS drawing project by Lynn Fisher 2014-2019GitHub#divtoberBuy me a coffee
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Find N 1 problems instantly by disabling lazy loading | Laravel News
Strict about preventing N+1 query problems? @themsaid's recent contribution to the framework allows you to disable lazy loading entirely (exception will be thrown)... Can disable it only on non-production so production doesn't crash if one slips through! 💅
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Create a Blog with Nuxt Content - NuxtJS
The Content module is a git files based headless CMS that provides powerful features when it comes to write blogs, documentation sites or just adding content to any regular website. In this post we will go through most of the benefits of this module and discover how we can create a blog with it.
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Lightning-Fast Web Performance: an online lecture series from Scott Jehl
Lightning-Fast Web Performance has a new home! Updated for 2022, the course remains free to view on the WebPageTest site thanks to Catchpoint.
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DOM Events
DOM Events Learn about the DOM Event system through exploration Legend An event is a message that is dispatched to event target's. There are many categories of events including user events such as 'click' and system events such as 'DOMContentLoaded'.
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The data model behind Notion's flexibility
Today, that information mostly remains siloed across tools. Take cloud-based document editors, where pages are their smallest atomic unit. Information is locked inside of pages and files and folders — that’s reminiscent of how things were done a century ago.
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Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years by Sandro T
Thank you for visiting my online presence. I’m a software developer living in San Francisco, CA who’s passionate about writing concise, readable, and performant code. I also love to cook, and explore nature regionally and beyond.
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HTML Tips
In this article, I will share with you some very useful HTML tips. Enjoy! Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser.
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? How Basecamp blew up - Platformer
At 8AM PT on Friday, a bleary-eyed Basecamp CEO Jason Fried gathered his remote workforce together on Zoom to apologize.
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Keep controllers clean by using form requests in Laravel - Freek Van der He
Most people use form requests solely for validation, but they can also help to keep your controllers clean. Here's how we use them in Mailcoach Stay up to date with all things Laravel, PHP, and JavaScript.
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Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea | Electronic Frontier Foundation
No one should mourn the death of the cookie as we know it.
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Practical SQL for Data Analysis
Pandas is a very popular tool for data analysis. It comes built-in with many useful features, it's battle tested and widely accepted. However, pandas is not always the best tool for the job. SQL databases have been around since the 1970s.
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Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages
I was writing a tiny website to display statistics of how much sponsored content a Youtube creator has over time when I noticed that I often write a small tool as a website that queries some data from a database and then displays it in a graph, a table, or similar.
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The Humble Element And Core Web Vitals — Smashing Magazine
26 min read Performance, User Experience, Core Web Vitals, Next.js, Media Share on Twitter, LinkedIn Images have also been a key part of the web. They communicate ideas instantly, but they are also a lot heavier than text to load.
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CSS Tips
1. Introduction 2. Typing Effect 3. Drop Shadow 4. Smooth scrolling 5. Center anything 6. Cursors 7. Truncate text 8. Truncate text to the specific number of lines 9. `::selection` CSS pseudo-element 10. Anything resizable 11. CSS modals 12. `calc()` 13.
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6 Tips About Data Seeding in Laravel - Laravel Daily
Laravel migration mechanism has a great function of seeding data. In this article, I will show random tips from my own experience, how to use seeding in real-life cases. Second attempt to run seeder would probably fail because of conflicting IDs.
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Pivot tables and many-to-many relationships - Laravel Daily
Today I want to talk about a feature of Laravel which is really useful but can be potentially difficult to understand at first. Pivot table is an example of intermediate table with relationships between two other "main" tables.
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Do not mock what you do not own | The PHP Consulting Company
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FFmpeg cheat sheet
Use the crf (Constant Rate Factor) parameter to control the output quality. The lower crf, the higher the quality (range: 0-51). The default value is 23, and visually lossless compression corresponds to -crf 18. Use the preset parameter to control the speed of the compression process.
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Getting my blog ready for Core Web Vitals & Page Experience - Paul Bakaus'
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Tackling the Beast: How to Gradually Upgrade a Legacy Code Base to PHP 7 -
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Tiptap - Dev Toolkit Editor Suite
Tiptap is a headless editor framework with an open source core. Integrate over 100+ extensions like collaboration and AI agents and create the UX you want. Tiptap's extension-based architecture lets you pick and choose the features you need.
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Why we use `!important` with Tailwind — Sebastian De Deyne
Tl;dr: We use !important because it solves annoying specificity issues. Despite being overkill in most situations, we haven't come across any practical drawbacks from globally enabling it. If you want to learn more about how we came to that conclusion and how CSS specificity works, read on!
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Intrinsic Typography is the Future of Styling Text on the Web | CSS-Tricks
DigitalOcean provides cloud products for every stage of your journey. Get started with $200 in free credit! The way we style text hasn’t changed much over the years.
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The Almost-Complete Guide to Cumulative Layout Shift
Confession Time: I don’t care about the Core Web Vitals (CWV) update. # For those who don’t know but still read my blog (hi, mom), here’s the quick rundown. “Core Web Vitals” is the name of three “core” parts of measuring the “web’s” “vitality.
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lofi.cafe - lofi music 🎧
Lofi music streams for studying, working, and relaxing.
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