npm-free LiveReload(ish): Simple scripts for asset watching and auto-reload in the browser
A super simple asset-watching script and "LiveReload" functionality. All fitting with my values. Let's see what it looks like!
Tag: PHP
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Dynamic Properties – A 5 Minute Window
Today, another quirk in PHPStorm with our code snippet. We have strict types on still, but we're going to look at what properties we can set and get from the object.
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A 5 Minute Window: PHP Arrays to Objects
An experiment. Here's 5 minutes on how you can, and some reasons why you would want to, convert PHP structured arrays to objects.
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Things all developers need to make in their career #17: A static site generator
There’s a sort-of-joke that there’s a bunch of things that all developers are supposed to code from scratch at some point in their career. A blog. A to-do list app. The “canonical” applications. And one of these is a static site generator. I’ve actually never built any of these things from scratch. But while making […]
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PHP Short Functions and Scope
Yesterday I took an interest in PHP internals looking into @enunomaduro‘s RFC for Auto-capturing multi-statement closures. (Have I said before that I loved studying compilers in CS?) This lead me down some interesting rabbit holes and I wanted to make some notes on what I found. Short vs Long closures There are a two forms […]
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Where do I fit?
I'm a bit stuck with my plans for 2019. The big question really, is: where do I fit in the world of web development?
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Statamic: First impressions
While the confusion over the launch of WordPress’s new “Gutenberg” editor continues, I’ve been considering some other options. As someone who also works in the Laravel world, Statamic is making a pretty big blip on my radar. It’s a content management system that ‘runs on a “flat file” engine based on Markdown and YAML files’. […]
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More struggling with JS: how the PHP -> JS interface is broken and why this is painful
Yesterday I was struggling with getting Vue components to do non-AJAXy things and wondering why on earth this was so difficult.
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GIVE ME MY STATIC ANALYSIS!
In which I lament my own utter incompetence, but also switch back from VS Code to PHPStorm in a flash and cry quietly over programming languages.
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I’m a PHP Expert!
OK, OK, yes, this post is partly blatent self-promotion, but it’s also a moment of honesty and a hopefully-interesting reflection on an interesting little test that I did today.