A Week of Symfony #659 (12-18 August 2019)
This week, Symfony added support for an alternative directory convention for bundles which is similar to the one used in full Symfony apps. In addition, it …
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The ingredients of a classic house track
Another great video in the Vox Earworm series, a must see for any (house) music lover. Perfect fit to watch right after their previous “The Disco Invention that Changed Pop Music” video . On June 12, 1979, thousands of disco records were destroyed at Chicago’s “Disco Demolition Night”. Within one year, Chicago …
5 Tips to Help You Avoid React Hooks Pitfalls
Kent C. Dodds: As hot as it is, React Hooks require a bit of a change in the way you think about React Component Lifecycles, State, and Side Effects and it can be easy to fall into problematic scenarios if you’re not thinking about React Hooks properly. So let’s look a bit at what pitfalls you could come across and …
The Boy and the Sea
The Boy and The Sea, Willy Verginer, Sculpture, 2019. ( via @netlash )
React DevTools 4.0
Version 4 of the React DevTools have been released, with a lot of improvements. At a high level, this new version should offer significant performance gains and an improved navigation experience. It also offers full support for React Hooks, including inspecting nested objects. The release notes hold a detailed …
Defensive Coding Crash Course
By Mark Niebergall Ensuring software reliability, resiliency, and recoverability is best achieved by practicing effective defensive coding. Take a crash course in defensive coding with PHP as we cover attack surfaces, input validation, canonicalization, secure type checking, external library vetting, cryptographic …
One-to-Many
A one-to-many relationship is the second easiest to understand. A user may have many posts. A post may have many comments. A team may have many members. In …
One-to-One
A "one-to-one" database relationship is incredibly simple to understand. If you can say that a single record from one table is related to a single record from …
Weekly Update 152
I made it out of Vegas! That was a rather intense 8 days and if I'm honest, returning to the relative tranquillity of Oslo has been lovely (not to mention the massive uptick in coffee quality). But just as the US to Europe jet lag passes, it's time to head back to Aus for a bit and go through the whole cycle again. …
Build Modern Single-page Apps with Inertia.js
Earlier this week Jonathan Reinink announced the first release of Inertia.js (v0.1), a framework for quickly building modern single-page React and Vue.js …
Build free code & testing ES module imports
A bit of a mouthful of a post title, but I can assure my future self this post will be worthy of publishing because it'll save future self many angry hours shouting at build tools. The goal: no build tools, which leads to no config, which leads to no waiting around. Let's get the lie out of the way There's a …
How to Use Curl to Check if a Remote Resource is Available
Recently, I was writing a shell script as part of a new Docker container setup. While I was pretty happy with the script, it wasn't as defensive as I'd have liked it to be. This was because it didn't check if a remote tarball was available before attempting to download and use it. Sure, it's a personal project …
Zoncolan: How Facebook uses static analysis to detect and prevent security …
Facebook’s web codebase currently contains more than 100 million lines of Hack code, and changes thousands of times per day. To handle the sheer volume of code, we build sophisticated systems that help our security engineers review code. Today, we are sharing the details of one of those tools, called Zoncolan, for …
OpenAPI Description using API key and secret
I've been working on a few OpenAPI descriptions of APIs lately, and really enjoying the benefits they bring. In particular the ability to import into Postman as a collection I think is a "killer feature" for APIs looking to get developers up and running quickly. The catch? I found that an API that needs an API key …
Learn to start testing your existing codebase with Confident Laravel
The creator of Laravel Shift and Laracon speaker Jason McCreary announced the release of his course Confident Laravel – from no tests to confidently tested. …
PHP Internals News: Episode 23: Deprecated Short Open Tags, again
PHP Internals News: Episode 23: Deprecated Short Open Tags, again London, UK Thursday, August 15th 2019, 09:23 BST In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with George Banyard ( Website , Twitter , GitHub , GitLab ) about his second RFC "Deprecate Short Open Tags, …
PHPStan now fully supports PHP 7.4!
Once a year, new minor PHP version is released, and every few years, there’s a new major version. And as the language moves forward, the tooling that goes with it has to move forward too. That’s why I just released new version of PHPStan in the 0.11.x series (so everyone can upgrade) that fully supports the upcoming …
New Research: Lessons from Password Checkup in action
Posted by Jennifer Pullman, Kurt Thomas, and Elie Bursztein, Spam and Abuse research Back in February, we announced the Password Checkup extension for …
New advances in natural language processing
The post New advances in natural language processing appeared first on Facebook Engineering .
Want to Read Faster? Change your Default Font In Google Docs
Google has added a new font family – Lexend – that will help you read faster and better. The font is available inside Google Docs, Sheets and Google Slides or you can download it directly from the Google Fonts website and use it in offline apps like Microsoft Word. Here’s a sample Google document rendered with …