Written by Sebastian De Deyne
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on Jul. 7, 2021
In most projects, we use git flow to some extent — depending on the project and team size. This includes feature branches. Feature branches (or sometimes called topic branches) are used to develop new features for the upcoming or a distant future release. When starting development of a feature, the…
Written by Sebastian De Deyne
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on Jun. 23, 2021
Today, we’re launching a new Spatie package: Laravel Google Fonts. I’ve written about Google Fonts before. It’s a great font catalog, but the service has it’s downsides. First, fonts are hosted on a different domain than your app, so the browser needs to do an additional DNS lookup. Second, it’s Go…
Written by Sebastian De Deyne
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on Apr. 21, 2021
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! Tailwin…
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on Apr. 16, 2021
File watchers are powerful tools. We take them for granted because they’re often baked in, like Webpack rebuilding when you save a file. Sometimes I’m in an environment without auto-reloading to my disposal. Yesterday, I was working on a CLI tool. The workflow was modify code, save changes, switch…
Written by Sebastian De Deyne
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on Apr. 15, 2021
I haven’t used Google Fonts in production for a long time. I use the service for development, and strip out all references to Google before going live. I do this for performance, and my visitors' privacy. The current performance recommendation is to self-host web fonts to reduce DNS lookups. When…
Written by Sebastian De Deyne
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on Apr. 8, 2021
Last year, I read Atomic Habits by James Clear. I first heard of James Clear during Justin Jackson’s Laracon 2019 talk in New York, when he quoted: Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up,…