A list of links I collect throughout the year.
| Link, Article | Desc |
|---|---|
| Hugo Shortcodes | Hugo content features beyond markdown |
| fontello.com | Create custom webfonts |
| wwwbasic | BASIC interpreter for web |
| We fired our top talent | Good to read article from freecodecamp.org |
| Phinx, DB migration | In search for a Flyway for PHP I found this. |
| GPN18 - Go für Programmierer | A very good talk about how it feels to develop in go-lang. German |
| Finding the pid listening on a specific port on Mac OS X | Useful for bash scripts and tools: Check if a specific port is currently in use. |
| ativemind AG | DSGVO/GDPR. German |
| GPN18 - $QL from Hell | What professionals can do with SQL in real world applications :-) German |
| Discord on React Native | Discord is an awesome communication tool. In this article they share how they use React Native to build their iOS/Android apps. I came to love ReactJS/Redux for more complex JavaScript needs and React Native interests me a lot. |
| VFX Mike’s blog | Brilliant blog about 3D effects in modern games (indie scale). Inspiring. |
| Crontab.guru | Helpful when formulating a cron string. |
| Next generation state management - Michel Weststrate aka @mweststrate at @ReactEurope 2017 | A friend of mine (jbrosi) pointed me to this. It has the potential to reduce some of the pain points I felt while writing a redux powered App. |
| PHP a fractal of bad design | I enjoyed working with PHP in 2010 but I also enjoy that it is mostly a thing of my past. This article is a funny written summary of everything that was (is?) wrong with PHP. Enjoy. |
| [Cocoa] Slow scrolling in editor on Mac OS X | Eclipse-Bug-Discussion. Main reason why eclipse is no fun on macos with hiDPI display. Whish I had the experience to fix this. I would make lots of people happy :). |
| 10k Models | All kinds of static models. This is handy when working on graphic effects. 10k models to test on. |
| Is there an easy way to rename an AWS target group for ALB? | Sometimes it’s the small things that make life pain. We have the cloud and all but naming a service still is a challenge . |
| Agile is Dead • Pragmatic Dave Thomas | Great and fun talk about what agile really means and what it (sometimes) had become. |
| Modernizr for JavaScript | Helpful JavaScript library to detect various CSS, HTML or JS features. Very useful when dealing with early browser features. |
| Eclipse Instantly detect external file change | I like Eclipse for Java/Spring. However, for HTML, JS and friends I prefer Atom. This option helps when switching between Eclipse and other editors. |
| Onsen UI | Nice rebuild of the iOS and Android UI for web applications. |
| MySQL shell for macos (see Krystians comment) | brew cask install mysql-shell allows you to use mysqlsh without the need to install GUI apps. |
| Reserved keywords in Hibernate | If Hibernate/mariaDB complains while saving an object this is a good spot to check. Other than the article suggest you may only get an error in your SQL syntax. |
| SecList (github) | A git repository with bad passwords and other useful lists. |
| placekitten.com | Service to generate cat based placeholder images. Just fun to have this during development. |
| Mockuphone.de | A useful tool to mock screenshots in iOS and Android images. |
| Scale images without filter in HTML5 Canvas | Even though Flash is considered to be obsolete and replaced by HTML5 there are still some features missing/not standardized. Canvas image filter is an example. This jsfiddle demonstrates how to draw an image without the default nearest-neighbor-filter. |
| I made an iPhone game with phonegap and I’ll never do it again. | Interesting blog article which gives insight in developing an App using HTML and JavaScript technologies (PhoneGap). |
| stackoverflow: Angularjs ng-model doesn’t work inside ng-if | Interesting detail when working with AngularJS scopes. |
|
Space code for HTML. Need to write it down somewhere. |
| Things You Should Never Do, Part I | Old, but good to read article about the (often wrong) idea of rewrite code from scratch. |
| i3 screencast: containers and the tree data structure | i3 approach looks incredible. This video is a very good explanation of the i3 data model. |
| Doing stuff with Spring WebFlux | Nice article/tutorial about Spring Boot 2.0 with focus on WebFlux and the new none-blocking functional APIs. |
| Override Inline Styles with CSS | Nice trick and helpful when dealing with toolkits that use inline styles. |
| Bad North Tech | An incredible tweet-collection of tech-details about the game Bad North |
| worldtimebuddy.com | Compare multiple time lines at the same time. Useful when dealing with multiple timezones. |
| The best free stock photos shared by talented photographers | Useful gallery of high quality free images. |
| How to calculate sizeDelta in RectTransform? (Unity) | Helpful insight into RectTransform.sizeDelta. |
Quick note: the linked content of the articles, videos or websites here do not necessarily reflect my personal opinion. In some cases I might even disagree with all of it’s content but still like to share it. Over time the content behind a link might be edited or a blog changed into something different. Keep that in mind while enjoying the good stuff. If you find something really bad let me know: cschnack@gmx.de