I am an avid reader of Medium, and it’s no secret that the quality of Medium articles has gone downhill over the last couple of years. Clickbait articles are intentionally titled and written to garner a response but lack substance. Amongst the shining gems, is a pile of faeces.
One recently caught my eye. An article titled. It’s 2022, Please Don’t Just Use “console.log” Anymore.
You are probably already rolling your eyes at the title without even reading the article.
Before the pandemic, webcams were not really on the mind of most. Many used the inbuilt camera on their laptops or phones for any video-related calls. But, as we were all asked to stay home and virtual meetings became the norm, the pandemic was very kind to the webcam industry.
For streamers and content creators, webcams aren’t an afterthought. While the top-tier professionals use expensive DSLR cameras and links, many use a good old-fashioned webcam.
Because I love punishing myself and loading my plate with more things, I have embarked on a new Aurelia 2 series called Building with Aurelia 2. During this series, viewers will see how easy and fun it is to build Aurelia 2 user interfaces and applications.
Since developers have many choices when it comes to frameworks and libraries, I figured a series where developers are shown with real examples of how easy it is to build with Aurelia 2 would be better than more blog posts telling you how great it is.
The Quad Cortex is an amazing modeller, and since buying one in October 2021, I use it many times a week (the perks of having it on your desk). However, despite how incredible the modeller is, the rotary stomps can be a little small for non-desktop use.
If you’re gigging or using it with your feet, the small stomps can be tricky, and you can accidentally press the wrong rotary button.
Playwright makes what used to be complicated in end-to-testing almost too easily, especially waiting for network requests.
However, in the case of single-page applications (SPA) where a click on a link or button maybe fire a request but not a page load, you can encounter a situation where Playwright encounters a race condition between clicking and waiting for a response.
The issue is sometimes the waitForResponse in situations where the request might be faster than the click event finishing, it acts as if it never took place and times out. This issue is acknowledged in the Playwright documentation for page.waitForResponse.
At work, I’ve been migrating us over from Cypress to Playwright for end-to-end tests. In that time, we’ve enabled two-factor authentication functionality in our application for security.
These TOTP tokens are great for security but provide an additional challenge for testing.
While Playwright supports saving state, our application tokens have a short expiry. I needed to log in to our application, enter a one-time password, and test.
The logging-in part was easy. We created development environment credentials. But because 2fa is enabled in all environments, we still had the issue of needing a TOTP token.
WordPress has a great actions and filters system allowing you to create injection points for modifying parts of your code (especially for plugin authors). However, you probably arrived here because you’re trying to echo or print_r something from within a filter and not seeing the output.
Because WordPress operates on a post/redirect approach, it means you’re not seeing the output because the page has been reloaded. You need to kill the script from within your filter callback function to see the output.
Despite doing this front-end thing for over a decade, I still encounter new problems thanks to the ever-evolving web specifications. One of the newer specifications is Web Components.
Now, my situation was I wanted to see Bootstrap 5 Javascript components. Because of the closed-wall nature of Shadow DOM means, the global approach Bootstrap takes by default will not work for components.
Fortunately, it is possible to use Bootstrap components with Shadow DOM, albeit programmatically.
After being deplatformed a little while ago, Donald Trump created his Twitter clone, Truth Social. As you can imagine, Truth Social launched to about as much fanfare as a fart in an elevator. Still, my curiosity got the better of me.
For whatever reason, the site is currently restricted to Canada and the United States. And, it is worth pointing out that this restriction is Truth Social themselves restricting which countries can access the site. I am not sure what the reason is for restricting access. Seems ironic given it’s meant to be a Twitter-esque site for free speech.
WordPress is incredibly powerful, and every so often, a new feature gets added that goes under the radar that can dramatically change how you build sites. In WordPress 5.1, an addition of a new WP_Site_Query class was created. It allows you to query your network of sites but goes beyond just getting IDs and making you loop over them to use with switch_to_blog($id)
Here is another super-specific use case I had with WordPress Multisite recently.