The blog

Where I irregularly write about web development.

  1. Only run GitHub Actions when certain files have changed

  2. How to use Laravel Sanctum for SPA authentication

  3. How to use map, filter, and reduce in JavaScript

  4. Blurring the lines between front-end and back-end development

  5. How to use Proxy objects in TypeScript

  6. How to manage staging and production environments in Netlify

  7. The smallest PHP version switcher

  8. Deploying your PHP application to an Amazon Auto Scaling Group with Deployer

  9. Statically analyze your Laravel 9 application with PHPStan

  10. How to set CORS headers on your S3 bucket

  11. How to rename your "master" branch to "main"

  12. Making TypeScript's Partial type work for nested objects

  13. Performing A/B tests on static websites using Cloudfront and Lambda@Edge

  14. How to ensure only a single model has a certain value in Laravel?

  15. Validating a multi-column unique key in Laravel Nova

  16. Programmatically switch dark mode in MacOS

  17. Case Study: Serverless architecture for The Ocean Cleanup

  18. Redirect www to non-www using CloudFront and Lambda@Edge

  19. How to use JavaScript getters and setters

  20. Introducing Hansel, runner of handlers and enhancers

  21. Npx is cool... but why not use a relative $PATH?

  22. Challenges with doing recursion in PHP

  23. Auto-deploy with Travis CI

  24. Git feature branches

  25. CSS Trick: Remove borders from linked images

  26. Testing IE6 on Mac using VirtualBox

  27. Disable fancy errors in CakePHP

  28. Move current selection to new folder with Applescript

  29. Quick PHP Tip: passing by reference creates array keys

  30. Quick PHP Tip: close your connection between stream_get_contents calls

  31. Book review: The Pragmatic Programmer

  32. Eliminate articles when ordering in MySQL

  33. Hello Amsterdam!

  34. Guessing font availability with Javascript

  35. Making the most of Javascript namespacing

  36. Generate unique slugs in CakePHP

  37. Focus onload but keep Backspace intact

  38. Dynamically added form elements lose their margins

  39. How to send multiple values through one form button

  40. CSS Tricks episode 1: 100% width in a variable width container

  41. Adobe releases Dreamweaver CS4 Beta

  42. Subcookies V2

  43. Help the UN World Food Program to end world hunger

  44. Finally moved, but not without hiccups

  45. Formatting CSS, how not to do it

  46. Dutch Internet Works is looking for freelance web designers

  47. Movin'

  48. Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 introduces version targeting

  49. Bye bye freelancing

  50. My CSS Wishlist

  51. Pure CSS Text Resizer

  52. Javascript Periodical Executer

  53. Be careful when fetching width!

  54. Books that made me think

  55. WhatPHP is now live

  56. Another way to reduce the number of images used in your CSS

  57. Javascript function return values

  58. Peter-Paul Koch presents the Dutch Guild Of Front-Enders

  59. Subcookies, the PHP version

  60. Take your cookies to the next level with Subcookies

  61. Installing PHPEclipse on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

  62. Why Opera 9 might become my new favourite browser

  63. Animated lists: Graceful degradation using CSS 3

  64. Where do elements go?

  65. Use less DIV, use more HTML - Part Deux

  66. Use less DIV, use more HTML

  67. Original new CAPTCHA

  68. Broken comments

  69. A quick note on unobtrusive Javascript

  70. Pretty form controls with CSS

  71. Why use semantic class names?

  72. Simplify function arguments

  73. New Dutch accessibility law

  74. Stop your page from shifting!

  75. Fighting spam using MySQL and PHP

  76. Merry Christmas everyone!

  77. Vfields: Variable length input fields

  78. Whatstyle is renewed!

  79. Altering JavascriptFlashGateway

  80. Web 2.0 sucks

  81. Actionscript Animation Classes

  82. Displaying search results with PHP

  83. Nested lists bug

  84. Image popups that fit

  85. Styling quotations

  86. School and the web

  87. Picking units