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Declaring a type for a library that has none

NoteJuly 26, 20182 min read

A JavaScript dependency without types is either an any, which defeats the point, or a declaration file, which takes ten minutes and only needs to describe what you…

Debounce without a library

SnippetJuly 11, 20181 min read

TypeScript strictNullChecks is the flag that pays

NoteJune 20, 20182 min read

Without it, every type includes null and undefined silently, so the compiler agrees that a possibly-missing value is a string and the runtime disagrees. Turning it on in…

Autowiring, and what the container is allowed to guess

Deep diveMay 17, 201810 min read

services.yaml went from four hundred lines to twelve. Where the guessing stops is the part worth knowing before it stops in production.

ESLint as a pre-commit hook, not a CI surprise

NoteMay 2, 20182 min read

Lint failures arriving from CI ten minutes after a push are a context switch for something a machine could have fixed automatically before the commit existed. Running only…

webpack 4 needs almost no configuration

Deep diveFebruary 15, 201810 min read

One line replaced about eighty. The defaults are almost always right, and the cost is that they are invisible when they are not.

PHPStan 0.10 and the level that is worth stopping at

NoteJanuary 16, 20182 min read

Levels 0 to 2 are free — every finding is a name that does not resolve. Level 3 is the first that asks for information the codebase does…

Bootstrap 4 dropped the float grid

Deep diveJanuary 3, 201810 min read

Two and a half years in alpha, and the grid is flexbox now. The class renames are mechanical; the ones that changed meaning rather than name are not.

Format bytes as a human readable size in PHP

SnippetNovember 22, 20171 min read

Laravel 5.5 and the packages that install themselves

Deep diveAugust 28, 201710 min read

The first release where installing a package is one command. Auto-discovery removes two config edits per package, and hides the fact that they happened.