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Read a JSON config file with a fallback in PHP

SnippetMay 22, 20171 min read

CSS Grid arrived, and the layout hacks can go

Deep diveMarch 14, 20179 min read

Chrome 57 and Firefox 52 shipped it a fortnight apart in March. Replacing a grid system of nested rows, negative margins and a clearfix with fourteen lines.

Static analysis on a codebase that has never had any

Deep diveFebruary 22, 201714 min read

Four thousand errors on the first run is a number nobody can act on. Starting at level 0, ignoring by pattern, and raising the floor one level at…

The asset pipeline Laravel 5.4 shipped

Deep diveJanuary 31, 20178 min read

Elixir wrapped gulp, which wrapped everything else. Mix wraps webpack directly — and leaves the configuration reachable when the abstraction runs out.

composer validate belongs in CI

NoteOctober 5, 20161 min read

A composer.json edited by hand and a lock file regenerated on a different machine drift apart quietly, and the first symptom is usually a deploy installing something nobody…

A deployment pipeline that runs the tests first

Deep diveSeptember 14, 201615 min read

Deploying by rsync on a Friday afternoon, and what replaced it: lint, test, build, stage, promote — with a rollback that is the same mechanism rather than a…

Show the current MySQL sql_mode

SnippetMarch 30, 20161 min read

A default export makes a rename silent

NoteFebruary 17, 20162 min read

A default export has no name at the boundary, so the importing file invents one. Rename the thing being exported and every import keeps working under the old…

Upgrading a production application to PHP 7

Deep diveFebruary 2, 201614 min read

Twice the throughput and half the memory, for a migration that is mostly deletions — plus the four behaviour changes nobody puts in the upgrade notes.

Validate an email address in PHP

SnippetNovember 19, 20151 min read