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The default diffing algorithm for git diff is by lines. There are scenarios where it’s more interesting to diff by word, for example: long lines. In that case it’s useful to use --word-diff=color. ...

The GitHub CLI (gh binary), defaults to nano as its editor. Developers may want to set it to vim or VSCode to keep it in line with the git CLI’s behaviour. ...

If anyone missed it, Node.js 18 includes a test runner/test definition module (node --test and node:test respectively). node:test exports a test function and you can run the Node CLI with a --test flag which does some basic search/matching for test files. Full Documentation: node ...

Alpine Day 2021 Talk: tackling Alpine FAQs, common issues & web patterns with Alpine.js ...

Why doesn’t React.useEffect run during a server-side render (SSR) for example when using it inside a Next.js application? The obvious spots in the docs for information like this are the React docs on useEffect and the React docs on string/static rendering neither of which m ...

This post goes through approaches to asserting on the scroll position. First we’ll see how to assert that we’re at the top of the page. Next we’ll look at 2 approaches to assert that we’ve scrolled to an element. The examples for this post are available at ...

In JavaScript and TypeScript, the “?.” operator is called optional chaining. It works in a similar fashion to the . (chaining) operator, except that it short-circuits instead of causing an error when a value is null or undefined. That means const obj = {}; console.log ...

Converting images to data URLs using the Mac OS command line is a fun demonstration of the command line’s capabilities. To convert an image file to a data URL, we can use the following shell function: function img-data() { TYPE=$(file --mime-type -b $1) ENC=$(base64 $1) ech ...

There’s an opinion that PHP is dead today, but is this true? Should we believe in this or only people who don’t like PHP are sharing this news? Why do people hate PHP? Let’s take a closer look at PHP and try to predict its future. ...

More and more colleges offer their students the opportunity to try their hand in coding. With technologies continuing making massive inroads people’s our everyday lives, such professions as a computer programmer, web developer, software engineer, mobile app developer, and o ...