For anyone who needs an image gallery or any scrolling list for that matter, Glider.js looks like a good option. It’s super simple to use, light, responsive, and dependency free. Have a look at some demos here.
Category: Web work
These days, most of my work is very related to the online world. Building web sites, reviewing web applications, integrating with web services, coordinating people who are far away from each other, etc. Whenever I find a new tool or service or an innovative, interesting idea about working online, I share it in this category.
What’s something very few people know about PHP?
“What’s something very few people know about PHP?” blog post (and Quora answer) provides some more impressive stats and links about the popularity of the PHP programming language.
This goes well with this recent post.
Awful AI – a curated list of the current scary usages of AI
Awful AIÂ :
Awful AI is a curated list to track current scary usages of AI – hoping to raise awareness to its misuses in society
Artificial intelligence in its current state is unfair, easily susceptible to attacks and notoriously difficult to control. Nevertheless, more and more concerning the uses of AI technology are appearing in the wild. This list aims to track all of them. We hope that Awful AI can be a platform to spur discussion for the development of possible contestational technology (to fight back!).
It’s great that someone is working on raising awareness!
Google Trends for REST, GraphQL and RPC
Here’s an interesting look at Google Trends for REST API, RPC, and GraphQL. There’s also a link to the actual Google Trends, in case you want to play with it. For example, here’s how it looks with the addition of the SOAP (as a protocol though, rather than search term which is way too generic):
spatie/data-transfer-object – Data transfer objects with batteries included
spatie/data-transfer-object library provides very easy to use data-transfer objects for PHP. If you code is relying a lot on arrays, you’ll appreciate this different approach. And the more complex your arrays are, the more benefit you’ll get out of it.