If you’ve ever done authentication in a Laravel-based project then you probably had to deal with the Socialite extension, which enables OAuth-based authentication using third-party services (like Google or Facebook). Passing dynamic data to the external OAuth system and getting that data back to your application, using Socialite,
Read moreDespre Criptomoneda “Pi”
Am scris acest scurt articol special pentru prietenii și apropiații mei ce vor să înțeleagă în câteva cuvinte despre ce e vorba cu noua criptomonedă numită “Pi“ creată de 3 doctoranzi de la Universitatea Stanford. Aici găsești răspunsuri foarte succinte la 7 întrebări frecvent întâlnite pe acest subiect.
Read moreRemember last value in React functional components
Sometimes it can be very useful to save previous values of props (or state) in a React component. Perhaps this is easier to be imagined in a class component, but in a functional component, less so. However, we can use the useRef() React hook to achieve that quite
Read moreUsing enum values as strictly typed object keys
In TypeScript, it’s often useful to define interfaces or complex (structured) types whose properties (or keys) may only be values of a previously defined enum type. Here’s a good example: an object declaring a set of buttons for a modal dialog. Instead of this… type DialogButtons = {
Read moreA CloudFormation recipe for scheduling Lambda functions with 1-minute frequency
Among the plethora of tools which Amazon has given us there’s AWS CloudFormation. IMO, this proves that AWS is (still) in a class of it’s own. It’s the embodiment of the “infrastructure as code” concept. And, it’s battle-tested, it works! So well, in fact, that they ElasticBeanstalk right
Read moreFully dynamic JSON handling in Scala
For some time now I (badly) wanted to be able to work with JSON structures in Scala just as easily as in JavaScript (though even in JS you need some wizardry to be able to to this elegantly). I don’t particularly like Json4s since I feel that it’s
Read moreUniversal getter for plain JS objects.
Many times in JavaScript we have to reach deep into objects to access fields that could possibly not be there at all; for example let’s assume I have a JS object called options into which I’ve just read an entire JSON configuration file. Trying to access a field
Read moreVisualizing Git diffs in Meld.
Here’s a quick way of configuring your (Linux-based) Git installation to use the excellent Meld program by default for displaying/editing the outputs of the git diff and git merge commands (e.g. git diff «filename»). Install Meld …if you haven’t already (note that we assume Git to be present):
Read moreLuca
Again, I have to break the tradition to only post programming-related articles. This is because on the September 22nd 2012, this guy said hello. I know I was a bit late in letting him say say “Hi!” on the web too, but daddy’s been really busy and he
Read moreQuickly filtering large lists of texts.
Recently, I had to make a mock-up of a filtering function (something I need for a project I work on) so I can show-case it around. And since this mock-up seems to impress some people, I decided to share this function with everybody so others may enjoy the
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