Today, I’m releasing a framework-agnostic, in-browser image cropper. The motivation is that I need this on a regular basis in multiple projects, across multiple frameworks and – while I’m aware of existing tools like Cropper.js and others – quite frankly, to me they seem too complex to setup especially depending on the front-end framework I’m dealing with. I needed this problem reduced to a simple JS call.
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Dynamic session cookie name in Laravel
Here’s a case that may be useful when authenticating multiple apps from a single Laravel code-base. Recently I’ve built an application API and admin UI in the same Laravel code-base. This made lots of things easier to manage, including DB-related stuff. The API is consumed by a single-page app (ReactJS) and the backend is built with Laravel Orchid. Also, it’s worth noting that the API is using Laravel Sanctum to
Continue readingDynamic custom data via OAuth with Laravel Socialite
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, is something neither easily done nor well documented and given that I’ve seen a lot of people wasting time on this, I
Continue readingLoomiere 2.0.1-beta finally out!
All right! I finally got around to releasing this code to the public. I won’t say much now (since I’m tired) but I will say that this software has been functioning in production environment for over 1 year and a half serving all the video content available on the romanian website http://peteava.ro (about 800 TB of data each month out of 14 servers). Some (old) statistics showing it’s power can be found here.
Continue readingLoomiere/Stream: Revived!
UPDATE: /1165/loomiere-2-0-1-beta-finally-out/ OK folks, things have settled down and we are good to go. After some considerations the legal concerns for Loomiere/Stream are now cleared and gone. The source is now released and will be available indefinitely. Again, this streamer (minimally customized) has already been serving all the video content at http://peteava.ro for 3 full months (for those seeking a demo). Source code: loomiere-0.2.1-tar.gz Warning: Any software downloaded from this
Continue reading@font-face for a programmer’s blog?
I’m sure that many of you are well aware of the exceptional @font-face CSS3 rule, which made life much easier for many designers, I would think. A few days ago I started wondering if it would be appropriate to use such an instrument on my blog… the site you’re on! Yoopie! And, why not!? I love the idea of making my source codes more readable by using some custom font
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