Recently stumbled upon custom web components. Although I’m a long time developer, I did not know of their existence 🙈. They basically allow you to create your own HTML tags.

I was trying to recreate the PlayStation trophy cards, where I needed a flippable card. I know React is component-based, but I wanted to create my own component in plain JavaScript and HTML and quickly discovered that a custom web component was the way to go.

I read some documentation to get me going, and this was the result, my very own custom HTML tag:

It even supports horizontal and vertical flipping:

Or have the card show the back by default:

You can find some examples and the source on my GitHub. Feel free to fork and adjust it, but give it a ⭐️ when you do. Thanks!

According to multiple sources, almost 55% of people use the same password across multiple online services. I used to be one of them. I was fairly confident my password was too complex to be hacked… Well, guess what, I was wrong.

Fortunately my “No one can hack my password” mentality…

Like most developers, I often use Linux crontab to schedule recurring tasks, it’s easy and straightforward. Currently, I’m working on an application where users have the possibility to schedule recurring tasks themselves via a slick UI.

There are several PHP libraries that allow you to run agnostic cron jobs.

This…

Last year I gave a developer driven session about Commerce 2.x on Drupalcon Amsterdam 2019. To this day, the session is still very much applicable and could help out anyone who is in need of customizing their Commerce store. For those who missed out, just re-watch the recorded session

Or check the session slides on http://presentations.robiningelbrecht.be/drupalcon-amsterdam-2019/#/

So I’m really into gaming (obviously) and especially like the “Photo mode” a lot of games provide these days. Plenty of these in-game pictures are shared on Reddit, which is great, but I was somewhat frustrated that most of them are scattered over dozens of subs. …