Page 12 - Monthly Archives: August 2025
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Maxim Mironjuk
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August 15, 2025
Anyone who alternately reads and writes DOM properties inside a loop forces the browser into hundreds of repeated layout calculations per frame. Layout thrashing arises exactly at this point, usually unnoticed inside scroll handlers, resize listeners and animation loops, and is fully avoidable with the right batching pattern.
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Maxim Mironjuk
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August 15, 2025
Running Terraform manually from the command line stops being reliable the moment a team shares the same infrastructure. GitLab's own Terraform integration maps plan and apply as pipeline jobs, manages state centrally, and shows changes as a diff right in the merge request before anyone touches real infrastructure.
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Maxim Mironjuk
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August 15, 2025
Anyone who bolts infinite scroll, pagination and search filters together after the fact ends up fighting race conditions, duplicate requests and lost URL state. Vue.js provides composables, watchEffect and reactive query parameters, all the tools needed to connect these three mechanisms cleanly into one stable search UI from the very start.
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Maxim Mironjuk
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August 14, 2025
The minicart covers a quick glance at the cart, but the actual cart page is a separate template with its own requirements. Quantity changes without a reload, a well thought out cross-sell area, and a coupon input that communicates errors clearly often decide between an abandoned cart and a started checkout.
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Maxim Mironjuk
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August 14, 2025
TypeScript checks types by their shape, not by their name. A UserId and an OrderId look identical to the compiler as long as both are declared as string, which means they can be swapped by accident. Branded types close exactly this gap by adding a nominal distinction on top of a structural type system, with zero runtime cost.
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Maxim Mironjuk
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August 14, 2025
A visually appealing modal is only half the job. Anyone who takes WCAG 2.1 accessibility seriously has to implement focus management, correct ARIA roles and complete keyboard navigation. Alpine.js makes that possible, without jQuery and without external libraries.
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Maxim Mironjuk
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August 14, 2025
The Symfony Configuration Tree Builder is the tool a bundle uses to define which configuration is allowed, which values are mandatory and how invalid input is caught. This article walks through node types, default values, normalization and custom validation rules using a complete example.
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Maxim Mironjuk
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August 14, 2025
Slot based component APIs replace a component's root element with exactly one passed child element instead of inserting an extra DOM element. Radix popularized this approach under the name asChild, but the underlying slot component can also be built yourself in a few lines without any third party library.
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Maxim Mironjuk
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August 14, 2025
CSS revert-layer is the keyword that makes the layer-based cascade of CSS fully usable. It resets a property value to what the previous layer would have defined, without overriding specificity, without !important, and without resetting every property one by one. Combined with @layer, it forms a scalable CSS architecture with precise cascade control.
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Maxim Mironjuk
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August 13, 2025
Once more than a single IP address needs managing, for example a filesystem, a database and a service all becoming resilient together, keepalived is no longer enough. Pacemaker and Corosync together form the standard Linux cluster stack that monitors, starts and relocates arbitrary resources in a coordinated way on failure.
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