Category: <span>Tips and Tricks</span>

Musings on web, technology, worklife and more.

  • Move Homebrew to Arm Mac from an Intel Mac

    Newer MACs use an Arm chip whereas older ones use Intel. This means a new install dir for Homebrew which can really mess up your setup, especially if you used timemachine to migrate to your new machine. To fix this mess we have to uninstall Brew from old location and install into the new location. … Continued

  • Mocking @wordpress/api-fetch in Gutenberg unit tests

    Learn how to easily mock out and control `@wordpress/api-fetch` in your unit tests,

  • Mocking WP_Http in WordPress PHP Unit tests

    If you write automated tests for your PHP code (and you should try!) you’ll often find yourself needing to mock/stub calls to pieces of code that are not under test. With WordPress, our unit tests tend to be more akin to integration/functional tests where we’re testing that several pieces of interrelated code work well when … Continued

  • Deploying WordPress sites to Pressable via the command line

    Pressable is a reliable and powerful WordPress hosting solution, but it doesn’t provide SSH access. So how can we achieve robust and automated deployments that can be run from the command line?

  • Animating CSS text alignment

    This week, a colleague of mine asked whether it was possible to animate the CSS text-align property using CSS transitions. My immediate response was of course “no!”, but despite having said that I had a nagging suspicion it was in fact achievable in some (as yet unknown) way. Given that the animation was fairly critical to … Continued

  • SVG Transitions not working in IE11

    I’ve recently been working a lot with animating SVG graphics. In order to do this I’ve been using CSS3 Animations. By inlining SVGs directly in my HTML document, I simply use CSS to target SVG nodes and apply @keyframe animations as required. This technique has worked well across all my target platforms with one exception – Internet Explorer 11. … Continued