Blog - Liam Hammett

Use Operator on Any Website

Jul 5th 2018 by Liam Hammett · 3 minute read · #typography #css

Operator is a beautiful monospaced typeface that took the world by storm as it proved that coding typefaces can be both elegant and functional.

One way it helped stand out from the crowd is how certain italic glyphs take inspiration from script typefaces, making them distinct from the ordinary characters.

Improve it again by adding coding ligatures to it with Operator Mono Lig and you’ve got one swish font to code in!

PHP Shareable Social Media Links

Jun 27th 2018 by Liam Hammett · 2 minute read · #open-source #php

I recently had the need to generate various “shareable” links to help share a particular URL to different social media platforms. The problem is that every platform requires information in a slightly different way.

Lo and behold, just a few days later, Dennis Smink shared their method of doing so in their article “Laravel Shareable Trait” that covers the few biggest platforms.

Cenafy For Bash

Mar 10th 2018 by Liam Hammett · 2 minute read · #open-source #bash

Photo of someone being Cenafied in a terminal

Based on the wonderful Chrome extension of the same name that lets you know who the champ is, this is a version for Bash that lets an unsuspecting victim who left their terminal open know about the champ via the magic of ASCII art (and even some killer singing, if they have the say command like on Mac OS).

You can install it as a command with wget:

Lua Collections

Mar 4th 2018 by Liam Hammett · 2 minute read · #open-source #lua

When working on Lua code bases, I frequently find that the code gets more difficult to read as the project gets more complex, partially due to how almost everything in Lua is an iterable table which allows for some extremely powerful functionality.

Introducing Lua Collections.

imliam/Lua-Collections

A robust Lua collection class based on Laravel collections. - imliam/Lua-Collections

github.com

PHP Function Chaining with Pipes

Feb 24th 2018 by Liam Hammett · 11 minute read · #php

Back in December 2016, freelance developer Sebastiaan Luca wrote a post on their blog inspired by an RFC proposal for PHP core about chaining functions, and here I am going to be responding to that blog post.

I highly recommend reading the aforementioned post and RFC to get an understanding of what function piping is as they do an amazing job at explaining the benefits it brings.

In short; it’s syntactic sugar to help make code more readable.

jQuery.scrollup.js Plugin

Mar 14th 2017 by Liam Hammett · 1 minute read · #javascipt #jquery #open-source

A jQuery plugin to recreate the commonly used “pull-to-refresh” found in mobile devices, but this time for the desktop browser.

Example of how scrolling up to the top of the frame refreshes the page

The “pull-to-refresh” pattern and similar variations are commonly used all over mobile devices to perform a variety of functions such as refreshing a web page, checking for new mail and loading old chat messages as you’re scrolling through, but rarely makes its way over to desktop devices for one reason or another.