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PHP Beginner

DatePeriod: The Loop You Were Hand-Rolling for Calendars

Every date in a month, every Monday for a year, billing cycles between two dates - DatePeriod iterates ranges natively, immutably and off-by-one-free.

Jan 23, 2026 2 min 671

PHP Beginner

"First Day of Next Month": PHP Date Phrases You Should Steal

strtotime and DateTime parse a small English grammar - "last day of next month", "second friday of january" - that replaces whole functions of calendar math.

Oct 30, 2024 2 min 3,136

JavaScript Beginner

"3 Days Ago" Without a Library: Intl.RelativeTimeFormat

You do not need moment.js or dayjs to print "yesterday" or "in 3 weeks". The Intl API does relative time, in the user's own language, with zero dependencies.

Jan 26, 2024 2 min 5,385

Carlo Fontanos

DatePeriod: The Loop You Were Hand-Rolling for Calendars

"First Day of Next Month": PHP Date Phrases You Should Steal

"3 Days Ago" Without a Library: Intl.RelativeTimeFormat