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Web3? I have my DAOts
David Letterman: I can remember a couple of months ago there was a big breakthrough announcement that on the internet, or on some computer deal, they were going to broadcast a baseball game. You could listen to a baseball game on your computer.
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on: 2021-12-07
Underrated reasons to be thankful
That our atmosphere has low enough pressure and levels of deuterium that nuclear fission in air doesn’t cause hydrogen atoms to fuse into helium, meaning that the first nuclear bomb test in 1945 didn’t in fact ignite the atmosphere and engulf the planet in flames, which was still a bit of an ope
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on: 2021-11-26
20 Things I've Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer - Simple Threa
You’re about to read a blog post with a lot of advice. Learning from those who came before us is instrumental to success, but we often forget an important caveat. Almost all advice is contextual, yet it is rarely delivered with any context.
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on: 2021-10-08
No, Utility Classes Aren't the Same As Inline Styles | frontstuff
Half a decade after the first commit of the pioneering ACSS, utility-first CSS is more popular than ever. With success comes many adepts but also a fair share of criticism. It’s a good thing: polarized opinions mean topics matter enough for people to care.
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on: 2021-06-28
The failed promise of Web Components – Lea Verou
Web Components had so much potential to empower HTML to do more, and make web development more accessible to non-programmers and easier for programmers.
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on: 2020-09-25
Google Fights Back – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
For a company famed for its engineering culture, you wouldn’t expect a video at Google’s annual I/O developer conference to have such emotional resonance. And yet, just watch (I have included the context around the video in question, which starts at the 2:33 mark):
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on: 2019-05-09
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on: 2019-05-02
It depends - BrandonSavage.net
When I was younger, I had strong opinions about many subjects. I felt I was right about a great many things, and anyone who disagreed with me was wrong. In my mind there was a right or a wrong, a black and a white, with little room for grey.
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on: 2019-02-21
Why I choose Slim Framework for my PHP web development
I’ve always been the kind of developer who wanted to have the maximum control on its application code. Of course I often found myself involved in the same tedious tasks reinventing the wheel.
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on: 2019-02-20
Moving away from magic — or: why I don’t want to use Laravel anymore
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on: 2019-02-20
HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points
Everyone is angry about CSS again. I’m not even going to try to summarize the arguments. However it always seems to boil down to the fact that CSS is simultaneously too easy to bother with, yet so hard it needs to be wrapped up in a ball of JavaScript in case it scares the horses.
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on: 2019-02-01
Google AMP Can Go To Hell | Polemic Digital
Let’s talk about Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP for short. AMP is a Google pet project that purports to be “an open-source initiative aiming to make the web better for all”.
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on: 2018-09-06
What is your take on defensive programming? How do you normally do it in PH
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on: 2018-08-07
Why punk keeps connecting people across space and time
On a cool night late in the summer of 1976, David Godlis stood on the Bowery: a desolate NYC strip synonymous with flophouses and winos who’d lived under the shadow of the Third Avenue El train for more than a century.
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on: 2018-07-18
“Just” | Brad Frost
Now there’s a damn good chance I’m actually an idiot, but the self-respecting part of me wants to challenge that notion. When I get stuck on a task or am looking for recommendations for tools/resources/strategies/solutions/whatever, I often take to Twitter to ask for help.
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on: 2018-03-29
I am a mediocre developer
I personally know some developers who are very talented and can create wonderful pieces of software with no or little struggle. Because of these gifted individuals, our industry is full of high expectations. But the sad truth is: not everyone is a ninja/guru/rockstar developer.
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on: 2018-03-18
Say goodbye to the information age: it's all about reputation now | Aeon Id
There is an underappreciated paradox of knowledge that plays a pivotal role in our advanced hyper-connected liberal democracies: the greater the amount of information that circulates, the more we rely on so-called reputational devices to evaluate it.
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on: 2018-03-14
Out to Get You
Epistemic Status: Reference. Expanded From: Against Facebook, as the post originally intended.
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on: 2017-10-11
Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets • Hillel Wayne
A while back I wrote that Robert Martin was ruining software by being too good at programming. That was supposed to be a joke. Since then he’s done his damndest to actually ruin software by telling people they’re doing it wrong.
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on: 2017-10-07