Fonts are still a Helvetica of a Problem
At Canva, we’re continuously looking for ways to uplift the security of our processes, software, supply chain, and tools on our road to building the world’s most trusted platform. Canva processes millions of files across a broad range of graphics formats every day.
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Library of Juggling
What is it? The Library of Juggling is an attempt to list all of the popular (and perhaps not so popular) juggling tricks in one organized place. Despite the growing popularity of juggling, few websites are dedicated to collecting and archiving the various patterns that are being performed.
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CSS for printing to paper
At work, one of the things I do pretty often is write print generators in HTML to recreate and replace forms that the company has traditionally done handwritten on paper or in Excel.
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Blazer
Explore your data with SQL. Easily create charts and dashboards, and share them with your team. Blazer is also available as a Docker image.
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Paged.js — Made with paged.js
by Coko open source standards compliant community driven
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CodeMate
CodeMate The Revolutionary Search Engine for Developers You may want to try
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Welcome
Superset is fast, lightweight, intuitive, and loaded with options that make it easy for users of all skill sets to explore and visualize their data, from simple line charts to highly detailed geospatial charts.
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Home Screen Advantage
After weeks of confusion and intentional chaos, Apple's plan to kneecap the web has crept into view, menacing a PWApocalypse as the March 6th compliance deadline approaches for the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA).
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Narrowing types for static analysis | Jordi's Ramblings
I have spent the last year moving a few big old codebases, including Composer, to PHPStan's level 8. Here are a few lessons I think I have learned in the process. I still believe there is some truth to this, and going back and fixing things does take a conscious effort.
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(49) LARACON EU 2024 - YouTube
Amsterdam, Netherlands Muziekgebouw Feb 5-6, 2024 Laracon is an annual gathering of passionate web developers that love building software using Laravel. Whet...
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Lessons from my third year running a SaaS - Max Rozen
It all started three years ago when I shipped a minimum viable product (MVP) in a week, at least, I thought it was minimally viable. OnlineOrNot started as a toy - I had just learned how to use Next.
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Privacy Isn't Dead. Far From It. | Electronic Frontier Foundation
The fact that you’re reading this means that you probably care deeply about the issue of privacy, which warms our hearts.
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Solo dev for 15 years, I'll have a junior dev help me soon. What should he
Hi guys,
here's a little bit of context : I've coded with notepad++ or equivalents for 15 years. I've discovered PHPStorm a year ago and it changed m
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Why is Prettier rock solid?
I've always wondered why Prettier is so good. Yes, it learnt from gofmt what to do. Yes, it was announced on a real life conference, which helped get the initial momentum behind it. All that is fine, but what was a bit inexplicable to me is its quality.
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A beginner’s guide to making beautiful slides for your talks · ines.io
I’ve done quite a bit of conference speaking over the years, and I love designing slides and coming up with a new visual theme for each topic. It’s fun and keeps me motivated to put in the work and actually write my talks.
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UI = f(statesⁿ)
“UI is a function of state” is a pretty popular saying in the front-end world. In context (pun intended), that’s typically referring to application or component state. I thought I’d pull that thread a little further and explore all the states that can effect the UI layer…
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Popular git config options
As usual I got a TON of great answers and learned about a bunch of very popular git config options that I’d never heard of. I’m going to list the options, starting with (very roughly) the most popular ones. Here’s a table of contents:
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How analyzing your codebase can save you time and money
A comprehensive guide about hotspots in your codebase, cognitive complexity and avoiding disasters by being proactive. An article inspired by the book “Your Code as a Crime Scene” by Adam Tornhill with practical examples.
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Component Party
Web component JS frameworks overview by their syntax and features: Svelte 4, React, Vue 3, Angular, Lit, Vue 2, Ember Octane, Solid.js, Alpine, Svelte 5 (preview), Ember Polaris (preview), Mithril, Aurelia 2, Qwik, Marko, Aurelia 1
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Is something bugging you?
It’s pretty weird for a startup to remain in stealth for over five years.
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SSH Port
The default SSH port is 22. It is not a coincidence. This is a story of how it got that port. When I (Tatu Ylonen first published this story in April 2017, it went viral and got about 120,000 readers in three days.
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IdreesInc/Miracode
The font for those who like Monocraft but want to be able to read what they type! Follow me for updates on this and other projects!
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(Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years ru
I’ve led infrastructure at a startup for the past 4 years that has had to scale quickly. From the beginning I made some core decisions that the company has had to stick to, for better or worse, these past four years.
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One Minute Focus
Look at the dot (and breathe) for just 1 minute to improve mental focus for your next task About
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About pandoc
If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife. Pandoc can convert between the following formats: → via pdflatex, lualatex, xelatex, latexmk, tectonic, wkhtmltopdf, weasyprint, prince, pagedjs-cli, context, or pdfroff.
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The business of check cashing
Happy 2024! I had been hoping to have a year-in-review for 2023 ready by now, but a combination of illness and travel bushwacked me in January. So instead of that, we’ll go with regular programming for today and return to that later.
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httpareacodes
Things that are three digits? All images are public domain or creative commons images.
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Variable Fonts (v0.2)
⚠️ Notice: As a showcase of variable fonts, this site requires a web browser that supports OpenType font variation technology. It looks like your browser doesn’t, so please consider upgrading to one that does (the latest versions of Chrome work well, even on older operating systems).
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I looked through attacks in my access logs. Here's what I found
I've been self-hosting for over a decade. It's freeing because I own my data, and do not depend on any platform other than my cloud host, which I can easily switch off. Self-hosting gives much insight into what it takes to run a cloud service.
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Tips for optimizing integration tests
While unit tests are known for their speed compared to integration tests, the latter offer heightened confidence in the system’s functionality.
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Code of Conduct
Here is the Code of Conduct for Improbable Island. There are four rules - be kind to others, be kind to yourself, be kind to the game, and be kind to the staff.
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Python & JavaScript Libraries
Both libraries make it possible to integrate new and existing apps with Ollama in a few lines of code, and share the features and feel of the Ollama REST API. Both libraries support Ollama’s full set of features. Here are some examples in Python:
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Modernize Symfony Configs
Symfony configuration is one of the changes that are difficult to spot until they're removed in the next major version. Then you must Google the "invalid option id error message" and hope for a solution. That doesn't sound like an excellent way to spend your weekend, does it?
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Why You Want React Query
It's no secret that I ❤️ React Query for how it simplifies the way we're interacting with asynchronous state in our React applications. And I know a lot of fellow devs feel the same.
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Loadership
LoaderShip is the ultimate CSS-only loader configuration tool that allows you to effortlessly customize and generate stunning loaders for your website. Simply Copy & Paste without any installation or dependency hassle.
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Slashing Data Transfer Costs in AWS by 99% · Bits and Cloud
There are lots of ways to accidentally spend too much money on AWS, and one of the easiest ways is by carelessly transferring data. As of writing, AWS charges the following rates for data transfer: Data transfer from AWS to the public Internet ranges from $0.09/GB in us-east-1 (N. Virginia) to $0.
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git branches: intuition & reality
Hello! I’ve been working on writing a zine about git so I’ve been thinking about git branches a lot. I keep hearing from people that they find the way git branches work to be counterintuitive.
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Pines UI Library
Copy'n Paste elements that feel so right! Add a delightful user experience to your applications with these beatifully crafted elements.
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3 Signs Your Project is Becoming Legacy - Arrays Creep
In the first post, we looked at the long-term effects of our decisions. Turning a legacy project into a fresh one is a matter of the "just do it" approach. But there are 3 things we should take with care even if our project seems outside the legacy project category. First of those are arrays.
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How Google perfected the web
As the 14th season of Bravo’s Real Housewives of New York City came to a close this fall, I found myself on Reddit, reading rumors about the marriage and divorce timeline of one of the show’s stars.
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HTMX Playground
A simple code sandbox for playing around with HTMX. No setup needed! It allows you to write code in a backend-like environment, running entirely inside the browser. You can define endpoints within server.js and render your own templates.
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An app can be a home-cooked meal
Have you heard about this new app called BoopSnoop? It launched in the first week of January 2020, and almost immediately, it was downloaded by four people in three different time zones.
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Paper Sizes and Formats Explained: The Difference Between A4 and Letter
Have you ever really taken a look at the packs of computer paper you buy? Or can you automatically eye the standard paper used for letters and academic purposes? You have more than likely heard of A5 or Tabloid, but for many, the only two page sizes that really matter are A4 or Letter.
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Push Notifications - What to Push, What Not to Push, and How Often
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Building Maintainable PHP Applications: Over-engineering vs under-engineeri
Overengineering (or over-engineering) is the act of designing a product or providing a solution to a problem in an elaborate or complicated manner, where a simpler solution can be demonstrated to exist with the same efficiency and effectiveness as that of the original design.
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10 reasons why Unpoly may be a better choice than htmx | Matteo Contrini
There’s been a trend of developers discovering multi-page applications (MPA) again lately, this time with the help of some JavaScript libraries that add interactivity without having to create a single-page application (SPA).
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Architetture dimenticate: la stazione di servizio AGIP che sembra una navic
Dal 2014, il Politecnico di Milano ha lanciato l’iniziativa didattica Riformare Milano, focalizzata su progetti per aree ed edifici in stato di degrado e abbandono. Tra i vari temi, la rinascita della stazione AGIP di Bacciocchi è una delle strategie di intervento più studiate.
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Reminiscing CGI scripts
I’ve always had a thing for old-school web tech. By the time I joined the digital fray, CGI scripts were pretty much relics, but the term kept popping up in tech forums and discussions like ghosts from the past.
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A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
{"payload":{"allShortcutsEnabled":false,"fileTree":{"":{"items":[{"name":"images","path":"images","contentType":"directory"},{"name":"LICENSE","path":"LICENSE","contentType":"file"},{"name":"README.md","path":"README.md","contentType":"file"}],"totalCount":3}},"fileTreeProcessingTime":1.
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10 Things Software Developers Should Learn about Learning
Learning is necessary for software developers. Change is perpetual: New technologies are frequently invented, and old technologies are repeatedly updated.
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Hacking htmx applications
With the normal flow of frontend frameworks moving from hipster to mainstream in the coming few months, during a test, you bump into this strange application that receives HTML with `hx-` attributes in responses.
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10 Tips For Building SSR/HDA applications
Building web applications using traditional Server-Side Rendering (SSR) or, saying the same thing another way, building Hypermedia-Driven Applications (HDAs) requires a mindset shift when compared with building web applications with Single Page Application frameworks like React.
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Introducing the new Wasmer JS SDK
Dive into a world where running any WASI and WASIX package in your browser is a breeze. Whether it's Python, Bash, FFmpeg, or any package published in the registry, Wasmer Javascript SDK makes it all seamlessly possible.
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Deep Cloning Objects in JavaScript, the Modern Way
Get the latest from Builder.
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SMTP Smuggling - Spoofing E-Mails Worldwide
In the course of a research project in collaboration with the SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab, Timo Longin (@timolongin) - known for his DNS protocol attacks - discovered a novel exploitation technique for yet another Internet protocol - SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol).
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Leonardo Da Vinci’s Self-Powered Cart
In June 2016 I was asked to give a presentation and demonstration of Meccano to a class of children at Charlton Church of England Primary School in Dover, who were looking for inspiration for an in-class construction project.
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About time - how to unit test code that depends on time
Suppose that the logic of your program depends on time. That is, you need to keep track of when something in the past happened, and what time it is now, and the logic of what to do depends on how much time passed between that previous event and now.
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Distill — Latest articles about machine learning
Understanding the building blocks and design choices of graph neural networks. Benjamin Sanchez-Lengeling, Emily Reif, Adam Pearce, and Alexander B. Wiltschko
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The Secret Father of Modern Computing
In September 1974, Ed Roberts was sitting at the bank in a foreclosure meeting. His once-profitable calculator company, Micro Instrument and Telemetry Systems (MITS), had exhausted its $250,000 overdraft and was on the verge of bankruptcy. But Roberts wasn’t getting ready to shut down.
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Best TV Shows of 2023, Ranked – The Hollywood Reporter
An emotional zombie drama, a superior true-crime docuseries, a sidesplitting anti-capitalist satire and two fantastic series finales were among picks from THR's TV critics. When we look back on television in 2023, it’s almost certain to stand out as a year of transition.
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S3 Express One Zone, not quite what I hoped for — Jack Vanlightly
AWS just announced a new lower-latency S3 storage class and for those of us in the data infrastructure business, this is big news. It’s not a secret that a low-latency object storage primitive has the potential to change how we build cloud data systems forever.
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Form and Matter: Hylomorphism
Author: Jeremy W. Skrzypek Category: Metaphysics, Historical Philosophy Word Count: 999 words When I order a new dining room table and the shipment arrives at my door, I don’t yet have a dining room table. Something more must be done or added to the contents of that box to produce a table.
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Building a Better PHP Project: What Tools Should I Not Miss?
I've just been handed a PHP project that's a bit of a blank slate – no static analysis, linters, coding standards, or tests have been used so far. N
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Remembering things that haven't happened yet
Jake shows me a photograph from 2015: we’re smiling in the dim light of Back 40, an East Village restaurant.
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Correctly Configure (Pre) Connections – Harry Roberts – Web Performance Con
In the right circumstances, this simple, single line of HTML can make pages hundreds of milliseconds faster! But time and again, I see developers misconfiguring even this most basic of features. Because, as is often the case, there’s much more to this ‘basic feature’ than meets the eye.
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A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32
On the 4th of November 2010, a Qantas Airbus A380 was rocked by a catastrophic engine failure minutes after takeoff from Singapore, hurling fragments of a turbine disk through its wings and fuselage in multiple locations.
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Scrambling Eggs for Spotify with Knuth's Fibonacci Hashing
Now, at first glance, you might think, “How challenging could it be to shuffle songs in a playlist? Can we not randomly shuffle them out?” You see, that’s precisely the approach Spotify initially took. They used the Fisher–Yates shuffle to do this.
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Christmas on the Moon
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers.
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Pacchetto di CSS: 2023!
Wow! Il 2023 è stato un anno importante per CSS. Da #Interop2023 a tante nuove funzionalità nel campo CSS e UI che offrono agli sviluppatori funzionalità un tempo impensabili sulla piattaforma web.
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Goodbye, Clean Code
It was a late evening. My colleague has just checked in the code that they’ve been writing all week. We were working on a graphics editor canvas, and they implemented the ability to resize shapes like rectangles and ovals by dragging small handles at their edges.
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file to life
Welcome to File Life–a touring project and travel blog about letting go of files. Follow along as a traveling fileman wanders. As I travel, I collect files that people want to let go of.
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abracadabra: How does Shazam work?
Your phone's ability to identify any song it listens to is pure technological magic. In this article, I'll show you how one of the most popular apps, Shazam, does it.
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HTML, The Programming Language A Programming Language
HTML, the programming language, is a practical, turing-complete[1], stack-based programming language based on HTML, the markup language. It uses elements defined in HTML, the markup language, in order to do computations. HTML programs are specified in HTML, the markup language.
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EHTML
EHTML (or Extended HTML) can be described as a set of custom elements that you can place on an HTML page for different purposes and use cases. The goal of this library is to provide a convenient way to eliminate JavaScript code on the client side as much as possible for basic and routine tasks. The biggest focus of this library is to offer the easiest way to perform **AJAX** operations just by using HTML. Also EHTML treat your HTML code code not only as a markup language but also as a templating language.
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Mounting git commits as folders with NFS
Hello! The other day, I started wondering – has anyone ever made a FUSE filesystem for a git repository where all every commit is a folder? It turns out the answer is yes! There’s giblefs, GitMounter, and git9 for Plan 9.
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Let’s learn how modern JavaScript frameworks work by building one
In my day job, I work on a JavaScript framework (LWC). And although I’ve been working on it for almost three years, I still feel like a dilettante. When I read about what’s going on in the larger framework world, I often feel overwhelmed by all the things I don’t know.
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10 Dark Patterns in UX Design and How to Avoid Them
What Are Dark Patterns in User Experience? A dark pattern is a term created by designer Harry Brignull. These patterns urge or persuade the user to perform actions or accept conditions they did not intend to. Companies use them to trick users into doing things that can bring them profits.
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Stop building databases
There comes a time in every frontend engineer’s life where we realize we need to cache data from an API. It might start off benign – storing a previous page of data for that instant back button experience, implementing a bit of undo logic, or merging some state from different API requests.
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How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations
Choosing good colors for your charts is hard. This article tries to make it easier. Choosing good colors for your charts is hard. This article tries to make it easier.
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Generative AI for Beginners
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CSS Animations with No-Code
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A Complete Guide to CSS Grid
CSS Grid Layout (aka “Grid” or “CSS Grid”), is a two-dimensional grid-based layout system that, compared to any web layout system of the past, completely changes the way we design user interfaces. CSS has always been used to layout our web pages, but it’s never done a very good job of it.
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Hixie's Natural Log: Reflecting on 18 years at Google
I joined Google in October 2005, and handed in my resignation 18 years later. Last week was my last week at Google.
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Email obfuscation: What still works in 2023?
Email obfuscation is the art of keeping email addresses hidden from spam bots, but accessible to readers. HTML entities are effortless to decode. This usually happens before the harvester even looks at your HTML, so this technique is essentially worthless.
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Retries – An interactive study of common retry methods – Encore Blog
Requests over the network can fail. This is something we cannot avoid, and to write robust software we need to handle these failures or else they may be presented to users as errors. One of the most common techniques for handling a failed request is to retry it.
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An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid
CSS Grid is one of the most amazing parts of the CSS language. It gives us a ton of new tools we can use to create sophisticated and fluid layouts. It's also surprisingly complex. It took me quite a while to truly become comfortable with CSS Grid!
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Maschietti – Loris Mag
Maschietti entrano in casa, maschietti entrano in casa. Maschietti, e con essi entrano in casa idee da maschietti (idee grevi, riduttive, inflessibili).
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Why I Tend Not To Use Content Negotiation
I have written a lot about Hypermedia APIs vs. Data (JSON) APIs, including the differences between the two, what REST “really” means and why HATEOAS isn’t so bad as long as your API is interacting with a Hypermedia Client.
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Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols Pt 1
Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Reddit Share to Tumblr Share to Pinterest Share to Popcorn Maker Share via email Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help!
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Push Ifs Up And Fors Down
As in the example above, this often comes up with preconditions: a function might check precondition inside and “do nothing” if it doesn’t hold, or it could push the task of precondition checking to its caller, and enforce via types (or an assert) that the precondition holds.
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HTML Web Components
“Web components” sounded like the web platform’s equivalent to “React components”. JSX had <MyComponent> and now the web had <my-component>.
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HTML First
HTML First is a style of writing web software that favours using the native capabilities and languages of the browser and reducing layers of abstraction (languages and toolchains) on top of them. Modern web development has changed a lot in the last decade.
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How I got here
This post will be relatively long, and not of the technical or humorous content that I hope to write in the future, simply because the tl;dr just doesn’t cut it here.
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Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music
I'm a huge fan of navidrome, and thus spent some time reading its source code, and discussing with Deluan about its data model, making this list of weird edge-cases as we went. Take a look at MusicBrainz' database schema to have a glimpse on how to tame this madness.
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Cheat sheets
Over the years, I have created various cheat sheets for the tools related to software development, PHP, Docker, Kubernetes, and DevOps that I frequently use. I have published them here hoping that they are useful to others as well. Feel free to download them, print them, and share them with others.
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How to boss without being bossy : Hacker News
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Monaspace
Since the earliest days of the teletype machine, code has been set in monospaced type — letters, on a grid. Monaspace is a new type system that advances the state of the art for the display of code on screen.
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Sad clown paradox
I think, by the fact that you find you can get laughs when you are in school—and this is where most of the guys start, when they are growing up in the neighbourhood—they're jerking around, doing silly things, interrupting the class.
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Practical Techniques to Reduce the Harm of Active Record : ShawnMc.Cool
Data model objects such as Active Record models have many negative impacts to software. This article presents a few effective mitigation strategies to reduce the negative business impact of this approach.
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