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10 reasons why Unpoly may be a better choice than htmx | Matteo Contrini

htmx and Unpoly are JavaScript libraries that add interactivity to multi-page applications (MPA). Here’s why Unpoly might be better choice.
Saved on: 2023-12-27

Architetture dimenticate: la stazione di servizio AGIP che sembra una navic

Sono i primi anni Cinquanta quando Enrico Mattei, fondatore di Eni, incarica l’architetto Mario Bacciocchi di ideare una serie di edifici per la neo-azienda multinazionale. A Milano conserviamo ancora un ricordo meraviglioso di quel periodo, e si trova proprio in viale Certosa.
Tags: #art
Saved on: 2023-12-27

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. So, I got curious, started reading about them, and wanted to see if I could reason about them from the first principles. Writing one from the ground up with nothing but Go’s standard library seemed like a good idea.
Saved on: 2023-12-27

A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

Some of the hidden norms about Hacker News not otherwise covered in the Guidelines and the FAQ. - minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
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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…
Saved on: 2023-12-23

10 Tips For Building SSR/HDA applications

In this guide, Carson Gross provides ten practical tips to help developers transition from Single Page Applications (SPAs) to Server-Side Rendering and Hypermedia-Driven Applications, focusing on essential mindset shifts and architectural advantages.
Saved on: 2023-12-22

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](ht...
Saved on: 2023-12-22

Deep Cloning Objects in JavaScript, the Modern Way

It’s been a long time coming, but we finally now have the built-in `structuredClone` function to make deep cloning objects in JavaScript a breeze
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SMTP Smuggling - Spoofing E-Mails Worldwide

Introducing a novel technique for e-mail spoofing
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Leonardo Da Vinci’s Self-Powered Cart

A club for Meccano enthusiasts in London, holding four meetings each year and a public Meccano Show in Falconwood.
Saved on: 2023-12-22

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 tim...
Saved on: 2023-12-20

Distill — Latest articles about machine learning

Articles about Machine Learning
Saved on: 2023-12-20

The Secret Father of Modern Computing

How Ed Roberts created the personal computer industry—and then walked away
Saved on: 2023-12-19

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. So has this new world arrived with S
Tags: #aws
Saved on: 2023-12-17

Form and Matter: Hylomorphism

This essay provides an overview of the main claims and basic motivations for hylomorphism, the view that all material objects consist of both matter and form.
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Remembering things that haven't happened yet

How will I know what I need to hear in a future I can't anticipate? Who will I be, and what will she want?
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Correctly Configure (Pre) Connections – Harry Roberts – Web Performance Con

We’re probably familiar with preconnect, but are we getting it right?
Saved on: 2023-12-10

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…
Saved on: 2023-12-10

Scrambling Eggs for Spotify with Knuth's Fibonacci Hashing

In this blog post, we explore Spotify's journey from using the Fisher-Yates shuffle to a more sophisticated song shuffling algorithm that prevents clustering of tracks by the same artist. We then connect this challenge to Fibonacci hashing, and propose a novel, evenly distributed artist shuffling method.
Saved on: 2023-12-09

Christmas on the Moon

Baby, it's cold outside! Especially when you spend the holidays in a tent full of explosives.
Saved on: 2023-12-09

Pacchetto di CSS: 2023!

Il 2023 è stato un anno fantastico per CSS. Scopri quali contenuti sono arrivati quest'anno a Chrome e alla piattaforma web.
Tags: #css #webdev
Saved on: 2023-12-08

Goodbye, Clean Code

Let clean code guide you. Then let it go.
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file to life

Saved on: 2023-12-06

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.
Saved on: 2023-12-05

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 …
Saved on: 2023-12-04

Stop building databases

Join me as we take a look at common application data patterns, and how they relate to the inner-workings of databases. In this post, we discuss data caching, indexing, optimistic mutations, and recursive cache invalidation. We will see how life might be easier if we could just use a frontend optimized database like SQLSync instead.
Saved on: 2023-12-02

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.
Saved on: 2023-12-01

Generative AI for Beginners

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CSS Animations with No-Code

Convert MathML to LaTeX online with MathConvert. Free, fast, and accurate converter for mathematical equations. Perfect for students, educators, and researchers.
Saved on: 2023-11-25

A Complete Guide to CSS Grid

Our comprehensive guide to CSS grid, focusing on all the settings both for the grid parent container and the grid child elements.
Saved on: 2023-11-24

Retries – An interactive study of common retry methods – Encore Blog

Visually explore different methods of retrying requests to learn why some methods are dangerous and what the best practice is.
Saved on: 2023-11-23

An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid

CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for building layouts on the web, but like all powerful tools, there's a significant learning curve. In this tutorial, we'll build a mental model for how CSS Grid works and how we can use it effectively. I'll share the biggest 💡 lightbulb moments I've had in my own learning journey.
Tags: #css #css-grid
Saved on: 2023-11-21

Maschietti – Loris Mag

Saved on: 2023-11-21

Why I Tend Not To Use Content Negotiation

In this essay, Carson Gross explores his preference for separating JSON and hypermedia APIs instead of using content negotiation, a feature in HTTP that allows clients to request different formats (e.g., HTML, JSON). He discusses the limitations of content negotiation in APIs, especially when mixing stable, versioned JSON data APIs with dynamic, UI-driven hypermedia APIs. Carson argues that by splitting these concerns into distinct APIs, developers can better maintain stability for data APIs while allowing flexibility for hypermedia APIs to evolve with user interface needs. He also highlights the challenges content negotiation introduces to API design and scalability.
Saved on: 2023-11-20

Push Ifs Up And Fors Down

A short note on two related rules of thumb.
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HTML Web Components

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
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HTML First

Build more maintainable software, faster
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How I got here

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Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music

Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
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Cheat sheets

Download PDF cheat sheets for various software development tools, such as PHP, Symfony, Composer, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Git, and more.
Saved on: 2023-11-11

Monaspace

An innovative superfamily of fonts for code
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Sad clown paradox

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In the bad old days we had Punchcards. How did people deal with that?

In the fall of 1976 I started as a Freshman at SUNY Stony Brook intending to major in Math and Computer Science.  I took Honors Calculus I a...
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IBM Design Language – Rebus

The IBM logo is one of our most valuable corporate assets and is among the most recognized identities in the world. It's the tangible symbol of our brand.
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HTML DOM — Phuoc Nguyen

Tags: #webdev
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π in Other Universes

Everyone loves $\pi$. It’s usually the first irrational number someone encounters. $\pi$ is conceptually simple enough that it can be explained with basic geometry. A circle …
Saved on: 2023-10-30

Making Music with Google Sheets and Web MIDI API

With the help of Web MIDI API, we can use Google Sheets as a music sequencer.
Saved on: 2023-10-29

The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop

Mobile-first web designs cause significant usability issues when viewed on desktop. Content becomes overly dispersed across long scrolling pages with expansive white space and enlarged images and fonts, making it difficult for users to consume and understand the information.
Saved on: 2023-10-27

How to Study More Effectively, No Matter What You’re Trying to Learn

The memorization hacks, note-taking skills, and mandatory brain breaks that will help you better retain information.
Saved on: 2023-10-26

(11) A Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google -

John Ousterhout, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, discusses complex techniques on how to become a more confident coder. John is excited...
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The Grug Brained Developer

Tags: #programming
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Calculus Made Easy

Tags: #mathematics
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Before Computers Were Logic Diagrams and Machines

I often think about ancient civilizations. I’m sure you do too. I cogitate and ruminate on all the people who lived, loved, and died, and I’m saddened by the fact that we no longer remember their n…
Saved on: 2023-10-25

There are two sides to an interview

and you're probably worried about the wrong half
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(9) Using CSS custom properties like this is a waste - YouTube

If you're interested in checking out ICodeThis, you can find it here: https://icodethis.com/?ref=kevin and if you want to sign up for one of their premium pl...
Tags: #css
Saved on: 2023-10-23

Origins of the 3.5in Floppy Disk - YouTube

I got sucked into researching the origins of the 3.5in floppy disk after looking into one of my recent HP drives. That sent me on a long quest to better unde...
Saved on: 2023-10-23

2023-10-22 cooler screens

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Base64 Encoding, Explained

Base64 is an elegant way to convert binary data to text, making it easy to store and transport. This article covers the basics of Base64 encoding, including what it is, how it works and why it's important. It also shows how to encode and decode Base64 data in various programming languages.
Tags: #programming
Saved on: 2023-10-23

Build your own BitTorrent | CodeCrafters

Real-world proficiency projects designed for experienced engineers. Develop software craftsmanship by recreating popular devtools from scratch.
Saved on: 2023-10-19

How Disney Packed Big Emotion Into a Little Robot

Melding animation and reinforcement learning for free-ranging emotive performances
Saved on: 2023-10-11

Introducing “Database Performance at Scale”: A Free, Open Source Book

Discover new ways to optimize database performance and avoid common mistakes that impact latency and throughput.
Tags: #database
Saved on: 2023-10-06

Color for the Color-challenged

Rather than placing web folks into the bucket Developer or Designer, I think many people would find themselves somewhere in the gray zone in between, not at the extreme ends. I most certainly feel…
Saved on: 2023-10-05

fastbootstrap/atlassian-design-for-bootstrap

A beautiful Bootstrap 5 theme with Atlassian Design. - fastbootstrap/atlassian-design-for-bootstrap
Saved on: 2023-10-04

Career Advice

To my great surprise, young people now somewhat frequently contact me in order to solicit career advice.They are usually in college or highschool, and want to know what the best next steps are for a career in security or software development.This is, honestly, a really complicated question, mostl...
Saved on: 2023-10-04

How to Produce a Rich Domain Model with Active Record

You can't. It's not possible. I know that sounds like an outrageous claim given the popularity of the Active Record pattern, but it's true.
Saved on: 2023-10-04

Choose Boring Technology

How to be old, for young people.
Tags: #programming
Saved on: 2023-10-02

Goodbye integers. Hello UUIDs!

Exploring the tradeoffs of different database indexes; from sequential integers, randomly generated UUIDs, to time-based identifiers and the latest & greatest UUIDv7
Saved on: 2023-10-02

Introducing Enhance Music

Saved on: 2023-09-30

Charlie Munger: The Psychology of Human Misjudgement

'The Psychology of Human Misjudgment', a speech given by Charlie Munger in 1995, animated by Tiny and Thinko.
Tags: #videos
Saved on: 2023-09-28

Joins 13 Ways

Saved on: 2023-09-26

A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

Exploring the Applecore style
Saved on: 2023-09-25

Responsive type scales with composable CSS utilities

With the help of calc(), clamp() and CSS vars, we can create composable, responsive, and fluid type scales that smoothly adapts to viewport and container widths.
Tags: #css
Saved on: 2023-09-24

How to do a full rewrite

Fix the system, not your understanding
Saved on: 2023-09-24

SQL Join Flavors

The many faces of JOIN in SQL.
Tags: #database #sql
Saved on: 2023-09-22

screencasting.com by Aaron Francis

Learn how to create high-quality screencasts faster than ever with our courses, tools, and guides.
Saved on: 2023-09-21

Inside New Query Engine of MongoDB

Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in version 7.0. I was one of the people working on this engine during my 2 years in MongoDB and I would like to share some technical details about it. Disclaimer: Prior to writing this article, I have contacted my ex-colleagues at MongoDB to ensure that it does not conflict with their plans. They gave me the green light, provided I send them the draft before publishing, which I did. They did not have any notes on it.
Saved on: 2023-09-21

Free for Developers

Developers and Open Source authors now have a massive amount of services offering free tiers, but it can be hard to find them all to make informed decisions.
Saved on: 2023-09-18

Akiyoshi's illusion pages

Saved on: 2023-09-15

Stable Audio: Fast Timing-Conditioned Latent Audio Diffusion

Stable Audio represents the cutting-edge audio generation research by Stability AI’s generative audio research lab, Harmonai. We continue to improve our model architectures, datasets, and training procedures to improve output quality, controllability, inference speed, and output length.
Saved on: 2023-09-13

Credit card debt collection

Credit card debt is the waste stream of consumer finance. The debt collection industry ends up being sordid, for complex structural and microeconomic reasons.
Saved on: 2023-09-13

What I Have Changed My Mind About in Software Development

I really like this quote from Jeff Bezos: “Anybody who doesn’t change their mind a lot is dramatically underestimating the complexity of the world we live in.” Lately I have been thinking about wha…
Tags: #programming
Saved on: 2023-09-11
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