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scottkennedy.us
Why I left Google: work-life balance
scottkennedy.us
3 min read · May 10th · 2022-05-04 A few months ago, I quit my job at Google after 10 years to join a 40 person startup (Replit). At the time, I had a hard time expressing why I needed to make the change, even though I knew…
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lethain.com
Moving the finish line.
lethain.com
2 min read · May 17th · When I was a young boy, a cousin gifted me a copy of Steely Dan’s greatest hits. In that era of CDs and 56k baud modems, I didn’t have much new music to play, and over the summer I listened to that CD…
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medium.com
Airbnb’s Microservices Architecture Journey To Quality Engineering
medium.com
1 min read · May 14th · Actionable learnings for building microservices.
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copyconstruct.medium.com
Why Success Is Often Elusive at the Highest Echelons
copyconstruct.medium.com
8 min read · Apr 25th · During recent discussions with friends, one common theme that crops up very frequently is how success has remained rather elusive to recent…
rosenzweig.io
The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug
rosenzweig.io
8 min read · May 13th · 13 May 2022In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture, AGX, rumoured to be derived from Imagination’s PowerVR series. Since then, we’ve been reverse-engineering AGX and building…
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christine.website
I Miss Heroku's DevEx
christine.website
4 min read · May 12th · A 7 minute read. If you've never really experienced it before, it's gonna sound really weird. Basically the main way that Heroku worked is that they would set up a git remote for each "app" it hosted.…
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williamkennedy.ninja
In Defence of the Single Page Application
williamkennedy.ninja
May 4th · My argument for why we need the Single Page Applications(sarcasm inside)
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michaelsalim.co.uk
Rust from 0 to 80% for JavaScript Developers
michaelsalim.co.uk
5 min read · May 1st · Learn Rust to 80% in 5 minutes by leveraging your existing JavaScript knowledge. In this article, I list a number of differences Rust has compared to JS that is crucial to understanding it.
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Smashing Magazine 🇺🇦
Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache — Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine 🇺🇦
~13 min read · May 9th · At the end of 2021, the Chrome team shipped some functionality that has the ability to make or break sites meeting the Core Web Vitals. So, let’s learn a little bit more about the Back/Forward Cache…
timescale.com
Time-series compression algorithms, explained
timescale.com
~12 min read · May 15th · Delta-delta encoding, Simple-8b, XOR-based compression, and more - these algorithms aren't magic, but combined they can save over 90% of storage costs and speed up queries. Here’s how they work.
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The New Stack
Why Developers Should Experiment with the Fediverse
The New Stack
5 min read · May 12th · The fediverse may represent the future of social media, so developers take note. It's time to experiment with the platform and its protocols.
anaconda.com
New from Anaconda: Python in the Browser
anaconda.com
3 min read · May 1st · pyscript.net Supporting open source and creating tools that enable people to do more with less are why I joined Anaconda almost eight years ago. Today, at PyCon US 2022, I'm happy to unveil a new…
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mzrn.sh
Starting a blank Jekyll site with Tailwind CSS in 2022
mzrn.sh
4 min read · Apr 30th · Most websites I build start off as a blank Jekyll site with Tailwind CSS on top.
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levelup.gitconnected.com
Changing Async/Await to Promises.all to Speed Up API Calls in Node.JS
levelup.gitconnected.com
5 min read · May 4th · How we converted Async/await to Promises.all in Nodejs which reduced the processing time from 50+ secs to less than 5 secs
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podcast.20minjs.com
Episode 9 - Front-end testing with Lucas da Costa
podcast.20minjs.com
20+ min read · May 11th · In this episode Lucas and I talk about front-end testing. What is testing, what type of tests are there and what kind of tools do front-end developers have to tackle these tasks. Those are all…
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medium.com
Cleaner Codes — React Subcomponents
medium.com
5 min read · May 4th · Let’s say you want to create a card. That card has a header, body, and a footer. The component’s structure will be as such:
jlottosen.wordpress.com
Low-code – the Bigger Picture
jlottosen.wordpress.com
1 min read · May 4th · It’s all about the visualization and abstraction of something that previously took coding in IDEs, tinkering in Excel sheets, and similarly skilled IT labor. It’s really nothing new in …
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pitayan.com
What do these console.log print out?
pitayan.com
4 min read · May 3rd · A small tech workshop of testing your Javascript knowledge.
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Kevin Kelly
103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
Kevin Kelly
Apr 29th · Today is my birthday. I turn 70. I've learned a few things so far that might be helpful to others. For the past few years, I've jotted down bits of unsolicited advice each year and much to my surprise I
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First Round
Ditch Your To-Do List and Use These Docs To Make More Impact
First Round
20+ min read · Apr 19th · After tackling startup challenges from Stripe Press to Figma Education, Brie Wolfson shares her personal collection of templates — the docs that she's used to stay focused on the work that matters and…
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ciechanow.ski
Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski
ciechanow.ski
20+ min read · May 4th · Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.
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Smashing Magazine 🇺🇦
What If Our Sliders Actually Slid? — Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine 🇺🇦
~12 min read · Apr 25th · In this article, Jhey Tompkins explores one of GreenSocks’ newest plugins alongside React to create an impractical whimsical spin on a well-known native element: ``.
ishadeed.com
Learn CSS Subgrid
ishadeed.com
9 min read · May 6th · A deep-dive into the new CSS subgrid feature with real-life examples and use-cases.
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Chrome Developers
Building a dialog component
Chrome Developers
20+ min read · Apr 14th · A foundational overview of how to build color-adaptive, responsive, and accessible mini and mega modals with the <dialog> element.In this post I want to share my thoughts on how to build color…
First Round
From Early Employee to Technical Founder: Essential Career Lessons for Engineers
First Round
20+ min read · May 3rd · From early employee to technical founder: Amber Feng shares essential lessons for engineers up and down the org chart, drawing from her 8-year career at Stripe and becoming a technical founder of…
codersblock.com
Deep Dive into Text Wrapping and Word Breaking
codersblock.com
10 min read · May 4th · Let’s talk about the various ways we can control how text wraps (or doesn’t wrap) on a web page. CSS gives us a lot of tools to make sure our text flows the way...
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freeCodeCamp.org
How to Create a Habit System and Stay Motivated as a Developer
freeCodeCamp.org
7 min read · Apr 29th · Do you ever find it challenging to work on your project, side hustle, or even your hobby? Have you ever had those moments where nothing feels exciting? You lay in bed thinking – is it me, or is my…
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Kevin Kelly
103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
Kevin Kelly
Apr 29th · Today is my birthday. I turn 70. I've learned a few things so far that might be helpful to others. For the past few years, I've jotted down bits of unsolicited advice each year and much to my surprise I
Shared by 2087, including Austin Kleon, Joanna (J.F.) Penn, 🐝 johnmu.xml (personal) 🐝, Alex Tabarrok, Alan See, @Richi 🤓 Jennings, Craig Mod, Lenore Skenazy, Casey Newton, Tim Ferriss, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #Metaverse #Freedom, David Wallace-Wells, Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦, Chris Heilmann, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Cory Doctorow, Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️, Brent Beshore, Ser Jeff Garzik
OpenAI
DALL·E 2
OpenAI
1 min read · Apr 6th · DALL·E 2 is a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.
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UX Collective
Design Better Forms
UX Collective
5 min read · From 2016 · Common mistakes designers make and how to fix them
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First Round
Ditch Your To-Do List and Use These Docs To Make More Impact
First Round
20+ min read · Apr 19th · After tackling startup challenges from Stripe Press to Figma Education, Brie Wolfson shares her personal collection of templates — the docs that she's used to stay focused on the work that matters and…
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Bloomberg Graphics
What Is Code?
Bloomberg Graphics
From 2016 · If you’re not a professional programmer but you’ve ever used a computer, this article is for you – seriously. You will learn what code is, what software is, how apps get written, and what different programming languages do and why they matter. Plus you’ll get details about other technical issues. Along the way, Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Paul Ford explains the culture and some of the psychology of programming. This delightfully animated article is essential for anyone not in the programming field who uses computers. getAbstract recommends it to everyone interested in learning more about programming, its culture and its principles.
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WIRED
The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding
WIRED
4 min read · From 2017 · What if we regarded code not as a high-stakes, sexy affair, but the equivalent of skilled work at a Chrysler plant?
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CSS-Tricks
A Complete Guide to Flexbox
CSS-Tricks
From 2015 · Our comprehensive guide to CSS flexbox layout. This complete guide explains everything about flexbox, focusing on all the different possible properties for the parent element (the flex container) and the child elements (the flex items). It also includes history, demos, patterns, and a browser support chart.
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copilot.github.com
GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer
copilot.github.com
9 min read · 2021-06-29 · GitHub Copilot works alongside you directly in your editor, suggesting whole lines or entire functions for you.
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ciechanow.ski
Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski
ciechanow.ski
20+ min read · May 4th · Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.
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