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Lifehacker
Three Cognitive Biases We All Have (and How to Fight Them)
Lifehacker
2 min read · Sep 23rd · Everyone has these common cognitive biases—even you. · Shared by 96
davidamos.dev
Want cleaner code? Use the rule of six
davidamos.dev
~12 min read · Sep 25th · A simple and powerful framework for ironing out confusing code. · Shared by 26, including Better Programming
medium.com
Why Rust is actually good for your car.
medium.com
~17 min read · Sep 24th · An interview where we talk about how we use embedded Rust in our coming car projects. · Shared by 23
amitmerchant.com
Rest vs Spread syntax in JavaScript
amitmerchant.com
4 min read · Sep 24th · I recently wrote an article on how to conditionally spread objects in JavaScript. In that article, I mentioned that the spread operator (...) can be used to spread the properties of an object. · Shared by 66
Gawker
Why Does Adam Sandler’s 'Click' Make Men Cry?
Gawker
2 min read · Sep 22nd · It may have something to do with their dads. · Shared by 25
calibreapp.com
Total Blocking Time: A Short and Sweet Guide for Happier Users
calibreapp.com
7 min read · Sep 22nd · Any delay longer than 50 milliseconds and visitors sense that a page is unresponsive. Tracking and reducing your page’s Total Blocking Time is vital to avoiding a poor user experience. · Shared by 66
Chrome Developers
Using WebTransport
Chrome Developers
~11 min read · Sep 16th · WebTransport is an API offering low-latency, bidirectional, client-server messaging. Learn more about its use cases, and how to give feedback about the future of the implementation.Jun 8, 2020 —… · Shared by 71, including Matthew Turland
Smashing Magazine 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈
JavaScript APIs You Don’t Know About — Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈
~12 min read · Sep 14th · In this article, Juan Diego covers the least known yet extremely useful APIs, such as the Page Visibility API, Web Sharing API, Broadcast Channel API and Internationalization API. Together we will see… · Shared by 104, including David Hellmann
incoherency.co.uk
James Stanley - Nightdrive
incoherency.co.uk
6 min read · Sep 21st · Fri 16 September 2022 Tagged: software I've made a JavaScript simulation of driving at night time on the motorway. It's hard to classify what it is. It's not a video, because it's generated… · Shared by 35
abinoda.substack.com
What Makes Developers Unhappy?
abinoda.substack.com
3 min read · Sep 23rd · The key to fostering happy developers may be to focus on their unhappiness. · Shared by 158, including Nils Hitze, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
Red Hat, Inc.
Regex how-to: Quantifiers, pattern collections, and word boundaries
Red Hat, Inc.
9 min read · Sep 19th · Take the next step toward mastering regular expressions with some advanced syntax. · Shared by 54, including Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
medium.com
5 Best practices for Clean Code every Javascript developer should know
medium.com
~12 min read · Sep 15th · Do you want to be more motivated when working on your projects, impress your code reviewer and take your development to a whole other… · Shared by 62
amitmerchant.com
Conditionally spreading objects in JavaScript
amitmerchant.com
1 min read · Sep 18th · In JavaScript, if you want to populate an object with some properties from another object, you can use the spread operator (...) to do so. · Shared by 62
apollotechnical.com
Programming Routine: 10 Better Habits Web Developers Should Embrace
apollotechnical.com
~15 min read · Sep 21st · Want to code smarter? With a better programming routine and the adoption of better habits, you can improve the quality of your web development projects · Shared by 62
The New Stack
JavaScript: Build Objects and Eliminate Looping with Reduce()
The New Stack
3 min read · Sep 6th · JavaScript reduce() is great when it comes to chaining higher order functions and abstracting away the looping process. · Shared by 66
portswigger.net
The seventh way to call a JavaScript function without parentheses
portswigger.net
Sep 12th · I thought I knew all the ways to call functions without parentheses: alert`1337` throw onerror=alert,1337 Function`x${'alert\x281337\x29'}x``` 'alert\x281337\x29'instanceof{[Symbol['hasInstance']]:eva · Shared by 66
calibreapp.com
How To Improve Largest Contentful Paint for Faster Load Times
calibreapp.com
8 min read · Sep 6th · Optimising Largest Contentful Paint has an outsized impact on when most critical content appears. These four proven methods will help you find and correct performance issues holding your page back. · Shared by 68, including fantastic ms.
thisweekinreact.com
useSyncExternalStore - The underrated React API
thisweekinreact.com
9 min read · Sep 10th · You might have heard of useSyncExternalStore(), a new React 18 hook to subscribe to external data sources. It is often used internally by state management libraries - like Redux - to implement a… · Shared by 69, including Yoav Ganbar
SitePoint
A Guide to Rounding Numbers in JavaScript
SitePoint
~13 min read · Sep 14th · Learn about methods for rounding numbers in JavaScript: rounding up, rounding down, rounding to decimal places, and gotchas to avoid. · Shared by 79, including Matthew Turland
CSS-Tricks
What’s New With Forms in 2022?
CSS-Tricks
3 min read · Sep 8th · Browsers are constantly adding new HTML, JavaScript and CSS features. Here are some useful additions to working with forms that you might have missed… · Shared by 90
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typefully.com
QR codes | Dan Hollick 🇿🇦
typefully.com
2 min read · Sep 14th · Ever wondered how a QR code works? No, me neither but it's low-key fascinating. (Warning, there is some extremely nerdy shit here.👇 ) · Shared by 239, including Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Boris Périsset, Esther Schindler, Neil Lee, Mohamed Azazy, Jesús Torres 👩💻, Lisa Gualtieri, Cyril Coste #DigitalTransformation
incoherency.co.uk
James Stanley - Cheating at chess with a computer for my shoes
incoherency.co.uk
7 min read · Sep 6th · Sat 30 July 2022 Tagged: software, 3dprinting, chess, electronics I have come up with a new way to win at chess: I have connected up a Raspberry Pi Zero in my pocket to some buttons and vibration… · Shared by 211
abinoda.substack.com
What Distinguishes Great Software Engineers?
abinoda.substack.com
3 min read · Sep 2nd · Effective decision-making may be an overlooked skill for developers. · Shared by 197, including Massimiliano Aroffo, Matthew Turland
Chrome Developers
Building the main navigation for a website
Chrome Developers
20+ min read · Sep 7th · This tutorial describes how to build an accessible main navigation of a website. You learn about semantic HTML, accessibility, and how using ARIA attributes can sometimes do more harm than good.There… · Shared by 183, including Arne Keuning, Dennis Lembrée, Matthew Turland, Chris Heilmann, David Hellmann, Neil Hart 💙, Web Axe
codefol.io
The Forty-Year Programmer
codefol.io
20+ min read · Sep 2nd · Pleased to Meet You... Video version available on YouTube: In 2024, I’ll have been a programmer for 40 years. I’m not quite there yet, but I’ll get there. That’s different from making the most money… · Shared by 172, including Massimiliano Aroffo, Matthew Turland, Esther Schindler
Harry Roberts
Critical CSS? Not So Fast!
Harry Roberts
9 min read · Sep 6th · How helpful is Critical CSS? · Shared by 171, including Jitendra Vyas, Marius Bleuer, David Hellmann, Sara Soueidan
abinoda.substack.com
What Makes Developers Unhappy?
abinoda.substack.com
3 min read · Sep 23rd · The key to fostering happy developers may be to focus on their unhappiness. · Shared by 158, including Nils Hitze, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
madebyoll.in
Game Emulation via Neural Network
madebyoll.in
~14 min read · Sep 5th · I made a playable Pokémon overworld. It looks (mostly) like a normal video game, and you can try it in your web browser here: Although this looks like a video game, I did not write any game code.This… · Shared by 145, including Matthew Turland, Matt Shaffer
patrickthomson.tumblr.com
The Best Debugging Story I've Ever Heard
patrickthomson.tumblr.com
3 min read · Sep 4th · Back in the early 80's, my dad worked at Storage Technology, a now-defunct corporate entity that made tape drives and pneumatic systems to drive these tapes at high speeds – for that period of... · Shared by 140, including Matthew Turland, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
jvns.ca
Some ways to get better at debugging
jvns.ca
3 min read · Aug 31st · Hello! I’ve been working on writing a zine about debugging for a while (here’s an early draft of the table of contents). As part of that I thought it might be fun to read some academic papers about… · Shared by 140, including Mohammad Esmaeilbeygi, Tactical Tech
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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 4545, including R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #SuiteWorld #UIPathForward, Ser Jeff Garzik, Casey Newton, Alan See, Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️, Chris Heilmann, Alex Tabarrok, Axel Rauschmayer, 👨🏻💻☕️, Tim Ferriss, Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦, David Wallace-Wells, Daniel Pink, Joanna (J.F.) Penn, 🌽〈link href=//johnmu.com rel=canonical 〉🌽, Cory Doctorow, Brent Beshore, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Austin Kleon
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. · Shared by 1534, including Sam Altman, Chris Messina, Kevin Quealy, John Jantsch, Liam Bright, Semil, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Brendan Nyhan, Balaji Srinivasan, Douglas Karr, Peter van Sabben.eth, Ross Dawson, Neuroskeptic 🇺🇦, Robert Scoble, Danielle! 🌩, David McCandless, Daniel Shiffman, Bob E. Hayes, Mark Tabladillo PhD, Ilya Sutskever
ciechanow.ski
Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski
ciechanow.ski
20+ min read · May 4th · Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works. · Shared by 1507, including David Papandrew, Colin Wright, Carlos Scheidegger, Max Roser, Chris Heilmann, Eric Vitiello, Paul Graham, Nils Hitze, Nico Luchsinger, Tim Holman, tanh(mmalex) 🇺🇦, Leo Polovets, Romain Guy, Tactical Tech, Michael Bench-Capon, Craig Mod, Krzysztof Zabłocki, Esther Schindler, Oliver Reichenstein, Ben Thompson
Quanta Magazine
Computing Expert Says Programmers Need More Math
Quanta Magazine
9 min read · May 17th · Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. Now he’s working on how engineers talk to their machines. · Shared by 1397, including Ines Bieler, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Marcos, Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡, Steven Sinofsky, Christopher D. Long (Крістофер Д. Лонг), Matthew Turland
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… · Shared by 1343, including Rick Pastoor, Stephanie A Kowalski, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Bill Trenchard, Ines Bieler, 👨🏻💻☕️, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙
levelup.gitconnected.com
The Coding Tricks That Save Me Hours Of Time At Work
levelup.gitconnected.com
6 min read · May 25th · In small, but also in large increments · Shared by 1215, including Nils Hitze, Matt Shaffer, Marcos
UX Collective
Design Better Forms
UX Collective
5 min read · From 2016 · Common mistakes designers make and how to fix them · Shared by 1065, including Christoph Janz 🇺🇦🎗🕊, Nils Hitze, Chris Messina, Fabricio Teixeira, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦, Mark Kaigwa, Courtney Bolton ★, Brent Summers, Matthias Sala, Dominik Grolimund, Luca Hammer, Casey Smith, Dennis Lembrée, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Susan Weinschenk PhD, Alligator.io 🐊, Web Axe, Zain Fathoni, Parin Vachhani, Easy Chirp
javascript.plainenglish.io
My Best Tools as a Software Developer
javascript.plainenglish.io
8 min read · May 25th · The tools that I present to you here are my best tools for developers. · Shared by 1018
addyosmani.com
Software Engineering
addyosmani.com
20+ min read · Jun 15th · Today I will share some of the software engineering soft skills I have learned from my first 10 years on Google Chrome, where I am a Senior Staff Engineering... · Shared by 938, including Mathias Bynens, Jerome Cukier
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