A curated list of awesome falsehoods programmers believe in. From Dates and Time to Email formats, from Names and Internationalisation to Software Engineering and Typography.
Test your skills and judge whether the dots are really in the middle of the shapes. Can you get 10 out of 10? 🙂
For most of the last century, corporations have licensed their corporate typefaces from type foundries. But there has been a growing trend among technology companies. It all started with the larger companies such as Apple, Microsoft and Nokia, but in the last decade has spread to smaller companies as well.
via Nikhil Verma
Each week, this YouTube channel covers the events that happened exactly 100 years ago: the story of World War I in realtime. Super informative and interesting.
Experiments on how to use JavaScript to control things outside of the browser. With the movement of your hands, but also with your brain.
Can we measure the repetiveness of lyrics using compression algorithms? And can we create astonishing visualisations out of the results? Ohh, yes we can!
Great (academic) post about composition/compositionality and how this relates to the software industry (and the game theory, and biology).
This open-source web app, developed by Google Chrome Labs, lets you optimize images and reduce their size dramatically. You can also edit the advanced options of various image compressors and compare the results.
Do you think the only way to use the console to debug is with console.log()? Think again: here a list of useful tips on how to use its full capabilities.
Most people are lucky if they finish a couple side projects in a year. A few years ago, Darius Kazemi released 72, averaging one every five days. In this hilarious talk, he explains how that happened.
Fatimat Gbajabiamila, who was born in Nigeria and came to the UK as a child, completed the peer-led training programme in full-stack JavaScript when she was just 22. In this interview she talks about challenging stereotypes, her love for pair programming, and why she’s committed to giving back.
It’s really helpful to respond to a person’s ineffective behavior with curiosity rather than judgment. There are always barriers. Recognizing those barriers— and viewing them as legitimate — is often the first step to breaking “lazy” behavior patterns.
“When the German authorities carefully unraveled such a sweater, the story went, they found the wool thread dotted with many knots. By marking a vertical door frame with the letters of the alphabet, spaced an inch apart, the knots could be deciphered as words by measuring the yarn along this alphabet and marking which letters the knots touched.”
This is for you, Konstantin 😉
As London-based design studio Sennep releases its new mini-golf-meets-typography game Alphaputt, we asked the creators to share eight key moments which defined the project.
The protocol that's been called HTTP-over-QUIC for quite some time has now changed name and will officially become HTTP/3.
The QUIC Working Group in the IETF works on creating the QUIC transport protocol. QUIC is a TCP replacement done over UDP. Originally, QUIC was started as an effort by Google and then more of a "HTTP/2-encrypted-over-UDP" protocol.
These giant towers use a very low-tech solution to store energy created when the sun shines or the wind blows so it can be used later.
this in JavaScript with Bind operatorDealing with this in JavaScript can be tricky.
But what if instead of fight against it we could leverage on it to achieve nice stuff like function composition with virtual methods?
This is what we are going to explore in this article about one of the potential upcoming JavaScript features: The Bind Operator.
It’s 3:10 P.M. on April 18, 2018, I’m in the Privacy International office, reading a news story on the use of facial recognition in Thailand. On April 20, at 21:10, I clicked on a CNN Money Exclusive on my phone. At 11:45 AM on May 11, 2018, I read a story on USA Today about Facebook knowing when teen users are feeling insecure.
How do I know all of this? Because I asked an advertising company called Quantcast for all of the data they have about me.
I’ve been the oldest person, or one of the oldest, at most places I’ve worked the past few years. And recently a friend talked about aging out, specifically in regards to being a woman in tech, making plans for what to do next since she knows so few older women in tech. It got me thinking a lot.
In this podcast, Ben Frain shares his thoughts on the state of being a front-end developer in 2018. There is always something to learn from Ben, so don't miss this interview.
A very interesting and detailed schema of what are the rules for "naming things" at Monzo. Definitely a lot of good suggestions and ideas.
When her old cup kept failing her, Jane Adame, whose connective-tissue condition makes her joints unstable, had to imagine there was a better way.
When BuzzFeed’s microservice ecosystem began to outgrow their existing auth patterns, they faced a common conundrum: Build or buy a solution? They chose the former—and to share it with the world.
A speculative look at where Information Architecture might be going, given machine learning and voice interfaces.
Before we begin, let me tell you a couple of things. First, a few years ago I started an agency called Ueno. Second, I’m in a wheelchair. That’s it, those are the two things you need to know before you read on.
A look at React Hooks in detail straight from Dan Abramov. What problems do they solve and what should we expect moving forward?
It’s 2018 and somehow women are still getting paid less than men, even in supposedly progressive industries like software. That’s something that shouldn’t be happening in today’s world and it’s up to us (read: men) to step up and make things right. This is my attempt to do just that.
To improve a user's experience with our docs, we must move away from starting the writing process at the end (right before launch), to having it happen in parallel to the actual software development process.
It’s 1 AM. You’re stuck thigh deep in salt marsh mud. The tide’s coming in. Your coworker comes to your rescue with a plastic pipe and slowly drags you out. You’re safe but you’re also head-to-toe, face included, covered in mud.
“The story behind my top secret coffee cup” by Peter Avritch
Perhaps surprisingly, one of the most challenging things about operating RubyGems.org is the logs. Unlike most Rails applications, RubyGems sees between 4,000 and 25,000 requests per second, all day long, every single day. As you can probably imagine, this creates… a lot of logs.
Yesterday the React team announced a new API, React Hooks. This is a very good write-up of what to expect from this this new API for React components.
PS: guess who contributed to the documentation? @elibelly!
This VSCode extension allows you to send HTTP request and view the response in Visual Studio Code directly. Quite handy!
Do you usually watch videos while working, browsing, or doing other stuff? This extension (only for Safari) allows you to play videos as picture-in-picture, and move them around the screen as you like.
The funny lightning talk that Jani Eväkallio presented at Reactivate London. Ten minutes well spent 🙂
"During the last 18 months, working on my Web site became a daunting task—be that for developing, redesigning it, writing a blog post, or making updates to my speaking and workshop pages. My then static site generator, Jekyll, is why. And a change has long been overdue…"
With the introduction of their own "Actions", GitHub introduces a whole new way of thinking about how to deal with infrastructure, events, and even hosting.
I was tasked with testing the technical limits of our node application. Specifically, we needed to know the limits of the application, whether it would crash under strain, and if so would the user experience crash gracefully or cause absolute meltdown. The answer, I heard, could be found using load testing.
The mystery of ’Oumuamua, the first interstellar object ever observed, continues to deepen. A new analysis argues that if it were a comet, it would have broken apart as it passed near the sun.
Did you know `toUpperCase` is not guaranteed to preserve `length`? Reddit discusses.
Ever since Netflix became a household name we’ve been scrolling sideways in mobile layouts. Instead of stacking everything on top of each other, horizontal scrolling containers (or lists) have become a common layout practice, as it helps reduce the vertical space of devices with smaller screens.
If there is a holy grail (or white whale) of the technology industry, especially from a management standpoint, it's the measurement of developer productivity…
When we switch on a computer, it goes through a series of steps before it is able to load the operating system.
In this post, you will see how a typical x86 processor boots.
This is a very complex and involved process.
Five of the most popular email parsers for Node.js have recently been found to be susceptible to a trivial denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
In World War II, Britain invented the electronic computer.
By the 1970s, its computing industry had collapsed—thanks to a labor shortage produced by sexism.
When we switch on a computer, it goes through a series of steps before it is able to load the operating system. This is a very complex and involved process. In this post we will see how a typical x86 processor boots.
A very interesting article about a different way to look at practises such as dev ops and design ops, and how we can analyse the topologies within our individual organisations and use this information to design solutions that suit our own specific requirements.
Bundles and asset catalogs are features of Apple’s systems every developer and app is using, even though many developers are probably not aware of their existence or how powerful they can be, especially when used together.
Chantastic talks with Sunil Pai about Facebook, Oculus, and what the future holds for the JavaScript community. They discuss Sunil’s early adventures in programming, why firebug changed everything, how he came to mad dogs models, the ways we protect ourselves from criticism, being “evil by accident”, and becoming The CSS Guy for the rest of eternity.
