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.
"I didn’t quite make 500 pages a day, but, in these last two years, I’ve read over 400 books, cover to cover. That decision to start reading was one of the most important decisions in my life."
"The core goal of 30 seconds of code is to provide a quality resource for beginner and advanced JavaScript developers alike.
We want to help improve the JavaScript ecosystem, by lowering the barrier of entry for newcomers and help seasoned veterans pick up new tricks and remember old ones.
In order to achieve this, we have collected hundreds of snippets that can be of use in a wide range of situations."
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.
Google Glass lives—and it’s getting smarter.
On Tuesday, Israeli software company Plataine demonstrated a new app for the face-mounted gadget.
Aimed at manufacturing workers, it understands spoken language and offers verbal responses. Think of an Amazon Alexa for the factory floor.
Estimating project costs is hard. Do a project based bid… uf, it’s prone to your own optimism bias and you end up over a barrel. […]
In either situation, the likelihood that important features get cut to limit scope is high and ultimately the product suffers.
That’s why I’m proposing a third option: if-statements should cost $10,000 each.
"Today, I believe we’ve reached a critical tipping point, and that powerful change for the better is possible — and necessary.
This is why I have, over recent years, been working with a few people at MIT and elsewhere to develop Solid, an open-source project to restore the power and agency of individuals on the web."
"A few weeks ago I was looking at some of the performance metrics for my site. Specifically, I wanted to see how I was doing on our newest metric, first input delay (FID). […]
To my surprise, my site’s FID was 254ms at the 99th percentile. And while that’s not terrible, the perfectionist in me just couldn’t let that slide. I had to fix it!"
If you think flying from A to B is a matter of plotting the most direct path between two places, think again.
Security and political issues determine flight paths, and ticket prices far more than considerations about an airline’s carbon footprint
It's been a week that Mailchimp has launched its new branding style. Now that dust is settled, we can have a new fresh look at it. What do you think?
Trix, an open-source project from Basecamp, is a wysiwyg web editor for writing messages, comments, articles, and lists inside web pages.
Chrome has recently introduced some new "features", that many have seen as an improper way to bypass people's privacy. Here an explanation of why this is not OK. (FIY: after the protests, Google has already decided to take a step back).
This week we moved one of our analytics workloads from Google App Engine (GAE) to the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and wanted to share our experience in simplifying a setup that syncs millions of records to BigQuery each and every day.
Dropbox migration from Python 2 to Python 3 started in 2015. This transition is now complete. Here some of their findings and their approaches to this gigantic task.
I have seen linked a lot this post, in the last days. I wasn't sure if share it or not, I have mixed feelings. It's a huge rant, and it's also -somehow- true at the same time.
But then I decided that it's just a link, so I'll leave it to you to decide if click it or not. 🙂
“I’m ashamed to admit it, but at one time in my early career, I was responsible for managing a product like a feature factory.”
There are two stories here. The first is a story about a vision of the web’s future that never quite came to fruition. The second is a story about how a collaborative effort to improve a popular standard devolved into one of the most contentious forks in the history of open-source software development.
The way we live is shaped by our infrastructure—the public spaces, building codes, and utilities that serve a city or region. It can act as the foundation for thriving communities, but it can also establish unhealthy patterns when designed poorly.
An interactive exposition of all the objects found during the excavation of the North/South metro line in Amsterdam. Hundreds of history, layered under a city.
Last spring I had again the chance to negotiate an Extreme Contract as a freelance consultant and it went amazingly fine, with a true win-win outcome for me and my customer. I really loved every bit of the story I am about to tell you and I hope it may give you some clue on how a freelance knowledge worker like me could get better deals than usual.
React Pose finally makes JavaScript animation even simpler than CSS! In this talk by its creator we'll hear about the thinking behind Pose and learn how to perform previously complicated animations in… a flash! 🙂
What if installs were so fast they could happen in the background, just by using Node?
What if working on a new project was as simple as clone and run?
What if your build tools got out of your way?
The way forward is not more pipelines. Nor is it event more bash scripts or configuration that wishes it were code. The way forward is not updated separately for each delivered application.
The way forward is to do more with code.
the higher-order component pattern that is a popular method of code reuse in many React codebases could be replaced 100% of the time with a regular component with a “render prop”…
"This blog post is dedicated to some of the past mistakes we’ve made ourselves, in hopes that you won’t also make them when the time comes."
In this post Alla Kholmatova describes how nearly a year ago at Builb they agreed on their design principles.
Ever since then, they have guided the way they work.
If you attend a conference about data visualisation in 2018 you will probably hear at least one speaker refer to William Playfair’s early line charts of prices and wages published in 1786. Failing that, you can count on someone to refer to Florence Nightingale’s rose diagram of battlefield sanitary conditions or Charles Minard’s depiction of Napoleon’s disastrous losses during the Russian campaign of 1812.
How 28 different cultures across the World have seen their myths and legends in the stars, in a visualisation that shows similarities and differences between them.
"There were some legends around the office about Shipping Guide. One of them was that it would take one workday to release a new version of it."
Luckily, this story has an happy ending.
Can you describe a situation that caused to realize you were privileged?
Patricia Aas asked many people that question now, and what she has learned is that privilege is an Unconscious Incompetence. Being privileged is a non-event.
In this talk, Patricia hopes to make you realize that we all have privilege and to start a journey through self reflection to becoming Consciously Incompetent.
Github has recently completed a milestone where they were able to drop jQuery as a dependency of the frontend code for GitHub.com.
In this post, they will explain a bit of history of how we started depending on jQuery in the first place,
how we realized when it was no longer needed, and point out that—instead of replacing it with another library or framework—we were able to achieve everything that we needed using standard browser APIs.
A short video-lesson about this such important and "widespread" (pun intended) syntactic operator.
Monument Valley is one of the most beloved mobile games all time. One of its art directors explains how each of the levels had its own special unique inspiration.
"The best analogy I had for this experience was swapping engines on the a flying plane." LOL
As a front-end developer, I’ve found that I’m often fixing one of two categories of bugs: display-related issues or unexpected application states. State machines make the second category virtually disappear.
Arrogance is a dangerous beast in product design. What does that mean in regards to UX? It means pretending to know when you don’t. Or being unwilling to question your own assumptions.
A talk on bootstrapping, growing, and adapting distributed teams. Very interesting concepts and ideas.
More and more companies are starting to experiment on how to use their React components directly in their design tools. This is one of the last examples, which pushes the boundaries of "what can be done" even more. Expect a lot of innovation in this space in the next months!
This is one of the most interesting, insightful, non-trivial articles about Design Systems that I've read in the last months. (You can also view the video of the corresponding talk here)
A great article about applications architecture (not only UI components).
I won't add much: you have to read it! 🙂
Over time, I’ve learned that getting some particular data during an initial 1:1 can be really helpful, as I can refer back to the answers as I need to give a person feedback, recognize them, and find creative ways to support them.
This puzzler says something about our culture. It says we think in terms of causes that happen before their effects. That we don’t believe in reflexive causality.
