A CSS technique using text-shadow to create bold hover effects without causing layout jumps, with fallbacks for older browsers.
Using tmux to manage separate displays for live coding presentations, reducing stress by syncing projector and local screens.
A review of top talks from Velocity Europe 2015, focusing on the Physical Web and operations expertise in tech.
Argues against using Slack for FOSS project communication, advocating for IRC due to its open, standardized, and distributed nature.
Part 3 of a series on building Stack Overflow's tag engine, focusing on implementing complex boolean queries using bitmap indexes and compression.
Explores using Apache Kafka to create flexible, testable data pipelines, enabling multiple parallel consumers and safe experimentation.
A database professional's travelogue of speaking at SQL Server and tech conferences across Asia, Europe, and America in late 2015.
A developer builds a prototype hot loader for Angular 2, inspired by React, to update components without a full page refresh.
Explains the memory leak problem in Attached Behaviors in XAML apps and demonstrates a practical solution with code examples.
A summary of key technical takeaways from the final day of VMworld Europe 2015, covering VMware Horizon, VSAN, vSphere Replication, and VM forking.
Explores whether blockchain technology can provide resilient, robust, and scalable infrastructure for essential societal data.
A guide to using dotfiles to customize and optimize your software development tools like shells and text editors for greater productivity.
Highlights from VMworld Europe 2015 Day 3 sessions covering VMware's VDI leadership, NSX, Virtual Volumes, SDDC transformation, and PowerCLI automation.
Explains the performance benefits and key differences of Compiled Bindings in Windows 10, highlighting the default OneTime mode.
A developer shares their experience switching to Neovim, highlighting its async plugin benefits and providing basic setup instructions.
A tutorial on analyzing Seattle's Pronto CycleShare data using Python, Pandas, and the PyData stack for data science.
Analyzes the three major challenges hindering government IT: change aversion, lack of technocratic leadership, and non-scalable processes.
Explains the statistical concept of 'double robust' estimation, where using two models for outcome and exposure improves reliability.
A developer's experience purchasing and setting up the special edition Octocat Yubico U2F security key for GitHub two-factor authentication.
Announcing Hyper-h2 v1.0.0, a new Python library project providing foundational tools for building HTTP/2 implementations.
