A developer shares lessons learned while building a personal blog, covering custom domains, mobile optimization, and Jekyll setup.
Two tech talks from ConFoo Montreal: one on application request throttling strategies and another on the microservices architecture of JetBrains Rider IDE.
A technical tutorial on creating animated cartograms in R to visualize global population growth and distribution from 1800 to 2100.
A developer shares three key reasons why he finds building products for other developers personally rewarding and a lifelong career focus.
A workshop tutorial on using Pangeo tools and Met Office weather data for business decision-making, like a ferry schedule.
Explains why Unicode strings like 'Zoë' may not match due to different normalization forms, and why developers need to normalize Unicode.
Announcing the stable release of sway 1.0, an i3-compatible Wayland desktop for Linux and FreeBSD, representing a major overhaul.
Explains the risks of inconsistent package lockfiles in npm/Yarn and how to enforce strict dependency installation using `npm ci` or `--frozen-lockfile`.
A technical guide demonstrating how to use the HTTPie command-line tool to produce and consume messages via the Confluent Kafka REST Proxy.
Using Azure Cognitive Services and Logic Apps to automatically tag and enrich images stored in SharePoint with metadata.
A guide to creating effective performance budgets for web development, focusing on concrete metrics and team integration.
A technical guide on calculating landscape metrics in R using spatial data and buffers around sampling points for ecological analysis.
Analysis of a Chrome/Windows exploit chain, explaining why Windows 10 mitigations make it harder to exploit than on Windows 7.
Explains how to prevent accidentally publishing secrets like API keys to the npm registry, covering .npmignore, package.json files, and dry-run.
A guide on using Azure PowerShell to deploy VMs from Marketplace and custom images, covering key commands and resource group creation.
A technical guide to implementing Tufte CSS-style sidenotes and marginnotes within the Pollen document publishing system.
Explores the minimalist, engineering-focused design philosophy behind Sourcehut's web interface, contrasting it with platforms like GitHub.
A technical analysis verifying a statistical calculation from an XKCD comic, involving normal distribution probabilities and R code.
The article details a significant performance improvement in Ansible deployments by integrating the Mitogen tool, resulting in a 4.5x speed increase.
A developer's first impressions of Pollen, a Racket-based library for creating web books, focusing on its markup flexibility and X-expression transformations.
