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.
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.
A technical guide to implementing Tufte CSS-style sidenotes and marginnotes within the Pollen document publishing system.
The article details a significant performance improvement in Ansible deployments by integrating the Mitogen tool, resulting in a 4.5x speed increase.
A technical guide on scaling a Kubernetes cluster deployed on Azure Stack, covering the transition from acs-engine to aks-engine and manual scaling steps.
A developer's first impressions of Pollen, a Racket-based library for creating web books, focusing on its markup flexibility and X-expression transformations.
An introduction to graph theory using examples from Facebook, Game of Thrones, and social relationships to explain network concepts.
Explores a new feature in SQL Server 2019's SET STATISTICS IO output, revealing detailed I/O metrics for INSERT operations into target tables.
A Developer Advocate details the five-day process of creating a new tech conference talk, from procrastination to final preparation.
A blog post analyzing Cohesity's approach to secondary storage, distinguishing it from traditional backup storage and exploring its use cases.
Explores whether C# qualifies as a low-level language by porting a C++ raytracer to C# and analyzing performance, value types, and systems programming.
