A guide to using Sail CLI for performance profiling of WordPress sites, analyzing PHP functions, database queries, and actions/filters.
A developer shares how quitting Twitter's timeline improved their mental health and shifted their focus to client work and mentoring.
A software engineer shares their personal experience with RSI, detailing the causes, immediate fixes, and the importance of ergonomics for developers.
Explains how reflection is implemented in a new systems programming language, including type introspection and runtime type manipulation.
Explores the simplicity and benefits of using ASP.NET 6 Endpoints and vertical slice architecture over traditional MVC controllers.
Explains how to use the minus (-) sign in Git as a shortcut to refer to and switch back to the previously checked-out branch.
Author announces their new role as a Frontend Developer Advocate at Stream, sharing their excitement and goals for the position.
Explains how reflection works in the Hare systems programming language, including type introspection and runtime type manipulation.
A guide to automatically deleting expired Azure test resources using tagged resource groups and Azure Functions to prevent unnecessary costs.
Explains a clever CSS technique used by Facebook to conditionally toggle border-radius based on element width vs viewport width.
A guide to creating simple AWS serverless demo applications using Lambda, API Gateway, and ALB for debugging infrastructure.
A developer's experience and technical guide for migrating a static site from the Gridsome framework to the newer SvelteKit meta-framework.
A personal newsletter discussing a trail running injury, Terraform basics, and a podcast episode on cloud-native app evolution and open-source communities.
Explains how to properly handle and type error messages in TypeScript catch blocks, which default to the 'unknown' type.
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A guide to implementing a type-safe, feature-rich alternative to C#'s built-in enum, addressing its common shortcomings.
A guide to starting a quick HTTP server from the command line using Python, Ruby, Node, and PHP as alternatives to the VSCode liveserver extension.
Explores how the CSS prefers-color-scheme media query prioritizes app-level theme settings over OS-level preferences, with practical testing examples.
A summary of key papers and talks from the RecSys 2021 conference, focusing on collaborative filtering, model comparisons, and deployment strategies.
An introduction to Fisher Information, a statistical concept that quantifies how much information data samples contain about unknown distribution parameters.
