Status update, June 2019
A developer's monthly update covering open source projects like aerc email client, RISC-V musl libc port, and tools for decentralized blogging.
A developer's monthly update covering open source projects like aerc email client, RISC-V musl libc port, and tools for decentralized blogging.
Explores the widening performance gap in mobile devices and argues for using Web Workers to handle JavaScript's blocking nature, especially for users on low-end phones.
A guide to improving Jest test clarity by refactoring assertions and using custom error messages for better debugging.
A technical guide on how to programmatically extract detailed metadata for any iOS app from the Apple App Store using its public API.
Explains the mathematical derivation of logistic regression from Bayes' theorem, connecting fundamental statistics to machine learning.
A tutorial on building an animated custom modal in React Native using the Animated API, including setup, Redux integration, and step-by-step instructions.
A developer's personal evolution from preferring the permissive MIT license to embracing the protective GPL license for open source software.
Explains how Spring's ProxyFactory and ProxyFactoryBean abstract the complexity of creating AOP proxies, covering JDK and CGLIB proxies.
Analysis reveals most popular open source projects receive donations below industry standards or poverty thresholds, questioning the fairness of the donation model.
Announcing padr v0.5.0, an R package update with new arguments for the `thicken` function to drop original datetime columns and handle tied observations.
A tutorial on integrating Web Components into React, covering props, events, and using a custom hook for seamless integration.
A guide to writing and publishing dev.to blog posts directly from Visual Studio Code using a custom extension.
Code snippets for programmatically opening the notification shade and control center on iOS and Android during UI automation testing.
A guide to refactoring JavaScript code for better performance and readability, with practical examples from real-world scenarios.
Covers best practices for migrating Microsoft SQL Server databases to AWS, including hybrid architecture and migration methods like AWS DMS.
A blog post about overcoming perfectionism in writing and the benefits of publishing work before it feels 'perfect'.
A statistical analysis discussing the limitations of confidence intervals, using examples from small-area sampling to illustrate their weak properties.
A beginner tutorial on building reusable Web Components (Custom Elements) with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, featuring a dropdown example.
Explores the trade-offs between global and scoped dependency access in Flutter, focusing on testability and using Provider for state management.
A summary of key talks from the Pixel Pioneers 2019 web development conference, covering UX, CSS animation, flexbox, and CSS Grid.