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Google is a guest on the web, as we all are. Guests don't make the rules.

This Week in Business is our weekly recap column, a collection of stats and quotes from recent stories presented with a…

One afternoon in early 2017, at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., an engineer named Tommer Leyvand sat in a

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a software product in possession of a good value proposition must be used by its creator. Fair enough, but why do tech companies insist on making such a big deal about it? In this post I will focus on the general question of what dogfooding in tech accomplishes

Haters be damned - I love Tailwind CSS. Here's my take on why utility-first CSS is the way forward. Learn why I believe Tailwind improves developer productivity and happiness.

Go behind the scenes of Elixir's own PaaS

Creating a standard programming major mode presents significant challenges, with the intricate tasks of establishing proper indentation and font highlighting being among the two hardest things to get right. It's painstaking work, and it'll quickly descend into a brawl between the font lock engine and your desire for correctness. Tree-sitter makes writing many major modes a snap: here I demonstrate how to write a working indentation and font lock engine for HTML.

Welcome to “Beware of Dragons in the Dungeons,” an online book you can access through a GitHub repository. This book is a unique journey that combines the magic of fantasy with the worl…

Find ASCII characters with this free online tool. Search by character code, name, Unicode, or HTML entity. Explore different code pages and encodings.

Discover the nuances of building high-performance map visualisations in React from an experienced Leaflet developer's perspective.

With the new componentize-py project, Python can take its place as a top-tier WebAssembly language.

Increased adoption of microservices and Kubernetes has led to a boom in testing. Bruno Lopes of Kubeshop discusses this rise in testing and what it means for the developer experience.

The October TLA+ workshop still has some slots left! Register here, use the code C0MPUT3RTHINGS for 15% off. I wanted to write some stuff on TLA+ modeling...

It’s been nearly a year since it became clear Elon Musk was going to buy Twitter, and I wanted to take a second and just say thank goodness for Mastodon. I was skeptical that another Twitter-like service was something people (including me) wanted, but it turns out we very

Since my initial post on Postmarks, I made two minor changes to my bookmarking site: I edited src/pages/layouts/main.hbs to eliminate the Login link from the header and the footer I also removed th…

Musicians: Speak now or forever hold your beats.

We continue to not solve the same problems that we largely conjured out of no where.

The most important questions regarding web component accessibility

JasperFx Software has several decades worth of experience with Test Driven Development, developer focused testing, and test automation in general. We’re more than happy to engage with potenti…

Mobility tech has become inextricably linked with connectivity in ways that accelerate some of the most problematic aspects of the modern digital economy.

Alive and still quite vigorous considering its age

How I used artificial intelligence and async programming to transform interesting conversations into blog posts.