Loading Web Fonts with the Web Font Loader | CSS-Tricks
Several years ago the consensus on font loading in the community was that, as a website loads, all fonts should be hidden until the correct resources have
Infrastructure
What if we got aspect-ratio sized images by doing almost nothing? | CSS-Tricks
Say you have an image you're using in an that is 800x600 pixels. Will it actually display as 800px wide on your site? It's very likely that it will not. We
The price of managed cloud services
One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good outcomes from a lift'n'shift operation. That the real value of the cloud is in managed services and new architectures, not just running the same software on rented cloud instances. It's basically the "you're holding it wrong" argument for the c...
Dodging the Vercel Storage Tax: There Are Better Open-Source Alternatives
Deploy and Test AWS Step Functions with Node.js | AppSignal Blog
Hints for Distributed Systems Design
Open Source - AWS Observability Best Practices
Why we migrated from PlanetScale to Turso.
Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3
The Tech Stack of a Solo-Developer to build a SaaS With React and AWS | Hacker Noon
Learn Enough Docker to be Useful. Part 1: The Conceptual Landscape | by Jeff Hale | Towards Data Science
Step Functions distributed map and cross account S3 access
Photo by Marcello Gennari on Unsplash
What Removing Object Properties Tells Us About JavaScript — Smashing Magazine
Removing properties from an object in JavaScript might not be the most exciting job, but there are many ways to achieve it, each revealing a fundamental aspect of how JavaScript works. Juan Diego Rodríguez explores each technique in this article.
Logging practices I follow
The forgotten mistake that killed Japan's software industry - Disrupting Japan
The Making of Close
JSON vs XML - CoRecursive Podcast
Read Jit Blog Post: NPM Audit: 5 Ways to Use it to Protect Your Code | Jit.io
How To Deploy Your Node.js App On AWS With NGINX And SSL
Building a website like it's 1999... in 2022 - localghost
ooooops I guess we’re* full-stack developers now | CSS-Tricks
Toy cars and coding: machine learning in action at DVLA
We recently held an Amazon Web Services (AWS) DeepRacer immersion day to upskill some our IT staff in machine learning. Matt Lewis tells us more about the day.
Server-Side Rendering (SSR) with Bun and React
Use web components for what they’re good at
Dave Rupert recently made a bit of a stir with his post “If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?”. I’ve been working with web components for a few years now, so I…
Improving our dead-letter queues
Lessons learnt the hard way about dead letter retention limits and alarm configuration.
How to host your side-projects for free in 2023: from Auth to Database
TL;DR In this article, we'll look at how you can host your side project for free in 2023....
RedwoodJS’ Next Epoch: All In on React Server Components
Why I Won't Use Next.js
From the perspective of web standards to concerns about increasing complexity, Kent C. Dodds shares his opinions on why he won't use Next.js.
Why I'm Using Next.js
Responding to an article sharing feedback about Next.js with my opinions.
X celebrates 60% savings from cloud exit
Musk has taken a cleaver to the costs and complexity at X. It hasn't always been pretty, but it sure has been effective, and in the process, he's proven his detractors wrong time and again. Not only has the site stayed up, despite hysteric proclamations that it would crater soon after his personnel changes, but X has been able to incre...