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I think the folks building Tailwind are talented and nice people. But at a pure technical level, I simply don't like Tailwind. Whoever it was built for, it was not built for me.

Performance clearly matters to users. For example, the most common software update on the AppStore is "Bug fixes and performance enhancements." Now that Moore's Law has ended, programmers have to work hard to get high performance for their applications. But why is performance hard to deliver? I will first explain why current approaches to evaluating and optimizing performance don't work, especially on modern hardware and for modern applications. I then present two systems that address these challenges. Stabilizer is a tool that enables statistically sound performance evaluation, making it p...

Blog post: https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/shapes-ics JavaScript has definitely been among the most influential technologies for almost a decade now. A lot of this is due to the sophisticated JavaScript VMs in modern browsers, Node.js and Electron. In this talk we’re going to explore important ingredients of these modern JavaScript VMs, specifically how ChakraCore, the engine that powers Microsoft Edge, and V8, the engine that powers Google Chrome, compare to each other for certain key features. OMG JSConf EU is coming back in 2019 https://2019.jsconf.eu/

Thanks to Streamacon for filming! Source code from the presentation can be found here: https://github.com/adamwathan/laracon2017

Lexical Scanning in Go, a talk by Rob Pike at Google Technology User Group given on Tuesday, 30 August 2011. The slides: http://rspace.googlecode.com/hg/slid...

Hackers pumping a crypto giveaway scam appear to have compromised the Twitter accounts of leading exchanges, individuals and at least one news org.

It might seem a reasonable question, but it makes some terrible assumptions: lines of code = effort lines of code = value all lines of c...

Redis open source project leaders Yossi Gottlieb and Oran Arga share the new community-driven governance structure for how Redis will be managed going forward.

UCSF IT staff detected a security incident that occurred in a limited part of the UCSF School of Medicine’s IT environment on June 1.

I'm making over $800 per month with my music— almost exclusively through Spotify. This up from $400 per month last year. I don't tour, I don't sell merch and I'm not on a major label. I'm just a small indie artist making music in my evenings— and Spotify is making that possible.

What to do before adopting every little trend you come across

Why Kubernetes is not part of our stack

Everything you need to know about exponential growth presented candidly by two experts on the subject. Alex Chung, Founder of GIPHY, and Paul Murphy, Partner...

In ZSH you can increase your productivity with aliases. This post explains 5 types of aliases that you should know. Boost your shell productivity now and make ZSH your own

A summary of Daniel Vassallo and Josh Pschorr Ebook. Find out about the secrets of DynamoDB, S3, EC2, Lambda and others. A Guide for AWS DevOps enthusiasts.

There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder. But there isn’t very much about how to be a good startup investor. Before going any further, I should point out that this is a...

Let clean code guide you. Then let it go.

A Cost vs Benefit Analysis

I realize everyone's twitter feed looks different. But I'll go ahead and subtweet two conversations that I see going by right now: a) How the heck did Shopify get so big this decade and b) You have to work 80 hours a week to be successful. Thread/— Tobi Lutke 🌳🌲 (@tobi) December 26, 2019

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Vikrum Nijjar joined as the first engineer at Firebase, and did whatever it took to help the company succeed: scaling out infrastructure, shipping mobile SDKs, hosting 1-1 office hours with developers and even standing in as SRE for 24x7 hour shifts... for over a year. In this interview, Vikrum tel

I’m Ryan Scherf, the founder of payment.co (@payment), an app built on top of the Stripe payment gateway for creating card-present charges. Payment is available on iOS and Android, and allows customers who have created online stores to easily collect payments in person, in the same acco...

We don’t plan to settle, and if brought into such litigation again in the future, we think we have a pretty good blueprint for how to respond.

Jonathan's talk from DevGAMM 2019.

Yet another article about the Node.js Event-Loop

NordVPN, a virtual private network provider that promises to “protect your privacy online,” has confirmed it was hacked. The admission comes following rumors that the company had been breached. It first emerged that NordVPN had an expired internal private key exposed, potentially allowing anyone to spin out their own servers imitating NordVPN. VPN providers are […]

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