My Basic Front-end Development Git Flow Routine

At the start of every project, most managers generally ask the same basic setup question, "how should we establish the git flow?" At most large-scale teams and companies, there is a pretty rigorous method...

https://dev.to/jameslau/my-basic-front-end-development-git-flow-routine-ol6

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#devops #git #frontend

Scrape news headlines with python in <10 lines of code

Today I'll show you a way to scrape news headlines in python in under 10 lines of code...

https://dev.to/code_jedi/scrape-news-headlines-with-python-1go6

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#python #webscraping #beginners

Linux Cheat Sheet For Beginners

If you're not using the terminal, Linux commands may appear scary at first by once you start using them you will understand them very easily On a Linux system, there are numerous commands for executing operations and procedures...

https://dev.to/suhailkakar/linux-cheat-sheet-for-beginners-5830

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#linux #security #cheatsheet

Node.js and zero servers

At Torii, we’ve been running Node.js + Serverless in production for the past 4 years. Here’s a summary of why we decided on this stack for our startup and what we’ve learned...

https://medium.com/@ketacode/node-js-and-zero-servers-b73169c54674

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#devops #serverless #nodejs

The 5 hour CDN

You can build a functional CDN on an 8-year-old laptop while you're sitting at a coffee shop. I'm going to talk about what you might come up with if you spend the next five hours building a CDN...

https://fly.io/blog/the-5-hour-content-delivery-network/

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#cdn #nginx #proxy

How to Deploy a React Application to Netlify

React is one of the most popular open-source JavaScript libraries for frontend development. Facebook released this project in 2013...

https://javanoscript.plainenglish.io/how-to-deploy-a-react-application-to-netlify

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#react #netlify #deploy

Common mistakes in microservices

There is constant pressure for any platform to use a microservices architecture, but you need to understand why you need it before you push ahead...

https://medium.com/geekculture/common-mistakes-in-microservices-fe6874f6e92

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#microservices #docker #tips

Empty npm package '-' has over 700,000 downloads — here's why

A mysterious, one-letter npm package named "-" sitting on the registry since 2020 has received over 700,000 downloads...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/empty-npm-package

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#npm #javanoscript #package

Angular is Costing Companies Billions

I’ve been a developer for over 20 years working for some of North America’s most prestigious companies. For several years now I’ve been watching the state of UI and how it’s gone from bad to worse...

https://javanoscript.plainenglish.io/enough-why-its-time-to-rip-out-angular

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#angular #framework #javanoscript

How to build your own Neural Network from scratch in Python

A beginner’s guide to understanding the inner workings of Deep Learning

https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-build-your-own-neural-network-from-scratch-in-python

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#neuralnetwork #python #ai

What's bad about Julia?

This post is about all the major disadvantages of Julia. Some of it will just be rants about things I particularly don't like - hopefully they will be informative, too.

https://viralinstruction.com/posts/badjulia/

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#julia #overview

Nim: The good, the OK, and the hard

Nim is a systems and applications programming language. Statically typed and compiled, it provides unparalleled performance in an elegant package.

https://xmonader.github.io/nim/2018/12/06/nim-good-ok-hard.html

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#nim #overview

You should turn off autofill in your password manager

Most password managers have the autofill feature enabled by default, even though it reduces the security of the stored password.

https://marektoth.com/blog/password-managers-autofill/

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#password #security

Dismissing Python Garbage Collection at Instagram

By dismissing the Python garbage collection (GC) mechanism, which reclaims memory by collecting and freeing unused data, Instagram can run…

https://instagram-engineering.com/dismissing-python-garbage-collection-at-instagram-4dca40b29172

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#python #gc #performance

Docker in Production: A History of Failure

My first encounter with docker goes back to early 2015. Docker was experimented with to find out whether it could benefit us. The experiment was quick, Docker was useless and closer to an alpha prototype than a release.

https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/01/docker-in-production-an-history-of-failure/

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#docker #production #devops

Don’t Use If-Else and Switch in JavaScript, Use Object Literals

Write better conditionals in JavaScript with object literals

https://betterprogramming.pub/dont-use-if-else-and-switch-in-javanoscript-use-object-literals-c54578566ba0

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#javanoscript #tips

Developer Links

Collections of useful links for developers.

https://devlinks.pinkjelly.org/general

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#misc

Fast Inverse Square Root — A Quake III Algorithm

In this video we will take an in depth look at the fast inverse square root and see where the mysterious number 0x5f3759df comes from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8u_k2LIZyo

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#performance #c

An Intuition for Lisp Syntax

Every lisp hacker I ever met, myself included, thought that all those brackets in Lisp were off-putting and weird. At first, of course.

https://devlinks.pinkjelly.org/general

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#lisp #extra

Ipv6 watch

It is August 2021 and the IPv6 adoption at major websites is bad... Most of those websites have the money, time and people to enable IPv6 but still they are only reachable via IPv4...

https://ipv6.watch/

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#network #ipv6 #extra

Compilers as Teachers

We like to stress that Rust takes its commitment to developer friendliness very seriously, and that the Rust compiler considers confusing error messages a bug.

https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/compilers-as-teachers/

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#rust #compiler