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Author Archives: Jay Jay
Fastmail status
I came across this today and thought it was a good example of a service availability reporting system: www.fastmailstatus.com.
Caching in 2021
Via Hacker News today: New HTTP standards for caching on the modern web.
136 facts every web dev should know
Today via Hacker News: 136 facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to landscape painting or nude modelling.
My fav:
Server-routed sites aren’t perfect, but there’s a lot less that can go wrong.
WinBox.js
Via r/programming today, this is great: WinBox.js.
Intelligent brute forcing
Via r/programming today: Intelligent brute forcing.
Speed matters
Today via r/programming: Speed matters. My favourite quote was from the end:
I like being able to make more things. I like being able to take on more ambitious projects. I like being good at what I do, and I like trying to get better.
Smart CSS Solutions For Common UI Challenges
This via r/programming today: Smart CSS Solutions For Common UI Challenges.
Version control feature
It’d be cool if your version control system could report through your text editor who else is working on any given file at the same time as you.
Specific vs general
So over on The Configuration Complexity Clock the author says “at a certain level of complexity, hard-coding a solution may be the least evil option.” Programmers disparagingly call it “hard-coding” but I call it “specific”. Write specific applications! Generalisations aren’t useful until you have specific uses of them.