This popped up on HN today, looks handy: The Connection Strings Reference. Well, I thought it might be handy, but it doesn’t seem to support PHP PDO.
Category Archives: Programming
Unicode Normalization FAQ
Some good info over in the Unicode Normalization FAQ.
Public APIs
This via r/programming today: A collective list of free APIs for use in software and web development.
Favourite papers
So there’s a list of interesting papers over here: My favorite papers. I didn’t have time to read them all so I picked The Ubiquitous B-Tree and just read that.
Useful MariaDB Queries
programming is terrible
There’s some fun stuff over here: programming is terrible.
Cross-Site Request Forgery Prevention Cheat Sheet
I happened upon Cross-Site Request Forgery Prevention Cheat Sheet in my travels.
Library Writing Realizations
Some thoughts on writing software libraries: Library Writing Realizations.
GPIO Programming: Using the sysfs Interface
Today I happened upon GPIO Programming: Using the sysfs Interface.
requestIdleCallback
See Improving responsiveness in text inputs for an explanation of how to use JavaScript requestIdleCallback for improved browser responsiveness:
let queued = false
textarea.addEventListener('input', () => {
if (!queued) {
queued = true
requestIdleCallback(() => {
updateUI(textarea.value)
queued = false
})
}
})