Today I discovered a curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in.
Category Archives: Programming
Programmer cartoons
Today via here I discovered What’s your favorite “programmer” cartoon?.
Library Writing Realizations
Today I discovered Library Writing Realizations which has a bunch of things to think about when designing APIs.
Colin S. Gordon’s Electronic References
So I found a very long list of very interesting reading material over here: Colin S. Gordon’s Electronic References.
Keyset pagination
A case for keyset pagination in preference to OFFSET.
A Vim Guide for Intermediate Users
Today I ran into A Vim Guide for Intermediate Users which looked really great but I didn’t have time to take it all in.
Goto Statement Considered Harmful
So I typed this out: https://www.jj5.net/file/2020-12-20-034127/dijkstra68/goto-considered-harmful.txt
DRY is a Trade-Off
DRY is a Trade-Off makes some good points.
Retry-After
Today I learned about the Retry-After HTTP header. It was mentioned over here.
CSS Variables and How To Use Them
A quick run down on CSS Variables and How To Use Them. Note the var() function can take 2nd parameter for a default value.
:root {
--primary-color: #333;
}
div {
color: var(--primary-color, #444);
}
p {
background-color: var(--primary-color);
}
.fancy {
border-color: var(--primary-color);
}