A developer shares their experience creating a game called 'Groar' for the Ludum Dare 48-hour game jam, including controls and timelapse links.
A curated list of recommended and software to avoid for various tasks, including browsers, PDF tools, and utilities.
A former Presidential Innovation Fellow shares five core principles for successful government IT projects, focusing on culture, user needs, and modern development.
Explains the importance of containers, contrasts them with VMs, and discusses their role in cloud computing and microservices, including Microsoft's new Docker support.
A developer recounts their experience participating in Ludum Dare 33, a game jam, detailing their technical challenges and tools used.
Deep dive into the technical design of Stack Overflow's Tag Engine, focusing on implementing ignored tag preferences and performance considerations.
Author announces the free release of their open-source book 'Intermediate Python', designed to guide learners after mastering the basics.
A guide to robustly copying object properties in JavaScript, handling edge cases like accessors and native properties.
An improved implementation of the weak event pattern in C# to prevent memory leaks, focusing on performance and API design.
A tutorial on using Dask for out-of-core data analysis with a large OpenStreetMap dataset, demonstrating scalable Python data manipulation.
Video presentation from JuliaCon 2015 on using Julia for data analytics and visualization, featuring a Citi Bike API analysis and the Vega.jl package.
Critique of blind review processes for tech conference talks, arguing they lead to conservative selections and overlook speaker skill.
A developer troubleshoots and fixes a Rust compiler error related to missing shared libraries by updating the system's library configuration.
Explores the 'Zen of GitHub,' a set of guiding principles that shape GitHub's engineering culture and decision-making processes.
A technical analysis of the HTML5 audio element's preload attribute, its values, and their impact on browser download behavior.
Analyzing how Modernizr's feature detection can cause performance issues by blocking the main thread and triggering costly reflows.
A developer shares their experience migrating from eumx to FastMail, covering setup, DKIM configuration, and Bitcoin payment.
Analysis of Safaricom's shift from voice and M-PESA to data as its primary revenue driver, highlighting growth, threats, and strategic opportunities.
A discussion on the challenges of sustainably funding open source software, inspired by a PyCon AU talk and the case of the Hypothesis library.
Explores upcoming web performance technologies like HTTP/2, HTTPS, and the shift away from Flash, with a timeline for adoption.
