Keeping the lights on
A developer's reflection on lighting a workspace leads to a discussion on online harassment in tech and the importance of supporting diverse voices.
A developer's reflection on lighting a workspace leads to a discussion on online harassment in tech and the importance of supporting diverse voices.
Explores the critical importance of URLs for collaboration, institutional knowledge, and transparency, especially in tech and government contexts.
A personal recap of JSConf EU 2014, highlighting key talks on ServiceWorkers, community building, and JavaScript for IoT.
A developer's comparison of Java template engines, focusing on Mustache and Handlebars implementations for web views and email templates.
A guide to providing constructive and respectful feedback during code reviews, using examples from Linus Torvalds and a more positive approach.
The author argues that all websites should use HTTPS by default to protect user privacy and security, making HTTP unethical.
A developer's summary of their contributions to the Rust programming language during the IDA Summer of Code 2014, focusing on documentation and code fixes.
An introduction to Naive Bayes classifiers, focusing on their theory and application in text classification tasks like spam filtering.
Explores Naive Bayes classifiers for text classification, covering theory and applications like spam filtering and song lyric analysis.
Developer announces joining the Xamarin team to work on Xamarin.Forms, focusing on cross-platform mobile development with C#.
A tutorial on setting up Composer and PHPUnit as global commands in the Windows command shell for easier PHP development.
A guide on safely adding NOT NULL columns in PostgreSQL without downtime, by breaking the migration into multiple steps.
A guide to pushing logs directly to AWS CloudWatch using the AWS CLI plugin, eliminating the need for a daemon or intermediate files.
Critique of outdated government software procurement practices and the need to adopt modern version control and delivery methods.
Explains why simply releasing government source code isn't true open source, which requires licensing, community, and collaboration.
A collection of practical programming wisdom covering code design, testing, dependencies, and development processes for better software engineering.
A guide on using tcpdump to capture network traffic and sending the logs to AWS CloudWatch for debugging Apache server issues.
A guest post in a series exploring methods and best practices for tracking document versions within MongoDB databases.
A guide to using LLDB, the Swift REPL, and Xcode's debugging tools like breakpoints to find and fix errors in Swift code.
Analysis of JavaScript parse and execution times for jQuery across various browsers and devices, using a profiling tool released by Etsy.