"The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple"
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Grady Booch,
Software engineer
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Another day in JS land, another big news! This is the time of Bun, an ambitious new project that iams to be a new all-in-one tool to bundle, transpile, install and run JavaScript & TypeScript projects. Bun is promising also for its performance characteristic and for using the Webkit Core JavaScript engine (rather than V8) while trying to be as compatible as possible with Node.js and Npm. Give it a spin if you are curious!
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As software engineers we use databases all the time, but often we don't go to deep in understanding how they really work. With this article you could appreciate some of technical details that every engineer should now about DBs like indexes and transactions. Bonus feat: all beautifully illustrated!
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ES2022 is here and it comes with some new interesting features. This page offers a great practical summary of all the new things you can now do with JavaScript by virtue of EcmaScript2022!
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There's more to scrollbars than you might expect! This article looks at some of the things we can do in 2022 to improve the scrolling experience for our users. Spoiler: finally browsers are giving us more standard access into scrollbars and customisation options, so we can stop creating custom scrollbars!
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Are you enjoying using Rust in the backend and React in the frontend? Well, if yes, this project is for you! Like create-react-app, but it also scaffolds an entire rust backend for you!
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This is a short rant on what is the promise of Serverless and how does it compare to the old days of running PHP on a shared hosting. Whether you agree with Roberto's perspective or not, it is definitely worth asking ourselves "Is technology really evolving, or are we just re-inventing the wheel in a slightly different fashion every time?"
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In this article, we’ll see how to make our sites friendly for Windows High Contrast Mode by using a good set of practices, including the media query `forced-colors` and its toolset.
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