"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons"
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R. Buckminster Fuller,
Inventor and Author
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Best 7 links of week #8, 2022
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A small fun app to test your CSS knowledge. Find the correct CSS selectors for the 10 puzzles as fast as possible.
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If you have managed to avoid JavaScript in the last 10 years, well, first of all well done to you, but secondly, you can now have a quick summary of all the most interesting new-ish features! The best part is that these features do not require polyfills or a transpiler!
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Node JavaScript is a great way to write server-side code. This article shows how to write your own APIs and tools using Node and it highlights some of the differences between the two runtimes.
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Let's face it. Even the most skilled and experienced engineers get stuck. So what can you do when you get stuck? This article presents ten mental models that you can use to get unstuck, deepen your understanding of problems, and see them from new angles.
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How Twitter moved from a home grown logging platform to the commercially available Splunk and the challenges we’ve encountered along the way.
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How do you build a modern JavaScript compiler from scratch? In this post, we'll rebuild the first piece of a compiler: the tokenizer.
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Markdown in all its flavors, interpretations, and forks won’t go away. However, it’s important to look at emerging content formats that try to encompass modern needs. In this article, Knut shares his advice against Markdown by looking back on why it was introduced in the first place, and what are some of the alternatives you can use today.
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