The 20 Essential Principles of Software Development: LoD, SoC, SOLID, and Beyond.

Software design principles are the foundation of software development. As a software engineer, you can find them in your work tools, languages, frameworks, paradigms, and patterns. They are the core pillars of “good” and “readable” code. Once you understand them, you can see them everywhere.

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Webhooks suck, but here are alternatives

Webhooks are a foundational part of the web’s infrastructure. Coined in a blog post in 2007, webhooks were suggested as a simple way to consume asynchronous feeds with a protocol all web developers are familiar with — HTTP.

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The State of Generative AI, 2024

This article is a selection from The Algorithmic Bridge, an educational project to bridge the gap between AI and people. If you watch the news, it’s easy to miss the forest for the trees. The evidence is all scattered so let’s gather it in one place:

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An intro to TSConfig for JavaScript Developers

JavaScript is constantly evolving, from its roots as a simple scripting language into a robust, modern tool for building complex applications. To manage larger, complicated code bases, JavaScript developers are constantly looking for ways to improve their workflows, their code quality and productivity.

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The Serverless Illusion

Obviously, serverless technologies aren’t an illusion. They are quite real. AWS kicked off serverless in 2014 with the launch of Lambda, which remains the category-defining service to date.

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A Distributed Systems Reading List

This document contains various resources and quick definition of a lot of background information behind distributed systems. It is not complete, even though it is kinda sorta detailed.

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Building an interactive 3D event badge with React Three Fiber

In this post, we’ll look at how we made the dropping lanyard for the Vercel Ship 2024 site, diving into the inspiration, tech stack, and code behind the finished product. We’ve shared digital tickets for event attendance in the past, but this time, we wanted to take it one step further by creating a tangible experience. When Studio Basement made a video in Blender that depicted a virtual badge dropping down, we liked the idea of it so much that we started to wonder whether we could make it interactive and run it in the browser.

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