Rust: Multi threading

Time to dive into multi-threading in Rust, a topic that many developers work with and something that sets Rust apart by enforcing rules to ensure memory safety in your code. A common use case for multi-threaded Rust is building web servers, where each thread can handle different requests.

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Never underestimate HTML

by Lara Aigmüller published on “HTML is easy.”, “Frontend development is easier than backend development.”, “Updating the UI should be a simple task once the backend is ready.”—these and other similar statements reached my ears time and again during my career as a web developer.

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10 Eye-Opening Books Recommended by Sam Altman

Sam Altman was fired from being the CEO of OpenAI. Whatever the reasons behind this decision and the U-turn, one thing’s for sure. Sam Altman is a bright young mind in tech and business, whose work will probably carve out the world’s future.

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Stop Using localStorage

Not crazy old, but it came out around 2009 and it was a primitive design from the jump. WebSQL aimed to be a simple SQL database interface for the web. It had some decent support but eventually faced challenges that led to depreciation.

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Exploring Generative AI

Generative AI and particularly LLMs (Large Language Models) have exploded into the public consciousness. Like many software developers I am intrigued by the possibilities, but unsure what exactly it will mean for our profession in the long run.

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How Much Architecture Modeling Should You Do? Just Enough – Part 1

By Scott Ambler, Consulting Methodologist, Ambysoft Inc. In Agile Architecture for Software Development Teams – Being Agile I argued that an important aspect of the agile architecture mindset is to model just enough.

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Three types of AI-assisted programmers

Large language models (LLM) like ChatGPT write very convincing code snippets. Early in 2023, this discovery caused a lot of premature celebration among LinkedIn influencers: no longer was there any need for seasoned developers with their gatekept expertise, fastidious attitudes, and inconveniently high salaries.

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Is Your Product Manager Hurting Platform Engineering?

Octopus Deploy sponsored this post. Octopus Deploy is under common control with TNS. Almost everyone in platform engineering agrees that you should treat the platform as a product and the developers as customers.

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A compilation of outstanding testing articles (with JavaScript)

What's special about this article?​ As a testing consultant, I read tons of testing articles throughout the years. The majority is nice-to-read, casual pieces of content which not always worth your precious time.

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Champion Building - How to successfully adopt a developer tool

So you’ve just bought a new platform tool? Maybe it’s Hashicorp Vault? Snyk? Backstage? You’re excited about all of the developer experience, security and other benefits you’re about to unleash on your company—right? But wait…

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Thinking Locally with Signals

As the creator of SolidJS, I was very influenced by React when designing the library. Despite what people might believe by looking at it, it wasn't the technology of Virtual DOM or JSX, but the principles that inspired me.

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Pyramid or Crab? Find a testing strategy that fits

Discover how to combine different testing types into a reasonable strategy that matches your project. Welcome back! The last article laid down lots of groundwork about how to approach the different testing types and what they contain, and clarified the testing type definitions.

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How to test React Hooks

The stable release of React Hooks in React v16.8.0 was met with favorable reviews from the community. Along with this stable release came the need to test React Hooks efficiently. The importance of testing in the frontend can’t be stressed enough. Every team and company employs test-driven development to instill confidence in their software. This article provides a practical guide to testing React Hooks using tools such as React Testing Library, Jest, and Enzyme.

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26 Other Web Development Terms You May Not Have Heard Of · Jens Oliver Meiert

ActionScript An object-oriented programming language developed by Macromedia (later acquired by Adobe). Though it arose as a sibling, it is now an implementation of ECMAScript, both of which were influenced by the scripting language for HyperCard, HyperTalk.

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React fights you can have with your team

There are many ways to solve problems in React, some will say too many. In a large code base it is helpful if the developers are united about the way to maintain the code base.

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The anatomy of shadcn/ui

If you were roaming around in the JavaScript ecosystem this year you might have come across this interesting UI library called shadcn/ui. Instead of being distributed as a npm package, the shadcn/ui components are delivered through a CLI that puts the source code of the components into your project itself. The creator mentions the reason for this decision in the official website for shadcn/ui,

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re-re-reselect — Simplifying React state management

Complex web applications have complex state management solutions. And managing those solutions - and especially their interactions with each other - is hard! Here at Causal, we were running into this problem more and more as our frontend grew and sources of truth proliferated.

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The Ultimate List of Software Architecture Books in 2024 📗

Software architecture is the basis for the successful development of software products. A well-designed software architecture can make a big difference in the quality of a system. It can also help to reduce the risk of errors and make it easier to add new features and functionality in the future.

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Examples of Great URL Design

URLs are universal. They work in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, cURL, wget, your iPhone, Android and even written down on sticky notes. They are the one universal syntax of the web. Don’t take that for granted. I love this reminder of the ubiquity of URLs.

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A Chain Reaction — overreacted

Right now, this information only exists on my device. But with a bit of luck, it will travel through time and space to your device, and appear on your screen. Hello, Alice!

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Prompt Engineering Guide

Prompt engineering is a relatively new discipline for developing and optimizing prompts to efficiently use language models (LMs) for a wide variety of applications and research topics.

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How to Generate Unlimited Email Addresses from a Single Gmail Account

Did you know that if you have one Gmail account, you actually have an infinite number of Gmail addresses? What you can do with this is actually pretty useful. You can achieve this with a technique called “plus addressing.”

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Engineering Leadership: Tools and Techniques for a Successful 2024

As December unfolds, many engineering leaders have been planning the work for the beginning of the new year. In this article, I prepared a list of different tools and techniques from Practical Engineering Management, that should help you succeed in your management role in the new year.

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The TSConfig Cheat Sheet

tsconfig.json scares everyone. It's a huge file with a TON of potential options. But really, there are only a few configuration options you need to care about. Let's figure them out, and cheatsheet them.

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Build Real-time Applications with the new "watch" API in Deno KV

Deno KV, our ACID-compliant key-value database built right into the runtime, was a big step towards our vision of radically simplifying cloud development by removing boilerplate and configuration.

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How to design an efficient Idempotency API

Idempotency API means that the data/ system state will be the same no matter how many times the API is successfully called with the same request body/parameter. For a well-follow-principles RESTful API, besides the POST and PATCH, all other methods are idempotent.

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Write Clean Code to Reduce Cognitive Load

Do you ever read code and find it hard to understand? You may be experiencing cognitive load! Cognitive load refers to the amount of mental effort required to complete a task.

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An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid

CSS Grid is one of the most amazing parts of the CSS language. It gives us a ton of new tools we can use to create sophisticated and fluid layouts. It's also surprisingly complex. It took me quite a while to truly become comfortable with CSS Grid!

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The View Transitions API

Animations have been a part of the web experience for a long time, but it has never been particularly easy to create an immersive experience. While we have come a long way from the days of the marquee tag and animated “under construction” GIFs, the web is still a bit behind its native peers.

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Minimalist Affordances: Making the right tradeoffs

On this page Something not working? Report broken page Usability and aesthetics usually go hand in hand. In fact, there is even what we call the “Aesthetic Usability Effect”: users perceive beautiful interfaces as easier to use and cut them more slack when it comes to minor usabiity issues.

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Using Proxy Design Pattern with React in Practice

As developers, you’ve undoubtedly encountered the term ‘Design Patterns.’ This isn’t just a word to glance over; it’s a key to unlocking a realm of coding mastery. These varied and diverse patterns serve as valuable tools in software development, enhancing code organization, maintainability, and scalability.

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What is a Staff Engineer?

While today I believe there is decent knowledge about the Engineering Manager role (hopefully, in part, thanks to this newsletter! 🙂), it doesn’t seem to be the case for the Staff Engineer role. What is a Staff Engineer?

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Agile Estimation: Techniques and Tips for Success

Agile estimation combines techniques and best practices for better project forecasting, aiding planning and decision-making. Agile estimation plays a pivotal role in Agile project management, enabling teams to gauge the effort, time, and resources necessary to accomplish their tasks.

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Why we use AWS instead of Vercel to host our Next.js app

Bottom Line Up Front: At Graphite, we moved from a simple SPA deployment to a robust containerized environment using AWS ECS, enhancing our ability to manage, deploy, and scale our Next.js application.

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TanStack Router – modern React for the rest of us

A few years ago Tanner created React Query with a simple pitch: GraphQL for the rest of us. All the affordances of Apollo GraphQL on top of your goode olde REST API. Everybody loved it. Now I think he's done it again with his TanStack Router.

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Astro 4.0

Introducing Astro 4.0! New APIs, faster builds, redesigned docs, and a unique new development tool for Astro that enhances your local dev environment in new and exciting ways. What is Astro? Astro is the web framework for building content-driven websites including blogs, marketing, and e-commerce.

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How To Share States Between React Micro-Frontends using Module-Federation?

Micro-frontends offer a ground-breaking paradigm for building scalable and maintainable web applications by breaking down the monolithic architecture into manageable, independently developed components. Building micro-frontends to speed up and scale our web development process.

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Announcing Deno Cron

Building for the web is increasingly complex. Writing modern software includes leveraging cloud infrastructure, dissecting boilerplate code, and managing intricate configurations — when developers only want to focus on writing business logic.

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20 traits of stellar leadership teams

The red thread: participation, co-creation, equality, adult-adult, accountability, consent. If you’re part of a leadership team and would like to know more about how one of my colleagues at The Ready or I can help you, definitely reach out.

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The architecture of today’s LLM applications

We want to empower you to experiment with LLM models, build your own applications, and discover untapped problem spaces. That’s why we sat down with GitHub’s Alireza Goudarzi, a senior machine learning researcher, and Albert Ziegler, a principal machine learning engineer, to discuss the emerging architecture of today’s LLMs.

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My Journey to 3x Faster Builds: Trimming Barrel File Imports

I maintain a small frontend application (4K LOC) which uses Vite as the compiler. The production build, using npm run build, was taking 26 secs on Github Actions. It seemed awfully slow for such a small application. I decided to investigate why.

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Using Mermaid + ChatGPT for Test Case generation and management

This is a brief walkthrough of how Mermaid diagramming can be used to support user journey mapping and test case generation, for your applications. As you can see there are quite a number of conditions and paths through the application, all of which could require test coverage.

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