React, Relay and GraphQL: Under the Hood of the Times Website Redesign

The New York Times website is changing, and the technology we use to run it is changing too. As the new site rolls out over the next several months, a look under the hood will reveal a number of modern technologies designed to make the site faster and easier to use — for readers, most importantly, but also for our developers.

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Cria um avisador musical via Internet com um ESP8266

Os super económicos e versáteis ESP8266 continuam a ser um dos módulos favoritos para todo o tipo de projectos, e hoje trago-vos um que explica como construir uma coluna capaz de reproduzir musicas e/ou avisos em resposta a todo o tipo de coisas que possam acontecer, via internet.

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How to Record a Phone Call on an iPhone

So you’ve decided you need to record a phone call. Maybe you’re performing a delicate sting operation…or maybe you just want to make sure you’re getting the best customer service possible. Whatever your reasons, things are a little difficult on an iPhone.

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Using Workbox + Webpack to precache with Service Worker

Workbox is a new project from Google that makes service worker use-cases such as caching, background sync and queueing of analytics whilst offline easier to code. Note: Workbox looks like it's still in active development. API and docs can sometimes be out-of-date with recent code changes.

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VulcanJS: An Open-Source Project to “Meteorize” GraphQL

This is a guest post from Sacha Greif, co-author of Discover Meteor and creator of VulcanJS and Sidebar.

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Schedule Tasks on Linux Using Crontab

If you've got a website that's heavy on your web server, you might want to run some processes like generating thumbnails or enriching data in the background. This way it can not interfere with the user interface. Linux has a great program for this called cron.

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A Dirty Webpack Trick That Reduced Our gzipped Bundle Size by 55KB

At my day job, we’re using Webpack 2 to make our JavaScript as small as possible. Bundle splitting ensures web apps get only the code they need, individual vendor files ensure caching stays as stable as possible, dead code elimination and tree shaking make our files small.

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