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How Stripe Designs Beautiful Websites This article goes over some tips and tricks Stripe uses when designing websites.

In The Works – Amazon Aurora Serverless I am very excited about this product; it seems perfect for hobby projects.

VS Code Can Do That?

Learn Async/Await by Example If you haven’t yet learned how to use JavaScripts async and await keywords it is worth it.

5 React 16 Features You Can’t Live Without This is a nice runthrough of some of the most important updates that came with the latest version of React.

I’ve been using Bootstrap v4 in a project I am working on for a friend.

Ten Extras for Great API Documentation Good APIs and API documentation are hard.

I worked at Interactive Intelligence before before it was acquired by Genesys and IT had put a custom lock screen image on all the Macs.

Impress Your Friends With Code Splitting in React Webpack can make code splitting very easy, and if you are building a React application with create-react-app webpack has already been setup for you.

Choosing between names and identifiers in URLs Do you use permanent ids in URLs or do you use the name of something, even though it can change?

React, Inline Functions, and Performance This is a good article to read if you have an interest in React, or if you care about application performance.

I’m currently working on an application for a friend to help him with his business.

Scaling the GitLab database GitLab makes use of PostgreSQL and started out with a single database server plus replica.

The Ten Essentials for Good API Documentation Good API documentation is something that sounds easy in theory, but is actually difficult.

On-Demand Environments With Docker and AWS ECS This is a long article, but it is a step-by-step set of instructions on how to get a docker environment running on AWS with deployments and all.

Partitioning Behavior of DynamoDB This is part 3 of a 3 part series about DynamoDB.

Making the Google Developers Documentation Style Guide Public Google has made their style guide for documentation public.

Accessibility Testing with pa11y Accessibility testing can be a painful process, and it is easy to miss things.

Understanding Failure Modes in Message and Event-based Systems Error handling is exactly a fun topic, but dealing with errors and failure modes is a necessary part of development.

I’ve used Knockout.js quite a bit, I was looking at some code and come across an interesting situation.

APIs as infrastructure: future-proofing Stripe with versioning Stripe’s main product is payment processing, something you can’t afford to break for your clients.

I ran into something today with cloud-init that lead to a bit of a deep dive and I thought I’d share what I found.

Choosing the Right Features with Kano Model The Kano Model is a tool that helps prioritize features based on how users perceive the feature.

Building A Simple AI Chatbot With Web Speech API And Node.js New services are popping up all the time, especially around AI.

This was a bit of a light week in regards to articles I found, but here is what I have.

URLs are UI The URLs for pages on your site actually do matter.

GPU.js Browsers have been pushing boundaries for a while.

MySQL Infrastructure Testing Automation at GitHub GitHub’s MySQL databases are critical to the functioning of their site and service.

What I’ve Learned Over 5 Years as a Software Developer This is a nice article going over some lessons the author has learned thus far in their career as a developer.

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Documenting Architecture Decisions Have you ever joined a new team or begun working on a new project only to have no idea why things were done the way they were?

Spellbook of Modern Web Dev This is an amazing collection of links with resources for both frontend and backend web development.

Hacker, Hack Thyself You hear a lot about security breaches in the news, and as a developer you should hope that your product is never mentioned in one.

GitHub’s CSP journey If you’re interested in web application security this is a good read.

Mavo I don’t know that Mavo is going to take off, but it is interesting.

Design Better Data Tables There are small features that can be added to tables of data that make them far easier to use.

I’ve been working on a project for a friend, making him a tool to help him manage his BigCommerce store.

A11Y Style Guide Accessibility isn’t very fun, but it is a necessary task when designing a site.

Upgrade your SSH keys!

Understanding Stacked Bar Charts: The Worst Or The Best?

Client-side DSP library utilizing the power of WebAssembly The repo has a link to a video editor the author made to show the library being used.

Article Roundup - Week of 4/10/2017 Tippy.js Decent looking tooltips in JS are a pain.

BitTorrent Sync (BT Sync) is a tool that can be used to synchronize files between devices using peer-to-peer (P2P), technology.

For the past three or four work days I have been trying to find a memory leak in a Windows Service we created that is used to synchronize data between two systems on a nightly basis.

Sending an e-mail from a workflow is ServiceNow is very easy.

I recently ran into a problem when using Record Producers.

Disclaimer: This post will have absolutely nothing to do with programming Last month I took part in an event called GORUCK Light.

If you’re working in ServiceNow, depending upon where what you need to do you may run into objects ServiceNow gives you access to but doesn’t document.

At work we came across an interesting issue when dealing with ServiceNow this week.

Last week a newletter went out that I had never heard of.