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Learning to make appropriate use of git rebase can help you ensure your git commit log makes sense and is easy to follow.

MODALZ MODALZ MODALZ Modals can be a divisive subject when building applications.

What’s a senior engineer’s job?

Kubernetes: The Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects Kubernetes is an open-source container-orchestration system and has been getting more popular in the last several years.

Inside look at modern web browser This is the first of a four-part series (all four parts are out) that provides a view into the architecture of the Chrome browser with some graphics along the way.

Understanding the Difference Between CI and CD Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment all mean different things and none of them is tied to a specific tool.

The State Of JavaScript 2018 The State of JavaScript 2018 survey is out.

Strategies for implementing user authentication in serverless applications Authentication should always involve some deep thinking, you want to get it right the first time.

Using the React DevTools Profiler to Diagnose React App Performance Issues The React DevTools received an update recently that added a new Profiler tab.

Serverless Best Practices – Paul Johnston – Medium Serverless architecture has been around for a bit now so it’s important to know the best practices.

Setting up constants via proxies This is not a long article, but it is a great example of how you can use the Proxy class in JS.

Removing Babel’s Stage Presets · Babel Babel has been making a lot of changes recently with v7.

Server-Sent Events (SSEs) allow one-way communication from the server to the client.

How we scaled nginx and saved the world 54 years every day Cloudflare handles a large chunk of internet traffic between DNS and CDN features.

Logging Activity With The Web Beacon API Sometimes your app has an error that keeps happening for the user, but you can’t figure out what is wrong.

Here’s the final nail in the coffin of open plan offices This research may “put the final nail in the coffin” for open office plans, but they’re going to be around for decades to come.

VS Code Can Do That?

The State of Developer Ecosystem 2018 JetBrains has recently released their “State of Developer Ecosystem” report.

Don’t Use The Placeholder Attribute This article makes a strong case as to why the placeholder attribute added to input elements in HTML5 should not be used.

UTC is Enough for Everyone, Right?

How Git Changed The History of Software Version Control I remember the days before Git when Subversion was the main VCS.

How to display a “new version available” of your Progressive Web App Wouldn’t it be awesome to be able to easily let your users know when a new version of your web app is available?

DRY to the point of WET yak shaving DRY is a great principle, but it is just that: a principle.

CSS Grid Builder This is a very cool tool that makes building CSS grids super easy.

In most cases, you can assume one character in a string is 1 byte, but that is only in most cases.

A Gentle Introduction to Prepack, Part 1 Prepack is a tool that optimizes JavaScript.

The Eponymous Laws of Tech This is just a fun collection of all those laws and such things you find used in tech frequently.

Testing Strategies for React and Redux Mozilla recently ported the Firefox extensions and themes website to React and Redux.

Mario Kart: CSS This is just plain cool.

A nice feature of tools like create-react-app, angular-cli, webpack, and many others is the ability to reload your application when you make a change to a source file.

Angular 6 wants to be smaller, faster and easier-to-use I recently started trying to learn Angular.

FIDO Alliance FIDO Alliance and W3C Achieve Major Standards Milestone in Global Effort Towards Simpler, Stronger Authentication on the Web For the last several years there has been a working group focused on web authentication trying to come up with a sta…

React Lifecycle It’s only a tweet, but it is a very handy visualization of the React component lifecycle.

Environment Settings in JavaScript Apps This article provides a nice overview of the common methods to handle the environment specific configuration of a JavaScript frontend.

A blockchain in 200 lines of code The idea behind blockchains isn’t that complicated.

A Practical Introduction to Container Terminology This is a long article, but it’s worth it to get the terminology for containers if you’re planning to use them.

#DeleteFacebook is still be going strong, and I have another Greasemonkey script for those who can’t delete their entire Facebook just yet.

#DeleteFacebook is getting a lot of momentum and I would love nothing more than to delete my Facebook.

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018 StackOverflow’s 2018 developer survey results are out.

The real cause of large DDoS This past week GitHub announced that it was the target of a massive DDoS attack.

JavaScript Pipeline Operator | MDN There is a proposal to add the pipeline operator to JavaScript.

Phaser If you’re looking to make in-browser games you might want to take a look at Phaser.

WebAssembly Studio Mozilla created an online IDE for building simple WebAssembly apps in C or Rust.

Let’s make multi-colored icons with SVG symbols and CSS variables Icon fonts, like Font Awesome, are great but they don’t allow you to have multi-colored icons.

Decouple Business Logic using Async Generators Generators are a newer feature to JavaScript and they can provide you with a lot of power, but they are not for the faint of heart.

Asynchronous JavaScript: Async/Await Tutorial Asynchronous JS with async/await is easier to teach than Promises and yields even cleaner looking code.

2017 JavaScript Rising Stars This is a breakdown of some of the more popular JavaScript frameworks and tools based on stars on GitHub Introduction to modern network load balancing and proxying This article covers load balancers and proxying in great detai…

Spectre and Meltdown have been in the news lately, in addition to OS manufacturers browsers are attempting to mitigate the issue.

8 Best Practices for Perfect CSS Documentation Documenting CSS is totally a thing, and it gets more important as the size of your application grows.

Speed up Your Node.js App with Native Addons Node’s optimizer can do a lot, but sometimes writing an algorithm in C++ is better for your application.