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Category: The Life of a Programmer I’m in the process of drafting a post entitled “What Do You Know That People Would Pay You For?” But what I’ll put here in…

Working out the best way to serve up files to your users can be a tricky business. There’s so many different scenarios, different technologies, different…

How often have you spent time in multi-day planning sessions, created a huge set of goals for the upcoming year, only to circle back a year later to find that…

Posted by Scott 11/13/2018 Last week, I was finishing a section of my slides for a presentation at the Performance.Now() conference . In it, I was exploring…

Setup and Config git config help Getting and Creating Projects init clone Basic Snapshotting add status diff commit reset rm mv Branching and Merging branch…

I told myself at the 6 month mark of fun employment I’d publish my notes about what I’d been up to. I missed that. Did some yak shaving. Having a couple of…

Implementing dark mode is easy, but designing for it is less so. Here are some things you should consider when designing a dark mode version of your product or…

$stdout - Remote Life 228 views Published on 8 Nov 2018 Remote work is more than just a perk, it's a way of life. From being able to snack all day without…

Sadly the Apple Watch doesn't support third-party watch faces, and while that might change, you're stuck with what Apple has to offer right now. But that…

Category: From Developer to Consultant Quick — what’s the reason people pay you? Don’t ponder. Just freeze the first thing that comes into your mind. It’s…

The proposed development for Leith Walk.Photograph: Drum Property Group Like most ports, Leith has always been a place of change – and never more so than over…

Parents with two children can claim up to £1,790 in child benefit.Photograph: Getty Images/Hero Images T his week’s budget promised an income tax giveaway next…

A database of paper airplanes with easy to follow folding instructions. The Basic Easy time aloft Basic Dart Easy distance The Stable Easy time aloft, acrobatic…

Kent C. Dodds Making software development more accessible · Husband, Father, Latter-day Saint, Teacher, OSS, GDE, @TC39 · @PayPalEng @eggheadio @FrontendMasters…

Technology heroes are always difficult subject. As an engineering manager, I remember the first time I participated in a “life boat” drill where you have to…

Hopefully Useful Techniques for Git Rebase ByEthan Rowe August 20, 2010 I recently had to spend a few hours merging Git branches to get a development branch in…

An in-depth history of the most important pop innovation of the last 20 years, from Cher’s “Believe” to Kanye West to Migos Illustrations by Ella Trujillo It…

Our specialty is securing mortgages for contractors and freelancers based on contract earnings alone. Not take-home pay. Not payslips. Not accounts. Your…

Given public sector engagers’ tendency to take a risk-averse approach when determining their contractors’ IR35 status , it is vital that independent workers…

If you're building a web experience and want to stay fast, a performance budget can be critical . For success, embrace performance budgets and learn to live…

This blog post explains the so-called TC39 process , which governs how ECMAScript features are designed, starting with ECMAScript 2016 (ES7). Related blog…

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Gled tae meet ye. Aïda Amer (animation); thistle (shutterstock) Over the past few decades, as efforts to save endangered languages have become governmental…

Max Guther ChuChu TV, the company responsible for some of the most widely viewed toddler content on YouTube, has a suitably cute origin story. Vinoth Chandar,…

Fig 1: Suze Orman’s opinion of our lifestyle, as captured in a crazy interview on Paula Pant’s Afford Anything podcast. In case you hadn’t already noticed it in…

Key takeaways GDS are trying to transform the UK government, to become digital-by-default GDS philosophy puts users first, with a focus on agile principles and…

Citizens can get the information and services they need more quickly because users' needs are considered in government service design, and suppliers can work…

tl;dr In this article I want to explain a few things about enterprises and their software, based on my experiences, and also describe what things need to be in…

Get a free pack of "It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work" stickers It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work By Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson In the UK,…

For the last decade, Tim Hecker has been on a quest to unite musician and machine, to blur the border between the sources of his sounds and the output he…

It is the principle that bad news tends to accrue at a lower management level, because no one wants to be the person who moves a project risk marker from ‘yellow’ to ‘red’ on a RAG chart. As a result, pessimism and a belief that the project will overrun ‘bubbles up’ to a certain decision-making level but never beyond, as if hitting the thermal layer that exists in the ocean. Eventually, the issues reach critical mass and force their way through, leaving senior management wonder why everything ‘suddenly’ went wrong, when in fact the signs that the project was troubled existed at a lower level for some time.

Introduction react-from-markup lets you declare React components using simple, static markup. Why? Sometimes, your tech stack doesn’t speak JavaScript very…

We use a bunch of Zeit’s tools (particularly Next.js and its static export feature) at Common (https://www.common.com — we’re hiring!), and they’re consistently…

Category: You Asked For It Alright, let’s try something new for this week’s reader question. As regular readers know, I do a “you asked for it” column where I…

In the era of budget airlines, are last minute flights dead? Not if you know how, when, and where to look... Here's some tried and tested tips on how to bag a…

Lucky me (29, Software Engineer from Berlin, Germany) recently got a new job as a Lead Architect for a startup. Now I’d say I’m not a bad engineer, but I’ve…

In 8 easy steps “A barista pouring coffee into a mug that says ugh on it at Bar Nine” by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash Congratulations - you’re a new manager! No,…

A new kind of social network There’s a new social network in town. It’s called Mastodon . You might have even heard of it. On the surface, Mastodon feels a lot…

Promethease is a literature retrieval system that builds a personal DNA report based on connecting a file of DNA genotypes to the scientific findings cited in SNPedia.

Raise your hands if you love the notch on iPhone X, XS, XR or XS Max! Okay, not many hands went up there, but I’m sure as a developer you do love some extra…