Bookmarks
These are articles and links that I’ve saved from around the web using Raindrop.io
Are We Really Engineers?
This is part one of the Crossover Project. Part two is here and part three is here. A conference talk based on this work is now available here. I sat in front of Mat, idly chatting about tech and cuisine. Before now, I had known him mostly for his cooking pictures on Twitter, the
Generative AI is not going to build your engineering team for you - Stack O
How To Hack Your Google Lighthouse Scores In 2024 — Smashing Magazine
Do perfect Lighthouse scores mean the performance of your website is perfect? As it turns out, Lighthouse is influenced by a number of things that can be manipulated and bent to make sites seem more performant than they really are, as Salma Alam-Naylor demonstrates in several exp
Hacking Millions of Modems (and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem)
Two years ago, something very strange happened to me while working from my home network. I was exploiting a blind XXE vulnerability that required an external HTTP server to smuggle out files, so I spun up an AWS box and ran a simple Python webserver to receive the traffic from th
Data Fetching Patterns in Single-Page Applications
Five patterns to help Single Page Applications fetch data from remote sources
2-Page Login Pattern, And How To Fix It — Smashing Magazine
The 2-page login pattern is becoming pervasive. Here are the reasons behind this design choice and alternative solutions to create a more efficient and user-friendly authentication experience.
Developers get by with a little help from AI: Stack Overflow Knows code ass
The curious case of the missing period - Tjaart’s Substack
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
UI Density || Matthew Ström, designer-leader
I speak and write about design, front-end code, leadership, and (occasionally) math.
Here’s What a Good LGBTQ Ally Looks Like
In response to critics calling Taylor Swift’s latest video, packed with queer imagery, self-serving, here are some examples of how to be a good LGBTQ ally,
The Assimilationist, or: On the Unexpected Cost of Passing as a Trans Woman
The trouble with finding my true self in the beauty aisles.
State of the Terminal | g.p. anders
This is a companion article to my talk at Neovimconf 2023. I have been using Vim/Neovim as my full time text editor for close to 10 years. I’ve spent a lot of time in the terminal and have become very aware of the many flaws and idiosyncrasies of this bizarre platform. But I also
Why do only a small percentage of GenAI projects actually make it into prod
Remote Synthesis | Community is a Tamagotchi
Many companies handle community wrong because they focus on outcomes over inputs. Here's some tips on how to think about community.
We Need To Rewild The Internet
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
Go or Rust? Just Listen to the Bots - Cybernetist
It all started as a joke. I was in a group chat with a few of my friends and we were talking about football (soccer for the American readers). I entered the chat during a mildly heated discussion about the manager of a team one of my friends supports. It was going on for a bit wh
How to succeed as a data engineer without the burnout - Stack Overflow
Why So Many Smart People Aren’t Happy
It’s a paradox: Shouldn’t the most accomplished be well equipped to make choices that maximize life satisfaction?
ESA - Telling time on the Moon
A new era of lunar exploration is on the rise, with dozens of Moon missions planned for the coming decade. Europe is in the forefront here, contributing to building the Gateway lunar station and the Orion spacecraft – set to return humans to our natural satellite – as well as dev
How to get somebody fired using Git - DEV Community
This is Billy. He is a trainee developer working for an important company. Unfortunately...
Asking for help is a core developer skill — Rami James
Intentionally or otherwise, I have been blowing up my life since last summer. It has been less than ideal. We will get to why in a second, but first, let us talk about javascript and the impact of package managers, their packages, and the endless toil they create.
The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining
The strangest hardware problem I've ever had to debug.
The State of Generative AI, 2024 - by Alberto Romero
A nuanced analysis and a glimpse of the future