Links tagged “article”
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thenewstack.io
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jvns.ca
Why a SELECT query is evaluated as FROM, WHERE, GROUP BY, HAVING, SELECT, ORDER BY, LIMIT rather than in written order, and what that explains about SQL's rules.
solar.lowtechmagazine.com
How Low-tech Magazine rebuilt its site as static pages with dithered images and no trackers, served from a solar-powered server that goes offline in long cloudy spells.
medium.com
How Netflix grew Jupyter notebooks beyond data science into a company-wide platform for data access, workflow templates and scheduled jobs.
blogs.msdn.microsoft.com
Argues that source code is a cost to be minimised rather than an asset to accumulate, since every line carries ongoing maintenance debt.
meyerweb.com
Argues that universal HTTPS broke the caching proxies that kept the web usable on slow satellite links, cutting off users in low-bandwidth regions.
vorpus.org
Argues that go statements wreck control flow the way goto did, and proposes the nursery — a scope that cannot exit until its child tasks have finished.
consideratecode.com
Walks through six web security acronyms — CSRF, HTTPS, XSS, SOP, CORS and HSTS — and what each one means for a Django developer.
mql5.com
Describes the fractal-based "Chuvashov's Fork" forex pattern and implements it as an MQL4 Expert Advisor for MetaTrader 4, with entry, stop-loss and trailing rules.
hynek.me
A ten-phase process for conference talks, from finding an idea and writing the proposal through slide design, rehearsal and delivery on stage.
qz.com
Argues that programming is solitary, concentration-heavy work that open floor plans wreck, contrasting Stack Overflow and Fog Creek with Facebook's campus.
