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15 Mar 2022

14 Mar 2022

Andre Soto 1 min read

At Salesforce, we strive to balance the security of your data and apps with an efficient and enjoyable user experience. Last year, we shortened login sessions for the Heroku Dashboard to 12 hours to improve security. Starting today, users can stay logged in for up to 24 hours. Even better, if you have multi-factor authentication […] The post Improving User…

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There's a cocktail party version of the efficient markets hypothesis I frequently hear that's basically, "markets enforce efficiency, so it's not possible that a company can have some major inefficiency and survive". We've previously discussed Marc Andreessen's quote that tech hiring can't be inefficient here and here: Let's launch right into it. I think the critique that Silicon Valley companies…

11 Mar 2022

MapTiler (Nicolas Bozon) 1 min read

MapTiler has made a winter-themed basemap enabling you to build ski resort maps or apps to track ski routes, plan winter sports, and apres-ski entertainment.

10 Mar 2022

David Walsh 2 min read

Many of the web functionalities that we rely on once lived within individual desktop applications. From office suites, games, and financial tools, all of them are now web applications; they’re just as feature packed as their desktop counterparts. In the past I’ve used a variety of JavaScript grid widgets on client sites, and each had a number of pain points:…

MapTiler (Martin Elias) 1 min read

MapTiler have greatly improved the styling of their maps of Japan, and these styles are available to use anywhere on Earth.

9 Mar 2022

Javier Turegano 10 min read

According to a recent Thoughtworks radar, “the industry is increasingly gaining experience with platform engineering product teams that create and support internal platforms.” They caveated this with a piece of advice: “When creating a platform, it’s critical to have clearly defined customers and products that will benefit from it rather than building in a vacuum.”…

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8 Mar 2022

7 Mar 2022

David Walsh 3 min read

It’s been a while since I’ve gotten a few things off of my chest and since I’m always full of peeves and annoyances I thought it was time to unleash: Due to the immensely negative response to any tweet about crypto from my blog account, I created a second account just for crypto musings. I’ll be honest — it hurt…

Graeme Lindsay 8 min read

Changing the organisation — to build the technology right. In earlier blog posts, we explored how we moved BBC online to the cloud. This was part of a wider initiative called WebCore, which used a range of serverless technologies to reimagine the BBC website. There were technical challenges we faced integrating WebCore with our architecture , but this initiative has…

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6 Mar 2022

David Walsh 2 min read

Automation is a really important skill for engineers, especially when it comes to working with various file types. The more you accept for input, and the more you automate, the better end output you can offer. Filestack’s workflows allow developers to define automated tasks using a their specialized UI. With no coding required, it’s easy to create a document workflow…

4 Mar 2022

Jeff Atwood 2 min read

It’s my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice: By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous self-driving cars meeting SAE J3016 level 5 will be commercially available

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Stanko 3 min read

I'm super late with this post, but again, better late than never. I just couldn't find the inspiration and drive for writing last year. Generally, I lacked motivation and wasn't really productive. Generative Art # As for my art, 2021 wasn't as fruitful as the year before, but I did finish a couple of drawings. I'm still very much into…

3 Mar 2022

Anne van Kesteren 4 min read

Writing high quality standards is a necessary first step to an interoperable web platform, but ensuring that browsers are consistent in their behavior requires an ongoing process. Browsers must work to ensure that they have a shared understanding of web standards, and that their implementation matches that understanding. Interop 2022 is a cross-browser initiative to find and address the most…

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2 Mar 2022

Nic Raboy 1 min read

If you've been keeping up with my .NET Core series on MongoDB, you'll remember that we explored creating a simple console application as well as building a RESTful API with basic CRUD support. In both... The post Joining Collections in MongoDB with .NET Core and an Aggregation Pipeline appeared first on MongoDB.

1 Mar 2022

Hermina 5 min read

If you’ve accessed the MDN website today, you probably noticed that it looks quite different. We hope it’s a good different. Let us explain! In mid-2021 we started to think about modernizing MDN’s design, to create a clean and inviting website that makes navigating our 44,000 articles as easy as possible. We wanted to create a more holistic experience for…

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lukaseder 1 min read

A lot of RDBMS support standard SQL sequences of some form. The standard SQL syntax to create a sequence is: The following is how you could fetch a value from this sequence, using jOOQ, assuming you’re using the code generator: The sequence expression translates to a variety of dialects: You can also embed the S.nextval() … Continue reading How to…

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Stanko 4 min read

This post was originally written for our internal technology newsletter at Work & Co. It is a little bit adapted for web, but the content is almost identical. About a year ago I made this plot. It is called "Krypton"Named by a dear friend and ex-colleague, and I'll try to break down how it was made. The wonderful thing about…

28 Feb 2022

MapTiler 1 min read

Create the most stunning game environments by modifying real terrain maps of any place on Earth.

Stanko 3 min read

This is going to be a very straight forward post. Just a list of JavaScript libraries I use in creating my generative art. And I really mean I use (and abuse) them. All of them are used in multiple of my drawings. I'll include couple of photos under the respective libraries. I finally settled with these libraries after trying several…