Dev Miscellaneous

Why you shouldn’t use GraphQL GraphQL is great, however, depending on your use case, performance requirements, and tolerance for unnecessary complexity, GraphQL could be a bad fit for your project. https://blog.logrocket.com/why-you-shouldnt-use-graphql @DevMisc #dev #learn #graphql

Nuclear radiation used to transmit digital data wirelessly https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/nuclear-radiation-used-to-transmit-digital-data-wirelessly @DevMisc #research

My experience working as an Amazon software developer https://scribe.rip/i-got-fired-from-amazon-as-a-software-development-engineer-1986b72c9d3 @DevMisc #misc #job

Visual voicemails are secretly email clients https://smitop.com/post/phone-email/ @DevMisc #misc #imap #learn #telephony

JSLinux Run Linux or other Operating Systems in your browser! https://bellard.org/jslinux/ @DevMisc #web #linux #misc

CSS Battle CSS code-golfing game is here! Use your CSS skills to replicate targets with smallest possible code. https://cssbattle.dev/ @DevMisc #css #learn #misc

EcmaScript Modules are terrible, actually https://gist.github.com/joepie91/bca2fda868c1e8b2c2caf76af7dfcad3 @DevMisc #javascript #extra

My startup `localhost` has been hacked. Please help. @DevMisc #meme #nodejs

Async Python is not faster It's indeed slower than "sync" python under a realistic benchmark. A bigger worry is that async frameworks go a bit wobbly under load. https://calpaterson.com/async-python-is-not-faster.html @DevMisc #python #async #misc

Making sense of asyncio When in doubt you should use asyncio when you can and threading when you must. https://www.educative.io/blog/python-concurrency-making-sense-of-asyncio @DevMisc #python #async #learn

How to NEVER use lambdas An inefficient and yet educational guide to the proper misuse of the lambda construct in Python. https://gist.github.com/e000/1023982 @DevMisc #python #learn #fp #extra

Goodbye CSS Modules, Hello TailwindCSS Migrating from CSS Modules to TailwindCSS. https://www.polytomic.com/blog-posts/goodbye-css-modules-hello-tailwindcss @DevMisc #css #tailwind #webdev

MIT: How quickly do algorithms improve? https://news.mit.edu/2021/how-quickly-do-algorithms-improve-0920 @DevMisc #algorithm #misc

Async Python is not faster Async Python is slower than "sync" Python under a real-world benchmark. https://calpaterson.com/async-python-is-not-faster.html @DevMisc #python #web

Emoji under the hood https://tonsky.me/blog/emoji @DevMisc #learn #unicode

Complexity is killing software developers https://www.infoworld.com/article/3639050/complexity-is-killing-software-developers.html @DevMisc #misc #extra

Preview Local Projects with Cloudflare Tunnel ...or, a ngrok alternative. https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/how-to/preview-with-cloudflare-tunnel @DevMisc #tools #cloudflare #misc

These Parents Built a School App. Then the City Called the Cops https://www.wired.co.uk/article/sweden-stockholm-school-app-open-source @DevMisc #misc #extra

How much load can be served from 1m² of sunlight? https://scribe.rip/@timothy_downs/how-many-requests-can-be-served-per-second-from-one-square-meter-of-sunlight-675db9d0c819 @DevMisc #misc #environment

Pass-by-value, reference, and assignment | Pydon't https://mathspp.com/blog/pydonts/pass-by-value-reference-and-assignment @DevMisc #python #learn