Arthur's Tumblr

Links for developers, friends, and procrastinators.

[haggen]

The complete guide to Go net/http timeouts

When writing an HTTP server or client in Go, timeouts are amongst the easiest and most subtle things to get wrong: there’s many to choose from, and a mistake can have no consequences for a long time, until the network glitches and the process hangs.

[haggen]

Presenter: Jon Bodner Liveblogger: Alan Bernstein Despite our smugness, Go has some weird corners where the "obvious" behavior is not the…

[haggen]

This application is a living style guide or pattern library, generated from KSS documented styles...with an accessibility twist. No matter your level of development or accessibility expertise...

[haggen]

Fairytale about performance in web application – ITNEXT

Once upon a time, in a very far-off land, there lived front end developers who had been so fortunate to develop web UI on their powerful…

[haggen]

A Brief History of JavaScript

In this talk Brendan give us insights into the process of standardisation of JavaScript at TC39, then covers some of the features of ES Next, and reminds us ...

[haggen]

A complete breakdown of the CSS support for the most popular mobile, web and desktop email clients on the planet.

[haggen]

Robust Client-Side JavaScript – A Developer’s Guide · molily

Why do we need to talk about robust JavaScript and how do we achieve it?

[haggen]

Lean Testing or Why Unit Tests are Worse than You Think

Testing is a controversial topic. People have strong convictions about testing approaches. Test Driven Development is the most prominent…

[haggen]

Those familiar with the web platform will be well-versed in its two complementary technologies: HTML for documents and their structure…

[haggen]

How not to structure your database-backed web applications: a study of performance bugs in the wild Yang et al., ICSE’18 This is a fascinating study of the problems people get into when using…

[haggen]

Ways to think about machine learning

We're now four or five years into the current explosion of machine learning, and pretty much everyone has heard of it, and every big company is working on projects around ‘AI’. We know this is a Next Big Thing. I don't think, though, that we yet have a settled sense of quite what machine learning -

[haggen]

The headers we don't want

HTTP headers are an important way of controlling how caches and browsers process your web content. But many are used incorrectly or pointlessly, which adds overhead at a critical time in the loading of your page, and may not work as you intended.

[haggen]

10 Common Software Architectural Patterns in a nutshell

Ever wondered how large enterprise scale systems are designed? Before major software development starts, we have to choose a suitable…

[haggen]

Move slow and fix things.

[haggen]

This collection of gotchas and pitfalls in Go is intended to help you find and fix similar problems in your own code. Some of the puzzles are pretty easy. To solve all 26, you have to be a ninja.

[haggen]

Rails 5.2: Active Storage and beyond — Martian Chronicles

See what's new in Rails 5.2 and try its brand new Active Storage framework for file uploads with our detailed hands-on guide. Also covering Credentials, Current singleton, CSP configuration, Bootsnap.

[haggen]

Unit Testing Doesn't Affect Codebases the Way You Would Think

I did yet another study on 100 codebases, this time to see the effects of unit testing. The results surprised me, and I'm guessing they'll surprise you.