Driven by South’s Past, Black Women Seek Votes and a New Future

"AMERICUS, Ga. — Lorena Barnum Sabbs thought the past really was past. Born 67 years ago in a segregated hospital, she was arrested when she was 11 for trying to integrate the local movie theater and locked in a stockade for several days without beds, working toilets or running water."

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The Glimmer Binary Experience

"A bit over a year ago, Ember.js got a major overhaul. In a tight collaboration between LinkedIn engineers and the open source community, we replaced Ember’s rendering engine with a new library, Glimmer VM, that improved performance and significantly reduced the size of compiled templates."

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Higher-Order Components

"A higher-order component (HOC) is an advanced technique in React for reusing component logic. HOCs are not part of the React API, per se. They are a pattern that emerges from React’s compositional nature."

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Why You Should Use API Gateway Proxy Integration With Lambda

"Ben Kehoe recently wrote a post about AWS API Gateway to Lambda integration: How you should — and should not — use API Gateway proxy integration with Lambda. In his post, Ben gave a few reasons why he believes using API Gateway Proxy Integration is an anti-pattern."

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How to use AWS Fargate and Lambda for long-running processes in a Serverless app

"AWS dropped so many serverless announcements at re:Invent, the community is still scrambling to make sense of them all. This post is all about AWS Fargate. In this article, I will show you how to create an end-to-end serverless application that extracts thumbnails from video files."

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Guys, REST APIs are not Databases

"One of the common mistakes developers make regarding REST API’s is to treat them as databases. They’re not! Visit any web framework documentation and at some point you’ll bump into a magic way of mapping database CRUD operations of ORM models with REST API endpoints."

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Artificial intelligence can predict your personality… simply by tracking your eyes

"It’s often been said that the eyes are the window to the soul, revealing what we think and how we feel. Now, new research reveals that your eyes may also be an indicator of your personality type, simply by the way they move."

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New Study: Omega-3s Can Help Keep Kids Out of Trouble

"Contacts for media: Christine Gillette, 978-934-2209 or [email protected] and Nancy Cicco, 978-934-4944 or [email protected] LOWELL, Mass."

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Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar

"Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably already know that microservices is the architecture du jour. Coming of age alongside this trend, Segment adopted this as a best practice early-on, which served us well in some cases, and, as you’ll soon learn, not so well in others."

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So I’ve been making web stuff for a quarter of a century now

"As I’m sitting down here on a NeXT computer (in honor of the machine the web was born on!) to write this—I admit, yes, computers are faster now. But the basics haven’t changed."

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Back-and-forth exchanges boost children’s brain response to language

"A landmark 1995 study found that children from higher-income families hear about 30 million more words during their first three years of life than children from lower-income families."

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When a Mars Simulation Goes Wrong

"The drive to the little white dome on the northern slope of Mauna Loa is a bumpy one. Mauna Loa, the “Long Mountain,” is a colossal volcano that covers half of the island of Hawaii. The rocky terrain, rusty brown and deep red, crunches beneath car tires and jostles passengers."

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CSS Paint API

"CSS Paint API (also known as “CSS Custom Paint” or “Houdini’s paint worklet”) is about to be enabled by default in Chrome Stable. What is it? What can you do with it? And how does it work? Well, read on, will ya’…"

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