Developing a Mobile App with GraphQL

"There is no one size fits all approach to building an app. A beginner might start out with a small application with minimal functionality, poor performance, non-optimized API requests, and a codebase that will need refactoring someday."

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Research Finds Tipping Point for Large-scale Social Change

"When organizations turn a blind eye to sexual harassment in the workplace, how many people need to take a stand before the behavior is no longer seen as normal?"

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Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened?

"Chatbots were The Next Big Thing. Our hopes were sky high. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, the industry was ripe for a new era of innovation: it was time to start socializing with machines."

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Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation’s Reaction

"‘In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity, In Peace: Good Will.’ Winston S. Churchill This week Microsoft announced that it is purchasing GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock."

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Sucking carbon dioxide from air is cheaper than scientists thought

"Siphoning carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere could be more than an expensive last-ditch strategy for averting climate catastrophe. A detailed economic analysis published on 7 June suggests that the geoengineering technology is inching closer to commercial viability."

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Simple Made Easy

"Summary Rich Hickey emphasizes simplicity’s virtues over easiness’, showing that while many choose easiness they may end up with complexity, and the better way is to choose easiness along the simplicity path."

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You Shouldn't Host Wordpress on AWS (Except when you should)

"A number of past client’s ask me to automate and configure WordPress on AWS and even more potential client’s ask the same. After architecting a number of AWS WordPress solutions, I feel pretty comfortable going over why I advise against their union in the vast majority of cases."

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Simplify Web Worker code with Comlink

"It’s not a fantasy, we can make it a reality with Comlink. Comlink is a small (1.6k) RPC library for workers. This guy made it. His name is Surma, he's a Google colleague of mine. Comlink provides an RPC layer to call methods from a worker on the main thread."

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The Great Barrier Reef has had five near-death experiences in the past 30,000 years

"Thirteen thousand years ago, as the last ice age ended, entire stretches of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef perished. Rising sea levels blanketed the world’s largest collection of corals with sediment coming off the newly inundated land, blocking the sunlight corals need to grow."

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I built a PWA and published it in 3 app stores. Here’s what I learned.

"Summary: Turning a web app into a Progressive Web App (PWA) and submitting it to 3 app stores requires about a month of work, a few hundred dollars, and lots of red tape. The process was both painful and enlightening. Here’s what I learned."

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My Struggle with Testing Code

"Brad Frost recently shared a post called “My Struggle to Learn React”. Inspired by that, I thought I’d share something I’m bad at: Testing Code. This has been on my “List of Shame” for a long time."

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Tips for Getting Started Developing for Web Accessibility

"This page introduces some basic considerations to help you get started developing web content that is more accessible to people with disabilities. These tips are good practice to help you meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) requirements."

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What Are The Best WordPress Multi-Purpose Themes In 2018 ?

"Looking for some WordPress Themes for Business/Agency/Corporate Websites. That helps in building homepage mockups fairly quickly. Why avoid Avada and Divi? I’ve heard that packaged in page builders are bad, but I don’t understand why."

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The Slow Death of Internet Explorer and the Future of Progressive Enhancement

"My first full-time developer job was at a small company. We didn’t have BrowserStack, so we cobbled together a makeshift device lab. Viewing a site I’d been making on a busted first-generation iPad with an outdated version of Safari, I saw a distorted, failed mess."

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I used to recommend commercial themes as a cost effective solution for clients with small budgets, but with the prevalence of bundled page builders I can no longer in good consience do so. • r/Wordpress

"I am a big fan of custom products built from scratch, but obviously not everyone has that kind of budget."

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The Yogi masters were right – breathing exercises can sharpen your mind

"It has long been claimed by Yogis and Buddhists that meditation and ancient breath-focused practices, such as pranayama, strengthen our ability to focus on tasks. A new study by researchers at Trinity College Dublin explains for the first time the neurophysiological link between breathing and attention." read full text »