“Recently, I’ve been working on a music app that needs to get a musical sequence (like a melody) from the server to the client. To do this, we use a format called ABC. (You can read about how ABC music notation works here.”
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“I expect I’ll annoy everyone with this post: the anti-JavaScript crusaders, justly aghast at how much of the stuff we slather onto modern websites; the people arguing the web is a broken platform for interactive applications anyway and we should start over; React users; the old guard with their arti”
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“The emerging norm for web development is to build a React single-page application, with server rendering. The two key elements of this architecture are something like: This idea has really swept the internet.”
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“Memory leaks are something every developer has to eventually face. They are common in most languages, even if the language automatically manages memory for you. Memory leaks can result in problems such as application slowdowns, crashes, high latency, and so on.”
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“I’ve come across people who do not think that CSS is related to internationalisation at all, but if you think about it, internationalisation is more than translating the content on your site into multiple languages and calling it a day.”
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“These design patterns are useful for building reliable, scalable, secure applications in the cloud. Each pattern describes the problem that the pattern addresses, considerations for applying the pattern, and an example based on Microsoft Azure.”
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“Incrementally migrate a legacy system by gradually replacing specific pieces of functionality with new applications and services.”
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I was cloning a remote repo to set up a local install and got a suboptimal pack - out of memory notice quickly followed by the fatal failure of the clone. Man the ramparts! To the google! This was helpful: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4829883/9661226 By default pack.windowMemory and pack.packSizeLimit are set to 0 (which means unlimited). Apparently, and … Continued
“warning: suboptimal pack – out of memory Compressing objects: 100% (10955/10955), done. fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 827101023 bytes) error: failed to run repack How would I go about fixing this?”
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“Learn how to measure memory usage of your web page in production to detect regressions. Browsers manage the memory of web pages automatically. Whenever a web page creates an object, the browser allocates a chunk of memory “under the hood” to store the object.”
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“JavaScript language was initially invented for simple form manipulation, with no built-in features like module or namespace. In years, tons of terms, patterns, libraries, syntax, and tools are invented to modularize JavaScript.”
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“Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is a mechanism that uses additional HTTP headers to tell browsers to give a web application running at one origin, access to selected resources from a different origin.”
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I’ve been working on a project and wanted to test out accessing media from a different domain using CORS. There’s two steps to this. Make sure you have Apache mod_headers enabled. Use apachectl -M on the command line interface and review the results. It should include something like this: headers_module (shared). If not then run … Continued
“The same-origin policy is a critical security mechanism that restricts how a document or script loaded from one origin can interact with a resource from another origin. It helps to isolate potentially malicious documents, reducing possible attack vectors.”
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I recently resized our dev and production environment AWS EC2 volumes and these are some notes I made while doing it. It's specific to a LAMP stack but the process could be generally useful too. Posting here for posterities sake and if it's helpful for anyone else. Certainly this is not a full and exhaustive list of todo's and possibilities but it should give you a good idea of the process.
“I know what you’re thinking. Who in their right mind would want to develop using a remote server when you have Docker and all that other useful stuff? But, trust me, if you come into this unfortunate situation, you’ll be sending me all your love (or a beer, which is almost the same thing).”
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“Git-flow is a branching and merging methodology popularized by this blog post, entitled “A Successful Git branching model”. In the last ten years, countless teams have been snookered by the headline and dare I say lied to.”
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“Slow HTTP attacks are denial-of-service (DoS) attacks in which the attacker sends HTTP requests in pieces slowly, one at a time to a Web server. If an HTTP request is not complete, or if the transfer rate is very low, the server keeps its resources busy waiting for the rest of the data.”
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