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January 26, 2023

Connecting Your Devs' Work to the Business | A Conversation w/ Shopify, Slack & Stripe

"To answer this seemingly simple question, we assembled a panel of some of the smartest engineering leaders we know and asked them how they answer this question with their own teams. Featuring Rukmini Reddy, SVP of Platform Engineering at Slack, James Stanier, Dir."

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January 26, 2023

How does the 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header work?

"New! Save questions or answers and organize your favorite content. Learn more. Apparently, I have completely misunderstood its semantics. I thought of something like this:"

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January 19, 2023

20 Things I’ve Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer

"You’re about to read a blog post with a lot of advice. Learning from those who came before us is instrumental to success, but we often forget an important caveat. Almost all advice is contextual, yet it is rarely delivered with any context."

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January 17, 2023

PHP in 2023

"From its humble beginnings as a personal project in the mid-90s, PHP has grown to become one of the most popular languages for web development, powering everything from small blogs to large enterprise applications."

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January 10, 2023

How to cache the wp_oembed_get() function

"The wp_oembed_get() function is not cached by default. Unfortunately, many themes (like Elegant Themes Divi) still use it which leads to your page making many background requests to YouTube and similar video embedding sites."

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January 5, 2023

The FTC thinks banning non-compete agreements could increase American wages by $300 billion per year

"The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is proposing a ban on non-compete agreements that prevent workers from moving to another company or starting a business in the same field, a decision that could affect roughly 30 million Americans."

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December 27, 2022

WebAssembly and Sockets: PHP development server on WasmEdge

"As part of the Wasm Language Runtimes project, we have been working to expand the functionality of the server-side WebAssembly PHP build we developed on top of WASI."

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December 10, 2022

Does WWW still belong in URLs?

"DigitalOcean provides cloud products for every stage of your journey. Get started with $200 in free credit! For years, a small pedantry war has been raging in our address bars. In one corner are brands like Google, Instagram, and Facebook. This group has chosen to redirect example.com to www."

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December 8, 2022

Dev environments in the cloud are a half-baked solution

"Key takeaways Developer environments in the cloud have existed for years Everything turns into SaaS, but should your dev environment, really? Service availability can never match localhost Pay-as-you-go pricing is for privileged people only and locks out many The fully baked solution is a hybrid tha"

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November 23, 2022

Subdomains vs. Subdirectories: Which Is Better for SEO?

"The one topic I’ve seen Google and SEOs disagree on the most is the best place to host content – subdomains or subdirectories. SEOs say subdomains aren’t optimal, and Google says it doesn’t matter because they can read and understand your content wherever it is."

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September 7, 2022

Drupal Paragraphs

"Paragraphs is the new way of content creation! It allows you — Site Builders — to make things cleaner so that you can give more editing power to your end-users."
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Add a Resize Handle for WordPress Post and Page Edit Sidebar

August 26, 2022

I was converting some ACF fields to Gutenberg ACF fields and put together some options for how/where content can be edited. The acf_register_block_type() function has the mode option. The allowed values are: – auto: Preview is shown by default but changes to edit form when block is selected. – preview: Preview is always shown. Edit … Continued

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August 18, 2022

Conditional Fields in Paragraphs Using the Javascript States API for Drupal 8

"While creating content, there are pieces of information that are only relevant when other fields have a certain value."
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August 18, 2022

**Adding assets (CSS, JS) to a Drupal module via *.libraries.yml**

"This documentation is for modules. For themes, see Adding stylesheets (CSS) and JavaScript (JS) to a Drupal theme. In Drupal 8 and later versions, stylesheets (CSS) and JavaScript (JS) are loaded through the same system for modules (code) and themes, for everything: asset libraries."

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August 15, 2022

Stop mocking about: Event Dispatcher

"I don't like mocks in unit testing (I use them, but don't like them). It often results in tests that only assure some specific method was called with certain parameters. It is this approach that may lead some to think that writing tests is writing the code twice, and therefore a waste of time."

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August 14, 2022

Serverless PHP Applications on Digital Ocean Functions

"Digital Ocean Functions is a serverless compute product Digital Ocean recently launched. It supports PHP as one of the runtimes, along with Node.js, Python, and Go."

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August 12, 2022

Introducing the New WebPageTest Recorder Chrome Extension

"WebPageTest’s custom scripting functionality unlocks some very powerful testing capabilities, including being able to test multi-step user journeys and flows through your site and application. Writing those scripts, however, can sometimes be challenging."

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August 7, 2022

**COUNT(*) vs COUNT(id) in MySQL**

"TL;DR: Use COUNT(), not COUNT(id), when you want to count rows. You have probably read in a bunch of different places that you shouldn't use SELECT() in MySQL when you don't need all the data. SELECT(*) selects all the columns in the table, not just the ones that you might need."

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August 6, 2022

Key Takeaways from the DynamoDB Paper

"In 2007, a group of engineers from Amazon published The Dynamo Paper, which described an internal database used by Amazon to handle the enorous scale of its retail operation."

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August 4, 2022

How technology literally changes our brains

"Nicholas Carr on deep reading and digital thinking. In 1964, the Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan published his opus Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. In it he writes, “In the long run, a medium’s content matters less than the medium itself in influencing how we think and act."

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