“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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“Our friends over at the Oregon Department of Transportation have been busy. They are crunching numbers and writing reports on how COVID-19 is impacting traffic patterns, driving behavior, associated tax revenues, and the like.”
“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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““Everyone’s a Keynesian in a foxhole” is a popular economics phrase describing how public policy is important, especially in recessions. Riffing off of that I think we need to add “every parent’s an educator in a quarantine” to the list as well.”
“With hundreds of millions of people now isolating themselves around the world, the novel coronavirus pandemic has become a truly global event.”
“The human virome is the total collection of viruses in and on the human body.[3][4][5] Viruses in the human body may infect both human cells and other microbes such as bacteria (as with bacteriophages).[6] Some viruses cause disease, while others may be asymptomatic.”
“SARS-CoV-2, commonly known as the novel coronavirus, is officially a global pandemic. Multiple chains of transmission are underway in dozens of countries.”
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.
“In our era of globalisation, your job performance may depend on your “CQ”. So what is it? Imagine meeting someone for the first time who comes from a distant country but is fluent in your language.”
“Our office continues to get asked about the potential impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) on the economy. Long story short is that it is still too early to tell how much economic fallout will occur given the ongoing public health developments as the virus spreads.”
“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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