Managing Fonts in WordPress Block Themes

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Making Calendars With Accessibility and Internationalization in Mind

"DigitalOcean provides cloud products for every stage of your journey. Get started with $200 in free credit! Doing a quick search here on CSS-Tricks shows just how many different ways there are to approach calendars. Some show how CSS Grid can create the layout efficiently."

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5 Mistakes I Made When Starting My First React Project

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How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages

"In 2017, we wrote a blog post on how we store billions of messages. We shared our journey of how we started out using MongoDB but migrated our data to Cassandra because we were looking for a database that was scalable, fault-tolerant, and relatively low maintenance."

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Sandboxing with Partytown

"Partytown is a “library to help relocate resource intensive scripts into a web worker, and off of the main thread. Its goal is to help speed up sites by dedicating the main thread to your code, and offloading third-party scripts to a web worker."

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Design Patterns in PHP 8: State

"Hi there! State design pattern is a behavioral design pattern that enables an object to change its behavior when its internal state changes. This pattern is useful when an object's behavior is dependent on its state, and it must change its behavior at runtime based on changes in the state."

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Initialize WordPress environment to use in command line script

"I have a command line script for maintaining a wordpress plugin and have to load the wordpress core to be able to access wordpress functions. This problem is very similar to Initialize WordPress environment to use in a real cron script."

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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