ProseMirror Guide

"This guide describes the various concepts used in the library, and how they relate to each other. To get a complete picture of the system, it is recommended to go through it in the order it is presented in, at least up to the view component section."

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JWT Authentication Best Practices

"Microservices are a great tool when it comes to designing scalable and extensible architectures. They can be used to encapsulate different behaviors or responsibilities in a way that not a lot of other architecture paradigms can represent."

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Working with AWS Lambda Functions in the AWS Cloud9 Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

"You can use the AWS Cloud9 IDE to work with AWS Lambda functions and their related Amazon API Gateway APIs in an AWS Cloud9 development environment. For example, you can: This topic assumes you already know about Lambda. For more information, see the AWS Lambda Developer Guide."

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In-depth LinkedIn organic marketing guide

"Why LinkedIn organic instead of LinkedIn ads? LinkedIn ads generally perform terribly. They work best for education, recruiting, and other career-related advertisers who generate $15k+ in revenue per customer."

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The Shadow Request: Troubleshooting OkCupid’s First GraphQL Release

"As we were building our GraphQL API in a totally new stack, we wanted to see how it would measure up against our previous REST API with a real production load, and we wanted to do so without negatively impacting the user experience. To do this, we released what we called The Shadow Request."

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PAY per USE can derail your Serverless (dream) Budget

"This is the 2nd post in the Serverless communications series. Monitoring tells you whether the system works. Observability lets you ask why it’s not working."

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I learned to love the Same-Origin Policy

"I spent a good chunk of my work life this year trying (in collaboration with the amazing Noam Rosenthal) to standardize a new web platform feature: a way to modify the intrinsic size and resolution of images. And hey! We did it! But boy, was it ever a learning experience."

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Automatic Social Share Images

"Every time I write a new blog post, I share it to Twitter. And, if I’m being honest, these tweets usually look pretty boring. Here’s the tweet for last month’s blog post. When I built my post template I added the most basic tags like author, description, and keywords."

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Front-end JavaScript performance

"Nearly every website uses JavaScript, so JavaScript performance is a growing topic in modern front-end development. In this post we'll introduce common performance pitfalls and discuss how to detect and avoid them. We'll focus on JavaScript execution and other CPU processing that results from it."

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Will it Scale? - Finding Svelte's Inflection Point

"Will it Scale? - Finding Svelte's Inflection Point from #2546 Theoretically, yes there is an inflection point. Where that inflection point is is the only thing that really matters."

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Introducing the new Serverless LAMP stack

"This is the first in a series of posts for PHP developers. The series will explain how to use serverless technologies with PHP. It covers the available tools, frameworks and strategies to build serverless applications, and why now is the right time to start."

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Develop, Preview, Test

"Writing tests is an investment, and like any other investment, it has to be evaluated in terms of its return and risks (e.g.: opportunity costs) it incurs in. The "not too many" keys in on that."

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Prefetching? At This Age?

"A while back, I wrote about using Netlify and SpeedCurve to A/B test performance changes. The one I specifically mentioned was testing out Instant.Page on my site."

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iOSViewport.md

"Whether you're developing a web application with native-ish UI, or just a simple modal popup overlay that covers the viewport, when it comes to making things work on iDevices in Mobile Safari, you're in for a decent amount of pain and suffering."

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Do Not Follow JavaScript Trends

"It is one of those days. You typed in twitter.com in your browser and you saw a new tweet from someone on how to use React Hooks. But, for some reason, your company or a team hasn’t switched to using Hooks. Or, maybe you are using them, but not in a new “trendy” way. Perhaps you are using Vue."

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Amazon SNS Notification Contents for Amazon SES

"Bounce, complaint, and delivery notifications are published to Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format."

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Destructuring in JavaScript: the not so good parts

"Generally speaking, I would say everybody loves the destructuring assignment, and for good reasons. Next, I list some of the amazing things one can achieve with destructuring in JavaScript."

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Using webpack Bundle Analyzer or source-map-explorer to Analyze an Angular App’s Bundle Size

"While this tutorial has content that we believe is of great benefit to our community, we have not yet tested or edited it to ensure you have an error-free learning experience."

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Regexes vs Combinatorial Parsing

"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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