“I know what youâre 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, youâll 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 âA Successful Git branching modelâ. 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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“Why do you write C++ code? There is a good chance it is in part because of concerns about the performance of your software. Whether they stem from needing to run on every smaller mobile devices, squeezing the last few effects into video game, or because every watt of power in your data center costs too much, C++ programmers throughout the industry have an insatiable desire for writing high performance code.”
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“When working with Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X, I always forget which bash config file to edit when I want to set my PATH and other environmental variables for my shell. Should you edit .bash_profile or .bashrc in your home directory?”
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“There are a lot of ways to remove duplicate lines, but I want to leave only the unique lines, and delete all duplicated lines. There are thousands of lines I need to remove, and the unique lines are just 10-20 mixed with all those duplicate lines.”
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“In my last column, I wrote about dark patterns, but this time I want to discuss something that is literally rather than metaphorically dark: inverted polarityâdisplay methods, or dark mode. But, for many UX designers, dark mode is a new thing because operating systems are now supporting it.”
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“I originally wrote the following for my Chainline Newsletter, but I continue to get tweets about this idea, so I’m re-publishing the article here on my blog. This version has been lightly edited. I’ve been thinking about the consequences of the “wrong abstraction.”
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“One of the most important (and confusing) git features in my new job was rebasing. Looking back now, the worst part was not finding a clear beginner’s guide. So for the past me, and any future devs like the past me, this intro is for you!”
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