“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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“I expect I’ll annoy everyone with this post: the anti-JavaScript crusaders, justly aghast at how much of the stuff we slather onto modern websites; the people arguing the web is a broken platform for interactive applications anyway and we should start over; React users; the old guard with their arti”
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“The emerging norm for web development is to build a React single-page application, with server rendering. The two key elements of this architecture are something like: This idea has really swept the internet.”
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“Memory leaks are something every developer has to eventually face. They are common in most languages, even if the language automatically manages memory for you. Memory leaks can result in problems such as application slowdowns, crashes, high latency, and so on.”
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“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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“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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“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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