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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Drupal Paragraphs

"Paragraphs is the new way of content creation! It allows you — Site Builders — to make things cleaner so that you can give more editing power to your end-users."
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