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The End of Front-End Development
Josh Comeau argues that AI won't take away any front end jobs soon.
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Preemptive Pluralization is (Probably) Not Evil
Before you write any code — ask if you could ever possibly want multiple kinds of the thing you are coding. If yes, just do it. Now, not later.
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Vanilla Rails is plenty
This post is about Rails, but applies to Laravel as well
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Critically Engaging With Models
Our worldviews are grown from other people’s models. How do we control what models we let in?
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The self-fulfilling prophecy of React
Some critical thoughts about React. I think the criteria used to determine if React is the right tool, can be used to think critical about your favourite framemework / piece of software.
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The “It's Just Like...” Heuristic
Why feeling that you understand a new idea, is a sign that you didn't.
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Why DRY is the most over-rated programming principle
DRY is just like every other principle out there - it has its place, but it's best taken in moderation.
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Consume less, create more
"Were previous generations really better off because they merely watched TV, or listened to radio, or read books? All of these activities are passive. All of these activities involve letting external thoughts temporarily replace your own. Today’s smartphones differ from medieval books only in degree—all media is created to be consumed. I had to start creating."
So much this!
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Why You Should Start Self Hosting
Rohan Deshmukh on the value of avoiding SaaS products and self-host instead.
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Adding Real Capabilities To Systems Through Naming
Shawn McCool shares some interesting thoughts on how things should be named.
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CSS as the backend: introducing Cascading Server Sheets!
– dev.to
Obviously you shouldn't to this, but it's kinda cool that it works.
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The web doesn’t have version numbers
Like ‘Web 2.0’, ‘web3’ is a marketing term. There is no versioning system for the web.
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I changed my mind about Tailwind CSS
When did you last changed your opinion on something technical?
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Opinion-driven design
– stitcher.io - submitted by Brent
Brent shares a few thoughts on open source software design
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Clever vs insightful code
We talk about cleverness as if it’s Just Bad, such as “clever code is harder to debug”. That’s going too far. Cleverness can lead to faster, safer, even clearer code.
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PHP's bus factor
PHP is a fantastic language that has seen many cool improvements over the past few years. What you may not be aware of is that only a very few people can work on the language itself. This is obviously not healthy and hopefully this situation will improve in the future.
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Simple Models, Scaffolding, Enabling Constraints
All models are wrong but simple models are more wrong than complex ones. Simple models are more appealing, easier to teach and spread and apply. Because of that, they can bring value faster, and they can cause harm faster.
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When Objects Aren't Enough
– www.tonysm.com - submitted by Tony Messias
Tony Messias been looking up resources on the roots of Object-Oriented Programming. He shares some very interesting ideas.
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