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Better Dev #240 Jan 23, 2023
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Only 2 formats that support transparent on the web is GIF and PNG. GIF is out of the option with its limited 256 colors. So how does PNG works, how can we hand write a PNG file. This is exactly that.
Multi player game is a distributed systems where they cannot wait for an acknolwedge write of the slowest node in the clusters. This artcile explains the design architecture, implementation, and some of the lessons learned creating the multiplayer (networking) code for the Age of Empires 1 & 2 games; and discusses the current and future networking approaches used by Ensemble Studios in its game engines.
In October 2022 traffic to my blog dropped like a stone. What happened? Somehow I ruined my SEO. Don’t be me. I’ll tell you what I got up to and hopefully you can avoid doing the same.
It’s likely faster for the browser engine to match just .link
than it is to match this longer .wrapper .section .title .link
selector. There are just fewer things to check. Turning not quite in practice.
Multi tenant system is usually cheaper because they have higher resource utilization leads to less server. But in multi tenancy system, an increas load on a client may affect other. In this article we look at How AWS approach this problem with rate limiting.
Most people who use the Internet just have some vague idea that it carries data from point A to point B (famously, through a series of tubes). Even people who regularly work on Internet systems tend to work with it through many layers of abstraction, without a clear understanding of the infrastructure components that make it work. This post is the first of a series about one such piece of infrastructure: the transport protocols such as TCP that are used to transmit between nodes on the Internet
It’s a very interesting walk through of fixing memory leaks in a web app. Find leads, come up with theories, test it, rinse and repeat
why document.write() is so harmful? Actually not that harmful but only in a few specific condition
What do you do if it takes a minute to launch NotePad on window? On a 32GB RAM, SSD laptop. In general if you want to understand why your computer is performing badly you need to record and analyze a trace. However if you want to see if you are hitting a particular problem then there are easier steps that you can follow.
Code to read
Interactive outbound connections filtering.
PythonGoInstant distributed traces without code changes. 🚀 Boost existing monitoring tools with higher-quality data
GoCreate and animate hand-drawn annotations on a web page. Very interesting to use this to add some nice animation when user finished an action.
JavaScriptMagical Authentication for Rails. Supports ActiveRecord, DataMapper, Mongoid and MongoMapper. Despite the name, there is no magic at all. Just code that you use inside your controller
RubyAn experimental Rust native UI framework, still small enough and straight forward to read and understand the code and the proceess of building a UI framework. For a production ready, more feature set, check out dioxus, a friendly React-like GUI library for desktop, web, mobile, and more
RustTools
Rete is a modular framework for visual programming. Rete allows you to create node-based editor directly in the browser. You can define nodes and workers that allow users to create instructions for processing data in your editor without a single line of code
an open-core enterprise search tool that allows organizations to search text from various workspace apps such as Slack, Jira, Salesforce, and Confluence.
The sqld (“SQL daemon”) project is a server mode for libSQL, which is fork of SQLite. Interesting is that it support PostgreSQL wire protocol and read replication.
Banks will charge you when you spend or transfer money abroad. We’re not about that, and that’s why over four million people have switched to Revolut.
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