PD#566 How web bloat impacts users with slow devices

How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
about 1 hour by Dan Luu

CPU performance for web apps hasn't scaled nearly as quickly as bandwidth so, while more of the web is becoming accessible to people with low-end connections, more of the web is becoming inaccessible to people with low-end devices even if they have high-end connections.

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How Figma's Databases Team Lived to Tell the Scale
20 minutes by Sammy Steele

Our nine month journey to horizontally shard Figma’s Postgres stack, and the key to unlocking (nearly) infinite scalability.

A Few Words on Testing
4 minutes by Thorsten Ball

Maybe the wisest thing about testing that’s ever been said and maybe the only thing that you need to know about testing — forget about the testing pyramids, and the mocks vs. stubs debates, and the dependency injectors, and the coverage numbers.

The demise of coding is greatly exaggerated
5 minutes by Murat

It is time to double down on computer science and software technology. We will start seeing computer science and software technology going further in to K12 school curriculum. We will start to see more Pi-shaped people, who have depth at two areas and who pursue generalist applications. After building some depth, being a generalist is a good strategy.

Stop postponing things by embracing the mess
6 minutes

Does your day get derailed frequently because of unexpected circumstances?

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