Programming Digest - PD#591 The web's clipboard

The web's clipboard, and how it stores data of different types
20 minutes by Alex Harri

Exploring the web's clipboard APIs, their limitations, and their history. Alex covers the evolution of clipboard APIs, their limitations, and workarounds used by companies like Google and Figma.

WorkOS: sell to enterprises with just a few lines of code
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Improving Application Availability
6 minutes by Mario Bittencourt

Mario introduces the concept of measuring availability in terms of "nines" (e.g., 99.999% uptime) and explores the challenges of achieving high availability, including increased costs and complexity.

Steve Ballmer's incorrect binary search interview question
3 minutes by John Graham-Cumming

John discusses a puzzle question Steve Ballmer used in Microsoft interviews, involving guessing a number between 1 and 100 with decreasing rewards for each guess. He might've been wrong.

Exponential rate limiting
8 minutes by Tony Finch

The method uses an exponentially-weighted moving average to measure client rates, offering more flexibility than traditional approaches like GCRA or leaky bucket algorithms.

Reasons to write design docs
10 minutes by Nicole Tietz

This article discusses the importance of writing, particularly design documents, in software engineering. Nicole highlights four main benefits of writing design docs: improving thinking and design process, enhancing collaboration, broadening organizational understanding, and providing historical context for decision-making.

BrowserStack Bug Capture: Debug Faster with Data-Rich Bug Reports
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