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NodeJS is awesome as a backend development platform: it is fully asynchronous, it is cross-platform, it is compatible with browser development language, and ...

One of the factors contributing to Counter-Strike Global Offensive’s (herein “CS:GO”) massive popularity is the ability for anyone to host their own community server. These community servers are free to download and install and allow for a high grade of customization.…

How and why we spend trillions to keep old software going

Free Programming Books on Android development, C, C#, CSS, HTML5, iOS development, Java, JavaScript, PowerShell, PHP, Python, SQL Sever and more

Half a year ago, I joined Pleo, a FinTech startup with around 15,000 customers (we’re always hiring at Pleo!). I joined to take on and further develop the billing infrastructure. When I joined, I was actually a bit concerned about the narrowness of the new…

An experiment that uses hardware security keys (like a YubiKey) to replace CAPTCHAs completely. The idea is rather simple: if a real human is sitting at their keyboard or uses their phone, they can touch their security key’s button or bring it near their…

JavaScript has come a long way since I knew it as the “D” in DHTML. For anyone like me, who’s been reluctant to use the latest syntax that could require polyfills or a transpiler, I’ve written this cheatsheet to get you caught up on all the goodness that’s…

Preserving privacy is hard. I know because when I tried, I quickly learned not to play with weapons

GitLab now requires new users to provide a valid credit or debit card in order to use free pipeline minutes on GitLab.com SaaS.

Cosmopolitan Libc makes C a build-once run-anywhere language, like Java, except it doesn't need an interpreter or virtual machine. Instead, it reconfigures stock GCC and Clang to output a POSIX...

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Technical Writing Courses for Engineers

Clarity of communication is one of the most underrated skills as a developer.

I love building developer tools and utilities. And, I believe the reason is simple, because I am a developer, and those tools I make, I create first of all for myself. I worked for Microsoft before on Visual Studio.
I worked in Splunk on some work related…

With Site Isolation enabled on Firefox for Desktop, Mozilla takes its security guarantees to the next level.

Posted in r/programming by u/fagnerbrack • 102 points and 69 comments