Issue #116 · June 24, 2019

The State of CSS 2019

“There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works”

Best 7 links of week #25, 2019

Articles

AWS costs every programmer should know

The title for this blog post is a direct reference to Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know. There are several versions of those numbers available now...

Performance speed limits

Sometimes you just want to know how fast your code can go, without benchmarking it. Sometimes you have benchmarked it and want to know how close you are to the maximum speed. Often you just need to know what the current limiting factor is, to guide your optimization decisions.

The Layout Instability API

This post introduces the Layout Instability API, its key concepts, and explains how to use the API and provide feedback.

CSRF in Action

Demonstration of the Cross-Site Request Forgery(CSRF) attack with a simple demo.

What Are Tokio and Async IO All About (Rust)?

The Rust community lately has been focusing a lot on “async I/O” through the tokio project. This is pretty great! But for many in the community who haven’t worked with web servers, it might not be obvious what those are!

Book of the week

Angular 2: From Theory To Practice

Angular 2: From Theory To Practice

by Asim Hussain

In this quickstart you'll get a 50,000 foot view of the major features of Angular 2 including: Typescript & ES6 Javascript, Components & Binding, Directives, Dependancy Injection & Services, Angular Modules & Bootstrapping your Angular application., SPAs & Routing, Angular CLI, Forms, Reactive Programming with RXJs, HTTP and finally Unit Testing.