“I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex”
Best 7 links of week #10, 2021
Everything that there's to know about creating shadows with CSS in one article. Moreover, you won't just learn about the CSS bits, but, in this article, you will also find a great introduction on the design theory around shadows and lights.
Learn more about how the same JSON document can be parsed with different values across microservices, leading to a variety of potential security risks.
Sure, we all pretend to know them, but rarely do we think they apply to us. Your manager certainly doesn't...
Pup is a fantastic tool that allows you to parse HTML using CSS selectors directly from the convenience of the command line. Something you could probably use for many automation tasks involving HTML.
Learn how several next-gen image codecs (JPEG 2000, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL) compare to JPEG in compression density, features, etc. as its potential replacement.
An interesting take about Rust for web development by a software engineer who has been using Rust to build JSON web APIs for the last 2 years.
Server Side rendering has been the popular way of rendering web applications before the advent of JavaScript frontend libraries. In this article, we will be looking at how to build an SSR application using React but first let’s take a detour to explain what Client-side Rendering and Server-side rendering are.
by Leonard Richardson
The popularity of REST in recent years has led to tremendous growth in almost-RESTful APIs that don’t include many of the architecture’s benefits. With this practical guide, you’ll learn what it takes to design usable REST APIs that evolve over time.