Why are hyperlinks blue?
The internet has ingrained itself into every aspect of our lives, but there’s one aspect of the digital world that I bet you take for granted. Did you ever wonder why hyperlinks are traditionally blue?
Issue #227 · September 6, 2021
Why are hyperlinks blue?
“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute”
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Book of the week
Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
by Sam Newman
Distributed systems have become more fine-grained in the past 10 years, shifting from code-heavy monolithic applications to smaller, self-contained microservices. But developing these systems brings its own set of headaches. With lots of examples and practical advice, this book takes a holistic view of the topics that system architects and administrators must consider when building, managing, and evolving microservice architectures.