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Last Updated: March 9, 2021 12:47 pm Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code is arguably one of the best code editors out there. With its vast collection of community-supported extensions, you can use VS Code to fuel almost all of your programming needs. The app is available across Windows, macOS, and Linux, making it the perfect program to write code on, regardless of the operating system. One key aspect of VS Code is its customizability and robust theming capabilities. While the default themes are g...

Tidyverse   Thomas Lin Pedersen I’m extremely pleased to present the culmination of several years of work spanning the systemfonts, textshaping, and ragg packages. These releases complete our efforts to create a high-quality, performant raster graphics device that works the same way on every operating system. This blog post presents our improvements to ragg’s font rendering so that it now “just works” regardless of what you throw at it. This includes: Support for non-Latin scripts...

The Web After Tomorrow Modern web does a good job of bringing you live, real-time web applications. Or does it? This post looks at what is missing from the current state-of-the-art web architectures, where they should be improved and what tools we have at hand for that. Server not required Traditional web architectures require DB, server and a browser, stitched together with RPC and REST calls: But today’s JS is good at doing almost anything we traditionally expect from a server. JS can handl...