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My thoughts about the Principal role 05 May 2021 Whats a Principal Software Engineer? One of the things I couldnt answer in the last 4-5 years was my role. Am I a manager? No. In some cases, people may report to me from an organisational point of view but my way to manage is "dont manage at all" and let the team self organize with my help. I tend to focus more on the team and processes and less on people. Im not a manager, I try to be a technical leader. Organizations that understand the Triden...

Netlify snags YC alum FeaturePeek to add design review capabilities Netlify, the startup that’s bringing a micro services approach to building websites, announced today that it has acquired YC alum FeaturePeek. The two companies did not share the purchase price. With FeaturePeek, the company gets a major upgrade in its design review capability. While Netlify has had a previewing capability called Deploy Previews in the platform since 2016, it lacked a good way for reviewers to discuss and com...

By Catalin Cimpanu . April 2, 2021 Code-hosting service GitHub is actively investigating a series of attacks against its cloud infrastructure that allowed cybercriminals to implant and abuse the company’s servers for illicit crypto-mining operations, a spokesperson told  The Record today. The attacks have been going on since the fall of 2020 and have abused a GitHub feature called GitHub Actions, which allows users to automatically execute tasks ...

Resurrecting Fortran Resurrecting Fortran March 12, 2021 We have finished the first chapter on a long journey of resurrecting Fortran: forming an initial core community of developers and users with enough momentum around the new Fortran website and projects at fortran-lang.org. There is still have a long way to go to, but this was a necessary (although not sufficient) achievement and I feel this was a once in a life time event. The timing was right, we were ready, and we also got lucky. In...

In this article, we’ll look at how to create an outside focus and click handler with React. You’ll learn how to recreate an open-source React component ( react-foco) from scratch in doing so. To get the most out of this article, you’ll need a basic understanding of JavaScript classes, DOM event delegation and React. By the end of the article, you’ll know how you can use JavaScript class instance properties and event delegation to create a React component that helps you detect a click or...

SLEEKDB SleekDB - A NoSQL Database made using PHP SleekDB is a simple flat file NoSQL like database implemented in PHP without any third-party dependencies that store data in plain JSON files. It is not comparable with databases like Sqlite, MySQL, PostgreSQL and MariaDB because they are relational databases! SleekDB is a NoSQL database and therefore more comparable with for example MongoDB. It is not designed to handle heavy-load IO operations, it is designed to have a simple solution where al...

Let’s make 2021… fast! An annual front-end performance checklist (available as PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word), with everything you need to know to create fast experiences on the web today, from metrics to tooling and front-end techniques. Updated since 2016. Ah, you can also get useful front-end tips in our email newsletter. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket, a service that combines frontend performance monitoring, session replay, and product analytics to help y...

Fork the OpenSocial spec and create a new branch for your changes Use your favorite text editor to make any modifications to the specification files. Depending on the type of changes you are making, you should edit files in specific directories. If you are creating a patch to fix a bug in an existing version of the specification (such as a typo or incorrect information) edit the files in the subdirectory corresponding with the appropriate spec version. For example, if you are fixing a misspell...