Frio80's Thoughts

GitHub Pages, our static site hosting service, has always had a very simple architecture. From launch up until around the beginning of 2015, the entire service ran on a single pair of machines (in active/standby configuration) with all user data stored across 8 DRBD backed partitions. via Pocket

Software has been around since the 1940s. Which means that people have been faking their way through meetings about software, and the code that builds it, for generations. via Pocket

This release of the Koa framework is short but sweet. If anything this is an indication that our design choices with 0.1. via Pocket

In the span of only a few years, JavaScript has fast become the most valuable language I’ve ever worked with. I know I’m not alone on this one. via Pocket

Few computer science or software development programs attempt to teach the building blocks of scalable systems. via Pocket

“Want to lose weight? Make sure you start off with a healthy breakfast, so you can get that metabolism firing first thing in the morning!  Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.” via Pocket

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What does it take to be a good parent? We know some of the tricks for teaching kids to become high achievers. For example, research suggests that when parents praise effort rather than ability, children develop a stronger work ethic and become more motivated. via Pocket

Async coding patterns are the subject of never-ending debates for us node.js developers. Everyone has their own favorite method or pet library as well as strong feelings and opinions on all the other methods and libraries. via Pocket

Earlier this year I created a survey asking fellow designers about the problems they faced when creating fully responsive sites. This article will list the most common problems they reported and offer possible solutions, along with suggestions to consider on your next projects. via Pocket

Does this (messy) branch history look familiar to you? Keeping a clean history in git comes down to knowing when to use merge vs. rebase. Great quote describing when to use each: via Pocket

We’re going to cut straight to the chase. Modern browsers can animate four things really cheaply: position, scale, rotation and opacity. If you animate anything else, it’s at your own risk, and the chances are you’re not going to hit a silky smooth 60fps. via Pocket

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Layout Thrashing occurs when JavaScript violently writes, then reads, from the DOM, multiple times causing document reflows. When the DOM is written to, layout is 'invalidated', and at some point needs to be reflowed. via Pocket

There’s a wild meme on the loose. A significant number of people seem to have decided that “px” in CSS is an angular unit rather than a unit of length, and moreover that it is in some sense “non-linear”. This is wrong – WRONG! Confusion runs deep and common sense is imperiled. via Pocket

Dependency injection frameworks are relatively uncommon in node. On the client, Angular uses dependency injection, but the learning curve of Angular is so steep that the core of dependency injection ends up being obscured by all the other concepts. via Pocket

A trampoline is a loop that iteratively invokes thunk-returning functions (continuation-passing style). via Pocket