Natural one-liners
I learned to use Unix in college—this was before Linux—but it felt a little mysterious. Clearly it was developed by really smart people, but what were the problems that motivated their design choices? Some of these are widely repeated. For example, commands have terse names because you may have to
Read moreWhen is less data less private?
If I give you a database, I give you every row in the database. So if you delete some rows from the database, you have less information, not more, right? This seems very simple, and it mostly is, but there are a couple subtleties. A common measure in data privacy
Read moreEnhance Your React Apps with ShadCn Utilities and Components
Learn how to use ShadCn, a versatile library offering a wide range of utilities and components to enhance your React applications. Continue reading Enhance Your React Apps with ShadCn Utilities and Components on SitePoint.
Read more10 Best Create React App Alternatives for Different Use Cases
Here's a list of excellent Create react App alternatives, along with information that will help you make a choice Continue reading 10 Best Create React App Alternatives for Different Use Cases on SitePoint.
Read moreWho owns this tool? You need a software component catalog
We chat with Andrew Boyagi, Atlassian's Senior Developer Evangelist, about bringing great developer experience to teams and platforms with thousands of engineers. When the software sprawl gets so big you spend more time looking for answers than solving problems, it might be time to try something new.
Read moreAdditive functions
A function f from positive integers to real numbers is defined to be additive if for relatively prime numbers m and n, f(mn) = f(m) + f(n). The function f is called completely addititive if the above holds for all positive integers m and n, i.e. we drop the requirement that
Read moreControl Lazy Load, Infinite Scroll and Animations in React
Explore 3 use cases for working with the React Intersection Observer: lazy loading, infinite scrolling, and animation/transition triggers. Continue reading Control Lazy Load, Infinite Scroll and Animations in React on SitePoint.
Read moreChris’ Corner: Scroll Driven Delight
I’m pretty hot on Scroll-Driven Animations! What a wonderful idea that we can tie @keyframe animations timelines to scroll positions. And I’m sure the creators of it thought long and hard, because the API makes a ton of things possible. It’s not just “how far the entire page has scrolled”,
Read moreBuilding a Research Assistant Tool with AI and JavaScript
Learn how to develop an AI-powered research tool using JavaScript, leveraging the latest AI advancements to sift through tons of data faster. Continue reading Building a Research Assistant Tool with AI and JavaScript on SitePoint.
Read moreFrequency analysis
Suppose you have a list of encrypted surnames names of US citizens. If the list is long enough, the encrypted name that occurs most often probably corresponds to Smith. The second most common encrypted name probably corresponds to Johnson, and so forth. This kind of inference is analogous to solving
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