MongoDB: The Definitive Guide

When to refactor your code?

Make refactoring part of your Definition of Done by utilizing my developer tool — CodeLimitContinue reading on Better Programming »

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Attack in Modern Frontend Web

Vulnerabilities and solutionsCyber crime (Image licensed to the author)Today’s story is about the “XSS” gang. It’s a gang known for its cyber-criminal attacks, particularly XSS or “Cross-Site Scripting” attacks.This time, the gang attacked the website of a large company called “Appliance Garden.” The company enlisted the services of the cybersecurity startup

Advanced Tessellation with Metal: Dynamic B-Spline Surface

Advanced Tessellation With Metal: Dynamic B-Spline SurfaceFigure 1: Real-time Shallow Water Simulation and Cloth (Flag) Simulation on iPhone 13MiniTessellation is a GPU-supported technique for generating a fine mesh surface from much fewer control points. It is achieved by geometrically subdividing a rectangular or triangular area called patch into much smaller triangles by

Goals and Failure Modes for RFCs and Technical Design Documents

Lessons learned from experience steering technical design collaborationImage generated by Midjourney: A scroll depicting an architecture diagramAt a certain scale and ecosystem complexity, software engineers need a way to socialize their bigger design ideas outside of code review. Sometimes this starts as engineers just informally writing their ideas down in

Create a Chatbot Trained on Your Own Data via the OpenAI API

Learn how to build a chatbot and train it on your own data with the OpenAI API, and how to turn it into a web app to share with the world. Continue reading Create a Chatbot Trained on Your Own Data via the OpenAI API on SitePoint.

Making event-driven development predictable with Discover

SPONSORED BY DISCOVER FINANCIAL On this sponsored episode of the podcast, Ben and Ryan chat with Paul Manning and Emanuele Pugliese of Discover Financial about the tech that goes into payments and the way they approach developer experience and architecture. They talk about domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, Kafka Streams, and

A Guide to Optimizing JavaScript Files

Learn practical JavaScript file optimization techniques, how to deal with performance issues, and tools to help the optimization process. Continue reading A Guide to Optimizing JavaScript Files on SitePoint.

Apple’s Animation APIs: Through the Ages

Try out real code from NeXTSTEP to Mac OS X to SwiftUIContinue reading on Better Programming »

Stop Calling Kotlin Flows Hot and Cold

Asynchronous data streams don’t need coroutine thermodynamics, just good old-fashioned encapsulationContinue reading on Better Programming »