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The latest Stack Overflow for Teams release makes it easier to encourage and grow contributions to your community through the use of flexible bounties, more user search options, Slack thread summarization, and more.
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Explore Vultr CDN's advanced features like CORS, Gzip compression, AI bot blocking, and seamless CMS integration for optimized content delivery. Continue reading Understanding Vultr Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) on SitePoint.
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Center a small blue sphere on every corner of an n-dimensional unit hypercube. These are the points in ℝn for which every coordinate is either a 0 or a 1. Now inflate each of these small spheres at the same time until they touch. Each sphere will have radius 1/2. For
Read moreChris’ Corner: Variables
CSS has a feature called Custom Properties. You know this. html { --brandColor: red; } .card { border-color: var(--brandColor); h2 { color: var(--brandColor); } } People also — somewhat interchangeably — refer to these as CSS variables. Somehow, that doesn’t bother me, even though I tend to be a stickler
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Imagine in a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors one player is free to play as usual but the other is required to choose each option the same number of times. That is, in 3n rounds of the game, the disadvantaged player much choose Rock n times, Paper n times, and
Read moreOn the web, data doesn’t define us. It creates us.
In this episode, Ben interviews Jannis Kallinikos, a professor at Luiss University in Rome, Italy about his new book Data Rules: Reinventing the Market Economy, coauthored with Cristina Alaimo. They discuss the social impact of data, explore the idea that data filters how we see the world and interact with
Read moreEffortless Content Publishing: A Developer’s Guide to Adobe Experience Manager
Empower Your Web Development: Leveraging Adobe’s New Experience Manager for Streamlined SharePoint Content Publishing and Enhanced Workflow Efficiency Continue reading Effortless Content Publishing: A Developer’s Guide to Adobe Experience Manager on SitePoint.
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