Chris’ Corner: More Like CSBest
We gotta talk about CSS! That’s my favorite thing! It’s always on the table for a good Chris’ Corner edition, but sometimes focusing on it entirely is best. Klint Finley called it “The modern web’s underrated powerhouse” for GitHub’s publication The ReadME Project back in February, and I’m inclined to
Read moreMukesh Bansal seeks over $100M valuation in new venture’s maiden funding
Mukesh Bansal of Indian fashion e-commerce giant Myntra and fitness platform Cultfit fame is evaluating a new venture. Even though he hasn’t yet decided on his exact plans for the new offerings – or their sequence – he already has a potential price in mind. Bansal, who stepped back from
Read moreHouse Republicans probe Threads in ongoing social media investigation
House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) has expanded his wide-ranging investigation of big tech and social media companies to include Threads, Meta’s new Twitter competitor. Representative Jordan subpoenaed Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft in February to learn about “how and to what extent the Executive Branch coerced and colluded with
Read moreDebugging Crashes and Deadlocks in Python using PyStack
Using PyStack’s “forbidden magic” to debug deadlocks, segmentation faults, crashes, and other difficult bugs in PythonContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreThreads as a gaming hub? Zynga founder-backed Artie is counting on it
Meta’s Threads has become a household name shortly after its debut earlier this month. Within a week of its launch, it attracted over 100 million users worldwide. The platform also recently achieved one-fifth of Twitter’s weekly active user base globally. Now, a startup named Artie is exploring new possibilities for
Read moreHow I Learned To Stop Fearing Deployments
This is a story I regularly tell engineers I work with because it’s profoundly impacted me as an engineering leader and person. When I was a team lead at carsales, my small team regularly made more than 20 deployments into production a week, including hotfixes for bugs that some of
Read moreTypeScript Wrapper: Optional Inputs and Dynamic Output Types
All images generated by Microsoft DesignerWhile many articles explain how to write a wrapper, we’ll show you how to control its type fully in this one. But first, let’s define what a wrapper is:A wrapper is a function that encapsulates another function. Its primary purpose is to execute additional logic that
Read moreTechnical Encounter: Low Code With Dash
Developing robust data applications with ease in DashContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreWriting Swift-Friendly Kotlin Multiplatform APIs — Part II
Writing Swift-Friendly Kotlin Multiplatform APIs — Part IILearn how to code libraries that your iOS teammates will not frown upon using it. In this chapter: name clashingImage generated by DALL-EThis is the second article in the series. I advise you to read the first one before proceeding.You wrote your first Kotlin Multiplatform library. You are
Read moreCorsair is buying mechanical keyboard maker Drop
Everyone seems to be buying a mechanical keyboard company these days. Corsair has one-upped them all by buying its own mechanical keyboard company. The Fremont, California-based peripheral maker today announced that it’s acquiring “certain assets” from Drop for an undisclosed, all-cash deal. “Drop has been acquired by Corsair,” Drop CEO
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