People once thought the banking industry was too big to fail, some seriously big financial institutions ultimately proved that wrong during the Global Financial Crisis of 2008/2009 which saw many seemingly unsinkable companies go out of businesses.
Early 2019, after two deadly crashes of the allegedly bigger and better 737 MAX, the plane was grounded by countries around the world as people scrambled to find answers for what happened. After numerous investigations, the culprit turned out to be MCAS also known by its non-abbreviated mouthful of a name Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System.
The hype surrounding Svelte right now is inescapable. Every blog post comment section, the article comment section on Dev.to or Twitter thread/hot take seems to solicit a response about Svelte.
If you are not familiar, Svelte is a Javascript library which leverages a compiler to turn your Svelte code into plain old Javascript and HTML. You write your applications inside of .svelte files and they get compiled to something that has no runtime.
Being a parent, as any other parent would attest is rewarding, but hard work. And nothing has made modern parenting more challenging than YouTube.
We managed to not expose our firstborn son to any TV or screens until he was two. We were doing well until we had a trip booked from Australia to the UK, which was a 23-hour trip. We bit the bullet and bought an iPad to load up with some activities for the journey and some carefully selected YouTube videos.
As ubiquitous as state management has become in front-end development, it is still a confusing magical black box to most developers. Data goes in, data goes out, and nobody thinks about what happens in-between.
Some developers believe the answer to the question in my title is: always. While some don’t believe in using state management at all and if you’re like me, the answer is: it depends.
When state management gets added to an application that meets the criteria for using it, a weight gets lifted off your shoulders, and things make sense. Prematurely introduce state management or use it in places where you shouldn’t, and your life becomes a tangled mess.
Testing is a crucial part of any modern development process. If you’re not testing your code, you might as well be writing it blindfolded and hoping when you push to production that it works, if the company doesn’t go bankrupt from all of the bugs first.
But, I am a realist. Being honest, we all start out wanting to build things right. We want to test everything, writing both unit and integration tests to make sure everything works as intended. The company you work for might even allow for time to write tests until reality hits you on the back of the head.
All eyes are on Facebook at the moment as it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica a third-party company exploited loopholes in Facebook’s platform to obtain as much as 87 million Facebook users information through some fake survey application.
While this is a terrifying situation knowing that such a large amount of data was harvested, can we honestly say that we are really surprised something like this has happened?
Facebook isn’t alone It’s easy to blame Facebook, they’re the biggest social network and they know a lot about us, but they’re not the only online company with a trove of information.
I still fondly remember when Medium first hit the scene. Everyone loved the quality of the writing and variety, every article I read was seemingly well-written and of high quality.
Fast forward to 2017 and Medium has become the equivalent of a never-ending TED Talk. Everyone wants to improve my life and tell me how to be a better person.
The good articles are still there, but there is a serious imbalance of content going on, with the “X things you need to do for a better life” or “How to be a better X”
If you’re a developer, then there is a very high possibility that at some point, you’ve needed to Google an issue and you encountered a StackOverflow question and got the help you needed.
Personally, I hit StackOverflow a few times per week, sometimes on a daily basis if I am tackling something I do not fully understand.
All of the developers I know use adblockers (I use uBlock Origin in Chrome) and by default blocking advertisements everywhere. But if there is one site that deserves to be whitelisted: it’s StackOverflow.
If you’re not familiar with Gimlet Media, they were famously founded via the StartUp podcast where season one detailed the highs and lows of a couple of seasoned guys experienced in the podcast world to form a podcast company.
As Gimlet Media grew, so did their roster of shows. One such show I enjoyed listening too more than anything else was Mystery Show.
I thought StartUp kind of tapered off a little after the explosive first season, as Gimlet started to become bigger and its show roster grew, something was bound to give.
Chances are if you’re Australian, then you’re well aware Masters the previously Woolworths owned Bunnings competitor that failed is closing down December 11th, 2016.
Just like the Dick Smith “fire sale”, Masters are selling all of their stock at discounted prices. The issue here is the supposed discounts are a farce.
There are bargains to be had, but for the most part, a lot of the discounted goods are at most discounted 40%, to the contrary 60% and 70% that has been advertised.