Reading List
- The Origin of Tweet
Craig Hockenberry
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28 Apr 2021
Last week, one of my colleagues informed me that the word “tweet” was now included in the Oxford English Dictionary (see “Quiet announcement” at the end of the page.) The noun and verb tweet (in the social-networking sense) has just been added to the OED. This breaks at least one OED rule, namely th…
- Hello, Modules!
JavaScript Modules, also known as ESM, is finally here!
- On Software Rewrites
You have been working on building a wonderful piece of software, that people actually love using. It solves a problem, and people would be really upset if it went away tomorrow. You’ve finall…
- Exploring Temporality in Databases
Aditya Mukhopadhyay
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5 May 2021
A deep-dive into the concepts behind time-traveling databases that are capable of version-controlling their data.
- I’ve analyzed the accessibility of over 1600 personal sites
Darek Kay
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4 May 2021
How accessible are personal blogs and portfolio websites?
- Software disenchantment
Everything is going to hell and nobody seems to care
- Blog Archive for Docusaurus
John Reilly
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1 May 2021
Docusaurus doesn’t ship with “blog archive” functionality. By which I mean, something that allows you to look at an overview of your historic blog posts. It turns out it is fairly straightforward to implement your own. This post does just that.