Reading List
- RSS is Wonderful
Brandon Quakkelaar
Inspired by Web Rings from the 90s, I created a tool for serendipitous discovery of blogs called RSS Discovery Engine. Similar to how web rings work, I make the assumption that interesting blogs will tend to link to other related blogs, and therefore, linked blogs are likely to also be interesting.
- 10 Ways to Handle Files on the Web!
Patrick Brosset
Websites usually don’t use files much. Files are usually a thing that desktop applications like working with. In fact, mobile devices also don’t usually use files, they prefer sharing data between apps directly, and putting everything in the cloud where things are just images, movies, songs, or messages with no information whatsoever as to how these are stored on the disk.
- Logging With Intent
Systems running in the digital world need to communicate with the real world to provide information about their state and behavior in case of problems.
- Common "Gotchas" when Deploying on Digital Ocean App Platform
Vincent A Saulys
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20 Oct 2021
Digital Ocean’s App Platform was launched in October 2020 with the intent to take on Heroku and other PaaS. But is it any good?