"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway"
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Andrew S. Tanenbaum,
Author and computer scientist
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Our beloved Julia EvansΒ just released a fantastic new article. This time she talks about DNS and why it is still hard to learn, even after 35 years! It's a fascinating article that can help you to understand some of the most fundamental mechanics of the web. The best part is that Julia also announces Mess with DSN, a DNS playground where you can create real records and experiment with them! If you are brave enough, you can even use it to receive emails! π±
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Mr. Matt Pocock of TypeScript fame, goes into the topic of TypeScript interfaces vs types. Which ones should you use? Why do two very similar alternatives exist? And what are the differences? If this topic has been confusing you as much as it has been confusing me, this article is going to be pure gold!
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Here's an interesting article about some modern HTML tags that you might not have encountered just yet! The one that I did not know is the <datalist> one! π€― The web is becoming more powerful and interactive and it requires less and less JavaScript every day!
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The creators of Deno have come up with an interesting open-source tool called dnt that allows you to write your JavaScript modules and then transform them to support CommonJS, ESM, browsers, Deno, Node.js, TypeScript, and more. I haven't tried it yet, but I wish something like this existed for a while! Did you know about this? Have you used it already?
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All client-side JavaScript code is "open" code by default. Even if you mangle and minimise it, experienced developers can always pull up their debugger and reverse engineer what the code is doing! So, is there anything we can do to make that harder? Maybe we are running something that needs to be harder to debug? This article showcases a very clever solution to this problem!
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Learn how to create a universal Design system with React and Web Components to use in any web application or framework.
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Can a single blog post contain (almost) all HTML tags? Patrick Weaver is here to make the point! Not really, this blog post is not some weird graphic experiment, it's actually a nice guide on the most common HTML tags that you should know!
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