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Marco.orgby Marco Arment13 Sept 2021
After the dust settles from the developer class-action settlement, the South Korean law, the JFTC announcement, and the Apple v.
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Benoit Pasquierby Benoit Pasquier11 Sept 2021
Like many developers, I use open source tools on daily basis. Recently, I’ve got the chance to create one for other teammates and try to think about what I should consider before launching it.
More keyboard shortcuts to improve your Firefox experience - Waldeinsamkeit
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown9 Sept 2021
Since we are forced to spend most of our time using a web browser, it becomes natural to try improving the ergonomics of this tool in any way possible, to the point that even a single small...
Make things that people want (instead of what you want them to want) • Slack Design
Slack Designby mlivingstone7 Sept 2021
There are plenty of comprehensive pieces on the practice of product design out there—our own Kyle Turman has written an excellent post on the Pillars of Digital Product Design—but there’s a crucial...
A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks
Distillby Benjamin Sanchez-Lengeling; Emily Reif; Adam Pearce; Alexander B Wiltschko2 Sept 2021
Neural networks have been adapted to leverage the structure and properties of graphs. We explore the components needed for building a graph neural network - and motivate the design choices behind...
Understanding Convolutions on Graphs
Distillby Ameya Daigavane; Balaraman Ravindran; Gaurav Aggarwal2 Sept 2021
Understanding the building blocks and design choices of graph neural networks. This article is one of two Distill publications about graph neural networks.
Stumping People for 1000* Years
The Atomic Birdhouse2 Sept 2021
* Base 2 Last week at 360iDev I hosted the 8th edition of Stump 360. Stump is an evening event that, to my surprise as much as anyone else’s, has become a tradition at 360iDev. What is Stump 360?
A Bit of Gradle Housekeeping
zsmb.coby Márton Braun1 Sept 2021
A Bit of Gradle Housekeeping 2021-09-01 • Márton Braun While cleaning is traditionally a spring activity, let me invite you to do it at the end of summer this time around.
When you should and shouldn't use React
ByteofDevby Jacob Jackson27 Aug 2021
When you should and shouldn't use React If you do web development, chances are, you know what React is.
Measurement, benchmarking, and data analysis are underrated
Dan Luu27 Aug 2021
A question I get asked with some frequency is: why bother measuring X, why not build something instead?
Design for Safety, An Excerpt
A List Apartby by Eva PenzeyMoog26 Aug 2021
Antiracist economist Kim Crayton says that “intention without strategy is chaos.” We’ve discussed how our biases, assumptions, and inattention toward marginalized and vulnerable groups lead to...
Service Architecture at SoundCloud — Part 2: Value-Added Services
SoundCloud Backstage Blog20 Aug 2021
This article is part of a series of posts aiming to cast some light onto how service architecture has evolved at SoundCloud over the past few years, and how we’re attempting to solve some of the...
Service Architecture at SoundCloud — Part 1: Backends for Frontends
SoundCloud Backstage Blog29 Jul 2021
This article is part of a series of posts aiming to cast some light onto how service architecture has evolved at SoundCloud over the past few years, and how we’re attempting to solve some of the...
Things I wish I knew in my early coding career
Benoit Pasquierby Benoit Pasquier25 Jul 2021
For the past few years, I had the opportunity to mentor new joiners through different roles. In some aspects, I could see myself in them the same way I started years back: eager to prove...
The Continuous Integration system used by the mobile teams
Alberto De Bortoliby Alberto De Bortoli23 Jul 2021
Originally published on the Just Eat Takeaway Engineering Blog. Overview In this article, we’ll discuss the way our mobile teams have evolved the Continuous Integration (CI) stack over the recent...
Keeping public API in check with the Kotlin binary validator plugin
zsmb.coby Márton Braun14 Jul 2021
Within the Stream Chat Android SDK project, we use the Kotlin binary compatibility validator plugin to keep track of all the changes we make to our public API.
How We Share Knowledge as a Web Collective
SoundCloud Backstage Blog14 Jul 2021
There’s no single platform team that consists of only web engineers at SoundCloud, even though we consider ourselves to be part of the “Web Collective.” Instead, all web engineers are split into...
The value of less
Erik Kroes - Accessibility Consultantby Erik Kroes8 Jul 2021
The value of less Posted on In 2019 we started planning for a new house. I started sketching layouts because I didn't know what our needs were.
npm audit: Broken by Design — overreacted
overreacted7 Jul 2021
npm audit: Broken by Design July 7, 2021 Security is important. Nobody wants to be the person advocating for less security. So nobody wants to say it. But somebody has to say it.
Announcing requireKTX
zsmb.coby Márton Braun17 Jun 2021
Announcing requireKTX 2021-06-17 • Márton Braun So, I got tired of writing code like this. requireArguments().getString("user_id")!!