The web's clipboard, and how it stores data of different types
20 minutes by Alex Harri | Exploring the web's clipboard APIs, their limitations, and their history. Alex covers the evolution of clipboard APIs, their limitations, and workarounds used by companies like Google and Figma. | WorkOS: sell to enterprises with just a few lines of code
sponsored by WorkOS | WorkOS is a modern identity platform built for B2B SaaS. It provides flexible and easy-to-use APIs to quickly integrate complex enterprise features like SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and Audit Logs. Some of the fastest growing startups like Vercel, Perplexity, and Webflow are already using WorkOS, saving hundreds of developer hours while shipping enterprise plans on day one. | Improving Application Availability
6 minutes by Mario Bittencourt | Mario introduces the concept of measuring availability in terms of "nines" (e.g., 99.999% uptime) and explores the challenges of achieving high availability, including increased costs and complexity. | Steve Ballmer's incorrect binary search interview question
3 minutes by John Graham-Cumming | John discusses a puzzle question Steve Ballmer used in Microsoft interviews, involving guessing a number between 1 and 100 with decreasing rewards for each guess. He might've been wrong. | Exponential rate limiting
8 minutes by Tony Finch | The method uses an exponentially-weighted moving average to measure client rates, offering more flexibility than traditional approaches like GCRA or leaky bucket algorithms. | Reasons to write design docs
10 minutes by Nicole Tietz | This article discusses the importance of writing, particularly design documents, in software engineering. Nicole highlights four main benefits of writing design docs: improving thinking and design process, enhancing collaboration, broadening organizational understanding, and providing historical context for decision-making. | BrowserStack Bug Capture: Debug Faster with Data-Rich Bug Reports
sponsored by BrowserStack | Frustrated by incomplete bug reports? Say hello to comprehensive reports that actually tell you what went wrong. BrowserStack Bug Capture helps your team easily capture bugs with DevTools, screen recordings and environment info to help you debug faster. Get everything from console and React/Vue component logs to detailed network requests, all in one place so that you can focus on what matters: ensuring code quality. | | newsletters | | | Would you like to become a sponsor and advertise in one of the issues? Check out our media kit and get in touch. |
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