jeffhandley.com
GraphQL is not OData
3,798 words | 13 minutes | Wednesday 6am | Favourited
For a couple years, I’ve observed scores of developers making ill-informed claims about GraphQL. People have claimed that GraphQL allows the client to demand sorting, paging, and filtering from the server. People have claimed that GraphQL can result in execution of arbitrary queries or joins.
www.theverge.com
Apple iPad Pro review 2018: the fastest iPad is still an iPad
2,896 words | 10 minutes | Tuesday 4pm | Favourited
Apple introduced the new iPad Pro with a spectacular series of statistics that made laptops seem like old news.
www.smashingmagazine.com
CSS Frameworks Or CSS Grid: What Should I Use For My Project?
3,373 words | 12 minutes | Friday 7pm
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medium.com
Macho Anti-Patterns
3,299 words | 11 minutes | Friday 11pm
Indulge me in an analogy: Imagine you’re at a pool party. There’s laughter, splashing, someone’s tossing around a beach ball. And then this idyllic scene is pierced by shrieks of horror. The once-happy swimmers are swarming out of the pool, their faces contorted in disgust. There are tears.
blog.gorgias.io
Small engineering team as a competitive advantage
1,705 words | 6 minutes | Thursday 8am
It's been over 3 years since we've started working on the Gorgias helpdesk. The engineering team started with just me (Alex) and then gradually grew to a team of 5 people. We're a small team, but we've accomplished a lot during this period.
www.theverge.com
Anki Vector review: modern-day Tamagotchi
1,639 words | 5 minutes | Thursday 8am
Anki, the toy maker most well-known for its automated miniature race cars, has always billed itself as an artificial intelligence company with a knack for building robots.
zapier.com
How We Automated Our Engineering Skills Test for Hundreds of Applicants
1,630 words | 5 minutes | Thursday 8am
Implement an algorithm that computes a minimum spanning tree for a weighted undirected graph. Don’t worry, we aren’t going to ask you a question like that.
www.wired.com
From Mindblowing Sci-Fi to a Reddit Tell-All, Read Up With Our Favorite End-of-Year Books
1,516 words | 5 minutes | Friday 11pm
You've got a little more than seven weeks left before the end of 2018. You've probably also got a pile of books you bought this year that you still haven't finished. Normally we'd tell you to buckle down—but not right now.
medium.com
The Outrageous Cost of Skipping TDD & Code Reviews
1,034 words | 3 minutes | Thursday 8am
In recent years, I’ve had more and more companies ask me to speak on the benefits of Test Driven Development (TDD) and share advice about how to implement a more productive quality process. TDD is the process of writing automated tests to ensure that code works before writing the implementation.
developer.sonos.com
Sonos on IFTTT: How We Did It and Why It Matters
1,032 words | 3 minutes | Thursday 8am
Sonos has always had a focus on creating meaningful partnerships. From music services to voice to our Works With Sonos certification program, we want to listen to our favorite audio content whenever and wherever.
napoleoncat.com
Customer service on Twitter: This Airpod Rescue Story Says It All
891 words | 3 minutes | Wednesday 6am
Want to learn social customer service from the best? See how this train service team in San Francisco rocked Twitter. Facebook may well be the new “king” of social customer care.
kevq.uk
Kev Quirk
740 words | 2 minutes | Thursday 6pm
Regular readers of this blog will know that I went through a process of de-Googling my life a while ago. For the most part I think the process was pretty successful, however there were some things that I couldn’t replace.
aurelia.io
Aurelia 2018 Q3 Report
654 words | 2 minutes | Thursday 8am
We continue to make significant enhancements in today's Aurelia. During the last few months, we've added some pretty major capabilities to our core platform. Today, we're happy to introduce you to Aurelia Script.
dev.to
Making the switch from laptop to desk
211 words | 1 minute | Thursday 6pm
In light of the new affordable Mac Mini 2018's, and the extra bonus of it being user-upgradable in terms of RAM, I've already got a NAS with tons of storage available so 128G SSD is effectively a boot drive.
kottke.org
How Sevilla Became a Bicycle City in Just 18 Months
183 words | 1 minute | Thursday 8am
In just a few years, Sevilla, Spain went from almost no bike paths and low ridership to robust network of bike paths and many people using them.