Fuck you Facebook. That was the first thought I had when I woke up this morning. Followed by: What ministry is Mark Zuckerberg volunteering to manage for the dictators of the world? All I could think of is how Orwell’s Ministry of Love is about hate. So what are we creating here? The Ministry of Empowerment to ensure the oppression of the most vulnerable? Lovely. But maybe you, dear reader, have a better Ministry name for their new organizational identity?| danah boyd | apophenia
Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose| rachelbythebay.com
htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext htmx is small (~14k min.gz’d), dependency-free, extendable, IE11 compatible & has reduced code base sizes by 67% when compared with react| htmx.org
Software errors are expensive and dangerous. Best practices around testinghelp to improve software quality, but not all testing tools are created equal. In recent years, automated testing, which helps to save time and avoid developers' blind-spots, has begun to improve this state of affairs. In particular, property-based testing is a powerful automated testingtechnique that gives developers some of the power of formal methods without the high cost. PBT is incredibly effective at finding impor...| repository.upenn.edu
“Code the Perimeter” is the key insight of Kevin Greer’s fabulous 2016 analysis of why Unix beat Multics and what it means for Google’s mission to organize the world’s information. If you haven’t seen it, it’s well worth 7 minutes of your time.| You work for me, Computer.
I came up with a really slick trick to write E2E tests that deal with sending/receiving emails recently. This is the sort of thing that seems like it's probably usually sort of a nightmare — I wanted to write a test for registering a account on a website, where part of the flow was clicking on a validation link in a email.| Wesley Aptekar-Cassels