At the end of the original film, Rebel ships fly along the Death Star trench in an attempt to blow up the space station. […] Can you point to the trench that Luke and the Rebels flew down to fire upon the exhaust port that would ultimately destroy the space station? And nopes, it’s not …
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Wire – Modern communication. Full privacy.
Wire is a modern, private communications tool offering free text, voice, video, pictures, and much more. Wire is available on iOS, Android and desktop. Wire conversations are end-to-end encrypted, ensuring all data is private and secure. There are no ads, banners, popups, takeovers — none of that. Wire does not sell your usage data to …
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Using Immutable Caching To Speed Up The Web
Firefox shipped with support for Cache-Control: Immutable: The benefits of immutable mean that when a page is refreshed, which is an extremely common social media scenario, elements that were previously marked immutable with an HTTP response header do not have to be revalidated with the server. No more 304‘s for those resources, because the browser …
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How to design clarity in 3 steps
This article is a quick summary of a basic design course. It addresses a simple question: How do you design interactive systems that are easy to understand? Well, it all comes down to two things: structure and process. Next to the content itself, I especially love the (animated) visuals created for this article. Now I …
Building an image processor on AWS Lambda using The Serverless Framework
Good writeup on setting up an image processor using The Serverless Framework, a thing comparable to the aforementioned apex (and with an awfully generic and confusing name imho 😉). When a user uploads a file an ObjectCreated event is produced and a Lambda function is invoked. The Lambda function calls Amazon Rekognition to detect the …
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How E.T. Really Phoned Home
The communication device E.T built to phone home? Totally legit, as described in an article in the April 1983 edition of “73 Magazine” (an amateur radio magazine): If it were not for an inventive ham, E. T. might still be trying. In this exclusive article, the designer of the little guy’s communicator unveils its inner …
Diving into the Unknown
In this feature length documentary the viewers are taken into a secret operation where a group of Finnish cave divers try to retrieve the bodies of their friends from deep inside underwater cave in Norway. Now they have to face the burden of their own fears during this life-threatening mission. It’s only mentioned very quickly …
Mixed Content and Responsive Images
Interesting issue Jonathan Snook ran into when switching a site over to HTTPS. Even though images from HTTP resources should still get loaded by the browser (as they are Passive Mixed Content, and thus tolerated), they weren’t: After some digging, I noticed that the images that weren’t loading were those defined using the <picture> element. …
A checklist for all projects that are going live
The folks over at Spatie have open sourced the checklist they run each site/project through before hitting the “Go Live” switch. This kind of stuff should be open sourced more often. The list is a good starting point to creating your own list, but of course your mileage may vary depending on the type of …
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