Rendering on the Web

Quick Gulp cache busting

By Chris Coyier

Cache is hard (and you should cache hard). Why do you think we keep telling people “must be the cache, just do a hard refresh and presto”? Here are a few tips on busting caches effectively, so those assets live on disks precisely as long as they need to and not a second longer.

https://css-tricks.com/quick-gulp-cache-busting//

Fail fast and fail often: handling API errors at scale

By Akshay Nathan

Usually the popularity of your APIs – whether public-facing or feeding your apps – is a good problem to have. Handling errors they generate, on the other hand – and generate they will – is not so fun.

You don’t need CSS-in-JS

By Colby Fayock

I look back at the times when I was just a simple back end Specialist and hearing about concepts like CSS-in-JS just made me chuckle with a twinkle in my eye. Nowadays I do a lot of front end fun though, and I do use CSS-in-JS – should I, though? Here’s an opinion.

https://medium.com/dailyjs/you-dont-need-css-in-js-why-i-use-stylesheets-74a6e264e010

Git is eating the world

By Jan van den Berg

Linus Torvalds seems to have a thing with his personal projects spiraling just a bit out of control. How did a tool that was built for the sole purpose of hosting the changes for Linux’s kernel become the world’s VCS of choice? Here’s a little story.

https://j11g.com/2019/08/21/git-is-eating-the-world/

Rendering on the Web

By Jason Miller and Addy Osmani

The good old days of nascent Web development, when a website was still a thing you viewed on a computer over a modem connection, are decidedly long gone. But the modern Web development can be daunting to the savviest of us. If things like SSR, TTFB and FCP make you go OMG WTF?, here’s a little writeup by some folks at Google to help you orient yourself.

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/02/rendering-on-the-web

Bonus! A little something off the personal reading list of yours truly: ever wondered what all this jazz about .NET Core is? Here’s a little writeup on how to build a GraphQL API with it.

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