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DPL Reading List – December 11, 2020
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. Meet GPT-3. It Has Learned to Code (and Blog and…
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Azure Vision: Who Didn’t Make Coffee?
At Don’t Panic Labs, I get to see many business deals that come through. Over the years, they seem to have increased in complexity. Probably the most obvious way they have grown is in the number of pieces. It isn’t uncommon for a solution to have many subsystems, be hosted in the cloud, have many…
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DPL Reading List – December 4, 2020
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. The Leadership and Artistry of Tony Hsieh – A remembrance…
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Google Firebase: Revisited
I haven’t been a fan of Google Firebase for quite some time. We used it for one project here at Don’t Panic Labs, and it was a pain to work with. The pain comes from three main gripes: It didn’t have a great local development story The technologies in Firebase feel somewhat odd to interact…
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DPL Reading List – November 27, 2020
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. A Sealed Copy of Super Mario Bros. 3 Just Sold…
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AWS Lambdas with TypeScript plus Debugging: Yes You Can
AWS Lambdas give us quick code running in the cloud, but we don’t have to know how it is hosted. We are purely just writing functions running in the cloud. And with AWS CodeStar, getting a Node.js/Express.js Lambda set up and running has never been easier. This all seems great, but it does come with…
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DPL Reading List – November 20, 2020
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. Hands-on with the Apple M1—a seriously fast x86 competitor – Ars…
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Quick Look – AWS Honeycode
We write a lot of applications that automate backend processes. These are typically applications that can be a little rough in terms of their user experience because they only function for a few (and often more technically savvy) users. These applications are often heavily data-driven, which is why they usually start in Excel before we…
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DPL Reading List – November 13, 2020
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. With Its Own Chips, Apple Aims to Define the Future…
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Reflections on “CSS Refactoring” by Steve Lindstrom
Why I Read This Book I’ve worked in software development professionally for about six years, throughout which much of my time has been spent in front-end web development. In that time, I have written my fair share of CSS and Sass, but I have never felt especially competent while doing so. I can typically style…
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