I'm convinced that YouTube was changed intentionally to slow Edge
A small jQuery plugin for animating YouTube thumbnails Demo
This is a GitBook version of the '97 Things Every Programmer Should Know' project.
GitHub Copilot 'AI Pair Programmer' Now Generally Available at $10/Month
4 Signs of an Inexperienced Developer
Don’t worry, because every great programmer once was inexperienced
The Angular Framework Forces You To Learn More JavaScript, Making You A Better JavaScript Programmer
A .NET Programmer Tries Out GNU / Linux As A Primary OS.
In this episode, I talk about wanting to be a programmer at a certain age.
The full source tree with all the code, test code and everything that together constitutes the “Windows source code” is more than a half terabyte in size, in more than 4 million files. You can spend a year (seriously) just drilling down the source tree, more than a half million folders containing the code for every component making up the OS workstation and server products and all their editions, tools, and associated developement kits, and see what’s in there, read the file names and try to figure out what does what. It would take a life (or two) to read it all.
WhatsApp had 450 million monthly users and just 32 engineers when it was acquired. Imgur scaled to over 40 billion monthly image views with just seven engineers. Instagram had 30 million users and just 13 engineers when it was acquired for $1 billion dollars.
This is the new normal: fewer engineers and dollars to ship code to more users than ever before. The potential impact of the lone software engineer is soaring. How long before we have a billion-dollar acquisition offer for a one-engineer startup? How long before the role of an engineer, artisanally crafting custom solutions, vanishes altogether?
