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Shalvah

Apr 7

Experiments in concurrency 1: Single-threaded webservers in PHP and Node.js

8 min read

Exposing sequential IDs is bad! Here is how to avoid it.

I think a hashid might be a better idea for that second use c...

Mar 29

Goodbye Offline Page

Had this issue too.

Mar 20

When Alternatives are Unhelpful: A Ruby Case Study

Yes! inject vs reduce caught me out too. The first time I saw...

Mar 2

How I write web apps in 2021 ?

Didn't plan on reading this because I don't do frontend, but ...

Feb 10

Errors Are Not Exceptions

Another thing is: I feel like we may be co-opting language te...

Jan 30

Errors Are Not Exceptions

What problem I see in returning errors is that there can be ...

Jan 30

Errors Are Not Exceptions

Still reading the article, but this kept bugging me, so I had...

Jan 30

Quiz: is this a programming language?

Wow, you guys have argued quite a bit😅. Some interesting poin...

Jan 22

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Shalvah

Mar 5

Understanding Lockfiles

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Mar 1

When Alternatives are Unhelpful: A Ruby Case Study

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4 min read

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Feb 26

Promises don't hold up the event loop

#javascript #node

1 min read

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Feb 24

Good Design is Analogous and Intuitive

#design #programming #javascript #php

5 min read

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Feb 20

Living with your (tech) choices

#javascript #php #programming

6 min read

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Feb 12

Unconventional Databases

#javascript #database #redis #node

8 min read

Shalvah

Feb 11

Understanding Percentiles

6 min read

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Feb 10

Improving Reliability, Part 1

#javascript #serverless #node #opensource

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7 min read

Shalvah

Jan 4

Comparing function handles across languages

#csharp #ruby #javascript #php

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11 min read

Shalvah

Dec 7 '20

A shallow dive into auto-instrumenting Node.js applications with Elastic APM

#javascript #elasticsearch #node

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5 min read

Shalvah

Nov 13 '20

Running non-blocking code in PHP with Amp

#javascript #webdev #php

5 min read

Shalvah

Sep 18 '20

Fun stuff: representing arrays and objects in query strings

#javascript #php #node

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5 min read

Shalvah

Aug 4 '20

Building thisvid.space's /open page

#programming #node #webdev #javascript

8 min read

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May 12 '20

On costs and contexts

#career #programming #learning #codequality

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5 min read

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Apr 16 '20

What's the big deal about immutability?

#immutability #javascript #architecture #php

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4 min read

Shalvah

Apr 15 '20

Helpful Node.js testing utilities

#testing #javascript #node

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3 min read

Shalvah

Nov 8 '18

What's software development like as a non-native English speaker?

#discuss #webdev #programming #beginners

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1 min read

Shalvah

Aug 21 '18

I was bored, so I made my website into a Node package. Here's how.

#showdev #node #beginners #javascript

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8 min read

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Aug 7 '18

A different syntax for enforcing business requirements

#showdev #cleancode #webdev #php

2 min read

Shalvah

Jun 26 '18

Pro tip: using Promise.then for function composition

#javascript #promises #functional

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1 min read

Shalvah

Jun 6 '18

How to build a realtime spreadsheets application with Pusher Channels - Part 4: Automatically cleaning up empty documents

#php #pusher #laravel #realtime

5 min read

Shalvah

Jun 6 '18

How to Build a Realtime Spreadsheets Application with Pusher Channels - Part 3: Showing current viewers

#pusher #realtime #php #laravel

5 min read

Shalvah

Jun 6 '18

How to build a realtime spreadsheets application with Pusher Channels - Part 2: Implementing realtime collaboration

#php #laravel #pusher #realtime

7 min read

Shalvah

Jun 6 '18

How to build a realtime spreadsheets application with Pusher Channels - Part 1: Users and spreadsheets

6 min read

Shalvah

May 14 '18

Meet Burns: cleaner application events for Node.js

#showdev #javascript #laravel #events

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1 min read

Shalvah

Mar 1 '18

Data constraints: database layer or app logic?

#discuss #sql #architecture

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1 min read

Shalvah

Feb 26 '18

Eliminating Hidden Dependencies

#php #dependencies #architecture #javascript

6 min read

Shalvah

Jan 2 '18

How to Build Twitter's Real-time Likes with Laravel Event Broadcasting

#realtime #php #laravel #pusher

42 1

11 min read

Shalvah

Jan 2 '18

How to Build Twitter’s Real-time Likes Feature with Node.js and Pusher

#pusher #node #javascript #realtime

21 1

7 min read

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