Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

TL;DR: App stores exist to provide overpowered and easily abused native app platforms a halo of safety. Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. This post reviews these from a technical perspective.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In this article, we will look at the best software development businesses in the United States for 2023, emphasizing their experience, inventions, and contributions to the ever-expanding world of technology. You’re in luck if you’re seeking top software development companies to work with.

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Software Software Development Innovation 59

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 29, 2019

To an electrical engineer, however, feedback systems are filters and amplifiers. The feedback loop commandeers the sound system and the engineers, with all their knobs and dials, have to fight to bring the system back under control. Music is what you hear at a concert when feedback is under control. There’s an important lesson here.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

In this article, we will particularly look at the average page load time in 2021 and importance of web vitals. Ever since Google is switching towards “ mobile fast indexing ” it’s very important for a webmaster to keep the pages very well optimized to maintain visitor’s + search engine’s satisfaction level high.

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Alex Russell

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The tech news is chockablock [1] with antitrust rumblings and slow-motion happenings. In through eagle-eyed press coverage, regulatory reports, and legal discovery the shady dealings of Apple and Google's app stores are now comprehensively documented. Pressure for change has built to an unsustainable level; somethings gotta give.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

It has been brought to our attention that this piece is a reworded version of an article published on the Google Web Fundamentals site, written by our friend Jeremy Wagner. was the first browser to added the ability for animated GIFs to loop, which lead to the rise of animated GIFs as we know them today. Netscape Navigator 2.0

Performance 59

Performance Website C++ Open Source 59

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Current signals from usage on the O’Reilly online learning platform reveal: Python is preeminent. This year’s growth in Python usage was buoyed by its increasing popularity among data scientists and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. Still cloud-y, but with a possibility of migration. Security is surging.

Software Architecture 134

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Alex Russell

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

I tend to think it depends on how much you ascribe the rise of the web as a platform to luck and how much you attribute to its particular attributes; my guess is ~40/60 luck+timing vs. attributes. But that’s not what “semantic” means. It also is what makes great works so difficult to translate. Why is this important?

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Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

The rise of omni-channel retail that integrates marketing, customer relationship management, and inventory management across all online and offline channels has produced a plethora of correlated data which increases both the importance and capabilities of data-driven decisions. However, many of these models are highly parametric (i.e.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Generative AI has been the biggest technology story of 2023. Almost everybody’s played with ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, GitHub Copilot, or Midjourney. A few have even tried out Bard or Claude, or run LLaMA 1 on their laptop. What’s the reality? We wanted to find out what people are actually doing, so in September we surveyed O’Reilly’s users.

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