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C++ safety, in context

Sutter's Mill

To talk about C++’s current safety problems and solutions well, I need to include the context of the broad landscape of security and safety threats facing all software. tl;dr: I don’t want C++ to limit what I can express efficiently. tl;dr: I don’t want C++ to limit what I can express efficiently. issues with C++.

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HTML Validation Testing: An Introduction plus Tools & Tips

Testlodge

The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG), run by professionals from Apple, Mozilla, Google, and Microsoft and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) maintains these standards. Aside from being best practice, having clean code will ensure the web page looks and performs as the developer intended.

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Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

Smashing Magazine

Every major website on the Internet today relies — to some degree — on third-party services. The HTTP Archive tracks third-party usage across a large swath of all active websites on the Internet today. Configuring WebPageTest to run a test measurement that simulates a failure of the Google Fonts third-party service.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R. We ended up hiring Phil Parkman to take over managing our group, which by then also included my friend Dave Fisk, who I still hang out with regularly.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. Master the many facets of delivering high performance images on the internet—without adversely affecting site performance.

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Product-aligned vs Capability-aligned Organisation Design

Strategic Tech

Google might have a Google Drive department, a Google Maps department, an AdWords department and so on. Then along came the internet, so they set up a completely new department to build and operate online services. One perspective is to organise teams ‘vertically’, aligned with the company’s products.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). For each of them, Google recommends a range of acceptable speed goals.