The Polyglot Developer

OCTOBER 25, 2014

Adding social media features to your application is a great way help spread the word, without actually doing anything. Social media can bring good traffic for you, the developer, and provide useful features to your user at the same time. Take for example, you made a mobile app that finds funny pictures on the internet.

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Tim Kadlec

APRIL 10, 2012

A little while back, I mentioned I was doing some research for the book about how images are downloaded when media queries are involved. png'); width:200px; height:75px; } @media all and (max-width: 600px) { #test2 {display:none;} }. png'); width:200px; height:75px; } @media all and (max-width: 600px) { #test3 { display:none; } }.

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MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

As the media coverage of the project ramps up, you may have heard of Starlink – SpaceX’s new satellite constellation project. A lot of coverage on this project is centered (rightfully) around the potential of this project to deliver fast internet to underdeveloped nations at a minimal cost. Elon Musk’s need for speed.

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CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Over on the Polypane blog (there’s no byline but presumably it’s Kilian Valkhof ( it is )), there is a great article, Creating websites with prefers-reduced-data , about the prefers-reduced-data media query. It’s the same spirit with accessibility and the prefers-reduced-motion media query.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

As organizations started learning about Log4Shell from news feeds, blogs, and social media, the Dynatrace security team—and Dynatrace Application Security—kicked into action. The vulnerability enables a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a service on the internet if the service runs certain versions of Log4j 2.

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O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Using models like GPT-3, multiple entities could inundate social media platforms with misinformation at a scale where the majority of the information online would become useless.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 5, 2022

The technologies marketed under the "web3" umbrella are generally not fit for purpose : Jonty Wareing @jonty Out of curiosity I dug into how NFT's actually reference the media you're "buying" and my eyebrows are now orbiting the moon 30001 12:30 PM · Mar 17, 2021. Oh, and that URL is not the media. It refers to nothing.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

That ensures that the video will start playback quickly and is much less likely to stall during playback — no matter the speed of your user’s internet connection. Your video streaming tool should fit into your existing media pipeline. It’s truly a one-stop platform for visual media processing. (vf, Image credit: imgix ).

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

(Ben Thompson ends his article by saying that Sydney doesn’t feel like a search engine; it feels like something completely different, something that we might not be ready for—perhaps what David Bowie meant in 1999 when he called the Internet an “ alien lifeform ”).

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O'Reilly

MARCH 26, 2024

To zoom out again, we live in a society where mainstream journalism has been carved out and gutted by the internet, search, and social media. The New York Times is one of the last serious publications standing and they’ve worked incredibly hard and cleverly in their “digital transformation” since the advent of the internet.

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Testlodge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Results may vary because of factors like resolution, internet speed, and different OS versions. For medium to large scale applications, compatible with all commonly available operating systems and internet browsers is essential. Media may not play on some environments. Why Perform Compatibility Testing? Files may not show.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Media and Entertainment – BBC , Channel 4 , ITV , News UK , The FT , Trinity Mirror , The Guardian. Mid-sized Organisations – Haven Power , Holiday Extras , ">Exeter Family Friendly , ">Royal Opera House , ">Total Jobs , Retail Companies – Shop Direct , Nisa Retail , Kurt Geiger , Sport Pursuit.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Earlier, people only had a desktop and a limited number of browsers to surf the internet. Media : The next important aspect of a fully responsive website is media, i.e. images or videos. It is crucial to ensure that the media change their size or resolution according to the requirement 3.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The Marshall Project Mixes Media. That it could find a new audience as an animated series online, then be nominated for not one but two Emmys , is testament to the transformative powers of the internet. Speaking of the transformative powers of the internet, how about an interactive story. Maybe a heat map is better than a table.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 10, 2017

More and more we see stories appearing, like this one in HBR by MIT Media Lab's Joi Ito and crew. It praises the power of blockchain as a disruptive technology, on par with how "the internet" changed everything. I am always surprised to see that these far-reaching predictions are made, without diving into the technology itself.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The major application for high quality compression of photos is Internet speed. While bandwidth does continue to increase each year, so does the quality and size of most Internet media. The most promising compression tool right now was developed by the Alliance for Open Media on its AV1 format and is called AVIF.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The entire country of China’s internet connectivity is shielded by the Great Firewall (GFW). There are three state-owned ISP providers, China Unicom, China Telecom, and China Mobile , that control internet in China. The most recent technology automatically shuts internet off whenever blacklisted URLs are accessed.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 3, 2019

After HTTP/2, coming up next is QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections). After HTTP/2 has fulfilled its task of speeding up HTTP(S) and has become the basis for fast TLS connections, QUIC goes one step further by aiming to replace the TCP transport protocol in the Internet. Unique sequence numbers ensure that no data packet get lost.

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Rigor

JUNE 12, 2019

Alla Gringaus has worked with a multitude of well-established technology and media brands, including TIME , People , The Economist , and the American Kennel Club, carrying hands-on and leading roles in front-end development and UX, all driven by user-centered design. The Internet was built for resilience, not for performance.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Our teams are helping companies of all sizes, operating in various industries, such as finance, business, media, and many others, move to the cloud. Lors de ses quatre années d’existence, elle a réussi à se développer jusqu’à réunir plus de 1,3 milliards d’utilisateurs sur Internet.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

It's an entertainment website where users can post content or "memes" that they find amusing and share them across social media networks. Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks.

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CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 15, 2019

ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications). One major drawback of this new approach is that CSS media queries can no longer be used to conditionally apply styles based on the content’s width (since the content no longer loads in a separate, embedded document). Defines the ARIA roles, states, and properties. ARIA Authoring Practices.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

The daily media consumption on mobile devices has grown by 504 percent since 2011[2]. The rise of mobile internet usage is evident across developed economies as well as developing ones (India, Bangladesh, etc.)[3]. that require internet connectivity. that require internet connectivity. online shopping, bill payments, etc.)

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In the late 1990s, marketing and advertising agencies saw the potential of eye-tracking for the Internet and started using the technology to analyze how people consume content online. Before those studies, web pages were designed as printed media, with columns and big blocks of text. Source: mashable.com ) ( Large preview ).

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

Working from home is another tipping point, enabled by widespread deployment of laptops, home internet with capacity to run video (thanks in part to Netflix and other streaming services), and distributed productivity tools, then kicked over the line by the COVID-19 lockdown. Some kind of mandatory labeling seems to be needed.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 13, 2019

This is the shortest CSS example on the Internet that makes images responsive: /* The parent container */ main { display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, minmax(300px, 1fr)); } img { max-width: 100%; }. <main> <figure> <picture> <source media="(min-width: 900px)" srcset="[link]. <img

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. One of the best examples is Vox Media , the company behind The Verge and other high trafficked sites. In May 2015, Vox Media wrote about the slowness of their site and commitment to make them faster.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. The TNW team is doing a great job in getting an excellent program together that draws an audience from around the world, not just Europe, and there is an interesting mix of startups, enterprises, investors and media attending.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 10, 2016

The Internet of Things (IoT) Backend reference architecture demonstrates how to use AWS Lambda in conjunction with Amazon Kinesis, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon CloudWatch to build a serverless system for ingesting and processing sensor data. IoT Backend Serverless Reference Architecture.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 10, 2016

The Internet of Things (IoT) Backend reference architecture demonstrates how to use AWS Lambda in conjunction with Amazon Kinesis, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon CloudWatch to build a serverless system for ingesting and processing sensor data. IoT Backend Serverless Reference Architecture.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

I’ve been diligent about data backup throughout my life, but my files are fragmented amongst different media over the years—burning CDs and DVDs back in the day, several generations of external hard drives (that are in various states of decay), university servers, Dropbox, and other cloud services.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds. Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds. Measuring the carbon footprint of the web isn’t an exact science, but a report by the BBC in 2020 estimates that all internet activity accounts for around 3.7% Michelle Barker. Webmentions.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

That connection could be peer-to-peer across devices, and doesn’t have to be over the Internet. The authors built three (fairly advanced) prototypes using this CRDT stack: a Trello clone called Trellis , a collaborative drawing program, and a ‘mixed-media workspace’ called PushPin (Evernote meets Pinterest…). The brave new world.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Apple continues to self-preference through exclusive API access for Safari; e.g., the ability to install PWA s to the home screen, implement media codecs, and much else. This interpretation runs against the long practice of internet standards development and almost always hides an ulterior motive. Instead, Fruit Co.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Size Up The Competition The internet is a big place. This is the internet; you can do just about anything. Assets Optimization Whatever media assets you have on-site, for goodness sake optimize them. With Google Search Console you can see exactly where your pages are (or aren’t) ranking for different keywords. Google Trends.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Our world is now 30 years into its internet-driven, digital-centric life. Power has become concentrated in the hands of a few internet giants, who now wield undue influence. There are projects that are exploring versions of social media, ride-sharing, and other platforms that use this approach.

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