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Understanding Weak Reference In JavaScript

Smashing Magazine

Let’s illustrate this with some snippets: let smashing = {name: "magazine"}; // The object can be accessed from the reference. // Overwrite the reference smashing. let smashing = {name: "magazine"}; let arr = [smashing]; // Overwrite the reference. smashing = null; console.log(array[0]) // {name: 'magazine'}. Additional Data.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf.

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Automatically Transforming And Optimizing Images And Videos On Your WordPress Website

Smashing Magazine

An example in case is this same website, Smashing Magazine. That’s why all avatars, the arrow button, and many other elements are all tilted, at the same angle as the Smashing logo is: Tilted elements in Smashing Magazine ( Large preview ). What about images?

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How To Optimize Progressive Web Apps: Going Beyond The Basics

Smashing Magazine

You can find a comprehensive Beginner’s Guide To Progressive Web Apps on Smashing Magazine that focuses on building the core of PWAs. IndexedDB is an in-browser NoSQL storage system that you can use to cache and retrieve the required data to make your PWA work offline. Let’s look at each one. Cached content with IndexedDB.

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Solving Common Cross-Platform Issues When Working With Flutter

Smashing Magazine

More specifically, we’re going to talk about storage and UI differences, which are the ones that most often cause confusion to developers when writing Flutter code that they want to be cross-platform. Example 1: Storage. Secure Storage On Mobile. The situation when it comes to mobile apps is completely different.

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USENIX LISA 2018: CFP Now Open

Brendan Gregg

LISA originally stood for "Large Installation System Administration," where "large" meant systems with more than a gigabyte of storage, or with more than 100 users. In fact, we’d link to the first LISA conference website for reference, but this conference not only predates the Wayback Machine – it also predates the World Wide Web!

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