Tech Snacks by Passionate People

Learn how to optimize your pages for instant loads when using the browser's back and forward buttons.

Microsoft FrontPage has its thorns, but don't discount the fact that those thorns are attached to a rose.

Great news for everyone concerned about the Flash end of life planned for end of 2020: The Internet Archive is now emulating Flash animations, games and toys in our software collection. Utilizing an in-development Flash emulator called Ruffle, we have added Flash support to the Internet Archive’s Emularity system, letting a subset of Flash items […]

Beautiful pure CSS background patterns that you can actually use in your projects!

Your own link shortener that's easily deployed as a static site (for free) - jstayton/suri

When you work on your computer, there are so many things you take for granted: operating systems, programming languages, they all have to come from somewhere. In the late 1960s and 1970s, that somewhere was Bell Labs, and the operating system they were building was UNIX. They were building more than just an operating system […]

My journey of improving the performance of our ultra resolution storytelling tool Micrio by upgrading the JavaScript-only client to WebAssembly.

Spotify Codes are QR-like codes that can be generated to easily share Spotify songs, artists, playlists, and users. I set out to figure out how they worked, which led me on a winding journey through barcode history, patents, packet sniffing, error correction, and Gray tables. Spotify URIs Let’s start with Spotify URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers). Different pieces of media (artists, albums, songs, playlists, users) all have a URI. The ABBA song “Take a Chance on Me” has this URI:

Learn how to install Podman, practice its basic commands, transition away from Docker, and set up Apache HTTP Server 2.4 in a CentOS container with Podman.

Serverless is like a black hole. It promised exciting adventures, but the gravity sucked me in and I spend most of my efforts dealing with its complexity, in...

The React Framework in Deno. Contribute to alephjs/aleph.js development by creating an account on GitHub.

For the author, going remote led to reflections on the similarities between codebases and sourdough starter.

I've written production code in a variety of different languages throughout my career, including Hask...

Exploring the opportunities of asynchronous communication and the (conscientiously) written word.

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” – Ernest Hemingway Introduction  Looking back, I always struggled with writing. I felt pain every time I try to…