Items of Interest

Frontend Security Tips

Deepak Gupta provides a very useful list of thirteen security tips for front-end developers, including disabling iframe embedding, using noreferrer anchor tags, and compartmentalising your application to reduce the threat surface area.

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Microsoft App Service Static Web Apps

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Microsoft has launched a static web apps product that allows for continuous deployment of a static web front end with dynamic serverless API powered backends. The apps can be automatically updated using a VS code extension that integrates with GitHub actions for continous deployment.

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Information Theory Introduction

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Information theory and entropy are theory topics that can quickly become very abstrast and difficult to get a handle on. Federico Carrone does a great job in this medium post at delivering an introduction to Information Theory that is based around real world scenarios to provide grounding context.

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Removing Orgaisation Silos

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Illustrated Agile are runing an excellent article series that deals with organisation silos. Part two of the series deals with how to work towards removing silos, by encourage personal journeys, developing fellowships and building accountability into the organisation.

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Bog Bodies Soundtrack

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Ahead of its release on May 27, a fantasticly eerie and atmospheric soundtrack for Bog Bodies was released. Bog Bodies by Declan Shalvey and Gavin Fullerton is a gangland crime thriller graphic novel set in Dublin and the excellent score is composer by Eric Kelleher.

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Podcast of the Week: David McWilliams & The Wizard of Oz

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You may be aware that the game Monopoly was actually invented by Lizzy Magie to highlight the inequalities of landlordism. This week in his podcast David McWilliams shares a similar bizzare historical origins story, this time about The Wizard of Oz which was actually a satircal commentary on the gold standard.

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Kanmail

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Struggling with managing all of your email in lockdown? Then Kanmail might be for you. Software developers Oxygem have released Kanmail, an email client app that lets you organise your email within a Kanban board.

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Real Database Schemas

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A large number of real life database schemas from open source projects such as Wordpress are available to view and learn from on the DrawSQL website.

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Manager's Playbook

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Kamil Sindi put together a great list of principles into a playbook for managers, which covers caoching, hiring, onboarding and announcing change, among other things.

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Life Advice

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Technologist elder Kevin Kelly published 68 Bits of Unsolited Advice, which are all gold.

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