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2024 Web Almanac & Sustainability

The HTTP Archive have published this year's Web Almanac, which includes an interesting chapter on sustainability, and covers topics such as page weight, sustainable hosting, optimisation, and the W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG).

Environment

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AI Web Development With Bolt

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Bolt is an AI web development tool that can generate web sites and online systems across a range of software stacks from prompts.

AI & ML

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America Deems C, C++, Python, Javascript, PHP, Assembly (Memory) Unsafe

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This came out some time ago while FTW was on hiatus, but I think it is still worth of highlighting now. The American Government has deemed memory unsafe languages like C, C++, Python, Javascript, PHP and Assembly as unsafe for use in an attempt to reduce the attack surface area of government software and systems.

Tech

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One-line CSS Upgrades

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Modern CSS published a useful post describing new one-line CSS upgrades, such as aspect-ratio and width: fit-content.

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Colour Contrast Checker

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Colour Contrast is a slick online tool to check if a background and foreground colour meet AA and AAA WCAG levels.

Design

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Sqids - Short Id Generator

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Sqids is an open-source short id generator library, available in multiple programming languages, and guaranteed to be colission free.

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10 Truths About Working In Software

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Mensur Durakovic published a great post about 10 truths of working as a software engineer. The most notable piece of advice in my opinion is that you will profit more from good soft skills than good technical skills.

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