So you're starting a bootstrapped web-based business and you're deciding on the tech stack. After running a software startup with zero funding for 13 years, here's what I have to say about this.
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I see a lot of websites and apps using "box-shadow" like this box-shadow: 0px 0px 20px 5px #ddd
. Which literally means "lets have a #ddd-colored shadow, with zero offset, 5 pixels wide and 20 pixels blurred".
Which is perfectly fine, for the most part.
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Everyone's being paranoid about AI these days. And the less people are familiar with the subject, the more concerned they are. Even some of my tech friends, even - believe it or not - software engineers, the ones have a very vague idea of how AI/ML works, are expressing their concerns.
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Sometimes you need to allow users to post HTML to the server. And, by default, this is the error you're going to get:
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The first part of this post applies only if you run ASP.NET on Windows, you can simply skip to the regex hack if not interested, but I strongly recommend you read the whole post.
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The following chart shows the impact on CPU usage after applying the Meltdown patch.
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Seems like Google is finally giving up trying to build their own social network. They have found another way of sneaking into your personal life: Google Photos
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I have received dozens of emails after my recent IndieHackers interview and this is just awesome. Nothing I like more than chatting with fellow entrepreneurs.
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Almost any "optimize ASP.NET for best speed" tutorial out there suggests optimizing the URL-generation process in some way. You know, getting rid of those Url.Action("Action", "Controller")
calls that are expression-tree based, replacing them with RouteUrl
, or implementing some route-resolution caching etc etc..
For those of you who run SQL Server on cloud VMs (AWS or Azure), here's an awesome performance hack I have recently discovered. It's called "buffer pool extensions" and it's been introduced in SQL Server 2014 and later ("standard" edition or higher).
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