How Sustainable is a Solar Powered Website? — Very, it turns out. “Our self-hosted, solar-powered, off-grid website has been running for 15 months now.” I enjoyed this story.

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GitHub CLI Now in Beta — GitHub has unveiled a new command line tool designed to make it easier to work with GitHub and common workflows there like handling pull requests, etc.

GitHub

Build Video in Just Two API Calls — Mux Video is an API-first platform, powered by data and designed by video experts to make beautiful video possible for every development team.

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ICANN To Allow .COM Price Increases? — Another month, another TLD is in the spotlight. This time, ICANN has announced significant changes to the contract it has with Verisign to operate the top-level domain .COM, including .COM price increases, and Namecheap invites you to make your feeling known.

Namecheap

Chrome's Plan to Prevent Insecure Downloads — Starting in Chrome 82, Chrome will block the download of files served insecurely when linked on secure origins. Here’s The Register’s take.

Joe DeBlasio (Google)

The Story of Let's Encrypt — Let’s face it, Let’s Encrypt’s automated certificate service has had a huge impact on the rollout of HTTPS across the Internet. This post summarizes a paper (PDF) that details the technical story behind the scenes.

the morning paper

The History of Git: The Road to Domination — Like JavaScript, the git version control system was essentially put together quickly in a week and has steadily grown from there into an industry dominating technology. Here’s the full story.

Andy Favell

Find a Dev Job Through Vettery — Vettery is completely free for job seekers. Make a profile, name your salary, and connect with hiring managers from top employers.

Vettery

DevOps Engineer at X-Team (Remote) — Work with the world's leading brands, from anywhere. Travel the world while being part of the most energizing community of developers.

X-Team

Building a Performant Front-End Architecture — A technical writeup of the key things to consider performance-wise when building a front-end.

DebugBear

Performance Testing HTTP/1.1 vs HTTP/2 Vs HTTP/2 + Server Push for REST APIs — If you’re unfamiliar with the performance dynamics and differences between these approaches, this is a good writeup and demonstration.

Evert Pot

Top GitHub Best Practices for Developers - Expanded Guide — Implementing these best practices could save you time, improve code maintainability, and prevent security risks.

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Should You Self-Host Google Fonts? — A detailed and considered look at what you can do to minimize the performance impact of third-party fonts.

Barry Pollard

Dynamic Route53 Records for AWS Auto Scaling Groups with Terraform

Jim Sheldon

Ask HN: What's The Best Resource for Learning Modern x64 Assembly? — I’ve been nostalgically dabbling with this recently and while I have no practical use for writing x86, if you do.. this thread will be useful.

Hacker News

Build a Lightning Quick Website using Hugo and S3 — One developer’s approach to a site that loads in 50ms.

Josh Bradley

Analyzing the Attacks On My Web Site — “With a little bit of command line kung fu, some Go and Google Sheets I’ll show you how to visualize who is attacking your site.”

Jeremy Morgan

The Fastest Way to Get Great Bug Reports from the Non-Technical Folk

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The Wall of Technical Debt — An interesting method for making technical debt visible and negotiable.

Mathias Verraes

Smaller Pieces, Lower Pain — It seems obvious when you say it but breaking tasks down into the tiniest possible pieces is a core tenet of engineering (and particularly diagnosis) to me.

Jessica Joy Kerr

Flash: A Test Service to Mock Slow Server Responses — A simple HTTP service that simulates a slow response with a configurable delay in millisecs. I used this to test a “loading” status React library, worked well.

Siwalik

Couchbase Cloud: It's Managed Couchbase as a Service — Couchbase, one of the earliest databases to be referred to as ‘NoSQL’, has joined the long line of databases with an official, managed, cloud-based service.

Scott Anderson

Shell Git: A Shell-Based git Implementation — Sorry, I couldn’t resist given it’s actually called shit for short. And it’s by open source hero Drew DeVault, the creator of sourcehut.

Drew DeVault

CheerpJ 2.0 Released: A Java to WASM and JS Compiler — This is a commercial tool (though free for non-commercial purposes) but as someone who started on the Web in the 90s, the idea of Java being compiled to JavaScript continues to amuse :-)

Stefano De Rossi

ssh-over-ssm: Use AWS SSM to Connect to Instances over SSH

L1

Wrangler: A CLI Tool for Working with Cloudflare Workers — Workers is Cloudflare’s platform for distributing JavaScript to run at the ‘edge’ around the world.

Cloudflare