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5 Tips From Blind Web Users

Holly Tuke lists five handy tips to get right on your website to make sure blind users can read the page correctly using a screenreader. The tips include using headings correctly, and describing links correctly rather using "click here", among others.

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Green Hosting

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The Green Web Foundation publish a directory of web hosting companies in every country that provide proof of their green claims. Choose a provider on this green list the next time you are buying a hosting package.

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Computation Exam Answers

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Easy Theory on YouTube posted a 4 hour video which answers every Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) Theory of Computation exam question since 1991!

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Modern Product Specs

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Product Dave over on Product Coalition published a great step by step guide on how to make modern product specifications. The guide covers making wireframes, to feature identification with the team, through to wiki docs and high fidelity prototypes.

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Bloom Filters

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Onat Yigit Mercan posted a great explainer on Bloom filters, a data structure used as a sort of fuzzy hash map for membership of collections. The filters can be used to query if items are in a large database without using large amounts of memory. For example, a database of 1 million entries can use a bloom filter of just 1.14MB.

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Native JS Dates

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Elijah Manor posted a very handy primer on how to natively format javascript dates and times using toLocaleDateString() and toLocalTimeString().

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The First Webpage

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Russ over on Twitter highlighted that 29 years ago, the first webpage was published by Tim Berners-Lee. Here it is. 29 years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee posted the first ever web page.This is ithttps://t.co/MSxAZ2cMZK

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What Linters Can Do For You

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The Stack Overflow blog published a good piece about how Linters and how they can help you write clean code, especially significant in a team environment.

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Climate Strike Software Licence

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The Climate Strike Licence is a software usage licence that software developers can apply to their open source projects to prohibit the use of their code by applications or companies that threaten to accelerate climate change through fossil fuel extraction.

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Data Structures & Algorithms In Real Life

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Gergely Orosz published an interesting post describing which computer science data structures and algorithms he has used in real life while working at tech companies such as Skype, Skyscanner and Uber. The article is in response to criticism of overly complicated algorithm technical interview questions.

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