- The abundance of slowness – Marvel Blog –
- Putting Time In Perspective : dataisbeautiful –
- Medicating a Prophet – The New York Times –
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Bookmarks for September 30th
- GitHub – wbkd/awesome-interactive-journalism: A list of awesome interactive journalism projects. –
- Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm | Hacker News –
- Tiles 2-edge –
- BETHGE LAB · Texture Synthesis with deep CNNs –
- Lesser known Git commands | Hacker News –
Bookmarks for September 29th
- Node.js debugging with Chrome DevTools (in parallel with browser JavaScript) –
- 1401.5473.pdf –
- tatiyants.com Postgres Query Plan Visualization – tatiyants.com –
- Debugging PostgreSQL performance, the hard way · JustWatch Tech Blog –
Bookmarks for September 21st
- Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client | Hacker News –
- 15 Lessons Learned while Converting from ASP.NET to .NET Core – Stackify –
- Brett Cannon – How the heck does async/await work in Python 3.5? –
- This Bubble’s Got Legs | Hacker News –
- Experiments with Intermittent Fasting Chapter 4 | Precision Nutrition –
- Link Building Strategies: The Complete List (2016 Edition) –
- Advice I Wish I’d Been Told (1999) | Hacker News –
- Advancing in the Bash Shell | Hacker News –
- To tell someone they’re wrong, first tell them how they’re right | Hacker News –
- NGINX for ASP.NET Core In-Depth – Muhammad Rehan Saeed –
- ASP.NET Core 1.0 with PostgreSQL and Entity Framework Core | Software Engineering –
- Guide to Composition in Photography – 20 Tips –
- LaTuFu comments on What’s the most common mistake people make when choosing their spouse? –
- Learning Web Audio by Recreating the Works of Steve Reich and Brian Eno | Hacker News –
- Music theory for nerds | Hacker News –
- Kindle Formats, Calibre, Conversions and “The Last Ring-bearer” –
- The Tolkien Professor | Silmarillion Seminar –
- vdumoulin/conv_arithmetic: A technical report on convolution arithmetic in the context of deep learning –
Bookmarks for August 19th
- Interactive Data Visualization of Geospatial Data using D3.js, DC.js, Leaflet.js and Python // Adil Moujahid // Data Analytics and more –
- Ao –
- PHP – The Wrong Way – In the world of PHP programming a set of trends are massively being propagated by some people (in their books and on websites) as “Modern PHP” while all other approaches are frowned upon as backwards, stupid, or just plain wrong.
These people seem to work tirelessly at getting other people to follow their way of doing things.
This website has been created in an attempt to present a pragmatic view on PHP programming. A view dictated by experience and practical consequence rather than popular trends, theory, or academic dogma.
The website PHP – The Wrong Way is a living document and will continue to be updated with more information as it become available.
Feel free to contribute.
The danger of extremism
One problem with programming rules and guidelines is that they often only serve a purpose within a specific context. Taken out of context a good rule can become a horrible rule. In fact, every good rule becomes bad when taken to the extreme.
This is important to understand because many of the software development principles and rules developed over time and presented by many different people often become misused in the hands of extremists.
Experience has taught that misuse of general rules and guidelines always result in complication, lack of security, error prone results, and in some cases complete and utter disaster.
The KISS principle, wh