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Ifttt

Link: Ifttt: "Get started with IFTTT, the easiest way to automate your favorite apps and devices for free. Make your home more relaxing. Make your work more productive. We..."

What a wonderful tool!

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The Consequences of One’s First Programming Language annotated/explained version.

Link: The Consequences of One’s First Programming Language annotated/explained version.: "Fermat's Library is a platform for illuminating academic papers."

Here's an interesting article, which does not really deliver on the title IMO. I am not even sure how to count the first language. For me, was it Basic (the language that got me hooked) or Pascal (the language used in college) or Assembly language (the first language I used professionally.)

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bytes: The Lesser-Known Python Built-In Sequence • And Understanding UTF-8 Encoding

Link: bytes: The Lesser-Known Python Built-In Sequence • And Understanding UTF-8 Encoding: "The bytes data type looks a bit like a string, but it isn't a string. Let's explore it and also look at the main Unicode encoding, UTF-8"

Ever wanted to understand UTF8 better? Every programming language does it a little different but utf8 is utf8. This article explains it well, in general, and specifically for python.

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Do I not like Ruby anymore?

Link: Do I not like Ruby anymore?: "steenuil's blog"

This is almost exactly how I feel about Ruby and Python. I use Python more now and I really like the way they did type hints. I really dislike what Ruby did. Who needs a second file to deal with. It's back to C header files! So fundamentally I know Ruby better and there are multiple things that I miss. Surprisingly I have gotten totally used to Python's indentation based blocks. I hated those initially. Now I still hate Python's braindead way of creating and working with classes. But... Python is growing on me!

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Marp: Markdown Presentation Ecosystem

Link: Marp: Markdown Presentation Ecosystem: "Marp (also known as the Markdown Presentation Ecosystem) provides an intuitive experience for creating beautiful slide decks. You only have to focus on writing your story in a Markdown document."

Another tool to turn markdown into html and css. This is FYI. So far I am still looking.

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Why, after 6 years, I’m over GraphQL

Link: Why, after 6 years, I’m over GraphQL: "GraphQL is an incredible piece of technology that has captured a lot of mindshare since I first started slinging it in production in 2018. You won’t have to ..."

A pretty thorough critique of GraphQL. I used to really like the idea of GraphQL. But I now believe that it solves a problem that most developers (i.e. "you're not Facebook") do not have. And that a much simpler REST API is a better starting point for just about everyone.