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Running a static site saved me from getting hacked

When I looked at my site’s analytics for the first time in forever, I found that someone ran a script against it to find known vulnerabilities.

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Writing code for others to read

Clever code isn’t always the most readable. Especially when working in teams, readability has to come first.

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Serving WebP images

Web servers can send different files to browsers based on headers in a request. Knowing this, we can send WebP-files only to browsers that support them.

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How to understand any codebase

Treat existing codebases as a blackbox. Take small pieces and write tests for them to understand a project’s inner workings step by step.

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How to write legacy code

No code starts out as unmaintainable legacy we don’t dare to change. All codebases end up there because of a lot of small decisions like these examples.

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What to consider when picking a library or plugin

How do we decide between hundreds of libraries? When does it make sense to build your own version instead?

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The benefits of colocating unit tests

Grouping unit tests and the code they test makes maintenance easier than it is when we keep them in separate directories.

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Your API might be sexist

Just as gender is not “true” or “false”, Boolean values are not appropriate for situations in which we assume only two options exist.

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