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PHP8 Speed?

PHP7 was an amazing update. It runs up to twice as fast as the previous version (5.6). Now, an early test shows PHP8 could also improve runtime again by 100%

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/how-fast-is-php-8-going-to-be-f7fdc111cd6

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software is never finished, only abandoned

Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering

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Browsers doing shit in 2020

This is a great list (and if you haven’t kept up, it’s long!):

https://github.com/luruke/browser-2020

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Web performance 2020

Wow, this article is great (and crazy long, kind of speaks to how complicated things have gotten):

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/01/front-end-performance-checklist-2020-pdf-pages/

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Keeping an Open Developer Mind

Great quick read: https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/10/09/lessons-from-design-school-for-software-engineers/

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Getting Started as a Web Developer

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What Every Developer Should Learn Early On

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Front-end Web Performance

Chris Coyier with a great post that sums up some easy front-end performance enhancements

http://mediatemple.net/blog/tips/low-hanging-fruit-web-performance/

 

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Designing with Real Data

This article is on-point: https://alistapart.com/article/design-with-difficult-data

If our designs are so simple, then as soon as the developer starts coding the design, they already deviate from the photoshop mockup. And that’s dangerous because developers are not designers (and this developer is color-blind!).

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Working Remote Tips

Good article about working remote:

https://dev.to/peteranglea/6-months-of-working-remotely-taught-me-a-thing-orten