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What are you doing to authenticate users? In 2024, the answer has to be more than just “passwords”. Auth0 [5] provides a simple and customizable login page to authenticate your users. You get a secure login experience [5] and save your team the time, cost, and risk associated with building your own solution.
AWS charges data transfer fees between regions and availability zones, which can add up to significant costs. By uploading data to Amazon S3 within the same region and then downloading it from S3, users can reduce their data transfer costs to near-zero levels, saving over 99% compared to standard data transfer methods. This article provides a detailed explanation and real-world experiments to demonstrate this cost-saving approach, where they performed a complete $21.49 data transfer job with only 8 cents.
The new feature of explicit resource management in JavaScript and TypeScript reduces boilerplate when handling the lifecycle of various resources. The feature is implemented in TypeScript 5.2.0 with the “disposablestack” polyfill and it covers both sync and async resources, including event subscriptions, open files, mutexes, and task queues. This article also highlights a non-obvious mistake in the code and provides a corrected implementation.
Engineers are often hesitant to take time off from work, fearing that they’ll leave their team unsupported. However, this can lead to you feeling drained and even burnt out. This article discusses why it’s important to take time off, highlighting how it can lead to better decision-making, help avoid burnout, and allow you to learn outside of work. It also covers how to time your vacation to accommodate both you and your team’s needs.
While React remains largely popular in the industry, the evolution of the framework has brought on changes that frustrate many. For some, there is a perceived lack of proper communication with the community, frustration with the absence of recent releases, concerns about the direction of React development, and issues related to documentation.
Tantivy is a full-text search engine library built in Rust. It’s not an off-the-shelf search engine server, but instead a foundation on which a search engine can be built.
Zip.js is a simple JavaScript library for zipping and unzipping files, with support for multiple formats, concurrency, and password-protected ZIPs.
Finding out that a coworker with a shorter tenure makes more than you is an all too common experience in the tech industry. Often, experiencing this can leave someone feeling undervalued, underappreciated, and resentful. This article covers why this happens, highlighting factors like budget allocation, the importance of employee retention, and how experience is valued depending on where it comes from. If an employee finds themselves in this situation, they should have an open conversation with their manager about their compensation, hand in a competing offer, and leave for another role if all else fails.
Link fraud involves the use of URL spoofing, often referred to as "vanity URLs," to deceive users into clicking on seemingly legitimate links that lead to harmful content or financial gain for fraudsters. Ad-supported platforms like Google, Bing, Twitter, and Reddit are allowing advertisers to abuse unverified vanity URL systems, contributing to the problem of link fraud. Adtech providers should validate domain ownership within vanity URLs or consider banning them altogether to combat link fraud effectively.
A cheatsheet for using Playwright, a Node.js library for cross-browser end-to-end testing.
It can be hard to find good advice on how to make complex web applications accessible. This article makes this battle easier by pointing out 16 lesser-known accessibility issues and highlighting how to fix each one.
Teaching is an amazing way to not only help others, but also improve your own knowledge on a given topic and establish credibility for yourself.
2023 saw the emergence of many new and valuable front-end tools. This article spotlights 60 such technologies, including JavaScript libraries, database tooling, AI-based tools, CSS generators, and more.