onlyphantom

Demystifying Docker Volumes for Mac and PC Users

1. Docker runs on a Linux kernel

Docker can be confusing to PC and Windows users because many tutorials on that topic assume you're using a Linux machine.

As a Linux user, you learn that Volumes are stored in a part of the host filesystem managed by Docker, and that is /var/lib/docker/volumes. When you're running Docker on a Windows or Mac OS machine, you will read the same documentation and instructions but feel frustrated as that path don't exist on your system. This simple note is my answer to that.

When you use Docker on a Windows PC, you're typically doing one of these two things:

• Run Linux containers in a full Linux VM (what Docker typically does today)

tatianamac

Speaker Rider

by Tatiana Mac

Last updated 14 April 2021

What is a speaker rider?

As speaking comes with immense privilege, I have crafted a speaker rider to set expectations and boundaries around my engagement. I am grateful to all the conference organisers who have brilliantly hosted me. I would love to continue to exercise this privilege to speak at conferences, and use this privilege to make the landscape more accessible and beneficial to tech's most historically excluded and marginalised communities.

Considerations

😫 I provide a lot of explanations for those of you who never had to consider these things. Most thoughtful conferences I've attended check most of these boxes intrinsically, particularly when conference runners are experienced speakers. They get it.

sleepyfox

'Users hate change'

This week NN Group released a video by Jakob Nielsen in which he attempts to help designers deal with the problem of customers being resistant to their new site/product redesign. The argument goes thusly:

1. Humans naturally resist change
2. Your change is for the better
3. Customers should just get used to it and stop complaining

There's slightly more to it than that, he caveats his argument with requiring you to have of course followed their best practices on product design, and allows for a period of customers being able to elect to continue to use the old site, although he says this is obviously only a temporary solution as you don't want to support both.

terabyte

Prologue

I wrote this answer on stackexchange, here: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/12597919/

It was wrongly deleted for containing "proprietary information" years later. I think that's bullshit so I am posting it here. Come at me.

The Question

Amazon is a SOA system with 100s of services (or so says Amazon Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels). How do they handle build and release?

jamiebuilds

Synchronous module inspection

This document describes the challenges presented by import() and how they could be addressed.

Problem

If you're starting up an app with multiple modules already loaded, using import() prevents you from gaining access to them synchronously.

mootpointer

We don't use that word here

There are some words which carry with them the baggage of sexism and ableism and so they're words we've chosen to avoid using within our community.

We realise that sometimes SlackBot might get a bit over-eager and correct you when you intentionally chose that word and it is appropriate. That's okay, but we find that in most cases, SlackBot's reminders help us choose our words with intention and promote a more inclusive and welcoming space.

There are plenty of other words that you can use which can still convey the meaning you're looking for. Sometimes it might require a bit of creativity, but trust us – it can be done.

We don't assume you were intentionally being sexist or ableist. Our language is littered with the legacy of unfortunate cultural baggage. You might not even believe that there's a problem with the word you used. That's cool, but we don't use that word here.

garybernhardt

This document has moved!

It's now here, in The Programmer's Compendium. The content is the same as before, but being part of the compendium means that it's actively maintained.

ryanflorence

Hi Zach :D

Modals are funny beasts, usually they are a design cop-out, but that's okay, designers have to make trade-offs too, give 'em a break.

First things first, I'm not sure there is such thing as a "simple" modal that is production ready. Certainly there have been times in my career I tossed out other people's "overly complex solutions" because I simply didn't understand the scope of the problem, and I have always loved it when people who have a branch of experience that I don't take the time

geelen

Global traits, local components

The idea is to combine the best bit of global styling (reuse, small payload) and local styling (total isolation, first-class React syntax)

This is combined with the concept of traits: you can think of them as permitted property/value pairs. Instead of every component being able to have every CSS property available to it, you can reduce your permitted set to X font families, Y font-size + line-height pairs, Z foreground/background colour pairs, W padding amounts. This is based off my work using amcss on real projects — traits were the single key feature that kept me using AM.

The one-sentence explanation: A site defines a set of permitted visual features, all components are simply a combination of those features

Definitions

paulirish

/* bling.js */

window.$ = document.querySelectorAll.bind(document);

Node.prototype.on = window.on = function (name, fn) {
  this.addEventListener(name, fn);
}

NodeList.prototype.__proto__ = Array.prototype;