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"It is very annoying when you need to add a dependency and suddenly you have to touch 50+ injection points because that thing is widely used" You don't have to update the injection…

"because it does preloading directly in javascript, it can't possibly follow the HTTP semantic of not actually applying cookies until later when the cached route is used" I may be …

I initially interpreted "unaccounted-for null values may cause compile-time warnings, but not compile-time errors" as meaning "in some cases, an unaccounted-for null value might no…

"Soft deletion isn’t a blanket rule" That's right, I think it's really "soft deletion as a blanket rule" which is the anti-pattern; soft-deletion is one option which (IMO) is used …

I don't think there's an explicit reference in the JavaScript spec to numbers being treated this way, because this is how all variables are treated in JavaScript - the relevant par…

Temporal tables, aka system versioned tables, are something like this: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/system-versioned-tables/

The language in the UK version of the law is "strictly necessary for the provision of an information society service requested by the subscriber or user", which the ICO interprets …

The paper linked to in the Criticism section of the article [1] is well with reading, IMO. It points out that AOP only works when there is "obliviousness of application", i.e the c…

It's an API for a specific hypermedia client, i.e, a web browser. It's not obvious that it's the best hypermedia API for a different client, for example, a JavaScript application t…

"quicky discover I couldn't post on the timeline of the music or videogames one" That's technically true, but who cares? The instance timeline isn't a "community", it's just a part…

Taylor Swift did do something a bit like this this for a previous tour - you could get early access to the ticket sales by doing various kinds of fan activities, including buying p…

Emails still retain the structure of intra-office memos, something which hasn't existed for at least 20 years. We don't really notice with emails, because the initial real-world an…

More useful than just the solutions on the Grauniad's site is https://www.fifteensquared.net/ which has solutions with explanations of most of the UK newspaper cryptic crosswords, …

When people write "why yet another", they usually mean "why this one specifically". And that's the case here, where the author lists what they think are the weaknesses of the state…

If your code is sufficiently distinct that block scope is useful, and there's no obvious contextual clue as to why it's distinct (like an if statement), put it in a separate functi…

The post gives an example - overloading a method based on the type parameter (e.g separate overloads for Option and Option ). This is why Java's generic erasure is more of a proble…

You don't need to distinguish KI (the kite) from KI (the kestrel followed by the idiot bird), because they evaluate to the same thing. Kite xy is y, and if you evaluate Kestrel Idi…

"Safari seems to ignore maximum-scale=1 and user-scalable=no" This is somewhat ironic because, if memory serves, the original reason people started adding this to their HTML was be…