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BarCamp London XII

2020-02-13 17:00:00 - by alisonw Tech News

From BarCamp London XII:

A free-to-attend day-long unconference for designers, developers and geeks of all types.

Booked

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Designed to Last

2020-02-08 17:00:00 - by alisonw Tech News

From This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web:

This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web

Massive agreement from me re his noting that "First came jquery, then bootstrap, npm, angular, grunt, webpack, and more." - one reason I try to roll my own scaffolding is I don't want to be reliant on any of these, plus they add bloat if I only want a single feature.

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How long will you wait?

2020-01-19 17:28:50 - by alisonw Meta Feminism

From Is it really just sexism? An alternative argument for why women leave STEM:

Everyone knows that you’re not supposed to start your argument with ‘everyone knows,’ but in this case, I think we ought to make an…

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MaxMind

2019-12-31 21:24:23 - by alisonw Tech News

From Significant Changes to Accessing and Using GeoLite2 Databases | MaxMind Blog:

MaxMind has always been committed to an individual’s right to privacy on the internet. We welcome the burgeoning privacy regulations, such as GDPR and CCPA, for the benefit they can provide to internet citizens. However, these new legislative measures place restrictions that impact …

Like many developers I use a number of sources to locate where an IP address might be in order to select a default language, character set, and currency. It just got more difficult...

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In brief …

[MORE] option on its way