No se puede llegar a un tiempo anterior al Big Bang porque antes del Big Bang el tiempo no existía. Finalmente hemos encontrado algo que no tiene una causa, porque no existía tiempo alguno en que pudiera haber una causa. Para mí eso significa que no hay posibilidad de un creador, porque no existía un tiempo en el que pudiera existir un creador.
Stephen Hawking – Breves respuestas a las grandes preguntas
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No hay antes, no hay creador
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MySQL for developers (video tutorial)
Aaron Francis from PlanetScale created an excellent video tutorial about MySQL for developers. It’s kind of a “mid-level” course, meaning you should have a basic foundation, but it covers all of the stuff you need more often: schema, indexes and queries, plus a chapter with examples — pretty much all of it also applies to MariaDB.
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The expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
Maggie Appleton writes about “proving you’re a human on a web flooded with generative AI content” on The expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI — an interesting article on what special human tricks we might do to assert our humanity.
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Front-end principles for designers
Jon Yablonski writes the excellent Front-end principles for designers, a superb summary of how to understand the design of web interfaces as its own medium, such as “let go of control” (nod to the dao of web design), “keep performance in mind” and “maintain consistency”.
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How to communicate effectively as a developer
Karl Sutt writes about How to communicate effectively as a developer, an often ignored part of creating software. Describing the problem, what you’ve already tried to solve it and what kind of help you’re expecting are basic for getting valuable feedback.
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GitHub Copilot investigation
GitHub Copilot investigation · Joseph Saveri Law Firm & Matthew Butterick — “What we know about Copilot raises legal questions relating to both the training of the system and the use of the system”… which seem like interesting questions for any AI.
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Cómo utilizar useSelect y useDispatch en Gutenberg
Ignacio Cruz escribe sobre Cómo utilizar useSelect y useDispatch en Gutenberg — cada día es necesario aprender algo nuevo en WordPress y la documentación de Gutenberg tiene mucho trabajo por delante; este post es muuuy útil para poder comprender estos conceptos que a veces parecen un tanto… elusivos(?)
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The architecture of MediaWiki
The Architecture of Open Source Applications: MediaWiki it’s a very interesting read about the software that powers one of the busiest sites in the world, specially since it was specifically for Wikipedia. It’s not terribly up-to-date, but it’s a good introduction to understand how MediaWiki works in general, nevertheless.
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Storing Block Patterns in HTML Files for Nicer Code
Storing Block Patterns in HTML Files for Nicer Code — an interesting technique for cleaner and composable block pattern registration.
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Server-Sent Events: the alternative to WebSockets you should be using
Server-Sent Events: the alternative to WebSockets you should be using — yes, they’re quite likely exactly what you’re thinking: a method to push data from the server to the client, without WebSockets, just open web standards 😍 … It’s fascinating all the cool things you can build nowadays with standardized APIs, really.