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I was fighting with a home automation this morning and it required me to ping a few high-traffic websites and I got curious looking at the headers that Apple returns: $ curl -I https://www.apple.com/ HTTP/2 200 server: Apple content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8 x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block x-content-type-options: nosniff strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload referrer-policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade content-security-policy: default-src 'self' blob: data: *.akamaized.net *.apple.com *.apple-mapkit.com *.cdn-apple.com *.organicfruitapps.com; child-src blob: embed.music.apple.com embed.podcasts.apple.com https://recyclingprogram.apple.com swdlp.apple.com www.apple.com www.instagram.com platform.twitter.com www.youtube-nocookie.com; img-src 'unsafe-inline' blob: data: *.apple.com *.apple-mapkit.com *.cdn-apple.com *.mzstatic.com; script-src 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' blob: *.apple.com *.apple-mapkit.com www.instagram.com platform.twitter.com; style-src 'unsafe-inline' *.apple.com cache-control: max-age=582 expires: Sat, 23 Dec 2023 12:49:53 GMT date: Sat, 23 Dec 2023 12:40:11 GMT x-cache: TCP_MEM_HIT from a23-218-251-35.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (AkamaiGHost/11.3.3-52660090) (-) set-cookie: geo=US; path=/; domain=.apple.com

Chris McLeod is a software developer with over 20 years of experience. Sometimes he writes about it.

Long considered the de facto approach to application architecture for cloud native services, microservices is starting to be refactored by cloud giants such as Amazon and Google.

A comprehensive guide on writing great Tech Specs (🎁 Includes Template!)

Answer by Dave Whittle, former OS/2 Evangelist, Founder of Team OS/2 (1992-1996)

Stop trying to make customElement happen. Do this instead.

Lessons and guidelines from Rust, Ruby, and Python project generators.

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The most popular and most important posts on Stratechery in 2023.

A post on what makes a good abstraction and how normal changes and contextual shifts end up unmaking them.

Automating people out of business processes will not go well at all, mark our words

This is lobste.rs comment as an article, so expect even more abysmal editing than usual.

The current architecture for monitoring, model routing and prompt management is not enough.

Everything you need to know on the principles of authentication and authorization in applications. Including a comparison table and real-world use cases.

A look at why TSIDs why the best of both worlds when it comes to database keys.

If you think that a staging environment does not bring the value for the cost you might have just worked with a bad staging environment.

Photo via Unsplash When we look back at 2023, we quickly realize that this was the year when the hype and reality of self-driving cars collided head-on. This pivotal year marked the convergence of …

The traditional approach to network performance – and issue resolution – is being turned on its head. End-user experience scoring takes an outside-in approach that redefines performance around the experience of its users.

The difference between 1983 and 1993 is vast. Since then, not so much

There have been a lot of takes in recent years slagging on grocery store self-checkout. I may lose my cool-kid card for saying this, but: I’m actually a fan.

With Google dropping support for the oldest of social networks, Usenet is now left without another major entry gate.

Let's explore the new features and improvements in Elixir 1.16.

A post-incident review of the first Home Alone movie and how parents could leave Kevin behind.

Data classes are containers for your data—not behavior. The delineation is right there in the name. Yet, I see state-mutating methods getting crammed into data classes and polluting their semantics all the time. While this text will primarily talk about data classes in Python, the message remains valid for any language that supports data classes and allows you to add state-mutating methods to them, e.g., Kotlin, Swift, etc. By state-mutating method, I mean methods that change attribute values during runtime.