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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. I vividly remember receiving a PC Magazine for my birthday with a trial of Dreamweaver. But, when it worked, it was magical.

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The OpenAI Endgame

O'Reilly

Is the entire corpus available (I doubt it), or just certain random articles? It won’t be possible to develop open source models like Mistral and Mixtral —the funding to acquire training data won’t be there—which means that the smaller models that don’t require a massive server farm with power-hungry GPUs won’t exist.

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Inspired Design Decisions: Alexey Brodovitch

Smashing Magazine

Before writing Art Direction for the Web , I began to study Alexey Brodovitch when I became fascinated by editorial and magazine design. Then, I became intrigued by his design process, how he sketched layouts, arranged them into spreads, and created a rhythm which flowed through his magazines. Inspired Design Decisions: Ernest Journal.

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Why Waits Alone Are Not Enough

SQL Performance

Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003. Waits and Queues has been used as a SQL Server performance tuning methodology since Tom Davidson published the above article as well as the well-known SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues whitepaper in 2006.

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How To Build An Amazon Product Scraper With Node.js

Smashing Magazine

But first of all, I’d like to make something clear right now — while the act of scraping publicly available data is legal, Amazon has some measures to prevent it on their pages. Unless you’ve designed a truly innovative new product, the chances are that you can already find something at least similar on Amazon. Closing Thoughts.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00.

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How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps

Smashing Magazine

Despite innovations that speed up how we deliver JavaScript to the browser (minifying, compression, distributing, code-splitting, async, defer), executing the code once it’s in the browser is constrained by the fact that JavaScript is a single-threaded language — only one script can run at a time. The Architecture Behind Partytown.

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