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Monkey Dust: The Internet is Expanding

For those who remember dial-up modems and the sound of handshake …

SASS Coding Style Guides

Here are a few coding style guides for those of you on the front lines using SASS:

SASS-Guidelin.es – an opinionated styleguide for writing sane, maintainable and scalable Sass.
Bigcommerce SASS Coding Guidelines
Airbnb CSS / SASS Styleguide

Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2016

Stack Overflow published the results of their developer survey for 2016. Over 50,000 participants from more than 170 countries answered the questions this time around. Some of the results are quite predictable, while others less so.

Latency numbers by year

Last year I came across a nice chart of latency numbers every programmer should know. Today, I saw this page, which shows you the same latency numbers, but also provides a timeline from 1990 to 2020.

For some operations, latency is constant, because it’s based on things of nature – speed of light, distance between continents, etc. For other operations, latency can be decreased through better technology and algorithms.

The timeline clearly shows the mind-blowing advance we’ve experienced in technology over the last three decades.

Falsehoods programmers believe about …

I thought I’ve posted some of these links a while back but alas I can’t find them in the archives. Maybe I just thought I did. So here they go with some new additions:

Even if you are not a programmer, these are useful to read through. It just shows how complex even the simplest of things are, and how much thought goes (or doesn’t) into computer programming.