Rob Janssen

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Google Video Quality Report

Users on YouTube HD Verified networks should expect smooth playback most of the time when watching high-definition YouTube videos (720p and above). If you're experiencing issues playing your video, try these troubleshooting tips.

Observable

Observable A simple library for keeping up to date with an object when it changes. Learn more Set up complex object dependencies once, then sit back and watch as they're automatically kept in sync. Create functions that update when their underlying Observables change.

Specify your code: an introduction to behaviour-driven-development using MSpec

This post is going to be almost entirely dedicated to Machine.Specifications, or MSpec for short.

Optimize for readability first

Nowadays when someone uses the word optimization they usually mean optimization for execution time, unless they've explicitly stated that they are going to optimize for GPU memory consumption, network traffic, etc.

How to destroy Programmer Productivity

As Homer Simpson might say, it’s funny because it’s true. Sometimes I just can’t get anything done.

7 coding tasks you should probably not write yourself

As programmers, we like to solve problems. We like to get ideas to spring from our heads, channel through our fingertips, and create magical solutions.

How Etsy Deploys More Than 50 Times a Day

Daniel Schauenberg described at the last QCon London how Etsy, renowned for its DevOps and Continuous Delivery practices, does 50 deploys/day.

10 Most Common JavaScript Mistakes

Today, JavaScript is at the core of virtually all modern web applications.

Don’t Use jquery-latest.js

Earlier this week the jQuery CDN had an issue that made the jquery-latest.js and jquery-latest.min.js files unavailable for a few hours in some geographical areas. (This wasn’t a problem with the CDN itself, but with the repository that provides files for the CDN.

Cache coherency primer

I’m planning to write a bit about data organization for multi-core scenarios. I started writing a first post but quickly realized that there’s a bunch of basics I need to cover first. In this post, I’ll try just that. This is a whirlwhind primer on CPU caches.

This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.

This list is compiled from my Pocket list.