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• Difference Between new Function() and new function() in JavaScript

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Articles

Load Balancing
A guide on load balancing with visual demonstrations.

🧠 Cognitive Load is what matters
A dynamic open-source document on GitHub explaining that the key to writing better code is reducing cognitive load. It discusses the rules we should follow and when it’s okay to break them, helping us write more maintainable code.

Hack the Hacker - How to Setup an SSH Honeypot
When potential attackers try to break into a system, an SSH Honeypot detects and logs the attack. This article introduces Cowrie, which can be used on a standard VPS.

A systematic approach to debugging
A simple, step-by-step guide to debugging, which can help you quickly identify and fix system issues.

When Regex Goes Wrong
This article discusses some catastrophic consequences of faulty regular expressions, such as a 34-minute outage at Stack Overflow due to malformed input strings and a global outage at Cloudflare caused by regex-induced CPU exhaustion.

URL explained - The Fundamentals
An explanation of the syntax and usage of URLs, and the differences between URI, URL, URN, and URC.

A practical guide to using shadow DOM
An introduction to the use cases and limitations of the shadow DOM, providing a quick overview of this technology.

Tools

easings.net
Easing functions specify the rate of change of a parameter over time. You might have used them in your projects before. This site offers a collection of CSS and mathematical functions that can be copied and used. I once used these functions to implement a map marker movement effect.

CSS Loaders
Over 600+ loading effects implemented purely in CSS.

qr-designer
An open-source web application for designing QR codes that, unlike other QR design tools, does not rely on error correction. Instead, it deterministically toggles specific pixels in the code pattern without affecting the content the QR code points to.

Online White Noise
Listen to free online white noise, such as rain or waves.

bullmq
A Node.js library that implements a fast and powerful queue system built on Redis, which is useful for handling time-consuming tasks like image or video processing, sending notifications, or emails.

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