Monday, 22 February 2021

Everything this site carried that day, newest first. Stories are kept for a month, and the widely covered ones for a year.

Stripe / Shopify Eng / Netflix TechBlog / Dropbox Tech / Slack Eng / Spotify EngAuthoritative. Authoritative publisher: a primary source, or a newsroom with formal editorial standards22 Feb 2021, 21:55
Read Consistency with Database Replicas
shopify.engineering/read-consistency-database-r…(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Martin Fowler / Overreacted / Kent C. Dodds / Josh ComeauSpecialist. Specialist publisher: established trade press, or expert analysis with a track record22 Feb 2021, 14:00
What The Heck, z-index??
The z-index property can be a tricky little bugger. Sometimes, no matter how much you crank up the number, the element never rises to the top! In this article, we explore stacking contexts, and see how they can thwart our efforts to use z-index. We'll also learn how to use this mechanism to our…
joshwcomeau.com/css/stacking-contexts(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)