Progressively loading CSS – changes coming to Chrome

Hacker News

Chrome is intending to change the behaviour of , which will be noticeable when it appears within . The impact and benefits of this aren't clear from the blink-dev post, so I wanted to go into detail here. Update: This is now in Chrome Canary. CSS blocks…

11 February 2016

Estimating potential for MySQL 5.7 parallel replication

MySQL Performance Blog

Unlike MySQL 5.6, where parallel replication can only be used when replicas have several schemas, MySQL 5.7 replicas can read binlog group commit information coming from the master to replicate transactions in parallel even when ...

10 February 2016

'Operator' is a font designed to make coding easier

Engadget

While many of us bristle at the sight of Comic Sans (this writer included), coders have an altogether different view of typefaces and how they're presented. Thus, Operator Mono, the new font from one of the highest-regarded typeface-creators that was...

10 February 2016

VISA Api: The Power of Visa Network Delivered as an API

Hacker News

New Tutorials from Getting Started to Submitting a Going Live Request View our Partner Showcase - highlighting the ways our partners are using Visa APIs The Power of the Visa Network. Delivered as APIs. Got a business problem? Check out various use…

5 February 2016

Measuring Percona Server Docker CPU/network overhead

MySQL Performance Blog

Now that we have our Percona Server Docker images, I wanted to measure the performance overhead when we run the database in the container. Since Docker promises to use a lightweight container, in theory there should be very light overhead. ...

5 February 2016

Infographics 2.4 review: Robust graphics collection for Keynote

Macworld

Jumsoft’s Infographics app is not so much an app as it is a collection of high quality images, graphs, and table elements you can use and repurpose in Keynote presentations. Or, translated into a little old-school parlance, this is high quality clipart…

5 February 2016

Why I killed my standing desk

Hacker News

I always wanted a standing desk. I heard the benefits. And read the studies. The American Cancer Society tracked 123,000 people for an 18-year period and found the death rate was higher in people that sat more than six hours per day. In another study…

4 February 2016