This is a plain-text version of Bret Victor’s reading list. It was requested by hf on Hacker News.
Highly recommended things!
This is my five-star list. These are my favorite things in all the world.
A few of these works have had an extraordinary effect on my life or way of thinking. They get a sixth star. ★
How do you send information between clients and servers? What format should that information be in? What happens when the server changes the format, but the client has not been updated yet? What happens when the server changes the format, but the database cannot be updated?
These are difficult questions. It is not just about picking a format, but rather picking a format that can evolve as your application evolves.
By now there are many approaches to communicating between client and server. These approaches tend to be known within specific companies and language communities, but the techniques do not cross borders. I will outline JSON, ProtoBuf, and GraphQL here so we can learn from them all.
Live Table: https://diafygi.github.io/webcrypto-examples/
I couldn't find anywhere that had clear examples of WebCryptoAPI, so I wrote examples and made a live table with them. Pull requests welcome!
| [package] | |
| name = "test-rust" | |
| version = "0.1.0" | |
| authors = ["yihuang <[email protected]>"] | |
| edition = "2018" | |
| # See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html | |
| [dependencies] |