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2020/11/26 #

  • Netlify Edge Handlers - I’ve been recently using Cloudflare workers to do some tasks on the edge, edge computing is pretty cool, the Netlify implementation is nice because it’s packaged in a very Netlifyish way, making it very easy to integrate into your existing projectscss-tricks.com #

  • Netlify Background Functions - Another interesting feature from Netlify, making it super easy to run background serverless functions that take a long time, like generating a pdf, resizing an image, that type of thingcss-tricks.com #

  • 🚀 New Post: Looking back at linkblog.io - A look back at the linkblog.io implementationblog.markjgsmith.com #

  • The origins of the unix shell - Louis Pouzin: “I reached the stage where I felt that commands should be usable as building blocks for writing more commands, just like subroutine libraries. Hence, I wrote RUNCOM” - That’s were the rc in bashrc comes frommulticians.org #

  • Run commands - The phrase is believed to have originated sometime in 1965 at a runcom facility from the MIT Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS)en.m.wikipedia.org #

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