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Monday 2nd September, 2019 #

  • This tutorial gets the Stripe elements tutorial working because on Stripe website the form is missing some CSS and doesn't render correctly
  • Using Stripe Elements to collect credit card details
  • How to hide the zip code in a Stripe elements form
  • How can I style a Stripe Elements input with Bootstrap?
  • I’ve read 3-4 javascript articles today that use the word ‘magic’, is this some kind of trend? Anyway pretty much in each case it boils down to ‘callbacks’
  • How the Node.js Event Loop Polls - Bytesize article that covers how libuv interfaces with the operating system kernel system calls to receive event notifications, it's a good article because it goes deep (all the way down to the packet level) but does it very quickly only detailing the information that is necessary to understand the mechanism, in this case I think fast is good because since it's quite a foundational concept it's easy to get confused or distracted by all the stuff that is above it in the stack
  • I'm pretty sure I've read this before, but I was reminded today by a video I was watching, nodejs is always described as being single threaded, but in reality it's not because all the asynchronous operations are in fact done in worker threads
  • Understanding and protecting against malicious npm package lifecycle scripts