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"Building Motion for the Web: Practical Strategies for Designers and Developers"Frontrunners 20252025-03-21
Classifies web motion into four zones — functional, systematic, setpiece, narrative — and five complexity tiers (native → frameworks → specialist like ThreeJS…
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String TheoryElixirConf 20162016-09-01
Explains how Elixir treats bitstrings, binaries and UTF‑8 strings, shows that bytes like 226 143 176 map to multi‑byte UTF‑8 code points, and demonstrates with…
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Reimplementing Ruby's HashGoGaRuCo 20142014-09-19
By, Nathan Long Hashes are very useful for labeling little bits of data. But do you know how cool they really are? For instance, whether a hash has 10 keys or…
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Big O in a Homemade HashMountainWest RubyConf 20142014-03-20
Builds a Hash class from scratch, first as a naive tuple_map that shows linear lookup, then replaces it with a sparse array plus a digest function and buckets…
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