Heavy on web development this week. Also, a great article on the legacy of Calvin & Hobbes.

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.NET

• Understanding the Whys, Whats, and Whens of ValueTask - Stephen Toub

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Web Development

• How would you build Wordle with just HTML & CSS? - Scott Jehl
• Sliding 3D Image Frames In CSS - Temani Afif
• The Box Model and Box Sizing - Andy Bell
• A primer on the cascade and specificity - Andy Bell
• The Fifty-Fifty Split and Overflow - Ryan Mulligan
• CSS in React Server Components - Josh W Comeau
• I can't use my number pad for 2FA codes - Terence Eden

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General Development

• Everyone should be an architect - Bart Wullems
• Redis’ license change and forking are a mess that everybody can feel bad about - Kevin Purdy
• Returning A Row When Your Query Has No Results - Erik Darling

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The Internet

• Why Bluesky Remains The Most Interesting Experiment In Social Media, By Far - Mike Masnick

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Technology

• Why Corporations Fail to Protect Our Data - Om Malik
• Why the US government’s overreliance on Microsoft is a big problem - Eric Geller

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Space

• A chunk of metal that tore through a Florida home definitely came from the ISS - Stephen Clark

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Podcasts

• Cautionary Tales: When Parakeets Plundered New York
• .NET Rocks: Fluent Assertions with Dennis Doomen

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Everything Else

• Why the Short-Lived Calvin and Hobbes is Still One of the Most Beloved and Influential Comic Strips - Colin Marshall

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A Song to Leave You With

Chuck Ragan - Vagabond