3:56 AM, JULY 24, 2035 Inland Malden, a fictional Mediterranean Island Deep behind enemy lines, my Special Forces team of four has been tasked with eliminating an enemy mortar position. Before a larger invasion begins, this particularly pesky battery must be silenced. …

Back-end web developers have an abundant — perhaps overwhelming — selection of server-side frameworks to choose from in 2019: Express on Node.js; Django on Python; Ruby on Rails; Laravel, CodeIgniter, or Symfony on PHP; and Spring on Java; among many more. …

Dabbling in web design in the late 2000s as mobile devices were just starting to enter the digital landscape, I developed an appreciation for website optimization. At the time, optimization generally meant shrinking and compressing images (especially with data-limited mobile plans), minimizing page and script file-sizes, and a frequent tip…