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CSS-Tricks

Let’s Use the Emergent CSS random() Function in all the Browsers

The journey to create a polyfill for the upcoming CSS random() function that works in all browsers. Let’s Use the Emergent CSS random() Function in all the Browsers originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

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DZone

How I Built a SQL Diagnostic Tool That Works Without Touching Your Database

Most developers I've worked with write SQL every day. Very few of them are DBAs. According to the 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey — 65,000 developers across 185 countries — database administrators make up just 0.3% of the developer population. The tools built for SQL performance were designed for that 0.3%. I built QueryTuner for everyone else. I've spent 13 years as an application architect. In that time, I've watched the same situation repeat itself across teams: a query is slow, the deve

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AWS News Blog

AWS Weekly Roundup: Welcome DuckLabs to the team, Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), and more (August 31, 2026)

The news that interested me the most last week was the DuckLabs acquisition. AWS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB, the popular open source analytical database that runs in-process and executes SQL directly against files like Parquet, CSV, and JSON. DuckDB stays open source under its independent foundation […]

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