Wednesday, 18th October 2017
Select Transform: JSON Template over JSON (via) A barrage of interesting ideas here. Having clients transmit up a JSON template which is then executed against data on the server and used to return exactly the data the client needs is just one of them (significant overlap with GraphQL there).
Subresource Integrity. Now supported in Firefox 55, Chrome 49+ and Safari 11+. This makes me much more comfortable about hot-linking to JavaScript and CSS hosted by the various CDN providers, since it means that should they get breached any evil new scripts hosted at the same URL will be denied by modern browsers.
SRI Hash Generator. Handy utility for generating SRI hashes—just give it a URL and it will show you the script or link href block you need to use to safely embed that URL in your page with the correct SRI hash.
A Brief Intro to Docker for Djangonauts (via) This is great—a really clear introduction to both Docker and Docker Compose, aimed at Django developers. Includes line-by-line annotations of an example Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml.