2018-04-30 TWILPosted on: April 30, 2018
This Week I Learned
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Heisenbug - Wikipedia
In computer programming jargon, a heisenbug is a software bug that seems to disappear or alter its behavior when one attempts to study it. The term is a pun on the name of Werner Heisenberg, the physicist who first asserted the observer effect of quantum mechanics, which states that the act of observing a system inevitably alters its state.
- Somewhat annoyingly, it seems that Apple have broken the very handy
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terminal utility with one of their updates (ಠ_ಠ) - Google have released an app to help beginners get started with coding: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/8dcp22/google_just_launched_a_smartphone_game_to_teach
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, but with better perf and security. https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/audits/noopener