Double Shot #2487

Add defense in depth against open firewalls, reverse proxies, and SSRF vulnerabilities with enhancements to the EC2 Instance Metadata Service - Some much-needed improvements to an old part of the AWS API.
Scaling SVG Elements - A quick tutorial with an interactive example.
Relentlessly simplify - Some steps to a simpler life.
Bye Bye Microsoft Office. Hello LibreOffice - Increasingly Microsoft's business model does not seem to be aimed at individual users.
browsh - "Browsh is a fully-modern text-based browser. It renders anything that a modern browser can; HTML5, CSS3, JS, video and even WebGL."
Nerd Fonts - "Nerd Fonts patches developer targeted fonts with a high number of glyphs (icons). Specifically to add a high number of extra glyphs from popular ‘iconic fonts’ such as Font Awesome, Devicons, Octicons, and others."
Browserless - "Fast, scalable, and reliable browser automation built for businesses and developers." Offloading the pain of headless browsers and Selenium by paying someone else to do it sounds like a good tradeoff to me.
Advocating Against: Razor Blades - Ron Jeffries discusses backlogs and estimating.