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You Don't Use Linked Lists. But They're Running Half Your Software.

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By Islam Hafez
| DEV Community
Here's the honest version of what most linked list tutorials skip: You are almost certainly never going to write a linked list in JavaScript. Not in production. Not in a side project. Your language's built-in array already handles dynamic sizing, and it does it faster than a linked list in most cases, for reasons we'll get into. The interview circuit trained you to implement one on a whiteboard, and that's fine — but it created the wrong mental model.
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TOON: Token-Oriented Object Notation - A Complete Guide for LLM Data Efficiency

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By Islam Hafez
| DEV Community
Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) is a compact, human-readable encoding of the JSON data model, specifically designed to minimize tokens and simplify structure for Large Language Models (LLMs). It acts as a drop-in, lossless representation of JSON, allowing developers to use familiar JSON programmatically while converting to TOON for efficient AI input. TOON merges YAML’s indentation-based structure for nested objects with CSV-style tabular arrays for uniform data.
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Multi-Layer Oil- and Water-Resistant Food Containers Made Using Cellulose Nanofibril-Laminated Wood Veneer

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By Nabanita Das, Douglas W. Bousfield, Mehdi Tajvidi, Islam Hafez
| MDPI
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