The rise of React increment.com #
Type safety with native JavaScript - With all the recent attention to typing in javascript it’s interesting to see an approach that tries to use native javascript, it’s in no way as complete a solution as Typescript but interesting none the less mmikowski.github.io #
Smashing Magazine review of their recent adventures and exploration in hosting re-imagined online events and conferences smashingmagazine.com #
Tina a.k.a. swissmiss shares some of her favourite blogs on the 15 year anniversary of her blog - I really like reading her Linkpacks and design focussed content, I also like the bring back blogging trend that I’ve been seeing in some places around the web recently swiss-miss.com #
Facebook’s latest TikTok-inspired app is a music-making platform called Collab theverge.com #
SpaceX is launching some astronauts into space later today (20:33 UTC) youtube.com #
Chris Coyier weighs-in on the recent discussion about the state of the “Modern Web” css-tricks.com #
Microsoft Azure gets into the Jamstack - Introducing App Service Static Web Apps techcommunity.microsoft.com #
5 Differences Between Arrow and Regular Functions - Well written article that covers all the bases in a very neat fashion dmitripavlutin.com #
Meanwhile, Here’s David Lynch With the Weather vulture.com #
Bringing back the 90s Internet reddit.com #
Tim Burgess of The Charlatans Picks His Bandcamp Favorites - I haven't been listening to enough music lately, I am reminded how much I love music by this post, thanks Tim :) daily.bandcamp.com #
Joe Rogan’s podcast is becoming a Spotify exclusive theverge.com #
Joe Rogan helped create a podcast culture on YouTube, and now he’s leaving it theverge.com #
Microsoft Edge’s latest update can finally sync your extensions theverge.com #
John Gruber commentary about how Amazon Audible is competing with Spotify as the podcasting landscape changes daringfireball.net #
Node.js v14.3.0 has an experimental implementation of top level async/await, meaning you can use await outside of an async function nodejs.org #
Microsoft’s Project Reunion bridges Win32 and UWP divide, again - This time they are using a similar technique to polyfills which gained popularity in web development venturebeat.com #
Introducing Facebook Shops - Helping Small Businesses Sell Online - Looks like a very comprehensive suite of tools for selling products online and it’s free about.fb.com #
Blogging is not dead garron.blog #
Styling Components In React - I’ve always gravitated more towards javascript than css in web development, while it’s great to see things are moving along, these new css techniques appear quite strange to me smashingmagazine.com #
Disney’s Head of Streaming Is New TikTok C.E.O. nytimes.com #
Amazon’s AI tool can plan collision-free paths for 1,000 warehouse robots venturebeat.com #
The NASA hunt for dark energy and exoplanets has some big news - Announcement tomorrow - Wednesday, May 20, at 11 AM EDT / 8 AM PDT slashgear.com #
Power Tool Manufacturers and Who Really Owns Them - I find these industry brand charts quite fascinating, but also potentially very useful if your line of business overlaps protoolreviews.com #
It’s Time to Get Back Into RSS danielmiessler.com #
Edward Saatchi on virtual beings - AI is the next great art form - This isn’t an area I’ve been particularly interested in to date, but having listened to this interview, I feel there might be some interesting avenues to explore - it appears to be relatively new ground, probably a lot of possibilities venturebeat.com #
Comparing Social Media Outlets for Developer Tips - It’s interesting to get concrete examples of how modern social medias help to further the conversation and discussion, and the experiment seems to show that blogging still is one of the best ways css-tricks.com #
I thought of a cool GIphy integration, turns out it already exists, but I think it could be implemented in a much better way, you really want to have something similar to a soundboard that you can load up with gifs in advance so you can drop them in at the right time using a keyboard shortcut support.zoom.us #
Facebook to buy Giphy for $400 million - I’ve loaded this page about 20 times today while doing some testing but my eyes stopped scanning after the first word (I think I’m completely mentally checked out of Facebook), but now I’ve finally a bit of time for a cup of tea and actually read the whole headline, and I’m like wow that’s a phenomenal acquisition, Giphy is such a cool website and the synergy with Instagram feels like it could go in a lot of interesting directions axios.com #
How Facebook Could Use Giphy to Collect Your Data - This article takes the privacy angle, which is a totally valid concern, but honestly I kind of glazed over this piece because I'm more interested in wondering how the deal could lead to some cool products onezero.medium.com #
In defense of the modern web - A response to the article from Tuesday, I like when there is a worthwhile public discussion about javascript and the web like this, I’m not exactly sure where to find these lately, I feel like it was more commonplace in the early days of blogging, I’m wondering whether a webdev Techmeme would be a good idea (webdevmeme?) dev.to #
Smashing Meets! - the online webdev magazine is holding an online meet-up next week with talks and interactive activities, it looks pretty cool smashingmagazine.com #
npm v7 Series - first in a series of posts detailing the future of npm, interesting to see their direction now that they are backed my a big company blog.npmjs.org #
Debug anything - Series exploring how to use the VSCode debugger, I'm keen to see the rest of the articles in this series as I use the debugger a lot, based on this article looks like it could be a good series charlesagile.com #
First issue of Deno Weekly - Deno 1.0 has shipped denoweekly.com #
Draw.io VS Code Integration github.com #
Second-guessing the modern web - An opinionated article that asks some questions about the direction of modern development macwright.org #
Multicloud MySQL - Podcast from Software Engineering Daily, worth a listen just to hear discussion, language and concepts around deployment of apps on multi-cloud architectures of highly available Kubernetes clusters - this is how things are setup at YouTube softwareengineeringdaily.com #
Node.js CLI Apps Best Practices - A collection of curated best practices on how to build successful, empathic and user-friendly Node.js Command Line Interface (CLI) applications github.com #
How Facebook’s oversight board could rewrite the rules of the entire internet - The thing that’s interesting about this new oversight board is how they’ve structured it, its much more than a Supreme Court style moderation board, it’s a factory for spinning off multiple such moderation boards, and that could indeed be quite a big deal protocol.com #
The Original Cookie specification from 1997 was GDPR compliant - An interesting read, the article highlights relevant parts of the original specification, showing how it was intended to work and what actually ended up happening - It feels to me that the browsers could have better cookie management tools baekdal.com #
New Repo: minimal-express-typescript - Everyone is banging on about Typescript like it's going out of fashion, but after searching for several hours for clear examples of dev environment setup, it's apparent that there aren't many that are in a real life context, so I made this repo that sets up a basic dev environment for an Express app written in Typescript that you can run in the VSCode debugger github.com #
I'm looking for medium sized Express apps written in Typescript - This is the typescript implementation from the Realworld demo project github.com #
Tackling Webdev as a Bioinformatician: why is it so hard? - This is such a wonderfully level headed post, full of situations that have happened to me many times too - webdev really is difficult, an endless list of things that don’t work, progress is really slow at times jessimekirk.com #
Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk co-founder, dies aged 73 theguardian.com #
Github Codespaces - "Codespaces sets up a cloud-hosted, containerized, and customizable VS Code environment" - According to the description, it will be possible to step through code in a debugger right in your browser, and you will also be able to connect your local VS Code directly to a Codespace github.com #
Why a “Shelter in Place Film Festival” beats bingeing video right now - More explorations of online / virtual conferences, there is a lot of nuance to organising a film festival that I was unaware of, the web designer in me found this really interesting rolfpotts.com #
Google Podcasts will give podcasters more data about their listeners theverge.com #
It's cool to see the online conferences space get re-invented, SmashingConf Live are putting together something that looks pretty interesting, live collaborative note-taking, slack, conference DJ smashingmagazine.com #
A Visual Guide To React Mental Models - It's a bit long, but there are some nice diagrams in this article and I like the general idea of describing mental models used to understand frameworks - One of the things that trips me up in React is that the JSX tree looks like HTML but it has all these extra layers that have nothing todo with the actual presentation of the page, like for instance how routers are implemented, it feels to me like JSX munges a load of things that are usually separate into a big soup, but then again there are some things about JSX that I like obedparla.com #
typescript-exercises - A collection of challenging TypeScript exercises github.com #
Stocks Are Recovering While the Economy Collapses - That Makes More Sense Than You'd Think - So the Fed has added 8 trillion, other central banks are doing similar, note that the total money supply worldwide is in the region of 50 trillion, I don’t know what it means but these are big numbers - It’s likely I have this wrong but it seems to me that unless you increase your personal stash of money by the same percentage that got added to the total supply then you get poorer time.com #
I was just looking at some bitcoin charts, and this one stood out to me (make sure to click the "all time" button) - Which is worse dilution or infinite difficulty? Well I guess it depends what we (humanity) are trying to achieve blockchain.info #
The Seafloor Is Absolutely Littered in Microplastic - 10 million tons per year get into the sea, mostly from washing clothes that contain synthetic materials earther.gizmodo.com #