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2021/04/25 #

  • Web Performance Recipes With Puppeteer - Programatically load your site using puppeteer and extract various performance statisticsaddyosmani.com #

  • John Gruber - “Apple’s M1 positioning mocks the entire x86 business model”daringfireball.net #

  • Ubuntu 21.04 Shrinks Kubernetes Footprint for Raspberry Pis, GPUs - Great for dev environmentsthenewstack.io #

  • tc39/proposal-js-module-blocks - Interesting proposal which would introduce the ability to create modules inline, which could then be passed directly into workers and workletsgithub.com #

  • TC39 Podcast interview with Guy Bedford - I enjoyed hearing about Guy’s journey as an independent open source developer, being a digital nomad, creating the jspm & SystemJS projects (among others), and how he became a TC39 delegate, also glad to hear the podcast now has a sponsor :)tc39er.us #

  • Indie Hackers Podcast Ep #203 – What You Need to Know About Bitclout with Mubashar Iqbal - Quite a thorough discussion about the pros and cons of this new crypto people trading website, I admit the idea sounds interesting but it still feels scammy to me, like some sort of strange protection racket, and the best excuse for it seems to be “well this is probably happening anyway”, which might be the case but doesn’t justify it, maybe there’s a different way to do something similar that doesn’t feel so fundamentally wrongshare.transistor.fm #

  • Open letter from researchers involved in the “hypocrite commit” debacle (HN Thread)news.ycombinator.com #

  • Disadvantages of Pull Requests - Probably quite controversial, though the author does make a few good points that I hadn’t considered until reading this postblog.arkency.com #

  • FFmpeg cheat sheet - A list of useful commands for the ffmpeg command line tool, so you can script lots of cool things with videogist.github.com #

  • CSS Container Queries - Soon to be implemented in browsers, useful for sites that use components in the frontenddev.to #

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