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First and foremost, I want to thank some of the new subscribers of this newsletter who took the time to write to me to introduce themselves and ask some very interesting questions. It was so nice to read from you and interact with you! Your support is very much appreciated!

For this issue, I wanted to focus on , and more importantly on what I dubbed “personal Design Systems” (for lack of a better term):

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After a quiet second half of August and a couple of days off work, I’m ready to jump back into content creation! However, with everything moving ever so fast in the tech world, it’s sometimes hard to simply focus and not get distracted by all those hype cycles happening at the same time (especially if, like me, you spend some of your free time on Twitter 😅).

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If you run a blog, work on a project that relies on ranking high on Google Search Engine, or hang around on Twitter and follow a bunch of frontend developers, chances are you might have heard the words Core Web Vitals, thrown around left and right in the past few months. At least on my end, my feed was filled with people showcasing their scores or sharing their concerns with Google rolling out this new metric.

You might have wondered:

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This issue came out a little bit later than I’d have liked to as I was preparing a move and interviewing throughout March and April. However, despite being so busy, I still got reminded of a pretty big milestone recently: It’s been one year that I started to learn, write and build in public!

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I’ve recently been working on removing a lot of third-party packages on my websites and blog. The aim was to rely on as few dependencies as possible for any UI-related elements. While doing that I noticed something…

Most of the libraries I was using for things like lazy loading images or Scrollspy I was trying to replace were using the same thing under the hood: a little Javascript API called the and this is going to be the main subject of this second issue of my newsletter. ✨

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First of all, thank you for subscribing and reading the first issue of my newsletter. I’m excited to share more content with you through this medium!