That’s the first month of 2022 and most places are drowning in Omicron cases. The virus must be the only being who went through the whole year with reinvention. I hope all of you are safe and doing well.
This Newsletter is turning 2 with this issue 🎉 January of 2020 was my first issue and it’s been a spectacular journey. It’s something I started during a new year to force myself to read more and to know it has helped a few more people is very pleasing. Thank you for all the feedback, let’s have a wonderful year ahead.
Open Source community had a new shocker this week with popular projects - faker and colors being intentionally sabotaged to output “LIBERTY LIBERTY LIBERTY” by the founder developer. Also, a reference to Aaron Swartz. This broke several other packages that were depending on these projects. NPM saw these actions as malicious and proceeded to revert the package while it’s parent company decided to block the developer’s access altogether. Here’s worthy links to find out more:
everything inside a DNS packet https://t.co/nBntko9E2G pic.twitter.com/MGzkNrlMcx
— 🔎Julia Evans🔍 (@b0rk) January 27, 2022
🔖 For the bookmarks: Optimum
order for performance:
<br /> preconnect<br /> <script async></script><br /> CSS with <a href="https://twitter.com/Imports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&utm_source=agney&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=web-in-january-newsletter-by-agney">@imports</a><br /> sync JS<br /> sync CSS<br /> preload<br /> <script defer></script><br /> prefetch / prerender<br /> everything else (SEO, icons, open graph)<br /> <br /> via <a href="https://twitter.com/csswizardry?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&utm_source=agney&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=web-in-january-newsletter-by-agney">@csswizardry</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/webexpo?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&utm_source=agney&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=web-in-january-newsletter-by-agney">#webexpo</a><br /> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/webperf?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&utm_source=agney&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=web-in-january-newsletter-by-agney">#webperf</a> <a href="https://t.co/Xar1kAjCY5?utm_source=agney&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=web-in-january-newsletter-by-agney">pic.twitter.com/Xar1kAjCY5</a></p>— Smashing Magazine (@smashingmag) <a href="https://twitter.com/smashingmag/status/1440697011985018881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&utm_source=agney&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=web-in-january-newsletter-by-agney">September 22, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> </div></body></html><h2>In the Spotlight 🔦</h2> <p>It was a month Wordle to take off. If you aren’t privy to the game that has taken over Internet, here’s my hot picks.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/?utm_source=agney&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=web-in-january-newsletter-by-agney" target="_blank">Wordle</a> - The game itself</li> <li><a href="https://www.cnet.com/how-to/wordle-explained-everything-to-know-about-the-viral-word-game/?utm_source=agney&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=web-in-january-newsletter-by-agney" target="_blank">Wordle Explained</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/technology/wordle-word-game-creator.html?utm_source=agney&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=web-in-january-newsletter-by-agney" target="_blank">Wordle is a Love Story - NYT</a></li> </ul> <p>Anyway, Internet’s best creators got over to building Wordle overnight and here’s my picks.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://stackblitz.com/edit/vitejs-vite-jjggsx?utm_source=agney&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=web-in-january-newsletter-by-agney" target="_blank">Wordle in Vue by creator Evan You</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxn4-bTOx0g&utm_source=agney&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=web-in-january-newsletter-by-agney" target="_blank">Wordle Clone by Dan Abramov</a></li> </ul> <p>But more than any of these, Wordle is proof of how a simple JavaScript app with a single developer can take over the World. If that doesn’t simple you to create, I don’t know what will. </p> <h2>In Other News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/22872486/hp-president-alex-cho-hp-business-consumer-laptops?utm_source=agney&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=web-in-january-newsletter-by-agney" target="_blank">Pandemic & laptop categories</a> - More people staying at home also meant that people are diversifying what they can do online. This means each laptop has to support a wide range of features and they are starting to do so. Better Conferencing surely being one of them, remember Apple’s webcams?</li> <li><a href="https://www.axios.com/theranos-elizabeth-holmes-verdict-df20ad3f-95bd-400c-bf42-a379ade65c2c.html?utm_source=agney&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=web-in-january-newsletter-by-agney" target="_blank">Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes found guilty </a> - Theranos is the biggest scam of recent times from Silicon Valley, <em>The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley</em> is worth the watch if you aren’t aware of how this played out. </li> <li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/22870203/ces-2022-best-of-gadgets-concepts-tech?utm_source=agney&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=web-in-january-newsletter-by-agney" target="_blank">Best Gadgets of CES 2022</a> - CES concluded this month and while the new take up of COVID cases did dull procedures, there were bright spots. Samsung’s Odyssey Arc looks amazing to say the least.</li> <li><a href="https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/09/reducing-carbon-emissions-on-web/?utm_source=agney&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=web-in-january-newsletter-by-agney" target="_blank">Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web</a> - Did you know the Internet can have the same effect on the world as fossil fuels? How do we counter this?</li> </ul> <h2>Looking Forward</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.vuejs.org/posts/vue-3-as-the-new-default.html?utm_source=agney&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=web-in-january-newsletter-by-agney" target="_blank">Vue 3</a> - Vue 3 will become the new default version on Monday, February 7, 2022!</li> <li><a href="https://nodecongress.com/?utm_source=agney&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=web-in-january-newsletter-by-agney" target="_blank">Node Congress</a> - February 17-18</li> <li><a href="https://www.mwcbarcelona.com/?utm_source=agney&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=web-in-january-newsletter-by-agney" target="_blank">MWC Barcelona</a> - Feb 28</li> </ul> </div> <div class="email-detail__footer"> <p> You just read issue #25 of Mindless. 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