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Hey howdy,

Well dang, last week was quite busy, mostly occupied supporting an imminent product launch next week on Netlify. Oddly, most of what I came across last week in the in-between was stuff I had missed from late last year. So this week is sort of “in case you missed the stuff I also missed at the end of 2021”, lol. Onward:

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Understanding Rendering in the Jamstack (Brian Rinaldi) - This is from December 2021, but I had missed it (maybe you did too!). This is a solid breakdown of mental models of building with the Jamstack (and the word soup / acronym heaven that goes along with it now). “From client-side to server-side rendering, and even distributed persistent rendering - here’s what sets Jamstack apart.”

Howdy y’all,

Long time no see! I don’t know about y’all, but the holidays came at me hard. I really powered down for several weeks, and I’m glad I did! Starting in the new year I moved onto a newly-formed team at work, and have been focusing all my energy on that. Time has just massively gotten away from me, and suddenly it’s the early days of February! I hope your 2022 is off to a good start.

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How To Learn Stuff Quickly (Josh Comeau) - This post is a gold mine (no exaggeration). It’s a nice curated collection of useful practices and approaches that I’m already familiar with, for the most part – but putting into practice is the tricky bit! Josh talks about leveraging both guided and unguided learning, growth mindset, spaced repetition, learning in public, and more.

Hey y'all,

Somehow, already, another week. (Also, happy November?? Time is a lie). A short one today -- I took a sick day on Wednesday, and with temperatures dipping for the first time this season (I'm in Texas) I already want to hibernate until spring... :ohno:

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• A spooky tale: The Headingless Horseman (Scott O'Hara) - Halloween 2021 is past (RIP), but I just couldn't resist sharing this one. A fun spooky mini story web/fiction mashup.
• What is decoupling, actually? (Cassidy Williams (and team)) - Some Netlifolks had a conversation in Slack, clarifying what "decoupling" in web architecture means. Too good not to share, Cassidy copypasta'd it as a blog post. If you're not all too sure what "decoupling" means (and at this point, you're afraid to ask), this might be a good one for you.
• HTMHell special: tasty buttons (Manuel Matuzović) - Another gem from Manuel's "HTMHell" series ("a collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites"). Manuel chews through way too many "hamburger menu" implementations (not sorry for that pun at all), with commentary on how to improve them, and solutions to wrap it all up.

Howdy folks,

Coming at you a lil later than usual on this one, but let’s pretend I did it on purpose so I could wish you a day-of “Happy Halloween!” 🎃👻. I hope you’ve had some fun spooky times this weekend. As for me, I did an extremely low-effort costume (Noel Fielding from Great British Bake Off), and competed participated in my gym’s Halloween in-house partnered throwdown.

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Happy weekend, y’all. Hope you’re having a beautiful Saturday. Here are few tidbits I came across this week to take a look at, if they interest you.

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Howdy, y’all,

Here are some bits and bobs I came across this week. I hope one piques your interest!

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Howdy, y’all,

Hope you’ve had a good week, and happy Friday! Making a slight tweak to the format starting this week, inspired by one of my favorite newsletters, A11y Weekly – highlighting a featured content piece, and basing the title/subject line on that, instead of the date. Anyway… on to some things I found interesting this week.

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Howdy y'all,

Happy 👻 spooky season 🎃. 'Tis the most wonderful time of the year. I'd be gleefully wearing a hoodie, were I not in Texas.

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• How SPA architectures affect Core Web Vitals (Philip Walton, Yoav Weiss) - How are Core Web Vitals measured in a single-page application (SPA)?
• Chrome DevTools Console Drawer (Jon Kuperman) - A nice short write-up on six cool features hiding in Chrome Dev Tools.
• The Product-Minded Engineer (Gergely Orosz) - Defining a "product-minded engineer". I've been working on the Growth team at Netlify for nearly a year now, and a lot of this resonated with my day-to-day. I had always considered it to be a "small team" phenomenon -- I don't see how to not be product-minded (as described in this post) in a small team.

Howdy y’all,

A day late on this one, wasn’t feeling my best yesterday.

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Howdy y’all,

Friday yet again! Here are a handful of things that came my way this week. I hope a couple catch your eye.

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Hey hey,

Happy Friday, y’all. Still hotter than Hades outside, but I’m starting to get some autumn vibes. (Maybe wishful thinking).

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Well. It's Friday.

It's sure been a hell of a week, and I am mad and tired. Short one today.

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• How DNS works (DNS Simple) - A neat comic to explain what happens when you type a website address in your browser.
• The history of "typeof null" (Axel Rauschmayer) - A short dig into a JavaScript bug. Very not new -- new to me via an outlink from Just JavaScript.
• Design for Safety, An Excerpt (Eva PenzeyMoog) - An excerpt from the A List Apart book of the same name - On creating a strategy, a plan of action, to make our tech safer.

Happy Friday, y’all —

Here’s a smattering of things that came my way this week.

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Happy Friday, y’all —

Here’s a few bits and bobs that came my way this week.

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Well… hello! 👋

This is the first newsletter I’ve sent since March 21, 2020. Given everything that’s happened in the interim, I thought restarting this thing on Friday the 13th was fitting.

A reintroduction is probably in order, so here’s my description of my goals for this newsletter from ICYMI #1:

Hi friends,

Another weird week. And it’ll be weird and scary and distant for a while to come. Last week I saw more people than ever on evening walks, which warmed my heart. Me and all my neighbors sang happy birthday to my little neighbor turning 7, from across our backyard fences while her mom held her birthday cake. My partner started working from home full-time for the foreseeable future, which is an adjustment. I donated blood with a group of friends to help stave off the anticipated shortage. I worked my already-remote software job – sometimes effectively, sometimes pretty uselessly.

I’m feeling lucky, worried, anxious, panicked, bored, isolated, distant, loved, helpless, overwhelmed, guilty, angry, hopeful, and