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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: So Lit!

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

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I know it sounds obvious, but…

Thinking Is Work | Daniel Eden, Designer
Thinking Is Work | Daniel Eden, Designer
I’ve spoken with a lot of folks recently about a challenge imposed on us by increased remote work: losing time to think. Because of an increased need to communicate and align with peers and teammates—and few, ineffective tools for doing so (video-conferencing meetings and documents)—we find ourselves spending more time communicating than executing and, more critically, thinking about work.
daneden.me

A great tip from Swyx

A great Twitter thread on what CORS is

Fun Stuff

https://twitter.com/musictvtweets/status/1489889387689226243

Words of Wisdom for the Week

Shameless plugs

I had a blast hanging with Domitrius Clark on the DEV Twitch stream this week. We discussed the Jamstack community, community best practices, building in public, all the things!

This week coming up on the DEV Twitch stream, I’m going to be talking to five career changers. Tune in at 5 pm UTC this Wednesday, February 16th.

Twitch
Twitch
Twitch is the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers.
www.twitch.tv

I gave a talk for Codementor this week! The video will be out sometime this upcoming week, but for now, here’s the slide deck.

#30
February 13, 2022
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: The CSS database connection

It’s been a draining month for me. Nothing bad, just lots going on. I am looking forward to two weeks off though in a couple of weeks. Anyway…

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

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Scheduled functions come to Netlify! Did someone order some serverless cron?

I still haven’t checked out Script Kit, but my buddy Jhey is a big fan. Maybe you and I should be checking it out too?! 🤔

Jhey 🔨🐻✨ on Twitter: "What's your favorite automation tool? And why is it @scriptkitapp by @johnlindquist? 🚀 Really looking forward to creating some content around it once I get some articles off the list. Saves me so much time 🙏 https://t.co/njiNu3XK0r"
Jhey 🔨🐻✨ on Twitter: "What's your favorite automation tool? And why is it @scriptkitapp by @johnlindquist? 🚀 Really looking forward to creating some content around it once I get some articles off the list. Saves me so much time 🙏 https://t.co/njiNu3XK0r"
“What’s your favorite automation tool? And why is it @scriptkitapp by @johnlindquist? 🚀
Really looking forward to creating some content around it once I get some articles off the list. Saves me so much time 🙏
https://t.co/njiNu3XK0r”
twitter.com

Fun Stuff

Fun, but also mandatory Ryan Reynolds “But why?” meme lol 👇🏻

Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS
It’s been a hell of a long time since I last embarked on a quality shitpost project1, in fact it’s been so long that back then I probably didn’t even have the word shitpost in my vocabulary.
www.leemeichin.com

Words of Wisdom for the Week

Shameless plugs

Ben Holmes joined me on the DEV Twitch stream this past week! I had a lot of fun learning about Slinkity and we even did some live coding! Check it out!

Walkthrough Wednesday with Ben Holmes, creator of Slinkity
Walkthrough Wednesday with Ben Holmes, creator of Slinkity

This week on the DEV Twitch stream, Domitrius Clark, Community Engineer at Netlify joins me to discuss the new Jamstack community, community best practices, building in public, all the things!

View Nick Taylor's highlight 'Preparing for a Twitch Stream'
View Nick Taylor's highlight 'Preparing for a Twitch Stream'
I’m looking forward to hanging with Domitrius Clark on the DEV Twitch stream next week! We’ll discuss the Jamstack community, community best practices
www.polywork.com

Come by and hang this week on Wednesday, February 9th at 5 pm UTC!

ThePracticalDev - Twitch
ThePracticalDev - Twitch
DEV is a community of software developers getting together to help one another out. The software industry relies on collaboration and networked learning. We provide a place for that to happen.
www.twitch.tv
#29
February 6, 2022
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: That's so fetch

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Native fetch is coming to Node.js,

lib: add fetch by targos · Pull Request #41749 · nodejs/node · GitHub
lib: add fetch by targos · Pull Request #41749 · nodejs/node · GitHub
Refs: nodejs/undici#1183 /cc @nodejs/undici This adds a –experimental-fetch flag that installs the fetch, Request, Response and Headers globals.
github.com

A great CSS layout workshop care of Rachel Andrews!

The fundamentals of CSS layout | Workshop
The fundamentals of CSS layout | Workshop

Fun Stuff

Words of Wisdom for the Week

Shameless plugs

I had an awesome time chatting with Sunil Pai from the WORKERS team at Cloudflare on the DEV Twitch stream this week.

We discussed all the cool things being built at Cloudflare like Workers, KV Store, Durable Objects, wrangler, all the things! We also chatted about all things web dev.

Thanks for hanging Sunil!

Walkthrough Wednesday with Sunil Pai, Workers Team at Cloudflare
Walkthrough Wednesday with Sunil Pai, Workers Team at Cloudflare

Ben Holmes, the creator of the Slinkity project is joining me in the DEV Twitch stream this Wednesday! Come by and say hi at 5 pm UTC

Walkthrough Wednedsay with Ben Holmes creator of Sl...
A constructive and inclusive social network for software developers. With you every step of your journey.
dev.to
Twitch
Twitch
Twitch is the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers.
www.twitch.tv

I’ve got a talk for Codementor coming up in a couple of weeks. Come by and say hi virtually!

https://twitter.com/nickytonline/status/1486859446529802245

Tools for web developers: Live coding and debugging - Codementor Events
Tools for web developers: Live coding and debugging - Codementor Events
Nick shares useful web development tools to help developers program and debug with efficiency
www.codementor.io
#28
January 30, 2022
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Optometrists!

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

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Some great knowledge nuggets in this thread

Vercel released their platform starter kit!

Platforms Starter Kit
Platforms Starter Kit
Learn more about this template for site builders, multi-tenant platforms, and low-code tools.
demo.vercel.pub

This was a great read.

460 Free Textbooks – Math, Science, and More [Online PDF for College and High School]
460 Free Textbooks – Math, Science, and More [Online PDF for College and High School]
While you’re in school, you will go through a number of textbooks and the cost can add up pretty quickly. Luckily, there are websites that offer free textbooks for high school and college students. Here is a list of 460 free textbooks, arranged by topic. Once you find a topic
www.freecodecamp.org
Becoming a Better Writer in Tech - The Pragmatic Engineer
Becoming a Better Writer in Tech - The Pragmatic Engineer
Writing is an increasingly important skill for engineering leaders. Indeed, poor writing can hamper career progression, above a certain level. Tactics for more clear, more frequent and more confident. I’ve observed that my writing is not up to par with my peers. How can I improve my professional writing,
blog.pragmaticengineer.com

If you’re interested in web3, keep an eye on this

freeCodeCamp Just Got a Million Dollar Donation from an Alum to Build a Carbon-Neutral Web3 Curriculum
freeCodeCamp Just Got a Million Dollar Donation from an Alum to Build a Carbon-Neutral Web3 Curriculum
A freeCodeCamp alum who founded his own successful Web3 company has donated $1M to freeCodeCampHe asked that we use some of these funds to develop a carbon-neutral Web3 curriculumWe are building an interactive Web3 curriculum where you can learn by building more than a dozen projects. This free curriculum will
www.freecodecamp.org

Fun Stuff

Words of Wisdom for the Week

I love Steph’s work and this quote

Shameless plugs

Dan Abramov and Maggie Appleton joined me on the DEV Twitch stream this past Wednesday to discuss JavaScript and their course justjavascript.com. Thanks again for hanging out, Dan and Maggie!

Walkthrough Wednesday with Dan Abramov and Maggie Appleton
Walkthrough Wednesday with Dan Abramov and Maggie Appleton

for this week’s stream, I’m looking forward to hanging with Sunil Pai from Cloudflare.

Workers, Durable Objects, we’ll wrangle in all the things! 

Come by and say hi on Wednesday @ 5pm UTC!

Walkthrough Wednesday with Sunil Pai
A constructive and inclusive social network for software developers. With you every step of your journey.
dev.to
Twitch
Twitch
Twitch is the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers.
www.twitch.tv
#27
January 23, 2022
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Sub-atomic!

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This looks like such a cool project from Adam Argyle. I’m not a designer, so I’d struggle building out design tokens. I’m definitely going to be checking this out!

Open Props: sub-atomic styles
Open Props: sub-atomic styles
Open source CSS custom properties to help accelerate adaptive and consistent design. Available from a CDN or NPM, as CSS or Javascript.
open-props.style

Words of Wisdom for the Week

Shameless plugs

Last week Anthony Campolo, Developer Advocate at StepZen joined us to chat about GraphQL and StepZen studio. He showed us how to quickly set up and use an API with StepZen studio which he used as a data source for a SvelteKit based blog.

Thanks again for joining us Anthony!

Walkthrough Wednesday with Anthony Campolo
Walkthrough Wednesday with Anthony Campolo

Dan Abramov & Maggie Appleton are joining me on the DEV Twitch stream this Wednesday at 5pm UTC!

We’ll discuss JavaScript, the Just JavaScript course, and who knows what else?!

Come by and say hi!

ThePracticalDev - Twitch
ThePracticalDev - Twitch
DEV is a community of software developers getting together to help one another out. The software industry relies on collaboration and networked learning. We provide a place for that to happen.
www.twitch.tv
DEV Twitch Stream with Dan Abramov & Maggie Appleton
A constructive and inclusive social network for software developers. With you every step of your journey.
dev.to
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#26
January 16, 2022
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Awaiting at the top

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

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Cloudlflare has been doing a lot of amazing stuff and of course, they wrote about it!

Lambda now supports ES modules. Go get that boost!

Addy as always dropping great knowledge nuggets and resources

A really cool application of AI in the era of COVID and masks

For the CSS fans out there, this is a welcome addition.

Fun Stuff

Words of Wisdom for the Week

Words of wisdom from my friend Vic. And honestly this applies to everyone.

Shameless plugs

We’ve got Jenn Schiffer, Director of Community at Glitch joning us this week on the DEV Twitch stream. Come by and say hi!

jenn.aspx (@jennschiffer) | Twitter
The latest Tweets from jenn.aspx (@jennschiffer). live harmless reptile with 70 years of javascript (insecure web 2.0 technology) experience, almost 5 years leading community @glitch 👽 drinking water @ 100k. jersey city, she/her
twitter.com

I mentioned up top all the cool stuff that Cloudflare has been doing. And guess what? I’m going to be hanging with Sunil Pai, from Cloudflare, on the DEV Twitch stream January 26th.

Twitch
Twitch
Twitch is the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers.
www.twitch.tv
#27
January 9, 2022
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: 2022 OMG

Happy new year! I can’t believe we’re in 2022. We did it, folks!

Alright, another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

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I’m sad the StaffEng podcast ended on December 28, 2021, but it was a good run. Thanks to Alex and David for this gem. I encourage you to give all episodes a listen if you’re looking to level up in your career. I know I’ll be relistening to all the episodes.

StaffEng
StaffEng
Conversations with software engineers who have progressed beyond the career level, into Staff levels and beyond. We discuss the areas of work that set Staff-plus level engineers apart from other individual contributors; things like setting technical direction, mentorship and sponsorship, providin…
podcast.staffeng.com

If you’re a frontend dev, I encourage you to give this a watch. Dan was great in this mock interview.

Dan Abramov SLAYS Frontend Interview w/ Ex-Twitch Engineer
Dan Abramov SLAYS Frontend Interview w/ Ex-Twitch Engineer

This looks like an amazing resource from freeCodeCamp for folks starting their tech journey.

The swyx mixtape has been one of my favourite podcasts of 2021. Well, it’s not a podcast in the traditional sense. As Shawn calls it, “A daily audio lootbox”. Here’s one of the last one’s I gave a listen to in 2021.

[Weekend Drop] Cloudflare vs AWS, API Economy, Learning in Public on the Changelog | The Swyx Mixtape
[Weekend Drop] Cloudflare vs AWS, API Economy, Learning in Public on the Changelog | The Swyx Mixtape
Swyx’s recent appearance on The Changelog.
swyx.transistor.fm
The Light and Dark Side of the API Economy ∊ swyx.io
The Light and Dark Side of the API Economy ∊ swyx.io
The ‘API Economy’ is a popular term for VC’s and tech media, however Developers seem ironically out of the loop despite their central importance to the whole story. Here’s my explanation, together with a dash of economics and social implications.
www.swyx.io

There’s lots of Jam

Understanding Rendering in the Jamstack - Bejamas
Understanding Rendering in the Jamstack - Bejamas
Rendering in the Jamstack? From client-side to server-side rendering, and even distributed persistent rendering - here’s what sets Jamstack apart.
bejamas.io

Fun Stuff

I’m sure some folks are starting to get or are sick of superhero films, but I’m so excited for these Marvel projects coming out in 2022

Marvel Projects Coming In 2022 That We Can't Wait For
Marvel Projects Coming In 2022 That We Can't Wait For

The official Ted Lasso biscuit recipe 😋

We Scored the Official Ted Lasso Biscuit Recipe (and We Even Found the Perfect Pink Boxes)
We Scored the Official Ted Lasso Biscuit Recipe (and We Even Found the Perfect Pink Boxes)
Ted Lasso from the popular Apple+ show gives shortbread biscuits to his co-workers to win them over, and it works (most of the time). Here’s the official recipe so you can make it at home.
www.thekitchn.com

Words of Wisdom for the Week

I put two in here because I skipped last week’s newsletter because Christmas.

Shameless plugs

Here are my last couple of blog posts for 2021

Frontend Developer Resources 2022 - DEV Community
Frontend Developer Resources 2022 - DEV Community
I don’t know if I’ll keep doing this every year, but I did one of these in 2020, and that post got… Tagged with javascript, html, css, typescript.
dev.to
My 2021 Year in Review - DEV Community
My 2021 Year in Review - DEV Community
Like last year, 2021 has been quite the year. Despite the pandemic, I stayed healthy and managed to…
dev.to

Here’s my highlights from 2021 on Polywork. Check it out and if you need an invite, let me know!

Polywork | 'My 2021 Highlights' by Nick Taylor
Polywork | 'My 2021 Highlights' by Nick Taylor
View this collection of Highlights by Nick Taylor. Discover highlights by others and create your own on Polywork. Join the waitlist today.
www.polywork.com

It’s a new year, so we’re back at it with streaming. Excited to be hanging with Anthony Campolo on the DEV Twitch stream this Wednesday @ 5PM UTC! GraphQL, the dev.to API, Stepzen Studio, all things!

Come by and say hi at twitch.tv/thepracticaldev

#26
January 2, 2022
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: So busy!

This will be the last newsletter of the year as I’m on vacation for the rest of the year. Stay safe peeps and see you in the new year!

With that, another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

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A great read about the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Words of Wisdom for the Week

Shameless plugs

Not a plug, but I got a nice shoutout from Nicholas C. Zakas, the creator of eslint.

And one more shoutout coming from the Storybook crew.

#25
December 19, 2021
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Home Alone Meets the Sixth Sense

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

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A friendly reminder to check which apps you no longer use and revoke them.

The React team is releasing experimental support for Web Components

RFC: Plan for custom element attributes/properties in React 18 · Issue #11347 · facebook/react · GitHub
RFC: Plan for custom element attributes/properties in React 18 · Issue #11347 · facebook/react · GitHub
This is meant to address #7249. The doc outlines the pros and cons of various approaches React could use to handle attributes and properties on custom elements. TOC/Summary Background Proposals Option 1: Only set properties Pros Easy to …
github.com

GitHub has a technology preview out for searching code on GitGub

Improving GitHub code search | The GitHub Blog
Improving GitHub code search | The GitHub Blog
Today, we are rolling out a technology preview for GitHub code search, the next iteration for search, discovery, and navigation on GitHub.
github.blog

Turborepo got acquired by Vercel and is now open source! Show Jared some love.

Vercel acquires Turborepo to accelerate build speed and improve developer experience – Vercel
Vercel acquires Turborepo to accelerate build speed and improve developer experience – Vercel
Vercel acquires Turborepo to accelerate build speed and improve developer experience
vercel.com

A great post from Sarah Drasner about the importance of writing and how to improve your written communication.

Writing matters: How to improve your written communication skills | LeadDev
Writing matters: How to improve your written communication skills | LeadDev
Communication is an essential part of leadership, and written communication is particularly crucial.
leaddev.com

Fun Stuff

Grapefruit Is One of the Weirdest Fruits on the Planet - Gastro Obscura
Grapefruit Is One of the Weirdest Fruits on the Planet - Gastro Obscura
From its name, to its hazy origins, to its drug interactions, there’s a lot going on beneath that thick rind.
www.atlasobscura.com
‘Home Alone’ Is So Much Better if Kevin McCallister is Dead
‘Home Alone’ Is So Much Better if Kevin McCallister is Dead
Ever wonder why Macaulay Culkin’s family hated their cute little 8-year-old so much in the Christmas classic? Here’s why.
www.thedailybeast.com

Words of Wisdom for the Week

Shameless plugs

I wrote about how I review pull requests. Maybe you’ll find this helpful. Also, I’d love to hear about your review process in the comments! I’m always looking to improve. 😎

How I Review Pull Requests - DEV Community
How I Review Pull Requests - DEV Community
Someone in my Virtual Coffee community asked about getting better at reviewing pull requests (PR)… Tagged with beginners, programming, career.
dev.to

That’s it peeps! Enjoy the we

#24
December 12, 2021
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Maya who?

The newsletter is a little shorter this week, but regarldess, another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

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Sandpack from the CodeSandbox team looks amazing. I’m definitely going to be trying this out.

And there’s other cool functionality that will be available via GitHub Copilot Labs.

Announcing GitHub Copilot Labs · Discussion #8308 · github/feedback · GitHub
Announcing GitHub Copilot Labs · Discussion #8308 · github/feedback · GitHub
Announcing GitHub Copilot Labs
github.com

I’ve been curious about web3 and have been building out projects on Buildspace. It’s a lot of fun and it’s been great learning some new things. That said, it can definitely get spicy on Twitter when folks talk about it. Josh, comes in with a cool level headed take which I thought was great.

Not tech-specific, but taking care of your body is super important. Full disclosure that I am not a certified personal trainer, so I am not allowed to give personal training advice, but as an ex-university athlete, I can definitely tell you that stretching is key.

Lack of flexibility brings on all kinds of injuries potentially and when we’re all at our desks for most of the day, it’s even more important. Here are some good ones to get you started, but consider speaking to a trainer if you’re looking to get serious about a training regime, including stretching.

Also for all the tough folks out there, being more flexible is beneficial to strength training and muscle development as the muscles become more elongated. 💪🏻

Fun Stuff

Timbiebs! As a Canadian and Timbit lover, I’m excited to try these. You just gotta Beliebe.

Bad, but so good

Words of Wisdom for the Week

Shameless plugs

We had the final DEV Twitch stream of the year. We had some good times hanging out with Gift Egwuenu. Gift joined us to talk about learning in public, creating content, burnout, moving to and working in a new country, and more!

Thanks again for joining us Gift!

Walkthrough Wednesday with Gift Egwuenu
Walkthrough Wednesday with Gift Egwuenu

Not a shameless plug, more of a fun thing I did for the second year in a row. Building an ice rink in my backyard!

And the finished product getting filled with water.

#23
December 5, 2021
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Muppet Lasso

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

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The first commit to React was over ten years ago. Time flies.

A nice roundup of all the new things that have been coming out of Cloudflare.

If you own NFTs, this is a useful thread for securing them, and honestly probably just some general crypto good to know about wallets.

I try not to put stuff in the newsletter that is probably on everyone’s radar, but it’s pretty incredible that Vercel has gone from series A to series D in two years. Lee Robinson has a great post on working in a hypergrowth company.

Hypergrowth – Lee Robinson
Hypergrowth – Lee Robinson
From Series A to D at a $2.5B valuation, 30 to 150+ employees, here’s my Vercel story.
leerob.io

Julia Evans is always great at explaining things. In this post she digs into esbuild

Some notes on using esbuild
Some notes on using esbuild
jvns.ca

This is super cool! I didn’t know that Twitter had shortcut keys. 😎

Fun Stuff

The 1980s hustle game. Major Wolf of Wall Street vibes lol.

If you love The Muppets and Ted Lasso… (click on the Tweet as the preview doesn’t show it all)

Words of Wisdom for the Week

Shawn Wang, a.k.a. swyx, always has some great knowledge nuggets. I definitely encourage everyone to keep asking questions, the point here is more digging into things like is this really the problem we’re trying to solve? I imagine most people subscribed to this newsletter already follow him on Twitter, but if not, he’s a great follow.

I also encourage you to check out The Swyx Mixtape

The Swyx Mixtape
The Swyx Mixtape
swyx’s personal picks pod. Weekdays: the best audio clips from podcasts I listen to, in 10 minutes or less! Fridays: Music picks! Weekends: long-form talks and conversations! This is a passion project; never any ads, 100% just recs from me to people who like the stuff I like. Share and give feedback: tag @swyx on Twitter or email audio questions to swyx @ swyx.io
swyx.transistor.fm

Shameless plugs

I was responding to one of the CodeNewbie questions on Twitter this past week about tools we’re thankful for. I was mentioning browser tools and then dropped a talk I had given about debugging JavaScript as this is one of the things you use browser tools for. TLDR; check out my talk if you’re new to or even already familiar with debugging JavaScript. 😎

We’re back next week with the last DEV Twitch stream of the year. I’m really looking forward to hanging out with Gift!

Also, if you aren’t following DEV or myself on Twitch yet, you know what to do. 😎

ThePracticalDev - Twitch
ThePracticalDev - Twitch
DEV is a community of software developers getting together to help one another out. The software industry relies on collaboration and networked learning. We provide a place for that to happen.
www.twitch.tv
nickytonline - Twitch
nickytonline - Twitch
I am a Lead Software Engineer with a focus on the front-end at Forem, the software that powers DEV.I am a big fan of TypeScript, JavaScript, P/React and Node. I enjoy contributing to open source, hitting the gym, snowboarding, and a long long time ago, rugby. I am also not a big fan of spiders. 😬
www.twitch.tv
#22
November 28, 2021
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Whisky fuel

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

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IDEs in the browser are upping their game. Stackblitz upped their game by releasing WebContainers. Boot full-stack apps instantly according to their latest blog post. It’s nice to see WebAssembly being leveraged here.

Introducing WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in your browser
Introducing WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in your browser
Today we’re excited to announce WebContainers, a new type of WebAssembly-based operating system that boots instantly and enables Node.js environments to run natively in-browser.
blog.stackblitz.com

Words of Wisdom for the Week

Shameless plugs

The DEV Twitch stream is off for the next little bit. We’ll be back with one more stream on December 1st. We'l lbe hanging with Gift Egwuenu and then that’s a wrap for 2020.

We’ll be back in 2022 when we kickstart off the first week in January. Although DEV is not streaming, I’ve been streaming a little more frequently on my own stream.

This past week, I paired with Matt Foley for the third time as we continue to build out a GitHub action that Tweets to first-time contributors of a repository. Here’s a short recap.

View Nick Taylor's highlight on Polywork
View Nick Taylor's highlight on Polywork
Some more fun today on my stream hanging with Matt where we continued to build out our GitHub action for Tweeting to first-time contributors of a repo
www.polywork.com

I’ll get the streams up on YouTube at some point, but for now, here’s a highlight from this week.

Highlight: Building out a GitHub action with Matt Foley Part 3 - nickytonline on Twitch
Highlight: Building out a GitHub action with Matt Foley Part 3 - nickytonline on Twitch
nickytonline went live on Twitch. Catch up on their Software and Game Development VOD now.
www.twitch.tv
#21
November 21, 2021
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Tell me a story

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

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Twitter Blue expands to other countries and more features

Twitter smarter, Twitter harder with Twitter Blue
Twitter smarter, Twitter harder with Twitter Blue
Twitter Blue is now available in the United States and New Zealand across iOS, Android and web. We’re bringing subscribers even more features, more content, and more ways to participate in the convo.
blog.twitter.com

This one is big news for the frontend ecosystem and especially Svelte fans

Nader sums up this podcast episode pretty well in the Tweet above. It’s linked in his Tweet, but I dropped the main StackOverflow podcast page for this episode below.

Podcast 390: Web3 won't save us - Stack Overflow Blog
Podcast 390: Web3 won't save us - Stack Overflow Blog
If we tear up the rules and build a new internet, how can we avoid making the same mistakes?
stackoverflow.blog

Fun Stuff

From my old coworker, JF who I don’t believe is on Twitter, so just calling out the credit for the share and also lol. This one goes out to everyone who unfortunately has to observe daylight saving time.

Daylight Savings (Movie Trailer)

Produce and promote stunning virtual events and webinars.
Produce and promote stunning virtual events and webinars.

I’m looking forward to more X-Men cartoons even though we need to wait until 2023.

I’ve always loved basketball. I was all about basketball in high school. I was doing all kinds of jumping exercises in my living room, brushing my teeth and writing with my left hand, and just on the court a lot. Was I amazing? No, but I will give myself some cred. I used to be able to grab the rim even at 5’ 7". Why is this in the newsletter? I recently watched a couple of documentaries on a couple of Chicago Bulls players, my favourite team. They’re really great watches if you’re a sports fan or b-ball lover.

Words of Wisdom for the Week

Shameless plugs

I got to hangout with Andrea and bdougie on the GitHub community Twitter Space this past Friday. Lots of great convos around GitHub actions and the GitHub actions hackathon

View Nick Taylor's highlight on Polywork
View Nick Taylor's highlight on Polywork
It was a lot of fun hanging on the GitHub Community Twitter Space today discussing GitHub actions and the hackathon. Thanks again for having me Andrea
www.polywork.com

This week on the DEV Twitch stream we had our wonderful co-workers from the community success team join us. If you want some insights on what it’s like to run a community, you’ll definitely want to check this one out.

Twitch
Twitch
Twitch is the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers.
www.twitch.tv

I’ve teamed up with Matt Foley who I met in our stream chat when bdougie was on and now we’re building out a GitHub action! Follow our journey on the live stream and our GitHub repository.

Twitch
Twitch
Twitch is the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers.
www.twitch.tv
GitHub - nickytonline/epic-actions: Epic GitHub Actions
GitHub - nickytonline/epic-actions: Epic GitHub Actions
Epic GitHub Actions. Contribute to nickytonline/epic-actions development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
#20
November 15, 2021
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Hamster around the world

Alright, we’re back to the regular cadence of the newsletter now that I’ve moved it over to Revue.

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

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You can now Tweet using the Twitter API. 🐦

Edge DevTools for Visual Studio Code 1.4.0 - Improved Screencasting, Device Emulation and live, inline issue reporting - VSCodeTips
Edge DevTools for Visual Studio Code 1.4.0 - Improved Screencasting, Device Emulation and live, inline issue reporting - VSCodeTips
The 1.4.0 release of the Microsoft Tools for Visual Studio Code brings a few highly requested… Tagged with debugging, browsers, extensions.
community.vscodetips.com

The disabled attribute is something I’ve been flip-flopping on a lot lately after reviewing some PRs and from what I’ve learnt from working with my awesome co-worker Suzanne.

This post from Sandrina Pereira, Making Disabled Buttons More Accessible, was a great read.

Some things that also stood out for me were these two pieces in the article.

and this one

Making Disabled Buttons More Inclusive | CSS-Tricks
Making Disabled Buttons More Inclusive | CSS-Tricks
Let’s talk about disabled buttons. Specifically, let’s get into why we use them and how we can do better than the traditional disabled attribute in HTML
css-tricks.com

If you use TypeScript or tools that are powered by TypeScript, e.g. VS Code, this is huge. TLDR; if you destructure a discriminated union type, using the destructured properties will still be type aware of which union type it was a part of. This snippet from the pull request (PR) explains it best if you don’t feel like diving into the PR

type Action =

| { kind: 'A', payload: number }

| { kind: 'B', payload: string };

function f10({ kind, payload }: Action) {

if (kind === 'A') {

payload.toFixed();

}

if (kind === 'B') {

payload.toUpperCase();

}

}

Control flow analysis for destructured discriminated unions by ahejlsberg · Pull Request #46266 · microsoft/TypeScript · GitHub
Control flow analysis for destructured discriminated unions by ahejlsberg · Pull Request #46266 · microsoft/TypeScript · GitHub
This PR implements control flow analysis for dependent parameters and variables declared by destructuring discriminated unions. Specifically, when non-rest binding elements are declared as const variables or const-like parameters (parameters for which there are no assignments in the function body) and the parent type for the destructuring is a discriminated union type, conditional checks for variables destructured from discriminant properties now affect the types of other variables declared in the same destructuring. Some examples: type Action = | { kind: ‘A’, payload: number } | { kind: ‘B’, payload: string };
function f10({ kind, payload }: Action) { if (kind === ‘A’) { payload.toFixed(); } if (kind === ‘B’) { payload.toUpperCase(); } }
function f11(action: Action) { const { kind, payload } = action; if (kind === ‘A’) { payload.toFixed(); } if (kind === ‘B’) { payload.toUpperCase(); } }
function f12({ kind, payload }: Action) { switch (kind) { case ‘A’: payload.toFixed(); break; case ‘B’: payload.toUpperCase(); break; default: payload; // never } }
function f13(it: Iterator) { const { value, done } = it.next(); if (!done) { value; // number } } Fixes #10830. Fixes #35283. Fixes #38020. Fixes #46143.
github.com

This looks like a sweet addition to the Chrome DevTools

Fun Stuff

This cracked me up. I own a hamster and I love Daft Punk. I can’t confirm, but I’m sure the little fella is OK.

1000x engineer lol

Words of Wisdom for the Week

Twitter is still a great space for folks in tech, but Angie drops a truth bomb.

Shameless plugs

Stephanie Eckles joined us on the DEV Twitch stream this week. It was so much hanging out with her. She’s put out so much amazing content like ModernCSS.dev. Check out thinkdobecreate.com to see all her body of work.

Thanks again for joining us Steph!

I’m not one to brag, but I’m really proud of what we’ve done with the DEV Twitch stream. The short story is I was streaming on my own account with folks in the community pairing on issues/live coding and as Hacktoberfest 2020 approached, I suggested that we should stream on the DEV Twitch account because it was just sitting there. And the rest is history. 😎

Shoutout again to my awesome co-host Christina!

Not a shameless plug, but I finally minted my NFT to join the Developer DAO. I had already joined the Discord but hadn’t finished the registration, i.e. the NFT.

I know not everyone is a fan of web3 or even that term, but I’m enjoying learning about the space and Developer DAO is a super welcoming community. If you want to follow my web 3 adventures, I have a series on dev.to.

web3 adventures Series' Articles - DEV Community
web3 adventures Series' Articles - DEV Community
View web3 adventures Series’ Articles on DEV Community
dev.to

Until the next iss

#19
November 8, 2021
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: New Newsletter Platform!

This newsletter is coming to you a couple of weeks late, but I’m back in the habit now that I’m on the new platform.

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

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NEXT.js 12 is out. Lots of great stuff in there. I caught the conference this past week. The Vercel team is doing so many things in regards to improving DX and not compromising on UX.

This got all sorted out thanks to the .NET community and amazing folks on the inside like Scott Hanselman.

Kevin Powell has released a free course so you can level up your frontend skills thanks to a collaboration with Scrimba and Frontend Mentor. 

Parcel 2 has dropped!

Fun Stuff

Words of Wisdom for the Week

Shameless plugs

I’ve become more curious about web3 and have started to build out decentralized apps (dApps) to ramp up in this space via a great community called Buildspace.

Here’s a couple of posts about the dApps I’ve created recently.

I built my first dApp! - DEV Community
I built my first dApp! - DEV Community
This past weekend I completed a web3 project from the awesome folks at buildspace. The project was… Tagged with dapp, web3, nextjs, react.
dev.to
An NFT based game - DEV Community
An NFT based game - DEV Community
The project So this past week I built out my second dApp with the current cohort in the… Tagged with web3, dapp, nextjs, react.
dev.to

We had a couple of great guests the past two weeks on the DEV Twitch stream. First up, we had Jonathan Creamer from Microsoft. We discussed frontend infrastructure, open source, and a term he coined, divops.

This week we had Will Johnson on the stream. We talked about dev rel, content creation, Framer Motion, Will’s new course on Framer Motion, and RenderATL and all the satellite projects associated with it.

Thanks to both of you for joining us!

Walkthrough Wednesday with Jonathan Creamer
Walkthrough Wednesday with Jonathan Creamer
Walkthrough Wednesday with Will Johnson
Walkthrough Wednesday with Will Johnson

Coming up this week, we have the amazing Stephanie Eckles joining us on the DEV Twitch stream! Come by and say hi at 5 pm UTC on Wednesday, November 3rd!

And lastly, if you’re a fan of VS Code, I started a community a little while back that builds off a Twitter community I started a few years ago.

Come by and say hi!

Until the next iss

#18
October 31, 2021
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Darth Fetch

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

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  • Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale
  • DevOps for Dummies author Emily Freeman introduces revolutionary model for modern software development
  • A great live stream on some VS Code tips with Burke Holland and James Q. Quick
  • Taylor Dessyn’s Guidance Counselor 2.0 with Jem Young - Love the conversations in this stream about hiring and the job search.
  • Serverless Live Streaming with Cloudflare Stream
  • Introducing Twitter for Professionals - I’m curious about folks’ thoughts on this one

Fun Stuff

#17
October 4, 2021
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Be aware she can move in any direction

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

Around the Web

  • The days are long but the decades are short – This appeared in my feed care of Guillermo Rauch
  • How to Write Good Commit Messages: A Practical Git Guide
  • Check out motion.dev – From Matt Perry, the creator of Framer motion. More about it from Matt on Twitter.
  • I’m sure Shawn dropped this on his own newsletter, but this was such an amazing conversation between Shawn Wang and Sunil Pai. Here is the outline of what was discussed.
  • A great thread on questions to ask a potential employer – Kyle Shevlin through the question out to Twitter and folks didn’t disappoint.

Fun Stuff

#16
September 27, 2021
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: I have deleted the DB

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

Around the Web

  • Eliminating cold starts with Cloudflare Workers
  • CEO Ridiculed for Raising Minimum Wage to $70K Has the Last Laugh
  • READMEs for organization profiles on GitHub
  • Travis CI flaw exposed secrets of thousands of open source projects

Fun Stuff

#15
September 20, 2021
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: #BluesClues25

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

Around the Web

  • Native Rust support on Cloudflare Workers
  • Open source backend-as-a-service startup Supabase raises $30M
  • Apple must allow other forms of in-app purchases, rules judge in Epic v. Apple
  • # Twas the night before #15DaysOfCSS – 15 days of CSS is back for 2021
  • Compilers for Humans – A paid resource, but I’m looking forward to when this drops.
  • Front End Happy Hour - Dealing with burnout - Burnt Orange Campari via Vaidehi Joshi on Twitter – My old colleague Vaidehi and others get real about burnout.

Fun Stuff

#14
September 13, 2021
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Raccoons giving us the feel goods

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

Around the Web

  • GraphQL at PayPal: An Adoption Story
  • CSS Nesting 1 spec has it’s 1st working public draft via Adam Argyle on Twitter
  • Creating GitHub CLI extensions
  • How to become a software app developer | Interview with @bdougie

Fun Stuff

#13
September 6, 2021
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Llama on the beach

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

Around the Web

  • Mistakes I made while maintaining an open-source React Native library for five years
  • Accessible images, icons and emojis - This came up in a pull request this week in a conversation with myself, and some other coworkers, including my coworker Suzanne who wrote this post
  • Engineering Manager Resources - a great repository of engineering manager resources care of Ryan Burgess, an engineering manager at Netflix
  • Creating a Personal Success Framework by Freddie Carthy
  • Apple loosens rules for developers, in major concession amid antitrust pressure
  • # EXCLUSIVE-Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers of exposed databases -emails 😬

Fun Stuff

#12
August 30, 2021
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: The lobster summoner

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

Around the Web

  • Not sure how I feel about Mark Zuckerberg promoting a virtual office where we’re all characters.
  • Sourcegraph plans to index the entire open source web
  • Deno episode from the HTTP 203 show on the Google Chrome Developers YouTube channel - Jake and Surma give an introduction to Deno, a secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript
  • The Big Gotcha With Custom Properties - Chris Coyier shows us some gotchas with custom properties in CSS
  • # Embrace 1% Days - I came across this post from Sam Julien this week on Twitter.

Fun Stuff

#11
August 23, 2021
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Have you tried turning it on and off again?

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

Around the Web

  • I starred the spark-joy repository a while ago, but it popped back in my Twitter feed this week. “Easy ways to add design flair, user delight, and whimsy to your product!”
  • For those who do not use Visual Studio Code, support for GitHub’s Copilot is coming to vim and Jetbrains products via Nat Friedman on Twitter
  • Looking to get buy-in to adopt GraphQL at your workplace? Kurt Kemple has you covered with this Tweet thread
  • 35 Principles for 35 Years by Shawn Wang.
  • RubyJard Just Another Ruby Debugger
  • Stay alert A follow up to last week where Chrome 91 drops alert, confirm, and prompt from cross origin frames care of Rich Harris
  • On the <dl> by Ben Myers
  • Code House your one stop shop for cheat sheets

Fun Stuff

#10
August 16, 2021
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Are ya famous son?

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

Around the Web

  • Get Started with Obsidian as a Developer by Sam Julien
  • A Tweet thread of some great programming tips from Ali Spittel
  • Shaundai Person brought this resource to my attention. If you’re looking to write a call for proposal (CFP) for a conference(s), Colby Fayock has your back with cfptemplate.com
  • A bunch of great CSS Tricks articles curated in a nice Tweet thread care of Chris Coyier.
  • Chrome 91 drops alert, confirm, and prompt from cross origin frames. Rich Harris chimes in on Twitter as well as many others about this breaking change.
  • Cloudflare Tunnel, a free ngrok alternative care of Cloudflare

Fun Stuff

#9
August 9, 2021
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Side convos

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

Around the Web

  • Designing A Workflow Engine from First Principles
  • Yarn 3.0 🚀🤖 Performances, ESBuild, Better Patches, …
  • argbash.io - From the site, “Argbash is a code generator - write a short definition and let Argbash modify your script so it magically starts to expose a command-line interface to your users and arguments passed using this interface as variables.”
  • Creating an accessible autocomplete experience
  • Discord rolls out threads, side conversations that auto-archive
  • Safari isn’t protecting the web, it’s killing it

Fun Stuff

#8
August 2, 2021
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Gail

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

Around the Web

  • Everything Josh Comeau does is amazing, and his latest post is well… amazing! How To Learn Stuff Quickly
  • Practical Use Cases for Scroll-Linked Animations in CSS with Scroll Timelines
  • A Step-By-Step Process for Turning Designs Into Code care of Mark Noonan (one of my friends from my Virtual Coffee community)
  • If you’re a VS Code fan, check out Easier browser debugging with Developer Tools integration in Visual Studio Code
  • I don’t know how new this feature is, but GMail allows you to create appointment slots in Google Calendar now. Currently it’s only available for work or school accounts. As someone who uses Calendly, I might check this out.

Fun Stuff

#7
July 26, 2021
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Works on My Computer

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

Around the Web

  • I really enjoy listening to Shawn Wang‘s The Swyx Mixtape. This week’s mix tape was about developer community which I really enjoyed. Check out [Weekend Drop] Why Invest in Developer Community? GitHub OCTO Speaker Series
  • A great Twitter thread on storytelling
  • Dan Abramov and Maggie Appleton‘s Just JavaScript course dropped recently. I had a chance to get my hands on it before it was released and it’s fantastic. It’s at a super reduced price for the next little while. If you’re looking to grok JS better, this might help you out!
  • An interesting read on the Rust project. Rust is not a Company
  • Laurie Barth hit her 100th blog post and wrote A Blog on Blogging. You might find some useful tips in there!
  • For all the Rubyists out there, check out Fullstaq Ruby, Ruby, optimized for production
  • Licenses for OSS projects. Which one do you pick? These two resources got your back!
    • A dev’s guide to open source software licensing
    • choosealicense.com

Fun Stuff

#6
July 19, 2021
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: He Was a Sk8er Boi

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

Around the Web

  • Sarah Drasner is releasing a book on engineering management, sign up to be notified when it drops. A lot of the material from the book is also available on her blog as well.
  • Building a Responsive Layout with CSS Grid and Container Queries! w/ Stephanie Eckles
  • Jen Simmons teaches us in 5 minutes what aspec-ration is in CSS
  • Git Command Explorer if you need to work on your gitfu
  • Fastest Way to Deploy a Database (10 Seconds!?) by Lee Robinson

Fun Stuff

#5
July 12, 2021
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: LEGO and Things

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

Around the Web

  • Solid, a declarative, efficient and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
  • GitHub releases a technical preview of Copilot, an AI tool that provides suggestions while coding. I got access to the preview and will have a blog post/stream about this in the next week or so.
  • Neeva, an add-free, privacy first search engine created by ex-Googlers
  • Slack launches Huddles, a Discord-like audio calls
  • Good Meetings, a great post on CSS-Tricks by Sarah Drasner

Cool Stuff

#4
July 5, 2021
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Mind the Stairs

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

Around the Web

  • An awesome list of women streamers, Women Who Stream Tech
  • An interesting piece for engineering teams. No code reviews by default
  • Vercel raises $102M Series C for its front-end development platform
  • I’ve been enjoying Chris Biscardi’s Release Radar videos. This one came out a couple of weeks ago, but for the streamers out there, you want to hear about all the new goodness in OBS. OBS Studio 27: The one with undo – Release Radar
  • A new GitHub Issues: Project planning for developers
  • I found out about confreaks.tv this week. Check it out!
  • If you’re a fan of Visual Studio Code, you’ll want to check out 10 things you didn’t know about GitLens
  • Yes another static site generator, but this one looks pretty interesting if you’re a React or MDX fan or both! Nextra, a static generator for React/MDX

Cool Stuff

#3
June 28, 2021
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Wear a Helmet!

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

Around the Web

  • Andy Bell’s Tips for freelancing
  • I came across Raycast this week. It’s a Spotlight alternative for macOS, much like Alfred, but it apparently provides much deeper and more native integrations to third party services. Take it for a spin and see for yourself! Also, for non-Mac folks, it looks like this will roll out to other platforms at some point.
  • NEXT.js releases NEXT.js Live!
  • NEXT.js 11 is out!
  • Introducing Aurora: A collaboration between Chrome and open-source web frameworks & tools
  • For those looking to see what’s out there for accessibility tooling, Smashing Magazine via Nic Chan have you covered
  • Awesome Vite.js, a curated list of awesome things related to Vite.js
  • What’s new in React 18? by Shruti Kapoor
  • CSS Container Queries, Layers, Scoping and More with Miriam Suzanne on the latest syntax.fm!

Wear Your Helmet!

#2
June 21, 2021
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Yet Another Newsletter LOL Issue: Numero Uno

Welcome to the first issue of Yet Another Newsletter LOL!

As mentioned in my blog post about starting this newsletter, this newsletter will be mainly about web development, programming in general, and tech industry related news, but I may also throw in some fun random stuff occasionally.

Let’s get to it.

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#1
June 14, 2021
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