Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Ten Years of TypeScript

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

Around the Web

Today is TypeScript’s birthday! But this birthday is a special one – 10 years ago today, on October 1st, 2012, TypeScript was unveiled publicly for the first time. The Early Days When TypeScript first debuted, there was a lot of skepticism –

devblogs.microsoft.com

Even if you’re a “seasoned pro”, Estelle recommends still giving this a look.

If you think you know HTML, you should still do a quick read of Learn HTML. I thought I knew HTML, and then I started writing the series. I promise you’ll learn something (possibly that you disagree with me, but that’s still something 🤪) https://t.co/FhOsNb5Xyc
— Moved to estelle@front-end.social (@estellevw) October 6, 2022

Learn HTML

This HTML course for web developers provides a solid overview for developers, from novice to expert level HTML.

web.dev

A great talk from Swyx at this year’s CascadiaJS

Paradigm Lost | Shawn (swyx) Wang | CascadiaJS 2022

New in @ChromeDevTools’s Style Pane: CSS Authoring Hints!

These hints tell you why certain CSS declarations have no effect. For example: flex: 1 does nothing when the parent has no display: flex set.

Enabled by default in the most recent Chrome Canary (108.0.5354.2) pic.twitter.com/Wz7wtcK7hL
— Bramus (@bramus) October 12, 2022

Fun Stuff

Click on the Tweet to watch the video. It won’t disappoint. 😎

https://twitter.com/_BS__/status/1575839481092972544

Words of Wisdom for the Week

I’ve mentioned it before, but “Lift as you climb” from Cassidy Williams is one of my favourite words of wisdom.

Cassidy Williams · GitHub

For @cassidoo, open source is all about building relationships, teaching, learning, and finding communities everywhere she codes. Get her full story on The ReadME Project:

github.com

VS Code Tip of the Week

I’ve been doing these on a weekly basis for a while now, but I’m running out of steam a bit. I plan to do these still, but probably not on a weekly basis.

Shameless plugs

I started a podcast! TL;DR, it’s conversations I’ve had on my Twitch stream with awesome people, and maybe some other things. Mainly tech related. Check it out at pod.iamdeveloper.com

Contributing to open source with Brian Douglas - Nick's Cuts

Nick Taylor chats with Brian Douglas, Chief Sauce Officer from Open Sauced about contributing to open source and what the Open Sauced project is doing to help folks in OSS.Links:The stream with Brian on YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeBAuW5Kf8cWebsite, https://b.dougie.devTwitter, http…

nickscuts.buzzsprout.com

I had a great chat with Josh Goldberg about TypeScript, TypeScript ESLint, open source, and his new book Learning TypeScript!

TypeScript, TS ESLint & the Learning TypeScript Book with guest Josh Goldberg, Open Source Developer

Sami Jaber will join me tomorrow on my Twitch stream to teach us all about Mitosis!

What is Mitosis? with @samijaber_, Software Engineer @builderio. Happening this Monday, October 17th at 5 pm UTC!https://t.co/DT5suTEIZE pic.twitter.com/ivUiMJ3MMU
— Nick Taylor (@nickytonline) October 14, 2022

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