Yet Another Newsletter LOL: The emoji struggle

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

Around the Web

Security alert: Attack campaign involving stolen OAuth user tokens issued to two third-party integrators | The GitHub Blog

On April 12, GitHub Security began an investigation that uncovered evidence that an attacker abused stolen OAuth user tokens issued to two third-party OAuth integrators, Heroku and Travis-CI, to download data from dozens of organizations, including npm. Read on to learn more about the impact to GitHub, npm, and our users.

github.blog

I always forget that Twitter has advanced search features. This is a great thread with some advanced search tips.

The most powerful feature that Twitter has:

Advanced search

Until recently I hadn’t even heard of it, but now I use it all the time.

Here are 6 twitter advanced search features that will revolutionise the way you search for what to read: 🧵👇
— Tessa Davis (@TessaRDavis) April 8, 2022

A new web-based JSON viewer has landed. It looks pretty dope.

JSON Hero - A beautiful JSON viewer

JSON Hero makes reading and understand JSON files easy by giving you a clean and beautiful UI packed with extra features.

jsonhero.io

What is an emoji, anyway?

The struggle of using native emoji on the web | Read the Tea Leaves

Emoji are a standard overseen by the Unicode Consortium. The web is a standard governed by bodies such as the W3C, WHATWG, and TC39. Both emoji and the web are ubiquitous. So you might be forgiven for thinking that, in 2022, it’s possible to plop an emoji on a web page and have it “just…

nolanlawson.com

A new extensible text editor framework. It looks really promising.

Lexical

An extensible text editor framework that does things differently

lexical.dev

Fun Stuff

NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites into orbit

NASA has signed up to test SpinLaunch’s extraordinary whirl ‘n’ hurl space launch technology, which accelerates a launch vehicle to hypersonic speeds using an electric centrifuge arm instead of a rocket, hurling it skyward like a space discus.

newatlas.com

Batman trying to get some sleep during the day pic.twitter.com/cnot7BuS8c
— Adam (@adamgreattweet) April 12, 2022

Words of Wisdom for the Week

Truth

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but buying books and reading books are two separate hobbies.
— Tommy Collison (@tommycollison) April 15, 2022

Shameless plugs

Nothing major to plug aside from week two at Netlify is in the books!

If you’re looking for some online games to play with your remote co-workers during game time at work, I started a discussion about it. Lots of great suggestions. Check it out!

What online games do you play with your remote co-workers? - DEV Community

In the remote world where a lot of us are now, what online games, if any, do you play with your… Tagged with watercooler, discuss.

dev.to

April 17, 2022, 9 a.m.