Dec. 14, 2021, 1:26 p.m.
React Conf, Tailwind and log4j — it's been quite a week!
Sreetam Das' newsletter
Hello there!
Last week, we had React Conf 2021 with a plethora of great talks! My favourite talks were React Developer Tooling and React without memo, but there’s a buuunch of great ones in official playlist. I’m also impressed by how the team has gone about Suspense and Concurrent mode features. It’s an exciting time for React!
Also, an enormous part of the internet became vulnerable to an exploit in log4j. Cloudflare has a great write up if you’d like to read more—but here’s the summary: It’s bad. VERY bad. To make things worse, it is incredibly easy to use this exploit, it affects even Minecraft. 🥶
📚 To read
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Writing matters: How to improve your written communication skills — Sarah Drasner “Communication is an essential part of leadership, and written communication is particularly crucial.”
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Hobbies for the hell of it — Brad Frost “We should celebrate our hobbies for the joy-giving activities they are, and recognize that they don’t need to become anything bigger than that.”
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Build Your Own Code Playground Whether you use Codesandbox, Codepen, or another playground for testing code, you may have wondered how they work under the hood. In this post, we’ll build a simplified code playground to test React code.
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Birds Aren’t Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory. In a post-truth world dominated by online conspiracy theories, young people have coalesced around the effort to thumb their nose at, fight and poke fun at misinformation. It’s Gen Z’s attempt to upend the rabbit hole with absurdism.
👀 Some more cool stuff
- Tailwind CSS v3.0 Now, it’s “lightning fast” 😄 along with other huge improvements.
- PhonePe Pulse Data and insights on how India transacts, from India’s largest digital payments platform
- Vercel acquires Turborepo to accelerate build speed and improve developer experience
- Get started with Framer Motion 3D Look at this demo! 😍
⌨️ Keyboards
That’s all for now, have a great week!
Stay kind 💜