News from last month (2019/03 edition)
2019-03-14
Last modified on 2022-04-27I think «Medium» is a bad place. This will be the last issue with Medium links. That also means less links, which is a good news ! 😄
Brad Frost sums it up perfectly:
Writing on your own website associates your thoughts and ideas with you as a person. Having a distinct website design helps strengthen that association.
Special things of the month
The old one
The funny ones
- Thanos JS: Reduce the file size of your project down to 50%, by randomly deleting half of the files
- Why YAML is the right technology for you
Articles
Frontend (HTML, CSS, JS...)
- Angular: A plan for version 8.0 and Ivy
- ClojureScript Loves NPM
- Constructable Stylesheets: seamless reusable styles
- CSS Scroll Snap — How It Really Works
- Do we still need JavaScript frameworks?
- Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms
- Google Play Store now open for Progressive Web Apps 😱
- Help! None of my projects want to be SPAs
- How @supports Works
- HTML is and always was a compilation target – can we deal with that?
- HTML5 Boilerplate v7 released
- JS-in-CSS - Generic worklet to be authored right from CSS
- Jumps: The New Steps() in Web Animation
- Lightning-fast templates & Web Components: lit-html & LitElement
- Links that don’t go anywhere should be buttons
- Paying tribute to the web with View Source
- Please stop building inaccessible forms (and how to fix them)
- React as a UI Runtime
- What’s next for SemVer
- You probably don’t need a single-page application
Research
Design / UX / UI
- Designing for Dark Mode
- Mastercard reveals new nameless logo courtesy of Michael Bierut
- Redesigning Github repository page
- Typography for Developers
- Web Design 3.0: When Your Web Design Really Matters
Business & careers
- Google Talent Advantage Erodes as More Workers Doubt CEO Vision
- If Silicon Valley’s unicorn bubble bursts, what legacy will it leave?
- Camille Fournier on Scaling, Structure, and Growing as an Engineering Manager
Tooling
- Git magic
- GitOps
- Hacker Tools
- Zero cost preview environments on Kubernetes with Jenkins X and Osiris
Cloud
- Kubernetes at CERN: Use Cases, Integration and Challenges
- Kubernetes: Building Large Clusters
- Space Cloud is an open source, high performance web service which provides instant Realtime APIs on the database of your choice.
- The Cloud Is Just Someone Else's Computer
Programming Languages
- A small (and objective) taste of Objective-Smalltalk
- Curated list of awesome resources on Compilers, Interpreters and Runtimes
- Go 2 Draft - Generics proposal
- LDPL
Software
Frameworks and languages:
- 1991: A server-side web framework written in Forth
- Backbone.js 1.4.0
- Cleave.js: Format your
<input/>content when you are typing - Go 1.12 is released
- he: A robust HTML entity encoder/decoder written in JavaScript
- Java 12: The countdown has begun
- Next.js 8
- Raster Simple Grid System
- React v16.8: The One With Hooks
- Vue 2.6 released
Tools:
- demoit: Live coding demos without Context Switching
- DVC: Open-source Version Control System for Machine Learning Projects
- gitin: commit/branch/workdir explorer for git
- Reltron: a prototype user interface for exploring relational databases
- swc 1.0: Super fast alternative for babel
Interesting stuff going open source:
- Google: arXiv LaTeX cleaner: safer and easier open source research papers
- Google: Open sourcing ClusterFuzz
- Sony Pictures Has Open-Sourced Software Used to Make ‘Into the Spider-Verse’
Other:
Privacy (= Facebook, almost)
- Facebook ordered to stop combining WhatsApp and Instagram data without consent in Germany
- Facebook Says a “Clear History” Tool Will Hurt Its Advertising Business. Good.
- Microsoft Edge lets Facebook run Flash code behind users' backs
In French:
Various
- Dogen: Humor that's not lost in translation
- Dotfile madness
- Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs
- I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I'm sorry
- Munch + 1349
- Replace your wiki with a documentation site
- Sitting Down with Chi Modu — Hip-Hop’s OG Photography Juggernaut
- The sad state of font rendering on Linux
- Why can't bots check “I am not a robot” checkboxes?
- Writing a Memorable TL;DR. This lasts; definitely read.
- ZIP is Broken, Except it’s Not, Except it Is