News from last month (2019/03 edition)

I 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

• Stable vs stable: what ‘stable’ means in software

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

• Machine learning leads mathematicians to unsolvable problem

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:

• Unicode Emoji 12.0 — final for 2019

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:

• Qu’est-ce qui arrêtera Facebook ?

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