News from last month (2020/06 edition)
2020-06-04
Last modified on 2022-10-29TV show of the month (or year?): After Life, available on Netflix.
Intriguing: Mark Zuckerberg – Dead At 36 – Says Social Media Sites Should Not Fact Check Posts
Programming
Web & Frontend (HTML, CSS, JS, Design...)
- 700 88x31 web buttons from the 1990's and 2000's
- A Complete Guide to CSS Functions
- ES2020: Everything You Need to Know
- Please Respect the Global CSS Namespace
- For many, accessibility is an unknown unknown
- My React components render twice and drive me crazy
- Rebuilding our tech stack for the new Facebook.com
- Under-the-hood of type systems (e.g. TypeScript)
- ESLint v7.0.0 released
- Web Vitals: Essential metrics for a healthy site
- Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers
- Second-guessing the modern web
- Become a ninja with Vue.js
- Deno 1.0
- swc: Super fast javascript / typescript compiler
- Getting started with Deno 1.0
- Micro-Typography: How To Space And Kern Punctuation Marks And Other Symbols
- Developing an Open Source Icon System at Microsoft
- ts-engine: Power TypeScript packages and reduce your config overhead
- Recoil: A state management library for React
- In defense of the modern web
- The Great CoffeeScript to Typescript Migration of 2017
- IE11 Mainstream End Of Life in Oct 2020
- WebGL guide
- Snowpack with Svelte, Typescript and Tailwind CSS is a very pleasant surprise
- Hegel: An advanced static type checker
- An intro to designing accessible data visualizations
- XP.css
- Deno is probably not worth it right now
- The Kawaiization of product design
- Let's Take a Deep Dive Into the CSS Contain Property
- HTMHell: A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real website
- State of Microfrontends
- Lesser-known CSS properties in GIFs
- Thinking About The In-between Design Cases
- The Third Age of JavaScript
- The worst logos ever, Redesigned
- Case study: Analyzing Notion app performance
- Over-complicated? Over-simplified? The UX Efficient Frontier
- LaTeX.css
- Today's Javascript, from an outsider's perspective
- The process: Making Vue 3
- ECMAScript 4: The missing version
- When frontend means full stack
- d2k.js: 3d-rendering-engine from the Dark side of the Force
In French:
Backend & languages
- A Survey of Metaprogramming Languages
- Nim in Action: Learn Nim from one of the main developers of the language.
- C passes Java and becomes number 1 programming language
- How to Learn a New Programming Language
- The Bosque programming language is an experiment in regularized design for a machine assisted rapid and reliable software development lifecycle.
- Nim Online Conference 2020
- Fast high-level programming languages
Cloud & Ops/DevOps
- How We Gave Superpowers to Our macOS CI
- Knative Cookbook
- Docker and Snyk Announce Partnership to Streamline Container Vulnerability Scanning for Developers
In French:
Science & Machine Learning
- IBM Study: COVID-19 Is Significantly Altering U.S. Consumer Behavior and Plans Post-Crisis
- Scientists Find Nearest-Known Black Hole, In Distressingly Fitting Metaphor
- The True Colors of Pluto and Charon (old!)
- Spending time in the garden is positively associated with health and wellbeing: Results from a national survey in England
- Horses Recognize Pics of Their Keepers
- ‘Milestone' Evidence for Anyons, a Third Kingdom of Particles
- Vaccine opponents are gaining in Facebook ‘battle for hearts and minds,' new map shows
- Timeline of the far future
- A Googol to 1 Gear Reduction Machine Entirely Out of LEGO
I haven't read this yet:
Open source, Projects & Tools
- Paving the road towards qutebrowser v2.0
- Munich commits to "Public Money? Public Code!"
- The hotdog web browser and web browser engine
- NetNewsWire: RSS reader for macOS and iOS
- The Success and Failure of Ninja
- It's OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty
- You can download ProtonVPN from F-Droid instead of Google
- How to Do 90% of What Plugins Do (With Just Vim)
- GitHub Reinstates Popcorn Time Code Despite MPA ‘Threat'
- Our plans for PeerTube v3 : progressive fundraising, live streaming coming next fall
- The Day AppGet Died.
Business, career, level up, thoughts
- Bye, Amazon
- Write Libraries, Not Frameworks
- Why we at $FAMOUS_COMPANY Switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY
- Do You Keep a Failure Résumé? Here's Why You Should Start. Failure isn't a roadblock. It's part of the process. (free account needed)
- Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?
- GitLab's head of Remote on hiring, onboarding and why Slack is a no-work zone
- Even the Pandemic Can't Kill the Open-Plan Office
- Choose email for remote productivity
- How I became State-Qualified Engineer at 44 years old
- People First
- Black lives matter
In French:
Privacy, Digital Rights, Security
- Xiaomi Devices Found Tracking And Recording Browsing Data Of Millions
- Common Encryption Types, Protocols and Algorithms Explained
- Putting the "Fun" in "Hash Function"
- GoDaddy Confirms Data Breach: What Customers Need To Know
- Matrix: Cross-signing and End-to-end Encryption by Default is HERE!!!
- No cookie consent walls — and no, scrolling isn't consent, says EU data protection body
- We Chat, They Watch How International Users Unwittingly Build up WeChat's Chinese Censorship Apparatus
- The Original Cookie specification from 1997 was GDPR compliant
- Over 4000 Android Apps Expose Users' Data via Misconfigured Firebase Databases
- Catalina is checking notarization of unsigned executables
- Ebay is port scanning visitors to their website - and they aren't the only ones
In French:
- Quand la collecte de données fait tache sur les smartphones Xiaomi : abusive, non anonymisée et mal chiffrée
- Qui contrôle votre ordiphone et qui devrait avoir ce pouvoir ?
- Quelles applications d'appels vidéo sont dignes de confiance ?
Various
- Hurray, the .org TLD won't be sold off to a private company
- Spurious correlations
- Everyday Meditation with The RZA
- Neil Armstrong USC Master's Seminar
- What Happens Next? COVID-19 Futures, Explained With Playable Simulations
- Even during a pandemic, an electronic artist plots a US tour -- at drive-in theaters
- Seattle to permanently close 20 miles of streets to traffic so residents can exercise and bike on them
- A mistake at Facebook broke Spotify, Venmo, TikTok, and other iPhone apps
- Reuters wins Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography of Hong Kong protests
- Let's build the future…
- Twitter says it will label misleading coronavirus tweets — even if they're from Trump
- The Rijksmuseum Has Released a 44.8 Gigapixel Image of Rembrandt's The Night Watch
- Japan suicides decline as Covid-19 lockdown causes shift in stress factors
- It's Time to Get Back Into RSS
- Scraping Court Records Data to Find Dirty Cops
- A pizzeria owner made money buying his own $24 pizzas from DoorDash for $16
- Crayola launches ‘Colors of the World' skin tone crayons
In French:
By the way
That "intriguing" thing at the top, it is fake, obviously. I hope you enjoyed that.