News from last month (2022/05 edition)
2022-05-01
Last modified on 2022-10-29Hello,
Following the recent news of acquisition by Elon Musk, I will be closing my Twitter account. More info here. I strongly advise you to subscribe to the RSS feed.
Programming
Web (HTML, CSS, JS, Design...)
- What's new in Svelte: April 2022
- Confirmation Bias in UX
- Those HTML Attributes You Never Use — Smashing Magazine
- The HTML meter element and its (undefined) segment boundaries
- Server-Side Rendering with Astro | Astro
- The struggle of using native emoji on the web | Read the Tea Leaves
- WebP is such a goated format 🫐
- CSS Parent Selector - Ahmad Shadeed
- Data Tables: Four Major User Tasks
- Why you should always Cleanup Side Effects in React useEffect and How to Cleanup - Dillion's Blog
- HTTP code 103 Early hints
- The smallest 256x256 single-color PNG file, and where you've seen it
- Progressive Enhancement and HTML Forms: use FormData – Bram.us
- Ember 4.3 Released
- Learn PWA
- Please Stop Using Grey Text. For over 1000 years black text on white… | by Andrew Somers | Apr, 2022 | Tangled Web
- pzuraq | blog | Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks
- Marko for Sites, Solid for Apps - DEV Community
- Upgrading to React 18 with TypeScript - LogRocket Blog
- Adactio: Journal—Trust
Backend & languages
- Get familiar with workspaces - The Go Programming Language
- Generics can make your Go code slower
- Crystal 1.4.0 is released! - The Crystal Programming Language
- Capabilities for Nodejs
- Doing small network scientific machine learning in Julia 5x faster than PyTorch
- Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust
- Re-implementing an old DOS game in C++ 17 – Lethal Guitar
- Node.js 18 Introduces Prefix-Only Core Modules
- Deciphering Glyph :: You Should Compile Your Python And Here’s Why
- Experience Report: 6 months of Go
Cloud & Anything-Ops
- Kubernetes tooling and shell setup | by Prune | Mar, 2022 | Medium
- Announcing Compose V2 General Availability - Docker
Other things, good practices, thoughts etc
- Finding Waldo in π – Nick Matteo's Blog – Math & Code & Stuff
- RFC 9225: Software Defects Considered Harmful
- Jacob Errington | Roll your own Ngrok with Nginx, Letsencrypt, and SSH reverse tunnelling
- Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music
- Homebrew Package Manager Founder Turns Crypto Grifter – Nuclear Monster
- Fear makes you a worse programmer
- You should be reading academic computer science papers - Stack Overflow Blog
- AutoCruise | This AI Does Not Exist
En français / In French:
Science
- A Birth Control Pill for Men Could Start Human Trials This Year
- Virtual reality can induce mild and transient symptoms of depersonalization and derealization, study finds
- The United States and the European Union are responsible for the majority of ecological damage caused by excess use of raw materials - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - UAB Barcelona
- New Study: Reading Fiction Really Will Make You Nicer and More Empathetic | Inc.com
- Men Are Less Religious in Countries With More Gender Equality: Study | The Swaddle
- New cocoa processing method produces fruitier, more ‘flowery’ dark chocolate - American Chemical Society
Open source, Projects & Tools
- Twitter buyout puts Mastodon into spotlight - Official Mastodon Blog
- Modified AGPLv3 removes freedoms, adds legal headaches
- A list of new(ish) command line tools
Social
Previously: "Work, career, level up, thoughts", I'll try to organize that in the next editions.
- How to Stop Overthinking and Start Trusting Your Gut
- The Art of the Elevator Pitch
- Why workers and employers are ghosting each other - BBC Worklife
- Benefits of Working From Office: Workers Back to Desks Just to Sit on Zoom Calls - Bloomberg
- Millions of Americans retired early. Now they want to work again - The Hustle
- From Belonging to Burnout, Five Years at Airbnb · TWC Newsletter
- Compensation as a Reflection of Values / Oxide
- The Scoop: Inside Fast’s Rapid Collapse - by Gergely Orosz
- Your First Business Should Be A Spreadsheet | Matthias Endler
- Income inequality: Compared with 60 years ago, workers are getting less and shareholders are getting more—sometimes a lot more | Fortune
- The Present Bias: Why You Keep Sabotaging Your Future—And How to Stop
- So… this is a job? – Ralph Ammer
- I can’t let go of “The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation” | andersource
Privacy, Rights and Digital Rights, Security
- Can a tweet be evidence? How social media is being used to hunt down war crimes in Ukraine – Grid News
- Google, Meta, and others will have to explain their algorithms under new EU legislation - The Verge
- Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes: Leaked Document
En français / In French:
- Des apps destinées aux musulmans ont servi secrètement à collecter des données
- Entre les réfugiés d'Ukraine et ceux d'ailleurs : une « différence de traitement insupportable » - Basta!
- Elon Musk et Twitter VS Mastodon et le Fédiverse – Framablog
Various
- War Is Bad - SOME MORE NEWS - YouTube
- Ms. Marvel is the superhero Muslim girls have been waiting for
- Dwayne Johnson: The Most Charismatic Man Ever, Analyzed
- I would like to be paid like a plumber: Pitching Nirvana - by Shaun Usher
- What if... one day everything got better? - daverupert.com
- Climate change: Mapping in 3D where the earth will become uninhabitable
- Ask HN: I'm interested in so many disciplines, but what can I do with that? | Hacker News
- The True Purpose of Propaganda - Rob Henderson's Newsletter
- Persepolis Reimagined
- Why You Should Always Tell Your Kids the Truth - Outside Online
- Russia's war crimes in Ukraine
- Gender Swapped Stories
- Pink Floyd reunite for Ukraine protest song - BBC News
- How Do Algorithms Become Biased?
- Elon Musk's plans for Twitter could make its misinformation problems worse
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