News from last month (2022/11 edition)
2022-11-01
Last modified on 2023-02-03Hello folks!
I hope you are doing well.
I added a new page on this website to list my jobs and associated salaries. I hope it will be useful and I would love to see more pages like this in the wild. The inspiration is from this website. I also updated my experiences on LinkedIn to reflect that.
Also, I did some cleaning and removed 99 broken links from previous "News from last month" posts, and fixed a few others.
Now, let's go with the links you are all waiting for.
Programming
Web (HTML, CSS, JS, Design...)
- Learn HTML
- GIFs Without the .gif: The Most Performant Image and Video Options Right Now | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks
- When going somewhere does a thing: on links and buttons | Kilian Valkhof
- I changed my mind about writing new JavaScript frameworks
- Layout Breakouts with CSS Grid | Ryan Mulligan
- Introducing OG Image Generation: Fast, dynamic social card images at the Edge – Vercel
- The Web’s Next Transition | Epic Web Dev by Kent C. Dodds
- Speeding Up Async Snippets – CSS Wizardry – Web Performance Optimisation
- Using Default Exports Makes JavaScript Harder to Read!
- First-class Vite support in Storybook
- Caching Header Best Practices
- A Real World React -> htmx Port
- Style with Stateful, Semantic Selectors
- GitHub - marcj/TypeRunner: High-performance TypeScript compiler
- Upgrading colors to HD on the web – Bram.us
- Randoma11y - Accessible color combinations
- Website Fidelity - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
- Lucide
- JavaScript metaprogramming with the 2022-03 decorators API
- Why We're Breaking Up with CSS-in-JS - DEV Community 👩💻👨💻
- Nabla — the isometric color font by Arthur Reinders Folmer & Just van Rossum
- Let’s talk about web components | Brad Frost
- Tailwind CSS v3.2: revisiting my “feature creep” warning | BryceWray.com
- The wasted potential of CSS attribute selectors by Elise Hein
- What if the team hates my functional code?
- Is There Too Much CSS Now? | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks
- Introducing Turbopack: Rust-based successor to Webpack – Vercel
- SVG sprites: old-school, modern, unknown, and forgotten — Vadim Makeev
- Scroll to Text Fragments - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
En français / In French:
Backend & languages
- Writing your own PostgreSQL driver | by Konstantin Makarov | Scum-Gazeta | Sep, 2022 | Medium
- A New ScyllaDB Go Driver: Faster Than GoCQL and Its Rust Counterpart - ScyllaDB
- GitHub - SLiV9/penne: Penne is a pasta-oriented programming language that favors the goto-statement for flow control.
- Arturo programming language
- Crystal 1.6.0 is released! - The Crystal Programming Language
- "Stop Writing Dead Programs" by Jack Rusher (Strange Loop 2022) - YouTube
- Andreas Rumpf: Nim 2 (NimConf 2022) - YouTube
- Python 3.11.0 final is now available - Committers - Discussions on Python.org
- Node v18.12.0 (LTS) | Node.js
- Modern PHP features explained - PHP 8.0 and 8.1 | Laravel News
Open source, Projects & Tools
- Wireshark · Wireshark 4.0.0 Release Notes
- PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL 15 Released!
- GitHub Copilot investigation · Joseph Saveri Law Firm & Matthew Butterick
- microblog.pub - A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog.
- aretext : minimalist text editor with vim-compatible key bindings
- Easily run Windows software on Linux with Bottles! ⋅ Bottles
Other things, good practices, thoughts etc
- 🤓 So you're using a weird language 🧠
- The Illustrated Stable Diffusion – Jay Alammar – Visualizing machine learning one concept at a time.
- Stateless — your new state of find with Elasticsearch | Elastic Blog
- Write yourself a Git!
- Web 3.0 - The Great Con - Musings - Dave Gebler
- How Trying New Programming Languages Helped Me Grow as a Software Engineer
- Why we’re moving away from Firebase
- Postgres Full Text Search vs the rest
- HTTP/3 connection contamination: an upcoming threat? | PortSwigger Research
- What are quantum-resistant algorithms—and why do we need them? | MIT Technology Review
- Photoshop for text — Stephan Ango
- Why we're leaving the cloud
- Programming Portals
- What is “engineering for software?” · GitHub
- The impact of culture on code · GitHub
Science
- Discovering novel algorithms with AlphaTensor
- Human brain cells transplanted into baby rats’ brains grow and form connections | MIT Technology Review
- Neurons in a dish learn to play Pong — what’s next?
- Cancer Vaccine Will Be Ready Before 2030, COVID-19 Scientists Say
- NASA’s Webb Takes Star-Filled Portrait of Pillars of Creation | NASA
- Yellowfin tuna use sharks as back scratchers despite risk of being eaten | New Scientist
- Eureka! Finding the key to ancient Egypt | British Museum
- Black Death Left a Mark on Human Genome | Science | AAAS
- What’s wrong with medieval pigs in videogames? - Leiden Medievalists Blog
- Inside the Great Pyramid | Giza Project
- Exceptional Jurassic fossil lizard sheds light on early lizard evolution | Natural History Museum
- Traces of ancient ocean discovered on Mars
Social, Society, Psychology
- Social Media Use Linked to Developing Depression Regardless of Personality | University of Arkansas
- Why the Dutch don't say sorry - BBC Reel
- Why Gen Zers are growing up sober curious - BBC Worklife
- What's the right age to get a smartphone? - BBC Future
- Jessica Wade Makes Wikipedia bios For Unknown Women Scientists
- None of Your Business · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer
- Considering COVID a hoax is ‘gateway’ to belief in conspiracy theories
- Dealing With Your Ideas — Random Notes
Work
- Some WFH Employees Have a Secret: They Now Live in Another Country
- 3 Workplace Biases that Derail Mid-Career Women
- How to become an expert | Psyche Guides
- How to plan? | Kellan Elliott-McCrea
- The Senior Shift. It’s now about your impact, not just… | by Camille Fournier | Oct, 2022 | Medium
- Work with your garage door open | Ondrej Markus
- Remote workers are going back to the office. The boss is working from home. - Vox
- The Most Important Leadership Competencies, According to Leaders Around the World
- Meeting Cost Live
- What “Work” Looks Like - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
- Gloria Chan Packer: Work is not your family | TED Talk
- kefala : On Feeling Competent
En français / In French:
Privacy, Rights and Digital Rights, Security
- Google Engineers Joked About How Incognito Mode Isn't Very Incognito
- India fines Google $162 million for anti-competitive practices on Android • TechCrunch
- TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To Monitor The Physical Location Of Specific American Citizens
- EU Lawmakers Must Reject This Proposal To Scan Private Chats | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Eva Galperin: What you need to know about stalkerware | TED Talk
- Why Signal won’t compromise on encryption, with president Meredith Whittaker - The Verge
En français / In French:
- Mots de passe : une nouvelle recommandation pour maîtriser sa sécurité | CNIL
- La CNIL condamne Clearview AI à verser une amende de 20 Ms , accusant le spécialiste de la reconnaissance faciale d'avoir violé le RGPD en collectant des données biométriques sans consentement
Various
- Elon Musk's Texts About Twitter: The Big Takeaways | Time
- The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time | The New Yorker
- Christian Bale says green-screen movies like Thor are ‘monotony’ to film | The Independent
- Apple asks suppliers to shift AirPods, Beats production to India - Nikkei Asia
- Employees Reveal Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Vision Is A Clunky, Boring, Ego-Driven Mess | Techdirt
- UN warns that half the world is not prepared for disasters | IDDRR
- We talked to 100 people about their experiences in solitary confinement – this is what we learned
- The NFT market hasn’t crashed — it was never not crashed – Amy Castor
- Fujimoto’s Five Books are now Public Domain - Origami by Michał Kosmulski
- ‘We’ve No Choice’: Apple Says iPhones Will Switch Over To USB-C Chargers To Comply With New EU Law
- Zuckerberg’s empire collapses | The Spectator
- Physical 'copies' of the new Call of Duty are just empty discs • TechCrunch
- Mondrian image has been hanging upside down for decades | Switzerland Times
- Putin blasts West, says world faces most dangerous decade since WW2 | Reuters
- How a 5-Person Team Made Blockbuster-Level Movie Effects | WIRED - YouTube
- AI Yōkai - uxdesign.pl
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