weeklyfoo #42 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you’ll find 32 valuable links in 5 categories! Enjoy!
🚀 Read it!
- Lessons learned in 35 years of making software: It’s more about soft skills than technical skills by Jim Grey / engineering / 16 min read
📰 Good to know
- Use A Work Journal To Recover Focus Faster And Clarify Your Thoughts: Write down what you’re doing! by Charles Féval / performance / 6 min read
- Responsive bar charts in HTML and CSS: Building flexible data visualizations for international sites by Mathias Schäfer / charts, visualizations / 12 min read
- How To Improve INP - Yield Patterns: Tips for better INP - await-interaction-response vs yieldToMain - yieldUnlessUrgent by Jakob Groß / performance / 27 min read
- Playing defense - How to control the narrative if your work is being questioned: No matter how well you frame your ideas upfront, there will be times when you’ll need to address skepticism and defend your work. These are moments when you can shine. Here’s how. by Wes Kao / career / 13 min read
- Leaner npm packument (metadata) contents: And by doing that reducing the size of packuments. by github.blog / npm / 5 min read
- Review your own PRs: You can also add comments to your own PRs to explain particular logic that needs some description. by Sophia Willows / engineering / 6 min read
- Get The Screen Width & Height Without JavaScript: Powered by @property & trigonometric functions by css-tip.com / css / 1 min read
- Can Postgres replace Redis as a cache?: I see a trend in using Postgres for everything. by Raphael De Lio / postgres / 14 min read
- The Pitfalls of In-App Browsers: Especially privacy and security concerns are a big issue with in-app browsers. by Paul Esch-Laurent / security / 10 min read
- How to Start a Company: Everything I know by Anshu Sharma / startups / 1 min read
- Self Hosting 101: A Beginner’s Guide by ente.io / hosting / 11 min read
- Measuring Developer Experience With The DevEx Framework: The DevEx framework exists to solve the biggest challenge of developer experience initiatives - measuring them. Learn why this framework is helping orgs everywhere improve developer happiness. by shipyard.build / performance / 7 min read
- Hono v4.5.0: Next minor release of Hono. by honojs / hono / 9 min read
- Zed on Linux is here!: I was waiting a long time for that! by zed.dev / editors, zed / 1 min read
- Gotchas with SQLite in Production: Read the seven gotchas if you’re thinking about using sqlite. by Anže Pečar / sqlite, databases / 8 min read
- Fighting With Your Boss: Summary - you’re probably not going to “win” by staysaasy.com / career / 7 min read
🧰 Tools
- Bean Heads: Randomly Generated Characters for Your Apps & Games by Robert / avatars
- Mazeletter: Mazeletter is a collection of nine infinitely tiling maze pattern fonts. by mazeletter.xyz / patterns, fonts
- JS Bench: Performance Benchmarking Playground for Javascript by jsben.ch / performance
- Tabular-JSON: A superset of JSON adding CSV-like tables by Jos de Jong / json
- linefont: Font for rendering line chart data by Dmitry Iv / fonts
- InfiniteGrid: A module used to arrange card elements including content infinitely on a grid layout. by naver / grid
- EldoraUI: open-source animated components built with React, Typescript, Tailwind CSS, and Framer Motion. 100% open-source, and customizable. by eldoraui.site / ui
- Code Hike: Build first-class code walkthroughs for the web. Whether you are writing blog posts, documentation, tutorials, coding videos, or any type of technical content, Code Hike helps you create a superior code reading experience. by codehike.org / markdown
- Simplex Noise: A fast simplex noise implementation in Javascript / Typescript. by Jonas Wagner / simplex
- Maska: Simple zero-dependency input mask for Vue, Svelte, Alpine.js and vanilla JS. by Alexander Shabunevich / input
- Flowchart Fun: Easily generate flowcharts and diagrams from text by Tone Row / charts
📚 Tutorials
- Rustcrab: An Open source project with everything you need to learn about Rust by Francesco Ciulla / rust / 2 min read
- A CSS scroll version of the gooey island: Thanks @jh3yy! by jh3yy / css / 0 min read
📺 Videos
- Thinking About Your Code - Push vs Pull: dotJS by Ben Lesh / engineering
- AI will rule the world - can we rule AI?: DevBcn by Jens Grivolla / ai