weeklyfoo #42 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you’ll find 31 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 / 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! / performance / 6 min read
- Responsive bar charts in HTML and CSS: Building flexible data visualizations for international sites / charts, visualizations / 12 min read
- How To Improve INP - Yield Patterns: Tips for better INP - await-interaction-response vs yieldToMain - yieldUnlessUrgent / 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. / career / 13 min read
- Leaner npm packument (metadata) contents: And by doing that reducing the size of packuments. / 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. / engineering / 6 min read
- Get The Screen Width & Height Without JavaScript: Powered by @property & trigonometric functions / css / 1 min read
- Can Postgres replace Redis as a cache?: I see a trend in using Postgres for everything. / postgres / 14 min read
- The Pitfalls of In-App Browsers: Especially privacy and security concerns are a big issue with in-app browsers. / security / 10 min read
- How to Start a Company: Everything I know / startups / 1 min read
- Self Hosting 101: A Beginner’s Guide / 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. / performance / 7 min read
- Hono v4.5.0: Next minor release of Hono. / hono / 9 min read
- Zed on Linux is here!: I was waiting a long time for that! / editors, zed / 1 min read
- Gotchas with SQLite in Production: Read the seven gotchas if you’re thinking about using sqlite. / sqlite, databases / 8 min read
- Fighting With Your Boss: Summary - you’re probably not going to “win” / career / 7 min read
🧰 Tools
- Bean Heads: Randomly Generated Characters for Your Apps & Games / avatars
- JS Bench: Performance Benchmarking Playground for Javascript / performance
- Tabular-JSON: A superset of JSON adding CSV-like tables / json
- linefont: Font for rendering line chart data / fonts
- InfiniteGrid: A module used to arrange card elements including content infinitely on a grid layout. / grid
- EldoraUI: open-source animated components built with React, Typescript, Tailwind CSS, and Framer Motion. 100% open-source, and customizable. / 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. / markdown
- Simplex Noise: A fast simplex noise implementation in Javascript / Typescript. / simplex
- Maska: Simple zero-dependency input mask for Vue, Svelte, Alpine.js and vanilla JS. / input
- Flowchart Fun: Easily generate flowcharts and diagrams from text / charts
📚 Tutorials
- Rustcrab: An Open source project with everything you need to learn about Rust / rust / 2 min read
- A CSS scroll version of the gooey island: Thanks @jh3yy! / css / 0 min read
📺 Videos
- Thinking About Your Code - Push vs Pull: dotJS / engineering
- AI will rule the world - can we rule AI?: DevBcn / ai