Welcome to this weekly digest, which is the last one for January ❄️.

This weekly digest contains a lot of interesting and inspiring articles, videos, tweets, and designs I consumed during this week.

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Interesting articles to read

Making Remote Work Work: Useful Tools And Resources

How to stay creative, focused, and organized when working remotely? We’ve collected some useful tools and resources that we use daily at Smashing. We aren’t affiliated in any way with any of the toolmakers featured here. We simply love what they do.

Making Remote Work Work: Useful Tools And Resources - Smashing Magazine

The CodePen Spark

Stacks, Skateboards, and Synths

The CodePen Spark

How Algolia created its Netlify build plugin

We recently released the Algolia Netlify plugin. You can read more about the plugin, watch an intro, or get started with right away. Algolia is a flexible search and navigation platform, which enables cutting-edge, web, app and e-commerce experiences.

How Algolia created its Netlify build plugin | Algolia Blog

Where should you store tokens?

Confused on how to store a token on client side?🤷 LocalStorage? Cookie?

Where should you store tokens?

Creating a Simple Yet Complicated Dark Mode Animation

A dark mode toggle animation should have some personality. Here's my take on a unique dark mode transition animation.

CK - Creating a Simple Yet Complicated Dark Mode Animation

Using fetch with TypeScript

How to make HTTP requests with fetch and TypeScript

Don't use functions as callbacks unless they're designed for it

Don't use functions as callbacks unless they're designed for it

New aspect-ratio CSS property supported in Chromium, Safari Technology Preview, and Firefox Nightly

Maintaining a consistent width-to-height ratio, called an aspect ratio, is critical in responsive web design and for preventing cumulative layout shift. Now, there's a more straightforward way to do this with the new aspect-ratio property launching in Chromium 88, Firefox 87, and Safari Technology Preview 118.

New aspect-ratio CSS property supported in Chromium, Safari Technology Preview, and Firefox Nightly

Addon ecosystem 2.0

New addon catalog, tutorials, and docs.

Addon ecosystem 2.0

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Some great videos I watched this week

Despite having launched a video showing how to mock both Fetch and Axios recently... here is another solution, the one recommended by Kent C. Dodds (creator of React Testing Library), showing how to use Mock Service Worker to avoid making actual HTTP requests when you are running your tests.

by Leigh Halliday

GitHub Discussions, Dark Mode, PR Auto Merge, Codespaces, and more #DemoDays

Join Bryan Cross for a tour of the exciting additions and changes to the GitHub User Experience we introduced at GitHub Universe. All to make your experience as a developer just a bit smoother.

by GitHub

VS Code Productivity Tips and Tricks

Tips and tricks on how to be productive with Visual Studio Code.

by Sana Ajani

Fun with advanced TypeScript

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Useful GitHub repositories

Spotter

macOS productivity tool to launch everything (e.g. switch the next song, connect bluetooth device, set a timer, etc.) so you can stay focused on your current task.

Mock Service Worker

Mock Service Worker (MSW) is an API mocking library for browser and Node.

Deskreen

Deskreen turns any device with a web browser to a second screen for your computer

https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen

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dribbble shots

Newsly - News Reader Concept

by Dmitriy Kharaberyush

Notes App concept

by Anton Mikhaltsov

Podcast Dashboard Component design | Part 2

by Amirbaqian

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Tweets

David K. 🎹

@davidkpiano

.meeting + .meeting {
margin-top: 15min !important;
}

20:22 PM - 26 Jan 2021

Netlify

@netlify

You should date a JavaScript developer because they always Promise to callback 📞😘

08:05 AM - 26 Jan 2021

Addy Osmani

@addyosmani

Have low-resolution images? Enlarge them & improve their quality with ojoy.netlify.app. All client side. Powered by ML using UpscalerJS & TensorFlow.js.

08:11 AM - 25 Jan 2021

Andrey Okonetchnikov

@okonetchnikov

Did you know macOS Finder has a very cool file rename feature? It solves most common cases so there is no need in specialized apps. Here is an example where I add a normalized counter to a group of files:

13:33 PM - 29 Jan 2021

StackBlitz

@stackblitz

💡 JavaScript tip (7):

`Array.includes` is useful in removing repeat logic.

Instead of:
"if A is this, or A is that, or A is that, or that"

... you're writing:
"if A is among these values"

14:19 PM - 29 Jan 2021

Addy Osmani

@addyosmani

New Performance Heads-Up Display is now available in @ChromeDevTools! Try it in Rendering > Core Web Vitals in Chrome Canary.

08:30 AM - 31 Jan 2021

Laurie

@laurieontech

✅ All tests passed

19:33 PM - 30 Jan 2021

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Picked Pens

Genuary 25 - Make a Grid of Permutations

by Johan Karlsson

ScrollTrigger - Highlight Text

by Ryan Mulligan

Book Store UI

by Aysenur Turk

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Talk to you next week and stay safe! 👋