Stay ahead in web development: latest news, tools, and insights #52

weeklyfoo #52 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 38 valuable links in 4 categories! Enjoy!

🚀 Read it!

• Software development topics I've changed my mind on after 6 years in the industry: Lot of things I agree with. / engineering / 3 min read
• Vim for React Developers: A bite-sized course to get you quickly productive with Vim. / vim, nvim, cheatsheet / 6 min read

📰 Good to know

• Clean React with TypeScript: How TypeScript can help you to implement React components. / typescript, react / 16 min read
• Content Layer: A Deep Dive: Learn everything about the new Content Layer API in Astro. / astro / 13 min read
• One year of Rust in production: A love letter to Rust / rust / 12 min read
• https://shiftmag.dev/unhappy-developers-stack-overflow-survey-3896/: According to the new Stack Overflow survey showed that majority of developers hate their jobs. Anecdotally, both plumbers and farmers are happier than them. / survey, engineering / 9 min read
• The Intelligence Age: In the next couple of decades, we will be able to do things that would have seemed like magic to our grandparents. / ai / 6 min read
• Seriously, stop using RSA: Use DSA or ECC instead! / security / 22 min read
• Introducing Netflix’s Key-Value Data Abstraction Layer: How Netflix overcomes challenges with kv databases. / databases / 17 min read
• The Nine Node Pillars: 9 Principles for Doing Node.js Right in Enterprise Environments / nodejs, engineering / 0 min read
• What's New in Express.js 5.0: A detailed look at the key changes and improvements in Express 5.0 and how to migrate your app / express / 6 min read
• Compile and run C in JavaScript: What a world we're living in! / bun, c / 14 min read
• What I tell people new to on-call: - You will learn a lot! - that's maybe one of the things nobody really has on its plate but it's true! / on-call / 10 min read
• How I Built My Blog: Over the past few months, I’ve been working on a brand new version of this blog. A couple of weeks ago, I flipped the switch! Here’s a quick side-by-side. / personal-page / 33 min read
• Storybook 8.3: Next minor release of Storybook / storybook / 9 min read
• CSS Almanac: All you need to know about CSS. / css / 1 min read
• Monitor your local and real-user Core Web Vitals performance in DevTools: Check all your web vitals in the Chrome Dev Tools / chrome, performance / 12 min read
• Partial Prerendering for Everyone with Cloudflare Workers: Implementing Next.js-style PPR in a normal React SSR app / ppr, cloudflare / 5 min read
• minification benchmarks: JS minification benchmarks: babel-minify, esbuild, terser, uglify-js, swc, google closure compiler, tdewolff/minify / minify, benchmark / 16 min read
• Js13kGames: The coding competition for web game developers, with a 13KB size limit, is coming to an end. / games, size / 1 min read
• GitHub Copilot now available in github.com for Copilot Individual and Copilot Business plans: With this public preview, we’re unlocking the context of your code and collaborators—and taking the next step in infusing AI into every developer’s workflow. / ai, github, copilot / 15 min read
• PostgreSQL 17 Released!: Next major release of Postgres! / postgres / 7 min read
• Rewriting Rust: The Rust programming language feels like a first generation product. / rust / 17 min read
• Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object: Using SQLite in Durable Objects / cloudflare, sqlite / 28 min read
• How to deliver bad news when it's not your fault: People tend to shoot the messenger. Here's how to avoid the negative halo of bad news. / performance / 9 min read
• SQL tips and tricks: A (somewhat opinionated) list of SQL tips and tricks that I've picked up over the years in my job as a data analyst. / sql / 13 min read

🧰 Tools

• Reasonable Colors: Reasonable Colors is an open-source color system for building accessible, nice-looking color palettes. / colors
• Free Website Cookie Checker: Want to know if your website has a cookies and is compliant with GDPR? Use ComplyDog's free cookie checker tool to get a detailed report instantly. / cookie, gdpr
• OpenFreeMap: Free and open-source map hosting solution with custom styles for websites and apps, using OpenStreetMap data / maps
• JSON For You: JSON visualization and processing tool. / json
• React Snap Carousel: DOM-first, headless carousel for React / carousel, react
• React Loading Skeleton: Make beautiful, animated loading skeletons that automatically adapt to your app. / skeleton, react
• WebJSX: An experimental version which uses Web Components / jsx
• schedule-x: JavaScript event calendar. Modern alternative to fullcalendar and react-big-calendar. / calendar
• Hotwire Native: Hotwire Native is a web-first framework for building native mobile apps. / frameworks
• Buttery Icons: Buttery smooth icons for interfaces, updated weekly. Customize it your way. No attribution needed. / icons
• Harper: Harper is an English grammer checker designed to be just right. / grammer

📚 Tutorials

• How to Create a Chrome Extension with React, TypeScript, TailwindCSS, and Vite: In this article, we'll walk you through the entire process step-by-step, ensuring you have a clear understanding of how to build your own Chrome extension in 2024. / chrome, extension / 7 min read

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