Weekly Digest 31/2021
Welcome to my Weekly Digest #31 of this year.
This weekly digest contains a lot of interesting and inspiring articles, videos, tweets, podcasts, and designs I consumed during this week.
Interesting articles to read
On the <dl
The semantics you didn’t know you needed.
Writing great alt text: Emotion matters
Jake recently got stuck trying to figure out the right alt text for a particular image…
You probably shouldn’t ignore react-hooks/exhaustive-deps linting warnings
It’s tempting to ignore these warnings, but I highly recommend against it.
Some great videos I watched this week
You can’t console.log in React
Apparently, if you pass the console.log function to some event handler or other kind of prop in React it won’t work. I mean it won’t log anything.
The Decline of Firebase (bundle sizes)
The latest Firebase JavaScript SDK (version 9.0) has been rewritten as a functional library resulting in far smaller bundle sizes for better web performance.
A Netflix Clone with DataStax Astra & Netlify
Chris paired up with David Jones-Gilardi of DataStax to go through one of the workshops they have put together that does a good job of showcasing how nicely DataStax Astra pairs up with the Jamstack approach.
Useful GitHub repositories
Node.js Integration Tests Best Practice
Master the art of the most powerful testing technique for Node.js.
Awesome CTF
A curated list of Capture The Flag (CTF) frameworks, libraries, resources, software, and tutorials.
HTML to Image
Generates an image from a DOM node using HTML5 canvas and SVG.
Tweets
Picked Pens
Horizontal scrolling in a centered max-width container
Irregular Image Gallery Layout
Podcasts worth listening
Ladybug Podcast — How To Choose A Tech Stack
In this episode, we’ll be chatting about choosing a tech stack for your project is one of the most important decisions you’ll make as an engineer. It will determine many aspects of your app, from development speed, to scalability, to the cost to run it.
CodePen Radio — 99.999% Uptime
Chris & Alex talk about DevOps, servers, and keeping CodePen online at all times. We were are 100% for the year until a few weeks ago when we had a 10 minute drop. That still keeps us in the realm of 99.99% uptime.
The CSS Podcast — Season 2 wrap up
We’ve reached the end of season 2 of the CSS Podcast. In this closing episode, we recap every episode by sharing our favorite tips and learnings from the last few months!
Thank you for reading, talk to you next week, and stay safe! 👋
