Weekly Digest 48/2021
Welcome to my Weekly Digest #48 of this year.
This weekly digest contains a lot of interesting and inspiring articles, videos, tweets, podcasts, and designs I consumed during this week.
Advent of Code started just a could of days ago, so if you haven’t signed up already there are still a couple of days left to catch up.
Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.
Interesting articles to read
Adaptive, accessible, and automated color for Design Systems
The creation of our Design System’s color palette was like many others; we began by auditing and then standardizing a set of functional colors by how they were used generally while assuming we could manage niche cases with hotfixes here and there along the way.
React Testing Library Recipes
Here are my favourite unit test patterns for verifying user journeys and accessible UI with React Testing Library, Jest and TypeScript.
Some great videos I watched this week
Create your own Linked List
Being asked to create your own linked list in a coding interview is a tale as old as time.
Faster DevTools navigation with shortcuts and settings
Sharing some useful shortcuts and settings for quicker DevTools navigation.
The fundamentals of CSS layout
Learn about the key CSS layout methods of flexbox and grid. Discover how these layout methods enable responsive, content-aware designs, and how to choose the best layout method for the component you need to build.
Coding Interview with Dan Abramov
Useful GitHub repositories
Open Source CSS Variables
CSS custom properties to help accelerate adaptive and consistent design.
SecLists
SecLists is the security tester’s companion. It’s a collection of multiple types of lists used during security assessments, collected in one place
Podcasts worth listening
CodePen Radio — With Aaron Iker
Aaron builds incredibly delightful bits and bobs of UI that give you the feeling of hey, I bet I could actually use this! And that’s exactly what Aaron wants you to do.
Syntax — Everything in web dev is Amazing!
In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about all the things that have improved the lives of web developers over the years.
Call with Kent — How to decide among advanced react patterns?
So this short call is about when to use which advanced react pattern to create re-usable components.
Thank you for reading, talk to you next week, and stay safe! 👋
