Weekly Digest 50/2021
Welcome to my Weekly Digest #50 and Happy Holidays everyone!
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
HTTP compression
HTTP compression is an important part of the big web performance picture. We’ll cover the history, the current state, and the future of web compression.
How to write a binary search algorithm in JavaScript
The binary search algorithm is a classic algorithm that lets us find an item in a sorted array in O(log n) time complexity. In this post, we’ll review how the algorithm works and learn how to implement it in Javascript.
React Conf 2021 Recap
Last week we hosted our 6th React Conf. In previous years, we’ve used the React Conf stage to deliver industry-changing announcements such as React Native and React Hooks. This year, we shared our multi-platform vision for React, starting with the release of React 18 and the gradual adoption of concurrent features.
Some great videos I watched this week
Monorepos — How the Pros Scale Huge Software Projects
Big companies, like Google & Facebook, store all their code in a single monolithic repository or monorepo… but why? Learn how to use tools like NPM or Yarn workspaces, Lerna, Nx, and Turborepo to scale your codebase
Dark mode — Designing in the Browser
On this episode of Designing in the Browser, we’re going to take a look at dark mode with our host Una Kravets.
Authoring colors with DevTools
Let’s take a look at some of the color features in DevTools.
Useful GitHub repositories
Tech Interview Cheat Sheet
Studying for a tech interview sucks. Here’s an open-source cheat sheet to help
React Native Skia
High-performance React Native Graphics using Skia
Tweets
Podcasts worth listening
Syntax — How To Do Things In Svelte
In this Hasty Treat, Wes and Scott talk about how to do things in Svelte.
CodePen Radio — With Ben Evans
You might recognize Ben Evans from his absolutely incredible CSS “paintings”, like the portrait of his daughter or the still life. Paintings aren’t the quiet word as Ben designs them all to be entirely scalable.
Thank you for reading, talk to you next week, and stay safe! 👋
