February 13, 2022

🧶 ICYMI #30: Understanding Rendering in the Jamstack

Hey howdy,

Well dang, last week was quite busy, mostly occupied supporting an imminent product launch next week on Netlify. Oddly, most of what I came across last week in the in-between was stuff I had missed from late last year. So this week is sort of “in case you missed the stuff I also missed at the end of 2021”, lol. Onward:

🔦 Featured

Understanding Rendering in the Jamstack (Brian Rinaldi) - This is from December 2021, but I had missed it (maybe you did too!). This is a solid breakdown of mental models of building with the Jamstack (and the word soup / acronym heaven that goes along with it now). “From client-side to server-side rendering, and even distributed persistent rendering - here’s what sets Jamstack apart.”

✍️ Writes

• What is One Thing People Can Do To Make Their Website Better? (Multi-author) - I had also missed this. At the end of 2021, CSS Tricks asked web builders the same question – “what is the one thing people can do to make their website better?” – and aggregated the answers. I found it specifically through reading through Heather Migliorisi’s “Be Prepared for Failure and Handle it Gracefully”. Some thoughtful answers to peruse in here!
• Aspect Ratio is Great (Michelle Barker) - I also had not really been paying much attention to aspect-ratio, which has been “supported in browsers for going on a year now, […] with Safari finally catching up in September 2021”. This is a crisp summation of where we’ve been / where we are, where handling aspect ratio on the web is concerned.

🔨 Projects

• Sha256 Algorithm Explained - The Sha256 algorithm explained visually, step-by-step, by Domingo Martin.
• GitHub issues burndown chart tool - A nifty GitHub burndown chart with Observable, made by Tom MacWright.
• Swyx’s Spark Joy Library - A huge listing of “design tools and tips for developers in a hurry” from Swyx.

💬 Tweets

Not currently looking, but these suggested questions are 💯 to keep in mind for the future.

Agree. I remember back in 2009 when I created a Twitter (as part of a journalism class in college, oddly?!) it was a main topic of discussion whether you have a single consolidated Twitter, or a “professional” and a “personal” one. But yeah this is exactly how I feel about Twitter.

I have questions.

🎧 Podcasts

• Laurie Barth on Seeking Out New Challenges - Laurie Barth joins for the first episode of the new season of the Single-Threaded Podcast, discussing how “boredom has helped her seek out new challenges in engineering”.
• What’s in your package.json? - Tobie Langel joins the JS Party podcast to talk about “gaps in our OSS supply chain security, sustainability and overall practices”, and “what our ecosystem needs to be more resilient to these types of attacks in the future.”

🦄 Random

• How To Remember Anything Forever (Ish) - This was actually linked in out in Josh Comeau’s “How to Learn Stuff Quickly”, but I didn’t get around to checking it out until this week. An interactive comic from Nicky Case on the science of memory and spaced repetition.

🌵 Personal

• As I said, work was quite busy last week supporting an upcoming launch next week at Netlify 👀.
• Last week Katie Fujihara asked Twitter for recommendations for friends / family / individual creators who sell handmade crafts online. This is my favorite way to gift, so I answered with several suggestions, lots of other great responses on the thread. If you’re looking for new ideas for gifting, perhaps check it out.

I hope you’ve had a nice weekend so far!

Amberley