I was super busy last week and I couldn't publish a edition of this newsletter - sorry about that!
The news of the week is the announcement of the plan for React 18 and its first alpha release. There are some nice things coming in the next major version but it will take some time for a stable release too.
There is a good summary of the alpha release at "React 18 Alpha is out! Now what?".
A huge and well-organized list of different services with good free tiers.
An evergreen CSS course and reference to level up your web styling expertise. The course breaks down the fundamentals of CSS into digestible, easy to understand pieces.
Debug in-production Electron based app
It is also built with Electron! Recently, I had to debug an issue in the built version and this was super helpful. I added some console.log
s to the app (I know, I know 😄) and through this app, I was able to verify which messages were logged.
PS: I plan to take a look at how far I can go debugging other Electron apps such as VSCode, Spotify, MS Teams and Discord to see if I notice something interesting in them. 👀
Design for reading: tips for optimizing content for Reader modes and reading apps
A great write-up by Sara Soueidan about focusing on experience over styles and improving the experience by leveraging HTML and CSS only.
Interactive Pipe To: The Node.js cli interactive workflow
It takes any kind of list as an input and uses that list to build an interactive interface to let you select an element from it. You can then pipe the selected items into other commands.
A modular geospatial engine written in JavaScript
It includes traditional spatial operations, helper functions for creating GeoJSON data, and data classification and statistics tools.
A parable about startups and tech stacks
A short story about a young man who wants to fulfill his dreams.
A website with random faces made using AI. They look very real. 🤯
5 dicas do Trello pouco conhecidas para turbinar seus quadros
Faz um tempo que não uso o Trello, mas continuo acompanhando as novidades de produto e o blog deles. Se você usa ou pensa em usar o Trello, as dicas do post podem ser úteis.