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Very glad to be in your inbox today! I hope your week was a good one, and that you’re safe, happy, and healthy. Let’s check out what’s new around the internet!

Web links of the week

How to Use Promise.any()
React Webcam
Pushing Back Against Privacy Infringement On The Web
Static vs. Dynamic vs. Jamstack: Where’s The Line?

Hey friends!

What a week, what a week. Mine was full of podcast recordings, code, and meetings. Let’s goooo!

Web links of the week

Building a desktop application using Electron and Create React App
Star Rating: An SVG Solution
wavesurfer.js
LÖVR: An open source framework for rapidly building 3D experiences

Helllloooo!

I hope your week was a good one. I admit mine was pretty dang busy! The weather in Chicago has been beautiful lately at least. Anyway, let's boogie.

Web links of the week

MIDIVal library
Vue 3.2 Released!
A Visual Guide to React Rendering - Props
Stay alert

Hello friends!

I hope you had a great week! I took some time off work to get unpacked in my new digs. Now let's unpack... the iiiiinternet!

Web links of the week

JavaScript Kid Pix
How MDN’s autocomplete search works
Building an Automated Screenshot Service on Netlify in ~140 Lines of Code
Slinkity

Hellloooo!

Can you believe it’s August already? My brain is not ready for this. But alas, time goes on. Let’s look at what happened this week!

Web links of the week

What I Wish I Knew About CSS When Starting Out As A Frontender
NFC comes to the web
Gatsby Serverless Functions And The International Space Station
New in Git: switch and restore

Hey friends!

I hope you had a great week. I am in the thick of moving, surrounded by boxes as I type, which is both stressful and really exciting! Onwards!

Web links of the week

Plate: Build an editor with React and Slate
Code Zelda in JavaScript with Kaboom.js!
Integrating Eleventy with GitHub Flat Data
How To Make Raspberry Pi Night Vision Security Camera

Wazzzaaaap!

I hope your week was a good one! I had a blast this weekend at Pokémon Go Fest and I'm riding that high through the week. Let's go!

Web links of the week

ISR vs DPR: Big Words, Quick Explanation
HTM (Hyperscript Tagged Markup)
WebAssembly from Scratch: From FizzBuzz to Doom
LiveKit: Open source real-time communication

Hey friends!

Phew, what a week! I had a very very packed one full of meetings, podcast recordings, and prepping for moving. Let’s surf!

Web links of the week

Elementary Audio
When a Click is Not Just a Click
Breaking Down Bulky Builds With Netlify And Next.js
Creating a dynamic color converter with 11ty Serverless

Helllllooooo!

Happy 4th of July to the Americans out there, and happy "start of July" to everyone else! I hope you had a great week. I'm really glad to have a shorter one with the holiday, myself. Internet time!

Web links of the week

Browsers decode images differently
Code Generator for HTTP Requests
XO: JavaScript/TypeScript linter (ESLint wrapper) with great defaults
Saving data to Supabase and getting it back again

Hey friends!

I hope your week has been great. Mine was busy and full of playing with different frameworks that I don’t normally try. Let’s gooo!

Web links of the week

ES2021 Features List
Optical size, the hidden superpower of variable fonts
pica - high quality image resize in browser
lightGallery

Helllooo!

I hope you had a good week! Mine was fun; it was full of talks and experimenting with code. To the fathers and father-figures out there, I hope you had a wonderful Father’s Day, and for our Black friends reading, I hope you had a great Juneteenth! Let’s boogie.

Web links of the week

Select Star SQL
An Introduction to Shaders
How To Use The Vite Build Tool with React
Benchmarking JavaScript Memory Usage
MathJax 3.2.0: Beautiful Math Rendering in All Browsers

Hello friends!

I have had a WHIRLWIND of a week, let me tell ya! I hope yours has been a good one too. Let's dig around cyberspace, shall we?

Web links of the week

Rust from a JavaScript perspective
Vue v3.1.0 Pluto
Astro: A New Architecture for the Modern Web
Flex Box Adventure

Hey friends!

I hope your week was great! I enjoyed having a shorter work week with Memorial Day rolling in, and did a bunch of house work as well. Anyway, let's surf!

Web links of the week

jsonmatic – transform a CSV into a JSON
How to Memoize with React.useMemo()
Making JavaScript run fast on WebAssembly
RTL:WTF - Read the web like Right-to-Left readers do

Hello friends!

I hope you had a good week! Mind was full of speaking and… playing video games. Onwards!

Web links of the week

Temp API
Deep Dive into Rust for Node.js Developers
React API evolution
Gute

Hey friends!

I hope your week was lovely! Mine was super busy at work (we released things!) and I ended it with spending some time with vaccinated family. Let’s boogie!

Web links of the week

Rust: Are we game yet?
2D Optics Demos in JavaScript
Embedding Google Forms in a Static Site
DOM Events

Hey friends!

I hope you had a great week! I worked from Seattle this past week and visited vaccinated family and friends, and it was so nice. Anyway, surfin' time.

Web links of the week

How to Parse and Annotate PDFs in Node
Eva.js (Interactive Game Engine)
Design for reading: tips for optimizing content for Reader modes and reading apps
JWT should not be your default for sessions

Helllloooo!

Happy Mother's Day to the moms, step-moms, pseudo-moms, aspiring moms, and future moms on this list, and to each of yours. I hope y'all had a good week! Mine was productive, and I'm excited for the next one. Onwards!

Web links of the week

How To Use Vibration API in Your Website
MapSCII - The Whole World In Your Console
How to Create Actions for Selected Text With the Selection API
Why Video Chat is a Hard Technical Problem

Hey friends!

I hope your week was a good one! Mine was fun and full of playing video games and playing with my Polywork profile! Let’s gooo!

Web links of the week

You Can Label a JavaScript if Statement
Portable apps with Go and Next.js
Google sheets Using React TypeScript
How to safely open-source internal software - Some best practices

Hello friends!

I hope your week was great! I was on vacation with family and it was really nice to take some time off. Onwards!

Web links of the week

Node.js available now
Inkline: Vue.js UI/UX Library
How to make an ineffective 404 page
Best practices for cookie notices

Hey friends!

I hope you had a wonderful week! I’m very excited about mine, I’m taking a vacation for the first time in a long time visiting family. Let’s surf!

Web links of the week

Using the Switch(true) Pattern in JavaScript
SVG Kaleidoscopic Glasses
5 ways to prevent code injection in JavaScript and Node.js
Jamstack SEO Guide

Hello friends!

I hope your week was great. Mine was awesome because my sister got engaged this weekend! Let's boogie!

Web links of the week

GitExplorer
Cheetah Grid
Building a full-text search engine in 150 lines of Python code
Make Your Jest Tests up to 20% Faster by Changing a Single Setting
Alternative Tweet Embeds

Hey friends!

I hope you had a lovely week, and Happy Easter to those who celebrate it! It’s been a busy one, again, but I am loving the nice weather we’ve been getting here in Chicago. Onwards!

Web links of the week

Human-Readable JavaScript: A Tale of Two Experts
How to create a screen reader accessible graph like Apple’s with D3.js
Dynamically Changing a Netlify Form Name
A Deep Dive Into Eleventy Static Site Generator

Hello friends!

I hope your week was awesome! I am so excited to be in your inbox today, because it is this newsletter’s FOURTH anniversary! I can’t believe it’s been this long, and I’m excited to keep this train chugging along. Also, happy Holi and Passover to those who celebrate them!

Web links of the week

Handling User Permissions in JavaScript
Colors are Math: How they match — and how to build a Color Picker
There’s no such thing as a website or web app that doesn’t need to be accessible
React Financial Charts

Hello friends!

I hope you had a great week! Mine was full of highs and lows, but one of the big highs was a release we did at work! Anyway, let’s boogie.

Web links of the week

Static Site Comments: A Jamstack How-To
A regular expression surprise in JavaScript
1 line of code
useEncapsulation

Hey friends!

What a week, what a week! Hard to believe it’s over an a new one is just begun. Let’s gooo!

Web links of the week

1 Line Layouts
useCountdown hook
Hybrids UI Library
How you can simplify your CSS with :is()

Hello friends!

I hope your week was great. Mine was chock-full of meetings, but I got a lot of work done! I can’t believe it’s March. One week down!

Web links of the week

Swiper
web-minecraft
Announcing Flutter 2
How to Map Mouse Position in CSS

Hey friends!

I hope you had a wonderful week! Mine was full of meetings, BUT I managed to hit Inbox Zero! Let’s boogie.

Web links of the week

10 Years of Open-Source Visualization
Streams - The definitive guide
simple-keyboard
Glassmorphism CSS Generator

Hello friends!

I hope your week was a fun one. Mine was packed with podcasts, a couple events, and meetings. Onwards!

Web links of the week

How to Use Websockets With Your Vue Projects
Announcing Vite 2.0
Web Frameworks: Why You Don’t Always Need Them
Neat CSS

Hey friends!

I hope you had a great week! Happy Valentine’s Day, President’s Day, and of course Black History Month. Let’s surf!

Web links of the week

A Better Way to Structure React Projects
My 12 Favorite VSCode Extensions
Tackling TypeScript
Exploring the Complexities of Width and Height in CSS

Hellloooo everyone!

I hope your week was a good one! I enjoyed the Superb Owl this evening (I am sooo good at knowing sports) and have been busy with a bunch of projects in and out of work. Let's gooo!

Web links of the week

Build An Among Us Inspired Live-Multiplayer Game with Phaser 3 and Socket.io
Thinking in Jamstack
Don't use functions as callbacks unless they're designed for it
Why Scientists are Turning to Rust

Hey friends!

I hope your week was sweet! At work we had our annual All Hands event, and so I had meetings allllll day long, allllll week long. It was tiring, but also great getting to know my coworkers more. Let's gooo!

Web links of the week

Re-Creating the Porky Pig Animation from Looney Tunes in CSS
Tutorial - Create generative social images using SVG
RunJS: A Playground for JavaScript and TypeScript
Are your Anchor Links Accessible?

Hello friends!

I hope you had a good week. Mine was packed with meetings and I'm excited for the one ahead. Let's boogie!

Web links of the week

How to Control Hue Lights with JavaScript
Why Tailwind isn't for me
You should use React.memo more!
Creating comic book speech bubbles with SVG and JavaScript

Helloooo!

Welcome back, friends. I hope you had a good week, mine was really busy, but productive. I also MCed the You Got This Conf yesterday, which was a wonderful time!

Web links of the week

Top Pens of 2020
Building Javascript Minecraft in 1 hour - React & Three.js Tutorial
Altair GraphQL Client
Advanced Promise Patterns: Promise Memoization

Hello friends!

Phew, I can't believe this past week was... only a week. Let's surf.

Web links of the week

AnimXYZ
JavaScript Questions
Omatsuri: Open source browser tools for everyday use
Making Persistent Build Folders in Netlify

Hellllooo!

Happy 2021! It’s only been a few days but I hope your new year has been off to a good start. Let’s goooo!

Web links of the week

Graph Toy
Great Impractical Ideas in Computer Science: PowerPoint Programming
Publish, ship, and install modern JavaScript for faster applications
Out of the Matrix: Early Days of the Web (1991)

Hey friends!

We made it! 2020 is over! This is our last issue of the year and I don't know about you, but I am GLAD to be putting this one behind us. Let's go!

Web links of the week

How did JavaScript's console.log get its name?
How to increase CSS-in-JS performance by 175x
2020 Ipsum
Font Family Reunion

Hellllloooo friends!

Another week, complete! This was a good one for me to round out the end of 2020 at work. I hope your holiday week is merry and bright. Until then, onwards!

Web links of the week

CommonMark: A Formal Specification For Markdown
Styling console.log() Output Formatting With CSS
What Can You Put in a CSS Variable?
What's Old is New (oh wow who wrote this)

Hey friends!

I hope you had a good week! Mine was PACKED, I spoke at an event every day this past week and as you can imagine, this weekend was me mostly sitting silently in the aftermath. It was really fun though. Anyway, let's boogie.

Web links of the week

Introduction to the Web Audio API
Time to Say Goodbye to Google Fonts
The physics behind spring animations
nextein

Hello friends!

I hope you had a lovely week! Today was my birthday and even though it was mostly spent indoors (thanks, pandemic), I had a good day of watching shows and catching up on some reading. Onwards!

Web links of the week

CLI Guidelines
The React Hooks Announcement In Retrospect: 2 Years Later
Automatic Social Share Images
jsonformatter
Building Your Color Palette

Greetings amigos!

I hope you had a great Thanksgiving, if you celebrate it! Phew, I don’t know about you, but for me, this long weekend was a much-needed break! It’s wild to me that we’re already into the work week. C’est la vie!

Web links of the week

Playfulness In Code: Supercharge Your Learning By Having Fun
List.js
Rethinking the JavaScript Pipeline Operator
Beginner’s Guide to Static Site Generators
Babylon.js 4.2: Simplicity Reimagined

Hello friends!

I hope you had a lovely week. We did some big releases at work (read below!) and now I’m looking forward to Thanksgiving this next week! That being said: I am very grateful for every one of you. Thank you for being here!

Web links of the week

Coding Fonts
GSAP Believe - Collage Animation
cosha: Colorful shadows for your images
Why I will no longer be using console.log() to check React state updates

Hellllooooo!

I hope you had a good week! I had a super busy one, and I’m excited to get things launched this next week (cool stuff is happening at Netlify soon)!

Web links of the week

Use CSS Variables instead of React Context
Useful Custom Hooks for Tired React Devs
How to Create a Commenting Engine with Next.js and Sanity
Free Tailwind landing page template

Hey friends!

I hope you had a wonderful week! It's no secret that I'm incredibly happy about the US election results, and I'm hoping that means a great (less stressful!) week ahead!

Onwards!

Web links of the week

Hello friends!

I hope you had a great week. I had a busy one with Next.js Conf and other work stuff (and spooky things), and ended up taking off a couple days to catch up with everything.

Americans, make sure you vote this week! Onwards!

Web links of the week

Hello!

I hope you had a good week! I was SWAMPED this week with work, and I'm hoping this one will be a little less busy. Let's get scootin'.

Web links of the week

Supercharge Testing React Applications With Wallaby.js
CSSometric
React v17.0 released
73 Awesome npm Packages for Productivity

Hello friends!

I hope you had a lovely week. I was pretty busy, but productive. Let’s boogie!

Web links of the week

Don’t Copy Paste Into A Shell
essentia.js
How ZDF created a video PWA with offline and dark mode
World’s Smallest Office Suite

Hello!

I hope you had a great week! Mine was mostly getting more settled here in Chicago (I’ll finally be able to start streaming again this week), and it’s been great. Also, this newsletter is the first issue where there’s more than 10,000 of you!! Thank you so much for being a part of it.

Anyway, let’s go!

Web links of the week

Hello friends!

I have officially moved to Chicago! It was a LONG week of driving across the country and getting (mostly) set up here, and I'm excited to be at home here.

Anyway, web time!

Web links of the week

Helllooo!

I’m currently mid-road trip across the US as my husband and I are moving to Chicago! It’s been a long drive but seeing all of the sights across the country so far has been really beautiful.

Anyway, internet!

Web links of the week

Hey friends!

I hope you had a good week! Mine was busy; I spoke at a few events and on a couple of podcasts. Let’s get moving, shall we?

Web links of the week

Vue 3 release
Rewriting Facebook’s “Recoil” React library from scratch in 100 lines
Building Chat App in Flutter with Firebase
How to Create a Sprite Animation Without Canvas
Why is Next.js my ultimate choice over Gatsby, Gridsome, and Nuxt?