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"I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them"
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Isaac Asimov,
Author and Scientist
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Change. Commit "fix CI". Push. Fail. Change. Commit "fix CI". Push. Fail. Change. Commit "fix CI". Push. Fail. Commit "fix CI". Push. GREEN! ... How many times have you done this?! I surely have done it quite a lot 🥲
Act promises to make our life better by allowing us to run GitHub actions locally, even before you commit and push (and fail!)... I am quite excited about this project and I'll certainly be using it!
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One of the new standards to watch for is devContainers (or development containers). It's a new standard that aims to leverage containers to create a reproducible development environment for teams. This article, explains how to use this idea inside Visual Studio Code. You can also do it to access remote environments!
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There's always space for some nerdy tech humor! Last week I discovered this new website called comiCSS which gives you a massive collection of funny webcomics about CSS. The best part? It's coded in CSS, what did you expect?!
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JavaScript/ECMAScript is an ever-evolving language. But how is the scope of ECMAScript is changing as JavaScript matures; and where the opportunities for adding new features are coming from? This article provides some interesting opinions to understand where the future of the language of the web might go!
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If you use Lambda, you know that cold starts is one of the most annoying things about it. It's not always a big deal, but when it is it's a complex one to fix. Recently AWS has started to introduce Proactive Initialization, a feature that observes the frequency of invocation of your lambdas and tries to pre-warm them before they get invoked. It's pretty neat and it might revolutionise serverless computing for good. Read this one if you are curious to find out more!
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A new release of Node.js is out. This release isn't packed with a massive list of new features, but the one new thing that is there is pretty big IMHO: you can now write more reliable and predictable tests for time-dependent functionality. In fact, this new release includes MockTimers with the ability to mock setTimeout, setInterval from globals, node:timers, and node:timers/promises. Also worth calling out is that Node is adding support to the explicit resource management proposal to its resources allowing users of TypeScript/babel to use using/await.
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If you are looking for a new backend web framework, Remult is a promising one. It is a CRUD framework for fullstack TypeScript which allows you to build end-to-end Type-safe CRUD Apps without much of the typical boilerplate.
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— Andrea
— Luciano
