Links by Friday 018 - What's better than csv
This week we have a mix of design and development articles. I hope you find them valuable.
News
Honeypot.io finally has released the Node.JS documentary. If you have not watched any of them, you should. They are well made and offer insights into some of the tech tools we use daily. They've made one for Rails, React, Vue, Ember, Elixir and more.
Canva acquires Serif, the maker of the Affinity suite of design tools for Windows, Mac and Ipad. I have mixed feelings about this, chief being the loss of the pay once model that endeared many creatives to the Affinity suite of tools.
Speed and Software Reliability
Speed and reliability are often intuited hand-in-hand. Speed can be a good proxy for general engineering quality. If an application slows down on simple tasks, then it can mean the engineers aren’t obsessive detail sticklers. Not always, but it can mean disastrous other issues lurk
Fast Software, the Best Software â by Craig Mod
Essay on the benefits of speedy software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability
Speed up Your Eleventy Build
Slotting memoization into this build process was quite straightforward, and instantly cut down my build times by a tremendous amount!
How I shaved 1.5 minutes off my Eleventy build time · Chris Burnell
I had a revelation earlier today that solved a long-standing performance issue I’ve been having with the initial build of my Eleventy website, and here’s how it saved me a bunch of time!
A Better Data File Format
Apache Parquet is an open source, column-oriented data file format designed for efficient data storage and retrieval. It provides efficient data compression and encoding schemes with enhanced performance to handle complex data in bulk. Apache Parquet is designed to be a common interchange format for both batch and interactive workloads.
Robin's blog – Friends don't let friends export to CSV
I worked for a few years in the intersection between data science and software engineering. On the whole, it was a really enjoyable time and I'd like to have the chance to do so again at some point. One of the least enjoyable experiences from that time was to deal …
Lessons From 20 Years of Design Work
After almost 20 years of doing the same thing over and over (i.e. designing digital products), I needed to stop for a second and put down on paper what it is that I find compelling about our craft.
Lessons of Design
The musings of a designer on why he designs the way he does and what he’s learned along the journey.
The Creator Economy Trap
Creators pour their time, energy, and resources into building a presence on these platforms, but they are ultimately at the mercy of the platform's algorithms, policies, and business decisions. The success of a creator is intrinsically tied to the whims of the platform, and this dependence is a double-edged sword.
The creator economy trap: why building on someone else's platform is a dead end — Joan Westenberg
The creator economy is a dead end for most creators. Why? The creator economy is built on third party foundations. When we talk about the "creator economy" we're talking about writers, podcasters, artists who build careers on TikTok, Instagram, Patreon, Stitcher, YouTube - pick the platf
That's it, see you next time.