Links by Friday 023 - The Mastodon Effect
I watched a video yesterday in which someone said, something like if you stick with something long enough, you will become lucky.
I’ve thought about what this newsletter means to me, why I continue doing it even without success, vis-a-vis subscribers and for me it’s a fun exercise and I benefit from it. Maybe when it stops being fun I will stop even if it becomes ‘successful’.
JavaScript Var, Let and Const Explained (Video)
The video is just over 12 minutes long, and explains the reason why there are three ways to declare variable in JavaScript.
5 Things Designers Can Do With JavaScript
Selecting things, listen to events, change HTML, and more.
Five Basic Things About JavaScript That Will Help Non JavaScript-Focused Web Designers – Frontend Masters Boost
What does modern WordPress Development look like?
If you have worked on a WordPress theme in the past, you might want to take another look.
Modern WordPress - Yikes! – David Bushell – Freelance Web Design (UK)
The one where I share my dislike for WordPress (again)
React creates Labour Arbitrage which makes it easier for companies to replace you
The long-term popularity of any given tool for software development is proportional to how much labour arbitrage it enables.
The more effective it is at enabling labour arbitrage, the more funding and adoption it gets from management.
A key requirement for effective labour arbitrage is that the employees can be treated as interchangeable, well, components. Jobs that require expertise lend themselves less to arbitrage than jobs that don’t.
React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity – Baldur Bjarnason
The evolution of software development over the past decade has been very frustrating. Little of it seems to makes sense, even to those of us who are right in the middle of it.
The Mastodon Effect
From my understanding, when a link is embedded in a Mastodon post, all Mastodon instances which receive the post with the embedded link, will immediately request a copy of the link’s content, essentially overwhelming the server hosting the link with requests.
Also: KevQuirk - Mastodon is DDoSing Me
Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why!
We need to talk about this problem. Should Mastodon step up?
That's it, see you next time.