August 30, 2021

Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Llama on the beach

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

Around the Web

• Mistakes I made while maintaining an open-source React Native library for five years
• Accessible images, icons and emojis - This came up in a pull request this week in a conversation with myself, and some other coworkers, including my coworker Suzanne who wrote this post
• Engineering Manager Resources - a great repository of engineering manager resources care of Ryan Burgess, an engineering manager at Netflix
• Creating a Personal Success Framework by Freddie Carthy
• Apple loosens rules for developers, in major concession amid antitrust pressure
• # EXCLUSIVE-Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers of exposed databases -emails 😬

Fun Stuff

• Some fun ASCII art in the Buildkite project shared by GitHub on Twitter
• Someone taking their llama for a walk on the beach shared by Kate Hoit on Twitter

Words of Wisdom for the Week

Good software architecture takes both debate and iteration. You need trust on a team for both.

Sarah Drasner on Twitter

Shameless Plugs

• Last week on the DEV Twitch stream we had Laurie Barth, Senior Software engineer at Netflix, join us to talk about tech interviews from the perspective of those hiring and those looking for a new role.
• Learning Rust Part 8 is out. This is the final stream that covers the Microsoft course Take your first steps with Rust
• I’m super pumped to have Nader Dabit on the DEV Twitch stream this week! We’ll discuss DeFi, decentralized applications(DApps), blockchain, and more. One small note. The stream is on Tuesday this week at 4pm UTC (noon Eastern)

Until the next issue!