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February 27, 2022

Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Michael Bolton

The world is a mess right now, I know. I don’t really know what to say. No real way to segue to the usual line, so let’ get to it.

Around the Web

Explain the First 10 Lines of Twitter’s Source Code

A neat little front-end interview challenge from @AnandChowdhary. https://t.co/YRkUzkmXLq

— CSS-Tricks (@css) February 24, 2022

Managering in Terrible Times | Lara Hogan
Managering in Terrible Times | Lara Hogan
These are terrible times. You may be facing these events head-on as a member of a marginalized group or as an ally, and if you’re a manager, you likely have direct reports who are doing the same.
larahogan.me

Write interaction tests in your stories. Now in beta!

✅ Test user behavior and automate runs via CLI
🐛 Debug interactively in your browser
⚡️ Run tests in parallel & across browsers
🎭 Powered by Jest, Playwright & Testing Library
🧪 No flakehttps://t.co/MvfdTuNUio pic.twitter.com/Rs4qRIRJ8W

— Storybook (@storybookjs) February 24, 2022

This just looks interesting to me.

Introducing Beam
Introducing Beam
We’re sharing the PlanetScale-powered communication tool we use internally.
planetscale.com

A cool use of Web Workers.

🔥 Inline Web Workers without external files https://t.co/sX6YTXF5jF

— David Wells (@DavidWells) February 14, 2022

Fun Stuff

Singer Michael Bolton re-enacting scenes from the film Office Space. If you don’t know who Michael Bolton is, this might not be as funny to you.

Office Space with Michael Bolton
Office Space with Michael Bolton

Words of Wisdom for the Week

More of. a thread of wisdom this week.

Strong fundamentals and programming get you in the door as an engineer.

But to move up, you’ll need people skills.

The top 8 people skills that helped me move from Senior Engineer to Senior Director in 4 short years.

🧵

— Louie Bacaj (@LBacaj) February 22, 2022

Shameless plugs

A while back I started a project with Matt Foley for building out a GitHub action that Tweets out to first-time contributors. Here is part 1. Also, no it’s not built in Rust. I hadn’t streamed on my own stream in a while and forgot to update my banner lol. I should probably automate that.

Creating a GitHub Action with Matt Foley - Part 1
Creating a GitHub Action with Matt Foley - Part 1

Not much going on this coming week as I’m still on vacation. Snowboarding is on this week’s menu. 🏂🏻

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