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June 26, 2022

Yet Another Newsletter LOL: So, a blog post?

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some nice updates to Deno!

Deno v1.23 in 60 seconds pic.twitter.com/bkKclSKIHE

— Deno (@deno_land) June 21, 2022

Another great knowledge nugget for React care of David Kourshid

⚛️ React tip: did you know that you can use the key prop to “reset” individual components? They’re not only for lists!

Changing the key creates a new instance of the component. No more useState/useEffect juggling for these resetting use-cases.

Demo: https://t.co/cKi47J6QKK pic.twitter.com/f8ETSe3pxY

— David K. 🎹 (@DavidKPiano) June 21, 2022

Cloudflare was super proactive getting things sorted during the downtime on June 21, 2022. Here’s the postmortem

Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022
Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022
Today, June 21, 2022, Cloudflare suffered an outage that affected traffic in 19 of our data centers.
blog.cloudflare.com

If you’re looking for an even more modern CSS reset, Elly has you covered

I put together a CSS Reset that uses modern CSS features such as :where(), logical properties, prefers-reduced-motion, etc. ✨

Lots of inspiration from @JoshWComeau, @hankchizljaw, and @argyleink.https://t.co/xfloCJfqGu pic.twitter.com/OUBQTsZY89

— Elly ✨🌱 (@ellyloel) June 20, 2022

Longer Tweets or blogposts?

✨ Introducing: Notes ✨

We’re testing a way to write longer on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/SnrS4Q6toX

— Twitter Write (@TwitterWrite) June 22, 2022

so, a blog post? https://t.co/dbN3aPHbVS

— Angie Jones (@techgirl1908) June 23, 2022

Fun Stuff

I was today years old when I found out Cloudflare has a wall full of lava lamps they feed into a camera as a way to generate randomness to create cryptographic keys pic.twitter.com/SKcuJUowJD

— Jason Choi (@mrjasonchoi) June 21, 2022

I was at Front-End Test Fest 2 this past week and at the lunch break Dan Gorelick put on an amazing visual and musical performance! I don’t know if there will be a full recording of it, but here’s a snippet of the performance on Twitter

Sharing some music with code for @Netlify and @Applitools – thanks @jlengstorf & @cassidoo for the invite 🎉

link: https://t.co/kKsd4UgWVU

music created live w/ @tidalcycles, viz created live with hydra (https://t.co/FRt0eOoFto) pic.twitter.com/7Ni2nFj0fy

— Dan Gorelick (@dqgorelick) June 23, 2022

Words of Wisdom for the Week

So many things happen simply bc one person gave a fuck

Get after the things you care about and watch them come to life <3

— cami ᵍᵐ (@camiinthisthang) June 20, 2022

Shameless plugs

I was on a panel at Front-End Test Fest 2! It was lots of fun. I’m not sure when recordings will be ready, but check out the website for that

Having some 🤯 conversations right now…

This panel is on fire 🔥🔥🔥#FrontEndTestFest @tiffafoo @nickytonline pic.twitter.com/tHPCoE7qmn

— Applitools (@Applitools) June 23, 2022

Bekah Hawrot Weigel joined me on the stream this past Wednesday to show how you can transcribe text using Deepgram’s Node.js SDK. We went through the demo code all the way to building out an app with Express that allows you to submit a URL for transcription.

Using Deepgram for speech-to-text with Bekah H. Weigel
Using Deepgram for speech-to-text with Bekah H. Weigel

Here’s an accompanying short post to the stream.

Speech-to-text with Deepgram - DEV Community
Speech-to-text with Deepgram - DEV Community
Bekah Hawrot Weigel (@bekahhw) joined me on my stream today to show how you can transcribe text using… Tagged with node, speech-to-text, javascript.
dev.to

This coming Wednesday, my old co-worker and old co-host of the DEV Twitch stream, Christina Gorton, joins me on my stream! We’ll discuss OSS, DevRel, life at Scarf, all the things! Come by and say hi at 5 pm UTC!

Nick's Twitch Schedule
Nick's Twitch Schedule
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