Yet Another Newsletter LOL: That's so fetch
Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!
Around the Web
Native fetch is coming to Node.js,
How does !important in CSS actually work?
New “5-minute CSS” video on how the CSS !important rule actually works!
— Una 🇺🇦 (@Una) January 28, 2022
(Ok it’s 7 minute this week, but worth it I promise!)
Here’s the gist:
!important isn’t just about increasing style rule importance, it actually inverts the cascadehttps://t.co/fjsnrRm1Fz pic.twitter.com/kdpqSNZL0j
life of a DNS query https://t.co/5Xklb79VHx pic.twitter.com/eF1XJYuA8r
— 🔎Julia Evans🔍 (@b0rk) January 25, 2022
A great CSS layout workshop care of Rachel Andrews!
Fun Stuff
Vanilla Ice is the best open source maintainer because he always collaborates and listens. New release? Brand new edition. pic.twitter.com/Lt7cqEkwX6
— Nick Taylor (@nickytonline) January 22, 2022
am I the first person to do this pls say yes pic.twitter.com/Bi0TnCyJZP
— YAYpril (@YAYpril) January 28, 2022
Words of Wisdom for the Week
As builders we are responsible for calling out the flaws and limitations in the systems we work on so people don’t hurt themselves by mistake. https://t.co/gfnhwf9D7E
— Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower) January 28, 2022
Shameless plugs
I had an awesome time chatting with Sunil Pai from the WORKERS team at Cloudflare on the DEV Twitch stream this week.
We discussed all the cool things being built at Cloudflare like Workers, KV Store, Durable Objects, wrangler, all the things! We also chatted about all things web dev.
Thanks for hanging Sunil!
Ben Holmes, the creator of the Slinkity project is joining me in the DEV Twitch stream this Wednesday! Come by and say hi at 5 pm UTC
I’ve got a talk for Codementor coming up in a couple of weeks. Come by and say hi virtually!
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