August 22, 2021

Yet Another Newsletter LOL: The lobster summoner

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

Around the Web

• Not sure how I feel about Mark Zuckerberg promoting a virtual office where we’re all characters.
• Sourcegraph plans to index the entire open source web
• Deno episode from the HTTP 203 show on the Google Chrome Developers YouTube channel - Jake and Surma give an introduction to Deno, a secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript
• The Big Gotcha With Custom Properties - Chris Coyier shows us some gotchas with custom properties in CSS
• # Embrace 1% Days - I came across this post from Sam Julien this week on Twitter.

Fun Stuff

• The lobster summoner
• Why I Turned Down The Matrix | STORYTIME - This is a couple of years old but popped up for me while watching another YouTube video.

Words of Wisdom for the Week

Mentors are helpful at any stage of your career. It’s OK to have a few of them too; some may be great engineers, others great leaders. Being a mentor is also terrific for lifting others up.

Addy Osmani on Twitter

Shameless Plugs

• This past week Arsalan Khattak joined us for Walkthrough Wednesdays on the DEV Twitch Stream. We discussed/live coded creating a back end with Fastify.
• This week on the DEV Twitch stream we have Laurie Barth, Senior Software Engineer at Netflix! We’re going to discuss tech interviews from the perspective of those hiring and those looking for a new role.
• I’m running two workshops with a couple of coworkers for CodeLand 2021. One is on open source, the other on accessibilty. There’s a few spots left, if these topics are your jam!

Until the next issue!