Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills in web development.
My Ramblings This Week
If you are a newcomer, find an excellent mentor and mimic them until you internalize stuff.
Then, start breaking the rules and develop your own framework.
Your style will give you a reference to better incorporate new knowledge.
And it’ll set you apart from the droves of developers out there.
Elsewhere on the Web
Changing Tires at 100mph: A Guide to Zero Downtime Migrations by Kiran Rao
This guide will go through the step-by-step process of migrating tables in PostgreSQL. While the examples are for a PostgreSQL table migration, the same steps can apply to almost any migration.
(Riccardo: The words migration and database in the same sentence always make me sweat.)
We’re all living on it. But what exactly is The Edge? by Salma Alam-Naylor
More and more cloud hosting providers and software-as-a-service platforms are offering serverless functions at The Edge. But what is The Edge? What are Edge Functions? And why does it matter?
(Riccardo: Is it only me or serverless is getting cooler and cooler?)
Vue.js: The Documentary by Honeypot
What began as a side project of a Google developer now shares the JS leaderboard with React and Angular. With the help of Sarah Drasner, Taylor Otwell, Thorsten Lünborg and many others from the Vue.js community, Evan You tells the story of how he fought against the odds to bring Vuejs to life.
(Riccardo: These documentaries are always so cool!)