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April 13, 2022

🏎️ Fast, Rome Formatter and Code through drawing

Hello there!

I spoke on a Twitter space last weekend, on State management in React—it was my first time and I think did okay? I’ve had stage fright since…forever, so I was pretty nervous. 😅 (yes, even though it was just audio and virtual)

Wanna share this with someone? You can send them here 😄

If you’d been procrastinating on submitting your talk proposal for React Day Bangalore, they’ve extended their deadline!


📚 To read

  • The Scoop: Inside Fast’s Rapid Collapse — Gergely Orosz In January 2021, one-click checkout startup Fast raised a $102M Series B round led by Stripe. Until March 2022, employees assumed all is fine and the company has plenty of money in the bank, preparing for a Series C round. However, in the span of six days, Fast went from being valued at close to $500M to shutting down all operations. What the hell happened?

  • Architecting UIs for Change — Henrik Joreteg Techniques for keeping your app code under control even when requirements shift dramatically.

  • CSS :has() A Parent Selector Now — Matthias Ott “There it is. A parent selector. But :has is not only useful as a parent selector. It also opens up a lot more interesting opportunities.”

  • What we learned about cache hit rates from caching thousands of GraphQL APIs — Max Stoiber, GraphCDN We’ll delve into the ins and outs of cache hit rates below and how some of our users have a 99%+ overall cache hit rate


👀 Some more cool stuff

  • Announcing Rome Formatter — Rome A new formatter for JavaScript and TypeScript, with excellent performance, ease-of-use, and first-class IDE integration.
  • λ-2D: An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language, Featuring Ideas from Lambda Calculus How can we code through drawing? 🤯
  • The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII… in 1996.
  • The remarkable brain of a carpet cleaner who speaks 24 languages

⌨️ Keyboards

BMEK with GMK Minimal BMEK with GMK Minimal

Matrix Lab Falcon with GMK Minimal and GMK Zhuyin Matrix Lab Falcon with GMK Minimal and GMK Zhuyin


That’s all for now, have a great week!

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