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Monday 27th April, 2020 #

  • If Andromeda Were Brighter, This is What You’d See - Andromeda is the closest galaxy to our galaxy the Milky Way, the to-scale drawings in this article are mind blowing, also I did not know we were on a collision course, though that will happen in a very very long time
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Saturday 25th April, 2020 #

  • Steps to secure AWS Serverless - Lambda - Setting up your lambdas and associated resources can be a little complex, this article does a good job of clarifying the process with some illustrative architecture diagrams
  • How the Voyager Golden Records Work - Great podcast episode to listen to on a Saturday afternoon
  • “The title ‘Front-End Developer’ is obsolete.”
  • Shell productivity tips and tricks - Lots of handy shortcuts for making your shell sessions more like being in vi/emacs
  • JavaScript the Hard Parts - Asynchronous JavaScript - I found this video a few weeks ago while looking to refresh my knowledge on how the javascript event loop functions, I really recommend spending the time to watch it, Will Sentance CEO of CodeSmith and the classroom lecturer in the video, has a very entertaining and somewhat old school british style of teaching, with a perfect balance of humour, repetition over difficult parts, and light interaction with a live online audience, the whole thing has a sort of effortless, improv quality about it, while dissecting the difficult parts of javascript with precision and mastery - It takes a little while to get started, give it a chance and watch the whole thing when you are not in a hurry :)
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Thursday 23rd April, 2020 #

  • “AI Eurovision” Special - Where androids dream of electric guitars - Interesting tech.eu episode this week if you are into tech/ai and/or music, from very eurovisiony, to experimental punk metal, these teams use a fascinating variety of programming and ai techniques to create their compositions
  • Netlify Build Plugins - I want to know how to use the build cache to optimise builds, I had a quick look through some of the plugins but didn’t find anything, this new build plugins feature looks pretty cool though, I quite like their implementation because it’s simple and just regular javascript with a small bit a configuration
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Sunday 19th April, 2020 #

  • 30 years of the great British gastropub - I worked at one of the early London gastropubs so I enjoyed this short recap of the posh food and a pint scene
  • Today I Learned (TILs) - Incredibly simple yet useful idea for a repo, that all the items are categorised in super nice, but there is also a daily view -- the commit history - This repo should be in the Louvre :)
  • serverless-offline - Emulate AWS λ and API Gateway locally when developing your Serverless project
  • Debugging Typescript AWS Lambda with VSCode and Serverless
  • Debugging NodeJS AWS Lambda with VSCode and Serverless
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Saturday 11th April, 2020 #

  • Understanding (all) JavaScript module formats and tools - I haven’t had time to read all of this yet, hoping to read later, it’s a good summary - Makes me wonder what programmers from other languages think about javascript modules
  • Porting to TypeScript Solved Our API Woes - Makes a pretty strong case for Typescript, especially their technique of having the types exported from the database and enforced through all the layers from API to the client React app
  • Git - To squash or not to squash?
  • GitHub Protips - Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets
  • NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover gets its record-setting cargo - An actual Mars helicopter - I really hope it plays the Airwolf theme tune when it flies around
  • Disney Plus surpasses 50 million subscribers
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Wednesday 8th April, 2020 #

  • A Static Future - The magic of compile-time workflows - Makes probably the clearest and most concise case (that I have read) for why the new static site / JAMstack trend is an important shift in the web development space, and why incremental builds is the next big SSG development that’s going to make it possible to build much bigger sites statically
  • JSONPlaceholder - Fake Online REST API for Testing and Prototyping
  • Docker announces the creation of a new open community to be run with open governance to develop the Compose Specification - Docker compose makes it easy to define and deploy multi-container apps
  • Backend infrastructure at Spotify
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Monday 6th April, 2020 #

  • What happens when ... Kubernetes edition! - Pretty thorough deep dive into Kubernetes internals and component design all from the perspective of running one provisioning command, it’s certainly impressive but wow is it complicated, just to run a few websites, though if you are running a lot of services there is a point where the added complexity is worth the effort
  • Microsoft updates Skype so you don’t need an account or have to download software, simple in-browser tool that opens when meeting link is clicked
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Saturday 4th April, 2020 #

  • Serverless Development with Jeremy Daly - Podcast discussion about the current landscape in serverless, it’s striking how much things have evolved in only a few years, some really interesting and advanced architectures are now possible, but of course there are trade-offs to consider
  • Amazon and Apple Strike Deal for Prime Video In-App Purchases and Subscriptions - Sounds kind of complicated at first, but read through to the analysis at the end to get a view on what each party gets out of the deal
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Friday 3rd April, 2020 #

  • The 8 KPIs That Actually Matter and How to Measure Them
  • The New SaaS Metric You Should Be Tracking
  • Node.js in a Kubernetes world - All the essential things you need to know about as a NodeJS dev working with apps running on Kubernetes, well written and focuses on developer concerns
  • Another NodeJS debugging tutorial, this one is all about NoseJS built in diagnostics feature - Lots of cool features I wasn’t aware of
  • A Practical Guide to Memory Leaks in Node.js - Good explanation with examples of how to create and analyse heapdumps in NodeJS
  • Multi-party video application built with NodeJS/React/Twillio/Serverless
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Thursday 2nd April, 2020 #

  • 2020 Sundance Film Festival Movies To Watch At Home Now
  • That's My Jamstack Podcast - Aaron Frost on Scully, working too much and the merits of ice fishing - Pretty good discussion, helped me to think a bit more clearly about the Jamstack landscape, especially when it comes to what tools are being developed to build static sites using modern javascript frameworks
  • Japanese astronaut joins the crew for SpaceX Dragon mission to space station
  • Rivian Wants to Bring Electric Trucks to the Masses - Cool to see some more contenders move into the Cybertruck space, this one has a novel skateboard chassis design, battery platform wrapped in ballistic and waterproof materials, wheels that each have their own motor, allowing them to move independently to perform a tank turn
  • Some interesting features are on the way in Microsoft Edge - Collections, Vertical Tabs, Smart Copy and 4k Netflix
  • Spotify signs licensing deal with Warner Music Group
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