David Crawshaw gave an excellent talk (at Go Northwest in 2018) on using SQLite (so hot right now) together with Go and how enjoyable/productive the combo is. Quite worthy of its ~30 minutes runtime.

Interesting findings by Melanie S. Brucks and Jonathan Levav:

According to new research one important skill is impacted by the restrictions of video calls: creativity. But why is idea generation negatively affected? And could other skills actually benefit from virtual communication?

I thought Ali and Jen had some excellent advice in this segment of our JS Party episode on web dev for beginners, so I’m re-sharing it here in hopes that you might share it with people you know who may be stuck in the early phases of their web development path.

I also like what I had to say (imagine that!)

One thing that is true about software development in general… is that it’s actually really hard. And we need to just say that. Because you’re gonna hit bumps. You’re gonna hit walls. And some people will power through those walls and other people won’t, and that’s just the way life is…

But I think having something real that you want to exist… having a real project that you want to see into the world helps you get through those moments.

After recording Ship It! #46, Nabeel Sulieman and Gerhard stuck around to pair on getting KCert (a simpler alternative to cert-manager) set up on our LKE infra. It works!

This looks so freakin’ cool! Watch the demo (16:09) then head to pockit.ai to learn more.

You’ll either love the humor laced throughout this YT video by Heydon Pickering… or you’ll hate it. Here’s a litmus test: does this quote tickle your funny bone at all?

But just like that time you whacked a zombie over the head with a shovel only to discover it was really your friend Jimmy with a hangover, this would be a grave mistake. And I use the term ‘grave’ advisedly, because having sent Jimmy to an early grave, this would increase the likelihood of him becoming a zombie in the not too distant future.

With a detailed instructions video, anyone can build it at home - you just need access to a 3D printer and have to buy a Raspberry Pi computer and an 8MP Raspberry Pi camera.

The full set of instructions are on their GitHub org.

This is an excellent explanation of the difference between these styles of programming and why declarative is all the rage these days.

Fireship with a brief (3:48) rundown of the most recent instance of a popular open source library maintainer removing their code from public repositories in response to corporate (ab)use of their free labor:

Yesterday, a popular open-source package, Faker.js, was abruptly taken down from GitHub. Its readme simply said “What really happened to Aaron Swartz?”. Let’s take a look at why Open Source Software can be a bad deal for many independent developers.

GitHub’s all new code search is in technology preview (sign up here for early access) and this 5-minute video does a great job of providing a rundown on how it works and why you’ll probably want to try it asap.

In this video I kick the tires on Mat Ryer’s xbar, an open source utility that lets you “put anything in your macOS menu bar.” I get it to tell us dad jokes, keep us abreast of Covid case counts, and write a custom plugin that pulls from Plausible Analytics to display changelog.com’s real-time visitor count.

We had a lot of fun recording the Vim with me series alongside episode 450, so I thought, “Hey, let’s keep it going!” We have Nick Nisi for you today. Nick is a regular panelist on JS Party, co-hosted our upcoming Neovim episode of The Changelog, and is personally responsible for the #vimparty channel of Changelog’s community Slack.

(If you have any requests of people you’d like to see Vimming with me, let us know in the comments!)

Julia stuck around after our Vim interview to share some of her Vim setup with me. She shows off the Visual Mode feature that I learned on the pod and shared her love of macros as well!

Gary stuck around after our Vim interview to share some of his Vim setup with me. If you’ve never seen Gary use Vim, this is a must-watch. The guy moves at the speed of thought. 🏃‍♂️

Suz stuck around after our Vim interview to share some of her Vim setup with me. She created an epic plugin that lets her Twitch audience comment on specific lines while she’s editing. Definitely worth a 👀!

This expands on topics that we have discussed in Ship It! #11 and covers community findings on the practices that make the biggest difference for:

• Higher productivity
• Improvement in code quality
• End-user satisfaction
• Software developer retention

Doing ops properly is hard. Most of us are failing & learning every day. Some of us manage to have fun too.

HOW HAVE I NOT HEARD OF GIT WORK TREES??? WHAT THE EFF. They are so incredible. You have to check them out!!! In this video I go over them briefly, assuming you are smart enough to understand them, and also show you my workflow with vim! Its fantastic!

GAN Theft Auto is a Generative Adversarial Network that recreates the Grand Theft Auto 5 environment. It is created using a GameGAN fork based on NVIDIA’s GameGAN research.

Source code here.

This talk by Brittany Storoz from JSConf EU 2018 is sooo good! If you’ve ever wondered why we call bugs bugs, why we throw and catch exceptions, or why we use foo and bar as placeholder variables, give it a 👀

Here’s a sneak peek of our upcoming episode of The Changelog (plus bonus videos) starring Julia Evans, Drew Neil, Suz Hinton, and Gary Bernhardt!

We did a somewhat deep exploration of Vite on JS Party #168. During that time I shared some tips & tricks for quickly coming up to speed on an open source project. Some of it is JavaScript/Vite-specific, but there are general principles laced in there as well. Maybe it’ll help you read other people’s code more effectively.

Adam Wathan reveals Tailwind’s new JIT compiler:

One of the hardest constraints we’ve had to deal with as we’ve improved Tailwind CSS over the years is the generated file size in development. With enough customizations to your config file, the generated CSS can reach 10mb or more, and there’s only so much CSS that build tools and even the browser itself will comfortably tolerate.

Today I’m super excited to share a new project we’ve been working on that makes this constraint a thing of the past: a just-in-time compiler for Tailwind CSS.

“Hi Julian. I see you have your computer linked to the telephone line. Can you tell us how you did that?”

It’s been a minute since I coded something up with y’all, so when it was time to pick 3 random e-book winners from the #jsparty channel of our Slack, I used it as an opportunity to grab Deno and do just that.