This post by Lauren Reeder of Segment goes over the different layers to consider when working with a data lake. What’s a data lake, you ask? A data lake is a centralized repository that stores both structured and unstructured data and allows you to store massive amounts of data in a flexible, cost effective storage layer. Her article explains what tools are needed and provides code & SQL statements to get started. 🤟
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The Actions Marketplace is kickin’ in to high gear. Calibre’s new GitHub Action allows you to compress raster images with minimal setup automatically. Never ship unoptimised graphics again. I just installed this on our repo to see how it works. I’ll comment here when I have something to report!
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A HTTP based JSON storage. It lets you store, read & modify JSON data over HTTP APIs for FREE. Ideal for small projects, prototypes or hackathons where you don’t have to spin up your own data store. Please don’t store anything mission critical here, but like the quote above says this could be a nice option when you just need a place to temporarily dump some data you’re working with. Simply grab a BOX_ID from the homepage and then POST away: curl -X POST 'https://jsonbox.io/$BOX_ID' \ -H 'content-type: application/json' \ -d '{"name": "Schrute", "position": "Assistant (to the) Regional Manager"}'
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This in-beta feature should be stolen by all browser DevTools teams. Such a great idea!
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nve differentiates itself from nvm run because it: can be run programmatically is 10 times faster does not need a separate installation step for each Node version works on Windows does not require Bash is installed as a Node module Worth noting: this is not a full-on replacement for nvm or any other version manager. It only executes a single command with the specified Node version. But sometimes, that’s all you need. 😄
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Ignition offers you a beautiful, customizable error page. It also allows you to share your errors to Flare publicly. If configured with a valid Flare API key, it will send errors to a project in your Flare account.
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{ "How to use": "Paste your JSON here and press Ctrl+Enter to format!", "Help": "Check the console for errors if it fails to parse.", "Themes": "Toggle dark/light theme with Ctrl+B", "Share": "Print a shareable URL to the console with Ctrl+L", "Source": "View the source on GitHub at https://github.com/kritzware/json", "Info": "Press Ctrl+I at anytime for a reminder of these instructions" } Built with Nuxt.js.
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Victor Zhou uses a lot of SVGs on his blog. Do you? So now he optimizes their size as part of his build process. Do you? 62 SVGs minified, reducing the total size from 459322 bytes to 208897 bytes, a reduction of 54.5%! That’s a total of 250 KB, or 4 KB per SVG. Keep in mind that all of my SVGs were already saved in the Optimized SVG format - these savings were on top of already optimized SVGs. If you haven’t thought about minifying your SVGs before, chances are you’d see much more drastic results.
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xLayers is a web app which aims to bridge the gap between designers and developers. Its mission is to allow both the design and development worlds to collaborate and iterate fast. Upload your Sketch file and you will get the code generated for your favorite framework of choice (React, Vue, Angular, LitHtml, Stencil and even Xamarin Forms…and more to come).
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OctoSQL is a SQL query engine which allows you to write standard SQL queries on data stored in multiple SQL databases, NoSQL databases and files in various formats trying to push down as much of the work as possible to the source databases, not transferring unnecessary data. OctoSQL does that by creating an internal representation of your query and later translating parts of it into the query languages or APIs of the source databases. Whenever a datasource doesn’t support a given operation, OctoSQL will execute it in memory, so you don’t have to worry about the specifics of the underlying datasources. If you like writing SQL, you’ll probably like OctoSQL.
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A dev tool for microservice developers that run local applications and/or forward some others from Kubernetes or over SSH
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I’ve been tinkering with different startup ideas and needed a good checklist to think through them. There are great templates for this already: The YC application, Amazon’s internal press release, and Sequoia’s Writing a Business Plan. I found myself mixing and tweaking these templates because they don’t exactly match my model of the world, so I wrote up my own list. These are great questions to ask yourself when you’re dreaming up an open source project as well.
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This looks great for quickly seeing the structure of a JSON object without all the scrolling. Pretty cool that the output is valid JS so you can copy/paste it to other places as well.
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Enter a user/repo combo and let gh-card.dev generate a nice-lookin’ repo card in SVG and PNG formats.
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A simple, searchable website that tracks End of Life dates! File this under “things I didn’t know I wanted but now can’t live without”. Contribute by opening a PR on GitHub.
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Cloud lock-in isn’t an issue until it is — “any amount of backups are just more eggs in the same basket if everything is under one account.” Most of the popular one-click server providers (including DigitalOcean, as well as Linode, Vultr, and OVH) provide their own backup offerings for an additional monthly cost (usually proportional to your plan). But as Nicolas learned the hard way, any amount of backups are just more eggs in the same basket if everything is under one account with one credit card on one provider. Luckily, crafting a DIY automated backup system using a second redundant storage provider isn’t as daunting (nor as expensive) as it might sound. The following steps are how I backup my various VPSes to a totally separate cloud in the sky. Jake Jarvis writes on his personal blog how to backup various VPS’s to a totally separate cloud provider.
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The 2.0 release of Github Desktop shipped yesterday. Here’s a quick breakdown of what’s new… You can resolve merge conflicts more easily, co-author commits to share credit with others, and check out your GitHub pull requests. And with the 2.0 release, rebasing and stashing are now also supported on GitHub Desktop—the two most requested features.
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SwiftUI didn’t get as much air time as the new Mac Pro and its ridiculous (in multiple ways) 6K display, but looking back at Apple’s 2019 announcements, SwiftUI might end up being the most profound of them all. If you want to cut straight to some working code and an XCode project that uses the brand new UI framework, check out the linked repo.
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Notational Velocity is a note-taking app where searching for a note and creating one are the same operation. You search for a query, and if no note matches, it creates a new note with that query as the title. Fans of NV (and nvALT) will love this Vim plugin.
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I 💚 youtube-dl, but I use it just infrequently enough that I can NOT remember which flags to use. I guess I’m not the only one!
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This tool aims to go above & beyond what MDN and caniuse have accomplished by automating the generation of the compatibility tables for others to use. Access to the output is programmatic, which scales to more developers via tooling such as static analyzers. Click through for a deep-dive on how it works (spoiler: browserstack is involved) and how Amila optimized its required test executions by 95%.
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ICYMI — late Friday afterrnoon GitHub held a live event to announce the beta launch of GitHub Package Registry. GitHub Package Registry is fully integrated with GitHub, so you can use the same search, browsing, and management tools to find and publish packages as you do for your repositories. You can also use the same user and team permissions to manage code and packages together. GitHub Package Registry provides fast, reliable downloads backed by GitHub’s global CDN. And it supports familiar package management tools: JavaScript (npm), Java (Maven), Ruby (RubyGems), .NET (NuGet), and Docker images, with more to come. You can sign up for the beta here.
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Inspired by the Windows 95 era PowerToys project, this reboot provides power users with ways to squeeze more efficiency out of the Windows 10 shell and customize it for individual workflows. A great overview of the Windows 95 PowerToys can be found here. This is a star-it-for-later post, since the repo won’t contain the source code until “Summer 2019”.
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No one likes to spend the day setting up and recreating the config of their text editor of choice. If you use VS Code and Settings Sync you won’t have to. Paige Niedringhaus writes: This article will show you how to perfectly recreate your Visual Studio Code IDE settings without starting over from scratch and spending hours on it. When faced with the possibility of losing (or even trying to transfer) my carefully developed VS Code setup to another machine, I knew there had to be a way to do it gracefully. I just knew the solution had to be out there, and so, I asked the internets, and it brought back Settings Sync.
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Themer takes your favorite colors and generates themes for your editor, terminal, Slack, browser, desktop wallpaper, and more. It even has a PWA UI for visual theme development as well as a CLI for automation/integration with your dotfiles repo.
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