Links from 2019

Imagine you’re a developer who mainly works with Go. You go to an event and, while chatting with some people, you decide to share with them the news that you…

PLAID ˇ WHAT MAKES PLAID? A Share WHAT MAKES PLAID? WORDS AND INTERVIEW: JOE MUGGS IMAGES: ED HANDLEY AND ANDY TURNER 3619 WORDS, 00:18:00 k READ NOW It's now…

Yesterday my niece stepped on her first nail. She survived. And I know she survived because I got this text from my sister: Survived Rae’s first nail through…

<blockquote>A network of ethical co-operatives providing technology, digital and creative services.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The network for thousands of co-operative businesses, Co‑operatives UK works to promote, develop and unite member-owned business</blockquote>

I'm in love with these lists of "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About X ." In case you haven't had pleasure, I've collected all the ones I know of here. If I…

What I’m wondering is this: can a simple act of attention be called political? Given the state we’re in, given the grotesque high-handedness of our so-called…

Private Sector IR35 Reform How contractors can prepare for 2020 private sector IR35 reform Most PSC contractors know by now that from April 6th next year, they…

2019-03 I worked at Stripe for 3+ years, mostly as an engineering manager. The experience taught me a lot. In a few respects though Stripe totally changed my…

This article first appeared in Irish Pages . This afternoon I took the dog and went down Gardens Road to the waterside, to enjoy the view northward over the…

At Figma, we recently tackled one of our biggest engineering challenges yet: supporting plugins. Our plugins API enables third-party developers to run code…

Creating a faithful online reproduction of a book considered one of the most beautiful and unusual publications ever published is a daunting task. Byrne’s…

C HARLES HANDY has been through a lot of challenges in a long career as a manager at Royal Dutch Shell, an oil giant, followed by a spell in academia and…

how best to embed youtube on your site, specifically to avoid the amount of scripts and tracking that's sent over the wire to your visitor.

...and support IE11.

Native lazy-loading for the web Browser-level native lazy-loading is finally here! Aug 6, 2019 Houssein Djirdeh GitHub Glitch Addy Osmani Twitter Glitch Mathias…

NIKA:\ > list Introducing git-revise Mon 05 August 2019 · git git-revise rebase At Mozilla I often end up building my changes in a patch stack, and used…

Meet Lefthook , the fastest polyglot Git hooks manager out there, and make sure not a single line of unruly code makes it into production. See how easy it is to…

Since the React hooks API was introduced, a lot of questions have risen about whether or not React hooks will replace Redux. In my view, there is little overlap…

<blockquote>The final step — and the most important one for our purposes — was to create a modern-only version of Slack that would start out incomplete but gradually work its way toward feature completeness as modules and interfaces were modernized.</blockquote>

Russell Davies's strategy advice 08 July 2019 Last year, I met the excellent Russell Davies to ask his advice on how to create a strategy. Russell was the…

Defaulting to a scrollable presentation-style walkthrough works really well.

What are Gatsby themes? Using a Gatsby theme, all of your default configuration (shared functionality, data sourcing, design) is abstracted out of your site,…

This website replays the Apollo 11 mission as it happened, 50 years ago. It consists entirely of historical material, all timed to Ground Elapsed Time--the master mission clock. Footage of Mission Control, film shot by the astronauts, and television broadcasts transmitted from space and the surface of the Moon, have been painstakingly placed to the very moments they were shot during the mission, as has every photograph taken, and every word spoken.

A remarkable reconstruction of the first Moon landing.