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Breaking (and not so Breaking) News.

Thought I'd extend the content here a bit with something not always React and JS related, but still within the IT industry.

Let's see if it works out. If not.. Well I just won't post it 😂 easy peasy.

Let's start with this:

Bloomberg: Russian Hackers attacked 200 companies and got its customers data.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-02/russia-linked-group-hacks-about-200-businesses-with-ransomware

Disclaimer: ^ completely irrelevant to me being busy recently and not posting much

Nice Parallax effect with text change on scroll

https://codepen.io/creativeocean/pen/qBbBLyB

Oh please 😒 50 completions per day are you serious?

Codepilot - it's your turn now

Recoil

If you want a simple yet powerful state management for React and would rather avoid Redux boilerplate, Recoil is perfect.

Also helps if you don't want to create your own state management with Hooks or Context.

https://recoiljs.org/

Enjoy 🔥

Animation

Been using this boy for some time now - absolute pleasure to work with. Also still a fan of Framer Web as design tools especially if you can get your UI lib on it. Simplifies prototyping quite well.

https://www.framer.com/motion/

Have an awesome week ahead people! Less bugs, more cool stuff to you 🔥

Typescript in 5 minutes?

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/typescript-in-5-minutes.html

Glassmorphism generator

That's it guys, that's what we've all been waiting for.

Curios to see all your cool super modern ultra-beautiful UIs now.

Enjoy 🔥

https://ui.glass/generator/

Doesn't look too unusable 👍 apart of the blending "see all" but that's probably due to the similar colors with the background

That's probably the only decent use case of glassmorphism where it works well.

Don't think I'd want glassy Uber or Airbnb to use to be honest

Those who were asking on how to find a job, there is an interesting service relocate.me that might be useful to some

What you'll find inside:

✅ Dev jobs, including frontend roles, with verified employers in Europe, Asia, and North America who are ready to help out with your move

✅ Relocation stories

✅ Tips on international job search, salary negotiation, resume preparation, and more

They also have a channel in telegram @relocateme

So, Google went in and updated their emojis "to make it more universal and applicable to everyone" 🤷‍♂️

https://blog.google/products/android/emoji-day-redesign-easier-sharing/

I'm a bit two minded here, do you think it's better or worse?

Ooo so Slack added this nice and cool quick voice calls, which is super useful

Can share screen and draw on it together with the team

Useful especially when you just need to quickly discuss something and don't have to worry about creating a meeting, calendar invite etc

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/help/articles/115004846068-Slack-updates-and-changes

npm audit is broken

An interesting (and quite spicy) article from Dan Abramov on a npm audit vs those react scripts 😂

https://overreacted.io/npm-audit-broken-by-design/

Super interesting article from Jake Archibald on something you kinda know

That's to shine on your next interview

📖 Read time: 14 min
🔗 Link: https://jakearchibald.com/2021/export-default-thing-vs-thing-as-default/

Safari is the new IE

To continue this thread, our comrade @SrZorro shared a great article that explains some of the main devs complains towards Safari.

Some of them makes proper sense, eg Apple is operating within oligopoly (almost monopoly) in regards to apps, so slowing down amazing future and opportunities (my subjective opinion) of PWAs is on their long term radar.

^ and thats just one thing, which is already quite bad for pretty much everyone but Apple - developers, entrepreneurs and most importantly users.

Anyhow.

⌚ ~4 min
🔗 https://blog.perrysun.com/2021/07/15/for-developers-safari-is-crap-and-outdated/

Cursor morphing

An example of simulating iOS morphing cursor in Web. Not entirely sure why someone would use it on desktop, but looks good as an experiment.

Definitely grabs user's attention.

https://codepen.io/VoloshchenkoAl/pen/oNzgNjM

Roadmap on how to master Java

Patterns

While you think I'm dead and never gonna post again, allow me to share this

https://www.getrevue.co/profile/rwieruch/issues/react-patterns-concepts-650084

An educated list of React patterns that some of which might not seem to obvious like why using useReducer over useState

Read ⌚: 11 minute

2021 SO Developer Survey results

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021

Overview:

This year, for example, we observed a significant evolution in the way developers educate themselves. For the rising cohort of coders under the age of 18, online resources like videos and blogs are more popular than books and school combined, a statistic that doesn’t hold for any of our other age cohorts. Overall, the profession is full of new joiners, with more than 50% indicating they have been coding for less than a decade, and more than 35% having less than five years in the trade.