What happened last week - issue #28

This week: Astro, Serverless, accessibility and more.

What happened last week

So… I’m in Spain and enjoying the weather - it’s 15 degrees Celcius and sunny - which is perfect, especially since it’s winter.

Apart from this, my week was quite dull. I’m just doing my work and taking long walks every day.

The only unique thing I did was buy a bike, thanks to E2E tests created in Playwright. You can see those tweets where I described the process:

Maciek Palmowski (@palmiak@mas.to) @palmiak_fp

The script worked and I just ordered my bike 🎉 The moral is simple - listen to @debs_obrien advice and use @playwrightweb when you want check your bike availability.

Maciek Palmowski (@palmiak@mas.to) @palmiak_fp

I want to buy a new bike and decided to go with @canyon_bikes. Sadly I have to check occasionally if the model I want is available. While I'm subscribed to their newsletter, I don't fully trust it, and I decided to automate the process of checking using @playwrightweb 🧵

Interesting links

Build an accessible tooltip component efficiently with CSS and Vue — Maya Shavin

Maya Shavin explains how to create a tooltip component using Vue. I really like how Maya also focused on the accessibility part.

Astro JS Framework: A Practical Guide To Building Faster Websites — Mojtaba Seyedi

Mojtaba created a very thought guide about what Astro is and what are its benefits. If for some reason, you still missed what Astro is, it’s time to catch up.

Type-safe, data-driven apps, even if databases freak you out — Jason Lengstorf

A very useful tutorial. Jason shows how to use Convex for building databases. It looks really interesting, and it lands on my list of things to try soon.

Don't be fooled by serverless — David Heinemeier Hansson

If you are following David, you probably know that he isn’t a fan of cloud computing. Now he also added his opinion about serverless. While he’s a bit arrogant in his opinions, he’s not entirely wrong. It all depends on many variables. Still - it’s worth reading to understand when leaving the cloud has sense.

A Guide To Accessible Form Validation — Sandrina Pereira

Sandrina explains all the magic behind form accessibility. There is a lot of important knowledge that you always should use.

Avoiding the Hype Train with Suz Hinton, Senior Software Engineer at CrowdStrike — Suz Hinton

Another great episode of The Dev Morning Show (at night). I really enjoyed Suz talking about her way of going into IT but also about not being dogmatic. It’s really worth learning something new.

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And how was your week? Did you learn something interesting? Don’t hesitate to press the reply button or share your thoughts in the comment section.

Cheers,

Maciek