What happened last week

I’m still in Spain, and I’m still enjoying the weather. I never thought I would say it was too hot at the beginning of March. I really enjoy facing problems like this. While it’s not that easy finding good places with coffee, it’s still possible:

This week also wasn’t too productive for me regarding additional things I did. I’m instead using this time to spend as much time outside as possible. But I found some time to send my speech topic to some upcoming conferences.

Interesting links

Build the web you want

Astro released a new website this week. First of all, it looks really cool, but it’s also full of interesting features. For example, check what happens if you right-click on Astro’s logo in the navigation.

You Don't Need a Build Step — Andy Jiang

A very interesting approach explaining that maybe we don’t need a build step in our applications. It’s really worth reading.

Could we make the web more immersive using a simple optical illusion? — Spatial Commerce Projects

This article shows a fantastic technique demonstrated once by Johnny Lee. This technique allows us to create the illusion of VR without using VR hardware. All you need is a webcam and some spare time. Overall, the effect is mindblowing.

OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit — Chloe Xiang

The title is quite self-explanatory in this case. And it’s hard not to agree with many of the statements. Overall, AI is introduced in so many aspects of our lives that we really should have the algorithm open to fully understand why AI gives some types of answers.

Using Playwright to Monitor Third-Party Resources That Could Impact User Experience — Stefan Judis

In Poland, most people use AdBlock. And I fully understand why. Sometimes using AdBlocks may cause a problem with the way how your website works because it will block some resource that either was tightly connected with the rest of the website or it was a false positive. Stefan explains how to test such cases using Playwritght.

The JavaScript site generator review, 2023 — Zach Leatherman

Zach compares many JS frameworks based on how many MB of node_modules they download, what is the initial JS size, etc. There is also an interesting section about telemetry.

Learn how to rescue legacy software 🕸️ — Richard Spindler

In the upcoming Code and Coffee episode, together with Richard Spindler, we'll explain what you can do with legacy software. Should you leave it as it is or maybe completely rewrite it?

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