What happened last week - issue #31
This week: Astro, Fake GitHub Stars, PHP and more.
What happened last week
I’m back in Poland again, and of course, all the hell broke loose on so many fronts that it’s even hard to describe. At least the weather was good enough to start the cycling season.
On the work front, I’m happy that I got back to writing on my blog (check out this fun article), and I already have some exciting ideas for the future.
Interesting links
Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market with Dagster, dbt and BigQuery — Dagster
GitHub stars very often help us check if the repository we are using is popular enough to use in our project. It also builds trust. That’s why the moral of this article is quite sad. There are developers who decided to build trust by cheating.
Buying a bicycle using Playwright — Maciek Palmowski
“I’m buying a bicycle using e2e testing and CI/CD tools” is like “saying that you are a developer without saying you are a developer”. What’s most important - I did buy my bike this way :)
Why content management systems can outperform static site generators — Dries Buytaert
He’s ain't wrong, you know? A good caching policy and the front end written with performance in mind can do amazing things. Like always - it’s all about picking the best tool for the job and knowing what you are doing.
Announcing Pest 2.0 — Nuno Maduro
Pest 2 testing framework is here. There are many new features, and it is so blazing fast. Congrats to the whole team for all the hard work.
Avoiding one-liners in PHP — Andreas Möller
Andreas explains why sometimes it’s better not to use all those smart one-liners in PHP. And I totally agree with this. In terms of maintaining, writing a bit more “dumb-looking” code is better.
Docker is deleting Open Source organizations - what you need to know — Alex Ellis
Look no further if you are looking for the worst way to interact with the Open Source movement. Docker failed on so many levels just with one decision.
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