What happened last week - issue #47

This week: WordCamps, performance, AI and more

What happened last week

The heat in Poland right now is horrible. It makes me totally less productive. Also, I feel that I need some time off.

I also discovered one magical place I would love to visit on my bike - The Scottish North Coast 500. You can learn more about it in the video below. I would love to ride it at some point in my life.

Interesting links

Are WordCamps affordable for everyone? — Maciek Palmowski

WordCamp tickets are cheap, but does it mean the event is affordable? Maybe making it a bit more expensive would make it easier to organize? I have decided to write a bit about this.

Is Lighthouse a misleading performance tool? — Rob OLeary

Rob wrote a great piece about Lighthouse. I won’t lie - I also have a problem with Lighthouse - it’s a great tool for debugging and removing some errors, but most users are just interested in the score.

Discover Front Matter CMS, a Headless CMS Extension for VS Code — Mayumi Hara

Mayumi wrote an amazing introduction to FrontMatter CMS. If you haven’t had a chance to try it, then you should. It’s really great if you use Markdown on your website.

New Viewport Units — Ahmad Shadeed

Thanks to Ahmad, I learned about new units in CSS - the svh, lvh and dvh. They can be very useful, especially if you are designing for mobile. I wish those were available a few years ago.

Localization of Visual Studio Code Extensions — Elio Struyf

I’m always interested in how different languages, frameworks, or CMSs handle the aspect of internationalization. Thanks to Elio, I discovered how it happens in Visual Studio Code extensions.

How to Kickstart an Automated Test Suite When There Are 0 Tests Written - Zvonimir Sabljic

This is quite amazing. Pythagora is a tool that writes unit tests for you (thanks to AI). It can be a groundbreaking tool, especially for those who either inherited a big project without any tests or have problems starting. Can’t wait to see how this project will grow and for clones of it in different languages.

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