What happened last week - issue #61
This week: Cloudflare, SQLite,Angular and more
What happened last week
A week before, I mentioned that layoffs are happening and I may be affected by them. I’m still not sure about my future, but during the last week, thanks to the huge help of others, I managed to find some opportunities that made me feel better about my future.
Apart from this - today, together with Alvaro, we’ll be doing a stream about TresJS.
Interesting links
Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage — Matthew Prince
It wasn’t the best week for Cloudflare - they experienced two major outages, which affected millions of users worldwide. On the other hand - their Post Mortems after each outage are amazing - they always explain what and why happened and how they plan to fix it. Every company should implement such an approach.
Why you should probably be using SQLite — Kent C. Dodds
Kent explains why going with SQLite, in many cases, can be a great idea. Not only it’s fast, it’s still SQL, but also it’s just a file, so moving it around is much simpler. There are some downsides, but in most cases, the pros outweigh the cons.
Announcing Angular.dev — Emma Twersky
It was a great week for Angular - they showed the new branding, documentation, and today, Angular v17 was released.
I must admit that I love the new colors and logo - it’s less corporate and more cool.
How Core Web Vitals saved users 10,000 years of waiting for web pages to load
It is great to see how Chrome helps make the web faster with features like back/forward cache, prerendering, and more.
htmx has a JavaScript API, btw - Ben Croker
Ben explains why HTMX is so cool and what you can achieve using it.
Was Rust Worth It? — Jarrod Overson
Jarrod shares his thoughts about switching to Rust. He points out all the good, the bad, and the ugly.
I’m a sucker for testing new CMSs. VaahCMS looks quite interesting; it’s headless, and it’s written in PHP - that's a lot of green flags for me. Can’t wait to test 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