What happened last week - issue #62

This week: Layoffs,CI/CD, HTML and more

What happened last week

So, I no longer work at Kinsta. Not much more to say here. On the flip side, I’m quite optimistic about the upcoming feature. At the moment I giving myself a little break connected with doing some interviews along the way.

Last week, my lovely wife decided to share what the next version of my blog will look like - It’s truly amazing

And don’t forget about today’s episode of the Code and Coffee Show. This time, together with Przemek Hernik we’ll discuss how to use templating engines together with WordPress. Press the “remind me” button, so you won’t miss it

Interesting links

Beginner's guide to surviving layoffs — Maciek Palmowski

Inspired by the recent events, I decided to share some of my observations on how to survive a layoff. It’s not nice, nor pretty, but it’s also not the worst thing in the world. I hope my tips will help some of you.

The evolution of Buddy: Bigger, Faster, Slicker — Alexander Kus

I’m always really proud to see how Buddy keeps on changing and growing. This article sums up all their recent changes. I hope they will introduce the dark mode at some point too.

HTML First — Tony Ennis

A very interesting article about the HTML-first approach. Tonny lists that every time we build something we should start with HTML instead of relying on JS frameworks by default. I don’t fully agree with the Separation of Concerns point, but I totally understand his point of view.

Static Sites Aren't Simple Anymore — Matt Rickard

I totally agree with Matt here - static websites have become quite complicated lately. This overengineering happens on many fronts.

Astro + Qwik: Houston, we have Resumability! — Jack Shelton

Astro is amazing, and Qwik is amazing. So mixing both of them gives us an amazing^2 experience.

Simple Screen Recorder in 20 lines of JavaScript — Nino Filiu

It’s quite amazing to learn that thanks to all the modern browser APIs it’s so simple to create a screen recorder. I thought it was much more difficult and it turned out you only need 10 lines of JS.

Copilot: Weapon For Laid Back Developers — Hanka Klingová

Hanka wrote an amazing article in which she explains what is the best way to use Copilot. Especially I love the part about writing unit tests.

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