What happened last week - issue #65
This week: Headless, Jamstack, Astro and more
What happened last week
It was a really amazing week. After all the drama, I need a week when so many positive things will happen at once.
Does the name Patchstack ring a bell? If not soon you’ll probably see a bit more about it because I will be working there as a Security Community Manager. I can’t wait for the 2nd of January to get started. I’m psyched about it and I feel it will be a great ride.
Also, I finally had a chance to meet my friend Christian Dangl in real life. We talked a lot online, and we did 3 webinars, but it took us quite some time to finally meet.
Together with my lovely wife, we launched the new version of my website. I can biased but I think it looks amazing - finally. Just go to maciekpalmowski.dev to see the results.
The only thing that was a bit disappointing was the fact that PHP UK rejected my talk. BTW - if you know any conference that would be interested in a talk called “Give WordPress - it’s not as bad as you might think”, ping me :)
Interesting links
Headless ecommerce — Sergii Kirianov
It was for sure one of the most fun episodes I ever recorded. Together with Sergii, we talked about headless e-commerce. Its pros and cons. Sergii also showed some amazing examples showing what power lies in this architecture.
You don't need JavaScript for that — Kilian Valkhof
A great article showing how many things can be achieved just with HTML. While I knew some of those things, the accordion part surprised me a bit.
Astro 4.0 was released and apart from bumping the Vite version, it came with quite a lot of goodies. Also together with this release, Astro moved its documentation to the Starlight theme.
The Tension and Future of Jamstack — Zach Leatherman
Netlify was the company that crafted the term “Jamstack”. Apart from the term they were also involved in a lot of other actions connected with the community (Discord channel, conference, etc). Some time they decided to close the channel and started moving in a bit different direction. Worth reading a watching the discussion panel attached.
How we fixed my SEO — John Reilly
At some point, John’s website stopped ranking in Google. In this article, he shares, how he was able to fix it. He also shares a lot of useful tricks that most of us should probably use. I already see some ideas I will probably use on my blog.
HTMX is getting quite a lot of attention lately. If you would like to dive into this and learn some basics this article is a really nice place to start.
Psychology of Speed: A Guide to Perceived Performance — Karolina Szczur
Performance and perceived performance are two different things. I had a chance to learn it the hard way. In this article, Karolina dives a bit more into this topic and explains what affects this perceived performance the most.
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