What happened last week
It was a hectic week. But I managed to achieve a lot. On the flip side, I had to postpone writing this newsletter.
I finished recording my talks for the Warsaw IT Days. Recording things like this was always a bit problematic for me, but finally, I learned to approach this differently. It took me a while to learn that making a mistake, doing a pause, and continuing is a possibility.
Apart from this, It was an amazing week for me at the Daily.dev:
my post about Astro DB was submitted there
one of the posts that I submitted got 100+ upvotes
I know what my offline DevCard will look like
Also, finally, we managed to publish the new Patchstack documentation. You can check it out here.
BTW, I found this amazing cafe in Lodz - it combines two of my favorite hobbies - coffee and cycling.
Interesting links
State of WordPress Security In 2024
Patchstack, together with Sucuri, published a whitepaper regarding WordPress security. I recommend reading this, as you’ll find a lot of interesting information. While the number of discovered vulnerabilities looks scary, we can also see that the core is secure.
On Developer Marketing — Lee Robinson
Great article by Lee about marketing for developers. It shows how much developer marketing differs from enterprise one.
PHP in 2024 — Brent Roose
Brent summed up what PHP look like in 2024. A lot of things are changing and evolving. It's also really cool to see how many people re-discover PHP and find out it’s quite cool.
Integrate Fuse.js with Statamic — Arlind Musliu
Fuse.js is a cool library that helps you integrate fuzzy search on your site. Adlind explains how to use it together with Statamic.
Atlassian open-sourced their package responsible for drag&drop. The same that is used on Jira or Trello. Kudos for this.
The story of billion downloads
Spatie is famous because of the quality (and quantity) of PHP and Laravel packages they created. They are also, slowly reaching the point of 1 billion downloads of them. It’s not an easy achievement. Great job.
The Single Language Productivity Myth — Mirco Benthien
Mirco shared his thoughts about having one language they will be responsible both for frontend and backend. I agree with a lot of his arguments, but also looking at how JS is changing quickly having this discussion in a year or two might bring a bit different outcome.
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