What happened last week - issue #90

This week: Astro, WordPress, Drupal and more

What happened last week

It was a very intense week. At Patchstack we launched quite a few new things (including new Bounties and officially launching the Acadamy). It was quite a lot of work but we did it 🚀

Apart from that, not much happened - I tried to chill a bit and watch the Olympics. Rugby 7s and basketball 3x3 are still not my things. Too chaotic. On the other hand, field hockey is quite amazing. Also, the Olympics give a lot of chances to watch badminton which I love.

Interesting links

Astro for Documentation Sites: Insights After 6 Months — Maciek Palmowski

After six months of using Astro for two sites, I decided it was time to share some insights. TL;DR - it’s still great.

The Gutenberg User Experience — Brian Coords

I agree with Brian’s take here. Gutenberg should focus on power users and those users who are resisting using Gutenberg. While there is a group of users who will constantly say that TinyMCE is the best, the truth is, that Gutenberg is far from using its full potential.

Eleventy v3.0.0-beta.1: ESM like a Phoenix

Eleventy v3 Beta is out 🚀It’s smaller, faster, and better. Also, remember to support Eleventy using Open Collective. They are not backed by a huge company like Netlify or Vercel.

80% of programmers are NOT happy… why? — Fireship

Stack Overflow published their annual survey and based on this developers aren’t that happy. This movie by Fireship explains what might be the reason.

I see the biggest problem in the amount of money we earn. It’s quite a lot, we feel comfortable, etc, but on the other hand, it’s quite difficult to change our career without lowering our standards.

Drupal on the Edge with Web Assembly — Matt Glaman

Just like WordPress Playground, but for Drupal. Using WASM with CMSs opens a lot of doors. Fingers crossed.

Getting Started With Astro — Ben Holmes

Great course introduction to Astro by Ben Holmes. He starts with the basics but also dives into using Strapi and Astro together. Really amazing stuff.

How To Build A Multilingual Website With Nuxt.js — Tim Benniks

Quite a lot of CMS stuff today :D Tim wrote a great article showing how to build a multilingual website using Hygraph and Nuxt.js.

Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator

Just a bit of nostalgia :D Love this so much. And it’s written in Next.js.

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