Community Picks·4yMaking a fast website is SUPER EASY
For a website whose goal is to convert customers by selling goods or services, the website should be attractive to look at. Images take up a huge part of the website's total size. As of August 2022, images made up on average 45% on desktop and 44% on mobile of a page’s total weight. Optimizing the images can therefore result in big and easy wins.
DEV·4yNotesnook is now open source!
Notesnook is a free (as in speech) & open source note taking app focused on user privacy & ease of use. It features 100% end-to-end encrypted sync (free & unlimited for all) encrypted attachments (unlimited storage for as low as $0.99/mo) and encrypted publishing of notes. Creating free alternatives to data "stealing"
freeCodeCamp·4yMachine Learning for Everybody
The freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel is the perfect place to start your learning journey. The course is an excellent introduction to many of the key machine learning concepts. You will also learn how to program different machine learning models on Google Collab. Google provided a grant that made this course possible.
asayer·4ySEO Tips for Next.js sites
Next.js is an open-source react framework tool created by Vercel. It enables you to use React to create server-side rendering and static web applications. Next.js has a few different techniques and APIs that developers can use to ensure we’re providing as much SEO value as possible.
asayer·4yThe Top 7 Component Libraries for React
React is one of the best JavaScript libraries for building intuitive and responsive user interfaces. Ant Design, Ant Design and Material UI are among the most popular React UI libraries. All the components in Onsen UI are auto-styled according to the platform, which means the same source code can be used for both platforms. The library is absolutely CSS-based, and there is no JavaScript functionality.
Community Picks·4ydonnemartin/system-design-primer: Learn how to design large-scale systems. Prep for the system design interview. Includes Anki flashcards.
The system design interview is an open-ended conversation. You are expected to lead it. To help solidify this process, work through the System design interview questions with solutions. Ask questions to clarify use cases, constraints, and assumptions Gather requirements and scope the problem.
RUBYLAND·4yWriting Cleaner JavaScript with Modules
Encapsulation refers to bundling related code in a single source. Encapsulation is used to restrict direct access to data and implementations of the bundled code from the code that uses them. The implementation of the functionalities is hidden, can't be manipulated by other parts of the code. A module can have only one default export, and you can omit the name of the function declaration.
Community Picks·4yWe measured the SSR performance of 6 JS frameworks - here's what we found.
We measured the SSR performance of 6 JS frameworks to choose from. All demos are public and hosted on Netlify. The results were interesting, but just like Formula 1, it was often milliseconds that separated the good from the great.
Hacker News·4yGoogle is shutting down Stadia
The service will remain live for players until January 18th, 2023. Google will be refunding all Stadia hardware purchased through the Google Store as well as all the games and add-on content purchased from the Stadia store. Stadia has been facing rumors of its demise practically from the start.
Syncfusion·4yOptimize Next.js App Bundle and Improve Its Performance
The Next.js app reduces the bundle size by 43% and increase the score to 73 from 36 in Google’s PageSpeed Insights. The First Load JS files contain framework code and the code that is used by multiple pages. The Google Ads script usually blocks the main thread, so we are going to load the script eight seconds after the page load. Initially, we were using the react-gpt package to load.
RisingStack·4yHistory of JavaScript on a Timeline
In the early 1990s, Brendan Eich was working on a project at Netscape Communications Corporation. He needed a scripting language for web pages that would be easy to use, so he created one himself. On December 15, 1994, Netscape released the Netscape Navigator 1.0 web browser.
Codemotion·4yDeveloper Books That You Should Read: a Community Driven List
A Community Driven List is a list of unmissable titles for programmers with some recommendations by our community members worldwide. Do you have a book about interesting topics for devs? Send it to us and we will publish it on this community-driven list. Send your dev book review!
Hacker News·4yMozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to use default web browsers
Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to use default web browsers. UK's competition watchdog has published a final report highlighting "substantial concerns" about the market dominance of Google and Apple. Mozilla's report accuses the big tech firms of a wide variety of different instances of malpractice.
WordPress Beginner·4y45+ Web Design Industry Statistics and Latest Trends for 2022
Currently, there are around 1.14 billion websites in the world. 17% of these websites are active, and 83% will leave a site because of outlandish colors. Only 18% of consumers look at a website’s font styles when visiting their pages for the first time.
asayer·4yThe Top 7 Component Libraries for React
React is one of the best JavaScript libraries for building intuitive and responsive user interfaces. Ant Design, Ant Design and Material UI are among the most popular React UI libraries. All the components in Onsen UI are auto-styled according to the platform, which means the same source code can be used for both platforms. The library is absolutely CSS-based, and there is no JavaScript functionality.
DZone·4yLessons Learned From Programming at Google
Hyrum Wright and Titus Winters are two of the most senior staff engineers at Google. Their book, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time, explores the engineering practices that make one of the largest codebases in the world sustainable and healthy.
Product Hunt·4yAsk Command - AI-powered app to remember those commands you always forget
Ask the app in plain English what you want to achieve, and let Open AI's GPT-3 come up with the best command for you. Ask Command is a quick way to remind you of a command you forgot, so you don't have to waste time finding it on Google.
Hacker News·4ySomeone is pretending to be me.
A person/company sets up fake Upwork profiles of real people. They apply to jobs in hopes to get an interview using that fake profile. They find victims on GitHub who are willing to go along with this. The response I got I'm not sure how to react - an apology for assuming my identity which is absolutely insane.
Golang News·4yA simple, fast container image builder for Golang applications
ko is a simple, fast container image builder for Go applications. It’s ideal for use cases where your image contains a single Go application without any/many dependencies on the OS base image. ko also includes support for simple YAML templating, which makes it a powerful tool for Kubernetes applications. The image must be pushed to Google Container Registry or Artifact Registry.
The Register·4yMozilla calls out Microsoft, Google, Apple over browsers
Mozilla calls out Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Google over browsers over browsers. Mozilla says there are alternatives, such as its open-source Firefox. Google strong-arms Android smartphone makers into bundling Google's software suite – including Chrome – and competing browsers are given the cold shoulder. This is important given the high use of both PC and mobile browsers.
