Articles and book I enjoy.
Become a generalist now
IC work is the new career flex elenaverna.com The rise of the High-impact Individual Contributor (HI-C!)Becoming a skilled individual contributor is the next thing, as AI lets one person ship end-to-end. This shift increases the value of a self-propelled coder who also understands strategy, sales and operations.
Time zones: It's not just «use UTC, man»
UTC is Enough for Everyone, Right? zachholman.com Programming with dates, times, and timezones is hard. But here's some help.
«Hi. This is my first time at Developers Anonymous. My name is Tomas, I'm a coder and I've built a calendar»... Time zones are f***ing hard. The last 6 months I've reported and fixed bugs in Moment, dayjs, date-fns-tz and React Aria.
No more CSS-in-JS
Why We're Breaking Up with CSS-in-JS dev.to Hi, I'm Sam — software engineer at Spot and the 2nd most active maintainer of Emotion, a...
A foreshadowing about stitches, emotion and styled components dying off, and tailwind becomes emperor.
State of JS 2022
State of JavaScript 2022 2022.stateofjs.com The 2022 edition of the annual survey about the latest trends in the JavaScript ecosystem.
Superb stats on the state of JavaScript. TLDR: NextJS still nice, Svelte is great, and watch Solid. Vite or Turbopack replaces Webpack. Playwright replaces Cypress. Turborepo replaces Lerna.
React Query, the complete tutorial
Practical React Query tkdodo.eu Let me share with you the experiences I have made lately with React Query. Fetching data in React has never been this delightful...
Comprehensive, well-written writeup of React Query. I've learned a lot about my favourite data fetching library.
The Grug Brained Developer
Hilarious text, just to the point on why thinking stupid about code is being very smart. HARD RECOMMEND.
No rules rules
Hastings and Meyer sold me on talent density, candid feedback, and letting employees make the calls.
How will you measure your life? 🤔
Christensen wears his values on the outside. Job to be done, plus a framework for not wrecking the rest of your life.
The effective engineer 👍
Keep leverage in the back of your mind: value produced over time invested. Read this if you ship digital products.
Blitzscaling pt. 2: Management
How a company feels as it grows from 10 to 100, and the odd rules that keep it from falling apart.
Blitzscaling pt. 1
Splurge money to grow insanely fast. Only do it when speed into the market is the whole game.
A Prettier JavaScript Formatter
While ESLint eliminated the need for people to talk about code conventions, Prettier can eliminate the need for people to think about code formatting. 10 000 thumbs up! I will never work for a company without autoformatting again.