Kraken Technologies: How we organise our very large Python monolith
By David Seddon from Kraken Technologies. Hi, I’m David, a Python developer at Kraken Technologies. I work on Kraken: a Python application which has, at last count, 27,637 modules. Yes, you read that right: nearly 28k separate Python files - not including tests. I do this along with
How to Write Commit Messages that Project Maintainers Will Appreciate
You know the saying “If you keep looking at the past, you’ll miss the future”? Well in the context of coding and working with Git, that’s not the case. Your commit history plays a huge role in the future of the open source projects that you contribute to, and
What I Wish I Knew About Working In Development Right Out Of School — Smashing Magazine
Victoria Johnson began a career in front-end development upon graduating from college. Now, roughly one year later, she reflects back on the decisions she made to crack into the field and find her first full-time job. This is her story, and she’s sharing it to provide those who are just starting out with another beginner’s perspective.
Modern frontend testing with Vitest, Storybook, and Playwright - Defined Networking
In this blog post, we’ll share why we think frontend testing is worth doing, why it had a bad reputation in the past, and the approach we have taken to make our tests easy to write and maintain.
Enforcing coding style with @vercel/style-guide | Matthew Kwong
Learn to enforce coding style with @vercel/style-guide. Uncover effective use of ESLint, Prettier, and TypeScript for improved code quality and consistency.
Discover the story behind daily.dev's transition from Preact to React for frontend development. This post explores the challenges, solutions, and benefits of migrating to React, enhancing our web app's performance and development experience.
Building the Tailwind Blog with Next.js - Tailwind CSS
One of the things we believe as a team is that everything we make should be sealed with a blog post. Forcing ourselves to write up a short announcement post for every project we work on acts as a built-in quality check, making sure that we never call a project "done" until we feel comfortable telling the world it's out there. The problem was that up until today, we didn't actually have anywhere to publish those posts!
This blog post has been on my to-do list ever since I saw Daniel Stenberg’s blog post “This is how I git” (November 2020). I thought, “I should do one of those posts, too!” This post focuses on my basic muscle-memory git commands. There are at least two other major Git subtopics this post doesn’t mention at all: “branching discipline” (what is a release branch? what’s the difference between rebase and merge?) and “hygiene” (how big should a commit be? what does a good commit message look like?). That is — as usual for this blog — we’re talking tactics, not strategy.
Passkeys: A No-Frills Explainer On The Future Of Password-Less Authentication — Smashing Magazine
Passkeys are beginning to make their way into popular apps, from password managers to multi-factor authenticators, but what exactly are they? As this new technology promises to make passwords a thing of the past, Neal Fennimore explains the concepts behind passkeys, demonstrates how they work, and speculates what we might expect from them in the future.