Announcing the Netlify Composable Web Platform — the foundation for companies looking to modernize their web architecture to ship faster, reduce risk, and drive higher revenue.
Rust for JavaScript Developers: An Overview of Testing
This article explores how you can test a web application in Rust and compares it to the way you would do it in JavaScript - covering unit tests, integration tests and API testing as well as mocking.
What I learned building an audio plugins system for the web
About a month ago I released an app I’d been working on for awhile, Volca Sampler. If you visit the app you might be a bit confused, but among the niche group of folks who own a KORG volca sample hardware sample synthesizer, this app has been very well-received. It embeds KORG’s open-source C library for transferring audio data to the volca sample, making it much easier to load one’s own sounds onto the device.
Seamless. Consistent. High performance. High fidelity. These are a few of the many things the modern web can deliver. Check out https://thewebshowcase.withgoogle.com to see what the platform can do today. #TheWebCan
Transition from monolithic to monorepo architectures with Vercel. Explore feature flags for safe releases, incremental builds for quick iterations, and skew protection for version consistency to ease codebase management and speed up development.
The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software is Unsustainable
It’s 11:43pm on a Monday night. My 6-week-old son is asleep in my office so my wife can get some uninterrupted rest for the first half of the night. He’s finally asleep now, and I probably should be also after a full day of work. But I’m not done for the day. Even though I’m a software engineer by trade, I’m also a computer programmer by hobby and passion. So I do what I’ve been doing for well over a decade now: I boot up my computer to write some code.
I’ve had a sneaking suspicion for a whle that OKRs - as in Objectives and Key Results - are in fact clever device deployed by Google 1 to throw startups off track.
The appeal of OKRs is in their perceived simplicity: any problem large, or small, organizational or technical, made solvable by careful setting of O’s and KR’s.2
It never plays out as promised: a few cycles deep into OKRs will leave startups wondering why they’re so dumb they can’t implement what seems like a pretty simple system.
Originally published July 2015 In 2002, Professor Enrico Zaninotto, Dean of Economics at the University of Trento, gave a keynote at the Extreme Programming conference. It was the clearest technical talk I have ever seen, even though it was delivered by a non-programmer in an unfamiliar language. What set the talk apart was the clarity and depth of the thought behind it.
This is a little negative-nancy-ish, so if you aren’t feeling that right now — just close this tab 😜. It struck me recently how this list of plugins I saw in the 2023 Annual WordPress…
On Sunday, March 6, we migrated we converted more than 3.7 million lines of code with a single pull request. The next day, hundreds of engineers came in to start writing TypeScript for their projects.