Hello fellow developer, a big thank you to all who sent in their ideas how to change and improve this newsletter. Our survey is still open, and we will soon redesign this to add your wishes and take care of your concerns!
Do you feel like you can't catch up with technology?
Technology moves fast and Avdi Grimm has an interesting article on how to cope with technology FOMO. I feel the same about frameworks like React. I feel like Keith Cirkel when he says that he has no time to learn it. Maybe frameworks are just another “fad” fields of computer science that won't age well like SOAP or XHTML did. Fans of React, on the other hand even declare it it a programming language, so am I missing out? Paul Kinlan of Google goes even further and asks the question if frameworks will even matter in the future. Frankly, I've seen too many come and go to put a lot of effort in and Keith puts it nicely: “React proponents might claim that React will teach you modern UI, but from what I've seen it barely copes with modern UI.” I'd even go further and think the term "modern" needs to die. It is too fleeting, don't you think?
Deno Compile creates self-contained binaries from your JS code.
Talks and Videos
Last week we went to London to attend Halfstack and recorded all the talks there. We will release these over the next weeks, and to start with, here is my session on the plight of junior developers in an AI world. Check the video and also the article it covers.
A Tolstoy is a metric to describe texts that are overly long. It is the length of the novel War and Peace, or 587,287 words. The Amazon EULA is 1.09 Tolstoys, did you read it?
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