Welcome to my Weekly Digest #16, which is the last one for April.
This weekly digest contains a lot of interesting and inspiring articles, videos, tweets, podcasts, and designs I consumed during this week.
Interesting articles to read
How I Built My Blog
An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how Josh uses Next's API routes to implement my hit and like counters, how he uses MDX to add interaction and customization, and how he organizes his codebase, among others.
As someone who loves and works with CSS on an almost daily basis, DevTools are something near and dear to your heart. Recently, Chen has been seeing updates from both the Webkit and Chrome team about updates to layout-related DevTools features
Reveal testing weakspots in your JavaScript code with Jest Coverage
If you've ever been stuck on what tests to write for your code, Jest's coverage reports can be a great tool for showing what sections of your codebase are not tested yet. It becomes even more powerful when used in combination with Continuous Integration (CI), as it can be automated and even block pull requests from merging, which we'll show in this video.
Visual Regression Testing with Storybook's Chromatic
When building a design system or component UI it becomes more and more difficult to catch visual bugs as the project scales. This is especially true when changing one component affects other components that use it, and QA doesn't know to check every component it's related to.
Visual regression testing is an extra layer of security there, and Storybook's Chromatic is the most polished one I have tried. So let's set a new project up and show off some of the features Chromatic offers.
In today’s GUI challenge, Adam Argyle will be responding to your comments for the first 30 minutes after the episode releases. Connect with us here, ask questions, or submit your own code!
In this episode Jake and Surma chat about interviewing for web dev roles, drawing on their good and bad experiences as candidates, and mistakes they've made as interviewers. Covering prep, probing questions, coding tasks, and rating candidates.
This is an art project, not a software tool for music creation. I consider it to be finished, and as such I will likely not be accepting feature requests or feature-driven PRs. Please feel encouraged to fork the project and do something else with it if you would like - I love to see further creative work built on top of it.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. I am aware that this is an unusual choice for code, but it reflects its status as an art project. IANAL, so I'm not sure how this stands up legally, but in my mind this…
When browsing the internet looking for a good solution to RSA Javascript
encryption, there is a whole slew of libraries that basically take the fantastic
work done by Tom Wu @ http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/jsbn/ and then
modify that code to do what they want.
What I couldn't find, however, was a simple wrapper around this library that
basically uses the library practically untouched, but adds a wrapper to provide parsing of
actual Private and Public key-pairs generated with OpenSSL.
This library is the result of these efforts.
How to use this library.
This library should work hand-in-hand with openssl. With that said, here is how to use this library.
Within your terminal (Unix based OS) type the following.
openssl genrsa -out rsa_1024_priv.pem 1024
This generates a private key, which you can see by doing the following...
cat rsa_1024_priv.pem
You can then copy and paste this in the Private Key…
The CSS Podcast: Paths, shapes, clipping and masking
Paths, shapes, clipping, masking, oh my! There’s so much you can do with CSS shapes — from creating transition effects to creating interesting and organic typographic layouts. In this episode, we dive into how to wrangle shape effects in CSS.
Container Queries
Hasty Treat - Container Queries Are Here
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about CSS container queries, what they are and how to use them.
Matt Pinner - Software Engineer at Amazon
Matt and David talk about building your community, finding passion in your freelance work, and utilizing your professional experience to grow your career.
Thank you for reading, talk to you next week, and stay safe! 👋
