🚀 Leading GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition

It’ll mirror user interactions across 30+ devices and give you a single element inspector so you can make and inspect changes in one fell swoop. (Built with Electron.)

Max Mulatz:

This is a call for solidarity and a love letter to good commit messages. Read this to find out why it’s worth to care about commit messages and how to get better at writing them.

Every 10 years there is a changing of the guard in JavaScript. I think we have just started a period of accelerated change that could in future be regarded as the Third Age of JavaScript.

Looks interesting. Would you use this?

Searches a curated subset of the web: official docs and community-driven sources. No JS, cookies, tracking, external requests or data collecting.

There’s lots of feedback from Rakhim (the creator) and commentary on Lobsters too.

This repository contains the examples, exercises, and quizzes for my Go course: Learn Go Programming: Complete Bootcamp Course. However, even without the course, using this repository, you can learn a great deal of information about Go. Inside, there are thousands of examples, exercises and quizzes.

You’re welcome to contribute your own exercises, quizzes and wiki.

Itamar Turner-Trauring:

Even if you job is secure now, who knows what the future holds? Especially these days, it helps to be prepared. Learn some quick techniques to help make your future job search easier: knowing more people, upgrading your skills, getting public evidence of your skills, plus fallback planning for peace of mind.

XP.css started as a fork of 98.css (a fun project started by Jordan Scales) and is now trying to boilerplate the GUI to be able to theme it easily.

If you want to make a theme or contribute i’d love to see where you can take this!

This is great but why’d they skip 2000.css?! (the best Windows version 😜)

Dan Norris shared nine reasons why business ideas fail. This coupled with this recent advice from Tim Ferriss on being a specialist or a generalist is golden 💰

The startup community likes to glorify failure but I don’t. Failing sucks. Failing slow sucks infinitely more. That’s why it’s OK sometimes to give up, to free you up to move onto an idea that could bring you something that the startup community doesn’t talk about near as much: actual fulfillment and success.

Here is a list of things to look out for when things might be set for failure. These are based on my failures and the failures I’ve seen around my circles (mostly self-funded online business folk).

You can get it on the App Store, but it is the author’s first foray into SwiftUI so you may be best served using it to learn as well.

Have you ever wished you had a no-frills, word-processing desktop app dedicated to just Google Drive? Annoyed at having to click the Go to My Drive button everytime you visit https://drive.google.com? Want a Microsoft Word-esque experience for your Google Drive? Or simply looking to separate Google Drive from the other bajillion tabs that you opened for your research paper? Look no further!

I appreciate efforts like this because while I love web apps, I don’t always love running them in my web browser.

Some of us never left, but for those who did… it is most definitely time to return to the good ole’ days. Why is it more important now than ever? Disintermediation, that’s why.

It was a direct connection between creators and consumers. By adding someone’s feed to your RSS reader you were saying, “Yes, I’d like to subscribe to your interpretation of reality.”

By curating the feeds in your reader, you were curating your view of the world. And that was made up of hundreds or thousands of individual voices.

Minimal CSS “frameworks” are on the rise. There are so many of them now that it’s hard to compare apples to apples. This’ll help.

This is a quick drop-in CSS switcher to allow for previewing some of the many minimal CSS-only frameworks that are available. See the demo or drop the switcher into your own page to see how different frameworks would look together with your content.

This project only includes minimal frameworks, in other words, boilerplate / classless frameworks that require no adjustment of the corresponding HTML and can be simply dropped into the project to provide a starting point for further design. No additional javascript, compiling, pre-processors, or fiddling with classes should be required for these to look good and be responsive.

The best satire hits close to $HOME:

As we’ve mentioned in previous blog posts, the $FAMOUS_COMPANY backend has historically been developed in $UNREMARKABLE_LANGUAGE and architected on top of $PRACTICAL_OPEN_SOURCE_FRAMEWORK. To suit our unique needs, we designed and open-sourced $AN_ENGINEER_TOOK_A_MYTHOLOGY_CLASS, a highly-available, just-in-time compiler for $UNREMARKABLE_LANGUAGE.

Pairs nicely with this tweet of ours from a few months back.

This year marks five years of Rust. On the Rust blog they reflect back on all the major changes since 1.0.

Rust has changed a lot these past five years, so we wanted to reflect back on all of our contributors’ work since the stabilization of the language.

When Rust turned 1.0 you could count the number of companies that were using it in production on one hand. Today, it is being used by hundreds of tech companies with some of the largest tech companies such as Apple, Amazon, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft choosing to use Rust for its performance, reliability, and productivity in their projects.

This thread from Tobias Lütke (CEO of Shopify) on Twitter…talks about digital by default, a unified work experience, WFH setup, empathy, company culture, change, and silver linings.

As of today, Shopify is a digital by default company. We will keep our offices closed until 2021 so that we can rework them for this new reality. And after that, most will permanently work remotely. Office centricity is over.

Until recently, work happened in the office. We’ve always had some people remote, but they used the internet as a bridge to the office. This will reverse now. The future of the office is to act as an on-ramp to the same digital workplace that you can access from your #WFH setup.

He goes on to say…

We haven’t figured this whole thing out. There is a lot of change ahead, but that is what we’re good at. “Thrive on change” is written on our (now digital) walls for a reason.