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Lars Wikman:

With Microsoft’s strong push into open source it is easy to assume that they are fully open source and that their flagship code editor and its cool LiveShare and Remote extensions are there to play nice with the wider world of free software and open source. This is not entirely the case as this post outlines.

These iconic, low-resolution designs are the perfect tool to learn the basics of physical interface design. Armed with 52 different bricks, let’s see what they can teach us about the design, layout and organisation of complex interfaces.

Nikola Đuza makes a compelling case for the powerful text editor that developers love (or love to hate):

What Vim is excellent at is navigating, making some changes, and repeating the process. The process most call editing (not to be confused with writing). Most developers tend to overlook this fact, but this is one of the strong selling points of Vim. Developers are more prone to reading code, jumping from file to file, making small incisions in the code, and writing code all the time.

Peter Ohler:

I had a dream. I’d write a fast JSON parser, generic data, and a JSONPath implementation and it would be beautiful, well organized, and something to be admired. Well, reality kicked in and laughed at those dreams.

This post lays out Peter’s plan, his journey, and his lessons learned in great details. Seems like it’d pair nicely with the recent Go Time all about JSON.

Leszek Zalewski:

The impact of COVID-19 is multifaceted. Our infrastructure team observed an exhaustion of our server resource pool for auto scaling due to a drastic traffic increase! Learn how we achieved 2× faster application run with only 1/3 of the servers by tuning auto scaling rules and switching to Puma threads.

Adam Wathan shares the backstory of Tailwind CSS, from humble beginnings to a multi-million dollar business. Thankfully, if you read the story, Nathan hated Sass enough to do something about it. Sometimes changes to our tools force us to change as well, and that change JUST MIGHT lead to scratching a multi-million dollar itch.

We’re also about to cross $2 million in revenue from Tailwind UI, our first commercial Tailwind CSS product which was released about 5 months ago — a bit under two years after the very first Tailwind CSS release.

Here’s the story from the beginning, while it’s still fresh enough to remember…

This looks like a great resource, but seems targeted at folks who’ve already dipped their toes in to the water. For first-timers, the maintainers of Rustlings suggest the official book and Rust By Example.

James Blizzard, writing for Browser London:

in my view, a number of factors are converging to make change ever more likely. Namely, the huge scale of cloud computing providers, Apple’s plans to migrate their laptop products to ARM-based processors, and the opening up of the educational space to include ARM-based systems.

There are some great thoughts from James in this article. From my vantage point, ARM is well-positioned for the short/medium-term, but RISC-V might just disrupt that for the long-term. One small piece of evidence: how Apple positioned this transition to Apple Silicon instead of to ARM.

SVG and designed on a 15x15 grid. Use ’em inline or as Sprites. Interactive preview here.

Luckysheet’s list of features is quite impressive and there’s more coming soon.

1️⃣ Value contributions to documentation just as much as code contributions
2️⃣ Put documentation and code in the same project repo
3️⃣ Make documentation a requirement for a merge or release milestone
4️⃣ Have a consistent contribution process for code and documentation
5️⃣ Have well-documented processes for contributing to documentation

That’s the TL;DR, but each of these is expanded upon in the article.

A cool mashup (remember those?) of Google’s Cloud Vision API and Repl.it’s API. You can view a demo video on the twitters.

Una Kravets does a great job explaining these 1-liners. It’s amazing what you can accomplish with very little modern CSS. See also the demo site of all the layouts.