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A deep dive on how UDP and TCP affect log delivery and what that means for your application’s complexity in delivering logs. This is a follow-up post to the one we linked to awhile back on why their team ended up with a centralized logging solution. That piece was quite popular (and quite good), so you may enjoy this one as well.

Caleb Porzio walks you through using Emmet for more than just div.foo#bar*3 type expansions. If you’ve never gone beyond that, this is ~7 minutes very well spent.

Music Time brings the power of the Spotify player to your code editor. Control your music, view and create playlists, favorite and repeat songs, and discover new music without context switching to the Spotify web or desktop app.

Music Time is free and works with VS Code, Atom, and JetBrains IDEs. Some of its features require Spotify premium, but the personalized song recommendations work with the free version of Spotify as well. It even has a cool vizualizer so you can see your most productive songs.

Command (line? I’ve never called it that) mode is indeed where much of Vim’s power lies. In this post on Thoughtbot’s blog, German Velasco explains search and replace, command repetition, ranges, and more.

Rick Nolan:

Evan You is an independent software developer and the creator of the open source JavaScript framework Vue.js. We had a chance to speak to Evan about the release of Vue 3, his opinion on no-backend & fullstack approaches, Vue.js use cases and the work-life balance of the creator of the technology.

I enjoyed reading what Anna had to say about the advice she had been given and the process she created for doing introduction one-to-one meetings with her new team.

When I joined the Financial Times as Technical Director for FT.com, I inherited a team of around 50 engineers. One of the first things I did was meet each of them for a one-to-one. I was initially resistant, but it was extremely valuable, I’m glad I did it, and I would definitely do it again in a future role. I ran each meeting in the same way. Firstly I ran through everything I planned to cover, and then stepped through it…

In which I pick on Jamstack a bit to make a larger point that we still haven’t found that Silver Bullet and we’re not going to so let’s put our thinking caps on, make sound choices, and pick the right tools for each situation.

A WSL alternative for users who prefer an MS-DOS environment. DOS Subsystem for Linux integrates a real Linux environment into MS-DOS systems, allowing users to make use of both DOS and Linux applications from the DOS command prompt

How do you ship a product on schedule? One useful mental tool is the You Ain’t Gonna Need It heuristic: leave out all the things that seem nice-to-have, but you have no proof you actually need. And when there’s things you do need, consider the follow-up heuristic: You Don’t Need It Yet.

I don’t know what would possess someone to build Battleship in Postgres, but here we have it.

Ned Batchelder:

Helping people online is difficult. We expect technical questions and discussions, but everyone involved are just people, so it doesn’t always go smoothly. There’s no way to guarantee a good outcome, but there are things we as helpers can do to improve the interactions.

Ned shares a dozen ways we can work to be more helpful online. Excellent stuff. 👌

The fallout from Mozilla’s August shake-up is beginning to land and Firefox Send has been officially shuttered. The free file sharing service was already taken offline over the summer to fend off some spear phishing attacks, but any hopes of it coming back online are now dashed.

The project’s GitHub repo continues to trend in Changelog Nightly despite its now-archived status. Why all the posthumous starring? Maybe people are quietly paying their respects for the deceased… 🤔

Headless recorder is a Chrome extension that records your browser interactions and generates a Puppeteer or Playwright script. Install it from the Chrome Webstore. Don’t forget to check out our sister project theheadless.dev, the open source knowledge base for Puppeteer and Playwright.

You may have heard of this when it was called Puppeteer Recorder, but its recent addition of Playwright support warranted a rename.

It has become even more clear to me during the era of COVID-19 that poor communication is the reason systems and relationships fail. Every time I’ve failed to get what myself, my team, or a community wanted out of an engineering team was because I neglected to communicate why and how it would be impactful to them in a digestible way.

In this post, I share a few lessons learned as a non-technical launching hardware and software products over the last decade. We’ll explore tactics and skills teams can use to communicate more effectively.

David Bryant shared the details and transition plans for WebThings as it’s being spun out of Mozilla as an independent open source project. Mozilla is “transitioning control and responsibility to the community,” and the project’s new home will be webthings.io.

Governance of the project will be passed to the community using a module ownership system independent of the Mozilla Corporation’s organisational structure, like the one used by the core Mozilla project 11. … The WebThings project will no longer be directly affiliated with the Mozilla Corporation so will stop using Mozilla trademarks and will instead operate under its own WebThings brand.