Tech Snacks by Passionate People

A recurring segment during our weekly company call (This week at Passionate People), is called "Tech Snacks" where we share some interesting tech updates, releases, blog posts and news from all across the web, curated specially for our team.

Passionate People Tech Snacks for Week 13, 2021

Frontend Application Bundlesđź’Ž : a bundle format for frontend applications.
Frontend Application Bundles (đź’Ž FABs) are a standard for packaging up and deploying all kinds of frontend apps, regardless of server-side technology or JS framework.
A critical look at the Pull Review process: should we pair program more?
No one wants to review pull requests. This is a sign of a deeper problem than “people aren’t following the process”
SvelteKit is in public beta
And we'd love to have your feedback
Theme Studio for VS Code
List of hacking utilities, for security research purposes
Hacking resources and cheat sheets. References, tools, scripts, tutorials, and other resources that help offensive and defensive security professionals. - Lifka/hacking-resources
Developing For Imperfect: Future Proofing CSS Styles
How do we plan future-proof styles in a world with an infinite degree of device and user ability variance? Let's explore how things can break and how modern CSS provides solutions.
Who has the fastest F1 website in 2021?
Deep-diving on the load performance of F1 websites.
How GitHub Actions renders large-scale logs
Rendering logs in a web UI might seem simple: they are just lines of plain text. However, there are a lot of additional features that make them more useful to our users.
The CSS File Size and Count Report for Bundesliga sites
In this report, we are going to focus on the size of CSS. The aim of the report is to understand how much CSS code is needed to build a site.
prefers-reduced-motion: Taking a no-motion-first approach to animations
CSS Suez Canal Boat
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Responsively: An open source responsive design preview tool
A dev-tool that aids faster and precise responsive web development.
A look at what went into running istheshipstillstuck.com
Peeling back the curtain of running a viral meme website for 5 days. More details than you could ever hope for.
SQLite is not a toy database
Here is why SQLite is a perfect tool for you - whether you are a developer, data analyst, or geek.
Choosing A New Serverless Database Technology At An Agency (Case Study)
In this article, Michael Rispoli explains how he evaluated the decision of whether or not to adopt a serverless database for client projects. This decision will focus on three lenses: the functional aspects of the technology, the developer experience, and the business ramifications of adoption.
The Never-Ending Job of Selling Design Systems
You didn’t start your web career to be a politician or salesperson. But if you want to work on design systems, you have no choice. Ben Callahan shows you how to convince executives to fund the init…
Building a multi-brand design system
A team of us here at BT are building a design system called Loop. In this post Amy Hupe, Product Owner for Loop, shares how we’re doing it.
Measuring the value of our design system
As our design system matures over the years, we are tracking how useful it is to our product teams.
How To Improve Rendering Performance in a 1,000-Item React List
Let’s ensure that our web apps scroll efficiently
Amazon Web Services In Plain English
Human-Readable JavaScript: A Tale of Two Experts
JavaScript gives us many ways to do things, but deciding which way can be tricky. Laurie Barth gives us a story of two experts who solve this problem in different ways, giving some insight into how…
React State Management Libraries and How to Choose
An overview of the best state management libraries and how to choose the right state management strategy for your app.
Why I Prefer Makefiles Over package.json Scripts
Does your package.json file have a large scripts section? If you have more than a handful of extremely simple npm scripts, try Makefiles.
How (and Why) You Need To Start Generating Your Serverless Infrastructure Diagrams
Infrastructure diagrams are great tools to describe all the resources contained in a service. Did you know you can automatically build them in your CI pipeline?
Vercel Serverless Functions vs Cloudflare Workers
Using S3 Object Lambdas to Generate and Transform on the fly
Fetching and transforming data from S3 using AWS Lambda is one of the most common serverless patterns. The new S3 Object Lambda feature…
Composition-api in Vanilla js
🍦 Composition-api in vanilla js. Contribute to unjs/unctx development by creating an account on GitHub.

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