Tech Snacks by Passionate People

Supply chain attacks are a reality in modern software development, but you can reduce attack surface by taking precautions and managing dependencies.

Sure, we all pretend to know them, but rarely do we think they apply to us. Your manager certainly doesn't...

Citibank was trying to make $7.8M in interest payments. It sent $900M instead.

Tauri is a framework for building tiny, blazing fast binaries for all major desktop platforms. Developers can integrate any front-end framework that compiles to HTML, JS and CSS for building their user interface.

A curated collection of publicly available resources on how technology and tech-savvy organizations around the world practice Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - upgundecha/howtheysre

How to use memoization, contexts, useMemo, useState, and useEffect

A command-line utility for deploying serverless applications to AWS. Complete with custom domains, deploy previews, TypeScript support, and more. - JakePartusch/serverlessui

This post introduces the Simple Trivia Service, a single- and multi-player game built using a serverless-first architecture on AWS. I cover different solutions that you can use to enable connectivity from your game client to a serverless-first backend for both single- and multi-player games.

Why do you do code reviews? Perhaps it’s company policy, just an automatic part of your process, but have you ever sat down with your team…

The Streams API allows JavaScript to programmatically access streams of data received over the network and process them as desired.

There’s an old story about a drunk trying to find his keys in the streetlight. Why? Well, because that’s where it’s the brightest. It’s a funny story, but also relatable, be…

A small app for making quick flowcharts from text ⿻ - tone-row/flowchart-fun

Another awesome incremental upgrade for TypeScript

GTA Online. Infamous for its slow loading times. Having picked up the game again to finish some of the newer heists I was shocked (/s) to discover that it still loads just as slow as the day it was re

How we support CSS-in-JS in DevTools and how it is different from regular CSS.

Chrome Canary, the browser’s nightly build for developers, has been testing a new Follow button, as spotted on Android by the publishers of Chrome Story. The button appears on the homepage of…

Making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography

Did I learn anything from D3.js? Let’s see… In honor of D3 1.0’s tin anniversary, I thought I’d reflect on lessons learned. This isn’t intended to be too comprehensive or serious — just a handful of observations as I look ahead to the next ten years. But I hope a nugget or two will interest you, too. 1. Teaching is the most impactful aspect of tool building. When building a tool, it’s easy to forget how much you’ve internalized: how much knowledge and context you’ve assumed. Your tool can feel familiar or

As digital practitioners, GDPR has impacted every facet of our professional and personal lives. Whether you’re addicted to Instagram, message your family on WhatsApp, buy products from Etsy or Google information, no one has escaped the rules that were introduced in 2018.

Gatsby is a React-based open source framework with performance, scalability and security built-in. Collaborate, build and deploy 1000x faster with Gatsby Cloud.