Category: Monthly notes

Much snow, wow. Come on, Spring. Short notes for the week 14 of 2023.

Web development

You can add biometric authentication to your webpage. Here’s how.
(from WDRL)

Web design

Dark patterns in UX design — Which ones are the most deceptive?
For those not aware of this concept, dark patterns are tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn’t mean to, like buying or signing up for something.… Jatka lukemista →

Design 🎨 heavy edition: guide to responsive design, neurodiversity design system, CSS container and style queries, colors and contrasts and easier dark mode.

Web design

The Guide To Responsive Design In 2023 and Beyond
“Responsive design isn’t just about fixed-width breakpoints and making a website work on mobile, tablet, and desktop.”… Jatka lukemista →

Software development

How to explain technical architecture with a natty little video
Some thoughts on explaining architecture through diagraming, in particular the advantage of scrappy videos to show diagramming step-by-step. (from DevOps Weekly)

What Are Vanity Metrics and How to Stop Using Them
Measurement and metrics are an important part of devops practices, but establishing metrics always risks issues with vanity metrics.… Jatka lukemista →

Tools

CyberChef
Simple, intuitive web app for analysing and decoding data without having to deal with complex tools or programming languages. CyberChef encourages both technical and non-technical people to explore data formats, encryption and compression.

Software development

The Art of Code Comments
Sarah Drasner talked at JSConf Hawaii 2020 about how commenting code is a more nuanced thing than we give it credit for.… Jatka lukemista →

Worklife

GitLab’s Guide to All-Remote
Good writeup of remote work in GitLab, i.a. it’s benefits and drawbacks and tips to better remote.

DevOps

Honeycomb’s O’Reilly Book Observability Engineering
“Achieving Production Excellence by Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, and George Miranda”

Set up a Terraform Pipeline with GitHub Actions and GitHub OIDC for AWS
A walkthrough of a Terraform pipeline setup.… Jatka lukemista →

Week 15 of 2022

Before leaving for a short Easter holiday here are some links to go through.

Security

Top10 CI/CD Security Risks

Automagically Auditing GitHub (Actions) Security using OpenSSF Scorecards “How to use the OpenSSF Scorecards GitHub Action to audit your GitHub and GitHub Actions configuration, and a breakdown of some of the issues raised by it.”… Jatka lukemista →

Learning

Personal Goal Setting Playbook
“Setting personal goals can be used in many contexts to help people achieve tasks, objectives or improvements of any kind, big or small.”

Design

A Designer’s Guide to Documenting Accessibility & User Interactions

Understanding Figma’s interactive components feature
(from WDRL)

Backend

How to design better APIs
15 language-agnostic, actionable tips on REST API design.… Jatka lukemista →

Week 10 of 2022

Web development

The State of JavaScript 2021 Survey Results
“69% use TypeScript; React held the top spot for 6 years; Vue.js is on track to overtake Angular as the second place framework; 2021 has been the year of Vite with 98% satisfaction.” (from WDW)

The baseline for web development in 2022
“Now that Internet Explorer seems to die really in June this year, so now we should focus on low-spec Android devices, older Safari versions or slow networks.”… Jatka lukemista →

Short notes on tech, week 7 of 2022

Software development

Frontend Predictions for 2022
The return of micro-frontends, functional JavaScript & the death of Jamstack as we know it. (from Web Design Weekly)

Cloud

AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Review
“If you are considering going with EKS, understand you are going to need to spend a lot of time reading before you touch anything.… Jatka lukemista →