Category: Monthly notes

  • Monthly notes 34

    Autumn is well on it’s way and winds are bringing rains and clouds to the sky. Autumn also means that meetups are awaken and interesting stories from the field are presented. Here’s monthly notes for September. Start with writing readable code, continue to build React app with TypeScript, read how hacker puzzles can be solved…

  • Monthly notes 33

    Summer has turned to Autumn and it begins to show in the weather. Sun is setting earlier and soon it’s dark almost from dawn to dusk, rain clouds are gathering in the sky with cold winds. Good time to stay inside and read some articles and learn new things. Here’s the monthly notes for August.……

  • Monthly notes 32

    Summer season is heating up and here’s the monthly notes for July. Something about JavaScript, little bit of design, touch of privacy and tools of the trade. Issue 32, 23.7.2018 JavaScript Defining Component APIs in React Collects some of the best practices for working with React. “The following is a collection of thoughts, opinions, and…

  • Monthly notes 31

    The first part of Summer has been great and holiday season is near. Here’s monthly notes for June with topics of microservices, kubernetes, design patterns and stories of how Shopify and Airbnb build their services. Also some tools like Kap. Happy reading. Issue 31, 28.6.2018 Microservices 7 tips for effective microservices “Have a request-id/correlation-id for…

  • Monthly notes 30

    Summer is approaching and even in Finland the weather is sunny and warm. I’ve been busy as the Enduro-MTB racing season has started and most weekends are spent at the race track. But here’s monthly notes for May with topics of state of the Web, how geolocation in browsers work, and something about tools.… Jatka…

  • Monthly notes 29

    This month’s notes are about front-end technologies: Sneak peek beyound React 16 and videos from Vue and Angular conferences. Also CSS Blocks + OptiCSS is great and for us in EU it’s nice that Fargate is finally available in Ireland. Check also list of important podcasts for software engineers. Issue 29, 29.4.2018 Security Computer security…

  • Monthly notes 28

    Monthly notes 28

    Winter refuses to make way for the Spring and March in Southern Finland has been quite cold despite warm and rainy week which melted away some of the already scarce snow. So, skiing mainly on artificial snow and mountainbiking on icy paths which is nice. But this also leaves time to read what has happened…

  • Monthly notes 27

    For cold winter evenings here’s something to read. Monthly notes for February are about relearning and thinking. Issue 27: 23.2.2018 Relearning Computer Science and why it’s necessary even for web developers “Computer Science and why it’s necessary even for web developers I know that in some countries a degree in CS is expensive or unattainable,…

  • Monthly notes 26

    Monthly notes 26

    January finally brought snow also to Southern Finland and darkness is retreating slowly when the day becomes longer. This time monthly notes tells you about different JavaScript frameworks, making webpack perform better and looks into bootstrapping microservices and running docker securely. On programming side there are articles for best practices with Kotlin and about Kotlin…

  • Monthly notes 25

    December has gone fast and this time the monthly notes are more about pointers to tools and resources. Especially for accessibility which is important aspect of web development. If you don’t follow front-end development actively check out the recap of it’s development in 2017. And to learn more about security it’s good to read the…