🌀 The open source movement, JavaScript and Karma v3

#62 August 23, 2022

Hello there!

It's been a big week for me: something I worked on for quite a while is finally out! Check out Remote's Employee Cost Calculator 👀

I've also started working on a v3 of my VS Code theme, Karma! This comes with a bunch of fixes for issues that people have submitted (thank you! 🙏) as well as a ☀️ light mode. Wanna beta test it before anyone else? Lemme know!

Wanna share this with someone? You can send them here 😄

📚 To read

Why Your Cached JavaScript Is Still Slow and Incurs Performance Overhead "In modern web development, JavaScript-centric SPAs are flooding the user's device with heavy compute. When I meet with teams interested in improving their web product's performance, this concept of client-side compute is often overlooked"
Can browsers optimize the loading of third-party resources? — Addy Osmani "When both first party and third parties on a web page work in harmony, it is possible for a page to deliver a great user-experience. However, this requires significant effort from both engineering and business teams and is often overlooked, resulting in less than performant web pages and a negative impact to user-centric metrics such as the Core Web Vitals. This is detrimental to both parties and creates missed opportunities in businesses. Could we do better here?"
Why I Still Love PHP and Javascript After 20+ years "Over the last twenty years, I have used over a dozen languages professionally, from C to Common Lisp, from Java to Python, from C++ to Typescript. Yet, I love janky programming languages. In particular, I really enjoy PHP and Javascript. Here's why."
Breaking apart the monolith — Shawn @swyx Wang "The open source movement should really be modeled after social clubs and city governments."

👀 Some more cool stuff

⌨️ Keyboards

Eggplant TMOv2r2 with GMK Taro R2

Geon W1-AT with GMK Serika 2

That's all for now, have a great week!

Stay kind 💜