Next.js 12 Released — The popular Node.js + React development framework takes a big step forward with improvements including beta support for middleware, native ES module support, a Rust-powered compiler for 5x faster builds, and much more.
The Vercel Team
Shortcut Is Project Management Without the Management — Whether you’re a startup that iterates quickly by giving engineers a free pallet of Red Bull, or a large org that has strict ship dates to hit, Shortcut is the ideal solution for task management, bug tracking, iteration planning, and reporting.
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📖 Tutorials, Opinions & Stories
Adobe Photoshop’s Journey to the Web — We’ve had pretty good graphics editors in the browser before, but bringing the pieces together to have an editor worthy of the Photoshop name is a feat. WebAssembly played a huge role, but so did many other Web technologies, and they collectively open up new opportunities for us all – not just Adobe.
Thomas Nattestad and Nabeel Al-Shamma
▶ How to Do TypeScript Without TypeScript — Static types confer numerous benefits when developing, but is it necessary to use TypeScript fully in order to get many of the benefits? Simone investigates the pros and cons and shows off an alternative approach.
Simone Sanfratello
What Every JavaScript Developer Should Know About Unicode — It’s not new, but has been doing the rounds on social again and is packed with useful knowledge about how strings are represented, why Unicode exists, what code units are, and then how JavaScript tackles it all.
Dmitri Pavlutin
🛠 Code & Tools
Blobity: Level Up Your Cursor Game — This script and API lets you do all sorts of creative things with the user’s cursor, which the page itself demonstrates. Note that it’s free for open-source projects only.
Georgy Marchuk
🏆 Golden Oldie of the Week
Whenever someone mentions this on Twitter, it still gets lots of likes and rewteets so there’s clearly plenty of people who either haven’t seen it or want to remember it exists 😂 It might be useful when you’re feeling a bit short of disk space..
