# January picks - A curated list of articles from the web

# 09 - January's Notes

Here is a list of articles about tech that I found interesting during the month of January. Enjoy!

### Nodejs / Typescript / Javascript

* [A comparison of execution time of operations in web assembly in different engines (spoiler alert, `node` beats `bun`)](https://00f.net/2023/01/04/webassembly-benchmark-2023)
    
* [The State of JS 2022 is here](https://2022.stateofjs.com/en-US/)
    
* [`Fast-check` now compatible with `vitest`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@fast-check/vitest)
    
* [`Typescript` 5.0 beta is here (with Decorator out of experimental and huge perf improvements but with a lot of breaking changes ;))](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-5-0-beta/)
    
* [`Fetch API` sends `Type error` upon network error :')](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/fetch?#exceptions)
    

### Rust

* [Do we need a `Rust` standard ? (where you learn each new version of rust is compiled against every crate from crates.io and every `Rust` project from `github`)](https://blog.m-ou.se/rust-standard)
    

### Dev / Tooling

* [The 12 bits rainbow palette](https://iamkate.com/data/12-bit-rainbow/)
    
* [Logseq, a great open-source alternative to Obsidian, that is usable for free in a professional context](https://logseq.com/)
    

### Craft / Architecting

* [`You want modules, not micro-services`, an interesting take on the curent micro-service trend and its drawbacks](http://blogs.newardassociates.com/blog/2023/you-want-modules-not-microservices.html)
    
* [Why you should not (most probably) use dependency injection frameworks](https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2023/the-problem-with-dependency-injection-frameworks)
    
* [The 8 fallacies of distributed systems](https://architecturenotes.co/fallacies-of-distributed-systems/)
    

### Testing

* [Interesting article that encourages getting rid of `Unit test` to focus on `Integration tests`](https://blog.ncrunch.net/post/london-tdd-vs-detroit-tdd.aspx)
    
* [A schema library for gherkin data table ( for `node.js`)](https://github.com/cucumber-stories/cucumber-datatable)
    

### Organization / Agility

* [`Tech Debt Friday`, a team feedback on their tech debt management](https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/tech-debt-day)
    
* [10 Misconceptions about Agile Product Teams (so many good advices in there)](https://youtu.be/T3VRz18ntjQ)
    
* [`Conventional comments`, a convention for doing PR Comments](https://conventionalcomments.org)
    

### Lead in tech

* [Feedback on `Spotify` squad model from Jeremiah Lee (podcast)](https://getdx.com/podcast/28)
    

### Fun

* [`CatGPT` because why not?](https://catgpt.wvd.io/)