November & December picks - A curated list of articles from the web

Here is a list of articles about tech that I have found interesting during the months of November and December. Enjoy!

Nodejs / Typescript / Javascript

• Why not having specific version declared for dependencies in package.json can be a bad idea (get ride of those ^)

• A lib to automate package publication using semantic release

• New release of vitest with built in TS type testing 😍

• ohmjs, a JavaScript library for building parsers, interpreters, compilers, and more

• moon, A build system and repo management tool for the web ecosystem, written in Rust.

• A Complete Guide to TypeScript Decorators

• How to Correctly Use TypeScript Module Import Syntax and Settings in Various Circumstances

Swift

• When advent of code 2022 leads to find a bug in Swift

Cloud

• Open Source Continuous Profiling pyroscope.io with AWS Lambda extension

• Node 18 supported in AWS Lambda Function

• New feature to protect Sensitive Data in Amazon CloudWatch Logs

• Find the most expensive Lambda function invocations with CloudWatch Logs Insights

• How we adapted our business alerts to make them more relevant avoiding false alerts? @doctolib

• Why hey.com is leaving the cloud

Kotlin

• Ron Jeffries opinion on Kotlin

• Google journey for server side programing in Kotlin

Dev / Tooling

• How to ssh inside a github action ?

• Ranking of programing languages usage in Q4 2022

• RetourAuxSources : Le cache HTTP (in french)

• Command line dev ops tools (in french)

• hyperfine : a great CLI Benchmarking tool

• Webstorm next March release roadmap

• IDN is crazy

Craft / Architecting

• How TDD helps me organise my head

• Stack overflow is a monolith (some says)

• Great visual & detailed article on the evolution of web application architecture since the beginning of the web, and what to expect next

• Distributed computing manifesto at Amazon written in 1998 🤯 : Event driven architecture and service oriented architecture described way before it became mainstream

• Y'en a mare du software craftsmanship (in french) by Julien Topçu

• Small Functions are considered Harmful (or maybe not ?)

Organization / Agility

• Stop creating Technical User Story, continuously refactor instead

• Why Group Brainstorming Is a Waste of Time

• DevOps is bullshit, lets make Plateform engineering the next bullshit buzzword

• Story points : Why it is so hard

Testing

• Don't do E2E testing by Dave Farley (... do it, but do it well)

• Testing without mocks, enters the Nullable concept by James Shore / The full article

Lead in tech

• Conway's Law : How the organization communication structure of dev teams is driving the design of systems made by them

• Ctrl+Alt+Depression : a moving testimony on depression in the tech and how she overcomed it

• Curiosity is a superpower. Here's how to inspire it in your team.

• The end of programing : what to expect in the next years on the software development side

Accessibility

• A thread about how webkit tries to decides if something should be made available as a table in the accessibility tree

Fun

• How to give a conference talk in 5 easy steps...

• Valve onboarding booklet

• A moving thread on a quest in God of War Ragnarok

• How Apple made Rosetta 2 that much effective? (hint they own software & hardware)

• Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT

• An advent of code daily challenge solved by ChatGPT(a simple one though)

• New year's resolutions don't work. YearCompass does (apparently...)