The Demise Of The Mildly Dynamic Website
- Hugo Landau tl;dr: Hugo discusses the rise and decline of sites described as "mildly dynamic," which customize minor elements of a webpage but are, essentially static. Also, this post forecasts how these tools will play out and where opportunities lie.featured in #314
Things That Used To Be Hard And Are Now Easy
- Julia Evans tl;dr: (1) SSL certificates, with Let’s Encrypt (2) Concurrency, with async/await (in several languages) (3) Centering in CSS, with flexbox / grid. (4) Building fast programs with Go, and many more.featured in #295
The Major Software Industry Trends From 2021 And What To Watch In 2022
- Daniel Bryant Wesley Reisz tl;dr: (1) Hybrid working is here to stay but key questions remain e.g. how many days a week should we be in the office? (2) Companies that have been effective at developing loosely coupled systems - often with a microservices architecture - were better set up to work remotely and using a distributed approach. (3) Three interesting developments in the data engineering and AI/ML space in 2021, outlined here, and more.featured in #288
Making The Web Better. With Blocks!
- Joel Spolsky tl;dr: "You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which has a little + button that brings up a long list of potential blocks that you can insert into this page." Joel thought it would be cool if blocks were interchangeable and reusable across the web, and is creating the Block Protocol doing just that, discussed here.featured in #286
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The 2021 State Of The Octoverse
- Eirini Kalliamvakou tl;dr: "This year we’re excited to share the patterns we’ve seen across the community as well as three deeper dives:" (1) Shipping code (2) Creating documentation (3) Sustaining communities."featured in #272
Complexity Is Killing Software Developers
- Scott Carey tl;dr: "The explosion of choice and the pace of development make it challenging for developers to keep up with the zeitgeist, with many developers getting caught in the headlights.” The movement towards microservices and a rapid increase in business demands have created more complexity and burden for developers.featured in #266
Red Hot: The 2021 Machine Learning, AI and Data (MAD) Landscape
- Matt Turck tl;dr: Matt covers the macro view: making sense of the ecosystem’s complexity, financings, IPOs and M&A, a landscape of the ecosystem, key trends and more.featured in #258
Why Doesn't Software Show Up In Productivity?
- Austin Vernon tl;dr: The "digital revolution" hasn't increased economic productivity. To understand this, you need to understand the difference between General-Purpose Technologies (GPTs) and Management Technologies. GPTs plug-in to existing business and are easily adopted e.g. steel, electricity. Software is a management technology and hasn't solved complex enough problems yet. Austin explores what software trends could create GPTs.featured in #250
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