Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Slow Roads
Tags: typescript, css, career, programming
Published: 2024-02-25 14:18:35

<p>Another week, another newsletter. Let's get to it!</p>
<h2>Around the Web</h2>
<ul><li><p>This repository came on my radar after my co-worker John (@jpmcb) starred it on GitHub. I haven't dug into all of it yet, but it looks like there area plenty of great resources in <a href="https://github.com/charlax/professional-programming?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=slow-roads" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">github.com/charlax/professional-programming</a></p></li></ul>
<ul><li><p><a href="https://dev.to/this-is-learning/what-is-reactivity-3epf?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=slow-roads" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">What is Reactivity?</a></p></li><li><p>The <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-5-4-rc/?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=slow-roads" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">TypeScript 5.4 release candidate</a> dropped this week with lots of great additions including <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-5-4-rc/?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=slow-roads#preserved-narrowing-in-closures-following-last-assignments" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">preserved narrowing in closures following last assignments</a> and the <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-5-4-rc/?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=slow-roads#the-noinfer-utility-type" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">NoInfer utility Type</a></p></li><li><p>People make jokes about centering divs all the time, and it can be annoying because CSS is so good these days and makes it really dang easy to do. I came across Josh W. Comeau's article <a href="https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/center-a-div/?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=slow-roads" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">How to Center a Div</a> and really appreciated the technical break down of all the techniques to do it. Definitely worth a read!</p></li></ul>
<h2>Fun Stuff</h2>
<ul><li><p>This is a very cool demo/game? Check out <a href="https://slowroads.io/?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=slow-roads" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Slow Roads</a>.</p></li></ul>
<h2>Shameless Plugs</h2>
<p>This week it finally happened. I gave my first in person conference talk, in fact I <a href="https://confoo.ca/en/speaker/nick-taylor?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=slow-roads" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">gave two talks at Confoo</a>! Both talks went really well and I got lots of great feedback.</p>
<p>I also gave a remote <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7160791824209498113/?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=slow-roads" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">talk for Global Summit for Node.js `24</a>!</p>


[![Global Node.js Summit '24](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/c95tyoyf1nll2p4mxsu6.png)](https://events.geekle.us/nodejs24/)

<p>There was no stream this week as I was at the Confoo conference, but I was a guest on the 4 Web Devs, 1 App Idea series from <a href="https://www.learnwithjason.dev/?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=slow-roads" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Jason Lengstorf</a> (@jlengstorf). This was so much fun! Thanks again for having me on Jason!</p>

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