Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Broccoli
Tags: css, astro, javascript, testing
Published: 2023-12-10 14:18:57

<p>It's getting close to the end of the year, and I don't know about all of you, but for me, around this time of year, my body starts telling me it's time for a break. I'm definitely looking forward to time off at Christmas.</p>
<p>With that, another week, another newsletter. Let's get to it!</p>
<h2>Around the Web</h2>
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<li>It's been a busy year in CSS! <a href="https://una.im/?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-broccoli" target="_blank">Una Kravitz</a>, <a href="https://nerdy.dev/?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-broccoli" target="_blank">Adam Argyle</a>, and <a href="https://www.bram.us/?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-broccoli" target="_blank">Bramus Van Damme</a>, put together a great wrap up of all the CSS goodness that landed in 2023. Check out <a href="https://developer.chrome.com/blog/css-wrapped-2023?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-broccoli" target="_blank">CSS Wrapped: 2023!</a></li>
<li>I never used <a href="https://tailwindcss.com/?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-broccoli" target="_blank">Tailwind</a> before working at <a href="https://opensauced.pizza/?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-broccoli" target="_blank">OpenSauced</a>. I have some takes on it, but I think it's pretty solid. This week I came across a <a href="https://github.com/jamiebuilds/tailwindcss-animate?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-broccoli" target="_blank">Tailwind plugin for animations</a>. This looks like it could be potentially handy if you're using Tailwind.</li>
<li><a href="https://astro.build/blog/astro-4/?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-broccoli" target="_blank">Astro 4.0</a> landed this week! There's a new dev toolbar, faster builds, i18n routing and a tonne more. Definitely check it out!</li>
<li>I migrated our app codebase from Jest to <a href="https://vitest.dev/?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-broccoli" target="_blank">vitest</a> this week and coincidentally, they also released <a href="https://x.com/vitest_dev/status/1731737053371445446?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-broccoli" target="_blank">vitest 1.0</a>. Jest is great, but I used vitest on some projects while at Netlify, and it's faster, has <a href="https://typescriptlang.org?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-broccoli" target="_blank">TypeScript</a> and <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Modules?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-broccoli" target="_blank">ECMAScript module</a> (ESM) support out of the box. Go install that 1.0!</li>
</ul>
<h2>Fun Stuff</h2>
<p>This <a href="https://x.com/FiniteSingulrty/status/1732821019151212667?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-broccoli" target="_blank">video from FiniteSingularity</a> cracked me up.</p>
<p><img alt="FiniteSingularity talking, but their head is replaced by a piece of broccoli" class="newsletter-image" src="https://assets.buttondown.email/images/fa4fa6b8-2dca-439b-b56c-b40cc244e6d9.png?w=960&amp;fit=max" /> </p>
<p>If you use OBS for streaming, you might want to have some fun doing this tutorial to become broccoli, lol.</p>


<h2>Shameless Plugs</h2>
<p>This past Monday, I got to hang with <a href="https://www.kaelig.fr/?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-broccoli" target="_blank">Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent</a> and <a href="https://pow.rs/?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-broccoli" target="_blank">Drew Powers</a> on <a href="https://nickyt.live?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-broccoli" target="_blank">nickyt.live</a>. We discussed design tokens and tools for them.</p>

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<p>On Friday, I did something a little different, a French live stream! I hung out with Thomas Bonnet (@thomasbnt), a web developer from France. I've known Thomas for a while from my dev.to days, but this was the first time we had a long chat about open source, web dev, hobbies, all the things!</p>{% embed https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1998500010?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-broccoli %}
<p>Tomorrow, I'm looking forward to hanging with Ray Deck, who will <a href="https://www.nickyt.co/pages/stream-schedule/?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-broccoli#ray-deck-low-code-ai-equals-opportunity" target="_blank">dive into AI and low code tools</a>! Don't miss this one!</p>
<p><a href="https://www.nickyt.co/pages/stream-schedule/?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-broccoli#ray-deck-low-code-ai-equals-opportunity" target="_blank"><img alt="nickyt.live promo for guest Ray Deck" class="newsletter-image" src="https://assets.buttondown.email/images/71ea707d-f483-488b-b8e3-f553df55160c.png?w=960&amp;fit=max" /></a></p>
<p>If you're looking for another friendly nook of the internet, head to <a href="https://discord.iamdeveloper.com?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-broccoli" target="_blank">discord.iamdeveloper.com</a> and join our community!</p>
<p>That's a wrap! Until the next one.</p>

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