Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Living on the Edge
Tags: css, astro, solidjs
Published: 2023-06-12 10:40:53

<p>Another week, another newsletter. Let&rsquo;s get to it!</p>
<h2>Around the Web</h2>
<ul>
<li>If you blog at all or are looking for some tips to your writing, this could be the article for you <a href="https://uxplanet.org/people-dont-read-online-they-scan-this-is-how-to-write-for-them-80a75069c14e?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-5547" target="_blank">People Don&rsquo;t Read Online—They Scan. This Is How to Write for Them</a>.</li>
<li>My co-worker, Ryan Carniato, gave a great talk at BeJS, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp7QBjY5K34&amp;utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-5547" target="_blank">Revolutionary Signals</a>. Check it out to learn more about signals.</li>
<li>The <a href="https://astro.build/blog/astro-260/?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-5547" target="_blank">Astro team released v2.6</a> this week. Lots of goodies in there: middleware, hybrid SSR output mode, custom client directives, CSS inlining and more!</li>
<li>I caught Chris Coyier&rsquo;s talk at RenderATL 2023. It was really great. He&rsquo;s now written a blog post based on his talk. Definitely check out <a href="https://chriscoyier.net/2023/06/06/modern-css-in-real-life/?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-5547" target="_blank">Modern CSS in Real Life</a></li>
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<h2>Fun Stuff</h2>
<p>OH NOS LOL</p>
{% twitter https://twitter.com/thekitze/status/1665813173356617730 %}
<h2>Words of Wisdom for the Week</h2>
<p>I&rsquo;ve only been to my second in-person conference, so these conference tips from James are great.</p>
{% twitter https://twitter.com/jamesqquick/status/1666557006134607872 %}
<h2>Shameless Plugs</h2>
<p>Glauber Costa joined me on <a href="https://nickyt.live?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-5547" target="_blank">nickyt.live</a> this week to talk about <a href="https://turso.tech?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-5547" target="_blank">Turso</a>, a new edge database. We discussed the project, provisioned a database, created replicas worldwide and wrapped it up with a demo Node.js CLI app that loads data from the database.</p>
<p>Here&rsquo;s a highlight from the Twitch stream. The recording will be up on YouTube early next week.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1841212093?filter=highlights&amp;sort=time&amp;utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-5547" target="_blank"><img alt="Highlight on Twitch from stream with Glauber Costa" class="newsletter-image" src="https://buttondown.imgix.net/images/da797daa-b929-454f-a93a-9383c50f5244.png?w=960&amp;fit=max" /></a></p>
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<p>Coming up this week, it&rsquo;s a doubleheader. <a href="https://austingil.com/?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-5547" target="_blank">Austin Gil</a> and <a href="https://nicknisi.com/?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-5547" target="_blank">Nick Nisi</a> join me on my Twitch stream. Check out the <a href="https://www.iamdeveloper.com/pages/stream-schedule/?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-5547" target="_blank">schedule</a> for their slots and other upcoming guests.</p>
<h2>Jobs</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/276598181?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-5547" target="_blank">Fullstack Software Engineer (L5) - Resilience Engineering</a> at Netflix – <em>Remote US</em></li>
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