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Happy Tuesday!

50k+ e-mails sent, 12+ curators, 500+ links, 46 editions and lots of deadlines and headlines later, this is the last edition of our newsletter for 2022.

Don't worry, we'll be back but in the meantime we wanted to reflect on this year and thank you all for all the interesting articles you've sent us and your feedback, thoughts and comments.   

As we exhale 2022, let's all take in a deep breath for 2023 — a year that we all wish you is filled with inspiration of heart, elevation of mind and rejuvenation of soul. 

Have a lovely end of the year and we'll see you all on January 10th; in the meantime; grab a water/tea/coffee and enjoy this week's latest in tech news.

 

Frontend  

 

Super Useful CSS Resources

A collection of 70 hand-picked, web-based tools to interactively generate or play with CSS. The list contains all the utilities to help you create a fancy modern web app.
 

TypeScript: advanced and esoteric

A lot of powerful features Typescript has to offer remain relatively unknown. Explore these lesser-known features of TypeScript that make it more dynamic in case the opportunity to use them arises.
 

Hour of Code: Top 5 Frontend Projects

A variety of real-life projects to keep you engaged during your studies or test your frontend skills. To benchmark and polish up your skills, try creating a Virtual Piano app.  

Backend  

 

How Shopify handled 1.27M rps (despite Ruby not scaling 🙃)

If you read the last Tech Life edition (you did, right?), you know Shopify handled an enormous amount of queries during the Black Friday / Cyber Monday. Here are more details on the strategies they use to handle this kind of load. Beware, many links redirect to other blog posts detailing all this even more. If you're into this kind of topics, you may be in for quite some reading time here.
 

A first look at Hanami 2

Hanami 2 was released about 15 days ago now. We already shared the news but maybe you're wondering what Hanami is about? Here's a blog post with more details about the main components of an Hanami app, and some feedback after Pawel using its early version since July, by Paweł Świątkowski.
 

🎁 Ruby 3.2 RC1 release

Christmas is close, and as usual, the new Ruby version is also approaching! Here's the 3.2 RC1. Things I found interesting among many others: we'll be able to use keyword args for Struct without keyword_init and Set will receive more love.

Engineering culture & tech tools  

 

Conventional Comments and Conventional Commits

Have you heard about these related concepts for PR reviews and commit messages? They aim to add both human and machine readable meaning to comments and commits respectively. 
Even if you don't want to fully adopt these concepts, I think everybody can take some inspiration for a more respectful and efficient collaboration.
 

Nice vs. kind feedback

What is the difference between nice and kind you might ask? Mercedes Bernard explains how there is a big difference when it comes to feedback and how nice feedback is possibly not as helpful as you might think.
 

A debugging manifesto

Monday happens to be BUG day in my feature team. As I am sitting here putting together this section of the newsletter, I can't help but smile due to the accuracy of this nicely illustrated manifesto. 

Docto Tech Life  

 

Avoiding False Alerts

Have you ever suffered from your business alerts which are not relevant enough causing too many false alerts? At Doctolib, as the company wants to know if its features are working as expected, we work hard to make our business monitoring as efficient as possible. Check out this article on how Doctolib adapted business alerts to make them more relevant to avoid false alerts 
 

Women in Data

Doctolib took part in an event hosted by Fireside and Iron Hack dedicated to woemn in data. They had a panel discussion from three women working in different careers in data and the panel included one of Doctolib's data scientists, Eulalie Formery. We even had a crash course on data visualization from Iron Hack team.

 

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