Using CSS Grid the right way
CSS Grid is fun to use but hard to learn. Here are three tips to help you understand and leverage the Grid spec.
Issue #124 · August 19, 2019
Using CSS Grid the right way
“Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all”
Best 7 links of week #33, 2019
Articles
Get your work recognized: write a brag document
Getting your hard work recognized is never as easy as it should be and sometimes you might lose the opportunity to be rewarded for it. Julia Evans comes with an interesting strategy to understand how valuable your work is and help others to understand that as well :)
Models for integrating data science teams within organizations
Designing and building a data science team is a complex problem; so is determining the nature of interactions between data scientists and the rest of the organization. This article compares different interesting approaches to do that.
Deep-copying in JavaScript
How do I copy an object in JavaScript? It’s a simple question, without a simple answer.
How We Reduced Lambda Functions Costs by Thousands of Dollars
This articles goes about the Lambda pricing model and explains few ways that can allow you to keep cost under control.
Making Cloud.typography Fast(er)
An interesting case study by Harry Roberts on optimizing the web speed of Cloud.typography
Designing Web Applications-Architectural Components
What are the main considerations one needs to think of when creating a web application?
Book of the week
JavaScript: The Good Parts
by Douglas Crockford
Most programming languages contain good and bad parts, but JavaScript has more than its share of the bad, having been developed and released in a hurry before it could be refined. This authoritative book scrapes away these bad features to reveal a subset of JavaScript that's more reliable, readable, and maintainable than the language as a whole—a subset you can use to create truly extensible and efficient code. Considered the JavaScript expert by many people in the development community, author Douglas Crockford identifies the abundance of good ideas that make JavaScript an outstanding object-oriented programming language-ideas such as functions, loose typing, dynamic objects, and an expressive object literal notation.