Recently, the Chrome team released experimental support for a new proposed CSS spec, style queries. In short, they let us query the style of a container, rather than the size only. This can be helpful in cases where querying the container size isnβt enough.
An interesting case study about how an engineering team changed their build process for serverless functions and managed to reduce the build time by a factor of 10.
Cypress is one of the coolest and most used end to end testing tools for frontend applications. Our friend Gleb Bahmutov shows us why the latest release of Cypress is actually quite a big deal!
Book of the week
SQL Pocket Guide: A Guide to SQL Usage
by Jonathan Gennick
If you're a programmer or database administrator who uses SQL in your day-to-day work, this popular pocket guide is the ideal on-the-job reference. You'll find many examples that address the language's complexity, along with key aspects of SQL used in IBM DB2 Release 9.7, MySQL 5.1, Oracle Database 11g Release 2, PostgreSQL 9.0, and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Release 2. SQL Pocket Guide describes how these database systems implement SQL syntax for querying, managing transactions, and making changes to data. It also shows how the systems use SQL functions, regular expression syntax, and type conversion functions and formats.