• Why Serverless? - An introduction to the idea behind things like OpenWhisk, Amazon Lambda, and Google Cloud Functions. I need to dig in a bit here.
  • ES2017's async/await is the best thing to ever happen to JavaScript - There are days when I feel like I'll never catch up with innovation in JavaScript. Here's the latest way to handle async code.
  • Elvish - Another option for a shell on Linux, macOS, or BSD. It features nicer control structures and pipelines that can handle more than plain text.
  • Project Guidelines - For JavaScript projects, from Hive. I'm not always happy with formal guidelines, but I welcome thinking about the tradeoffs. Lots of good stuff here.
  • Running feature specs with Capybara and Chrome Headless - How to set up the latest refinements in Rails system tests.
  • Suicide Linux - The distro equivalent of "do you feel lucky, punk?" Now available as a Docker image.
  • The future of querying json in PostgreSQL - Looks yummy, though certainly not the SQL I learned lo these many years ago. SELECT * FROM my_table WHERE JSON_EXISTS(ranges, '$[*] ? (@.min < $x && $x <= @.max)' PASSING number AS x);
  • Announcing Gatsby 1.0.0 - A major milestone for this React-based static site generator. Lots of spiffy advanced features are built in, too.