TLDR Web Dev 2024-06-10

Whether you're a team of four or 40,000, dev teams need to collaborate on APIs. API Collaboration improves developer productivity by empowering API producers and consumers to share, discover, and reuse high-quality API assets.

Postman revolutionizes the experience of collaborative API development with Postman Collections and Workspaces.

Used together, they enable API design, testing, and documentation while providing a shared canvas for collaborating on API assets.

Learn more → API Collaboration | Postman Workspaces | Postman Collections

Google has integrated AI into its internal software development tools, with developers now using AI-based code completion for 50% of code characters. It has improved both model accuracy and user experience, and the company plans to further leverage AI in areas like testing, code understanding, and code maintenance. The industry as a whole is moving towards adding natural language as a common interface for software engineering tasks, like fixing bugs and writing new code.

Chrome has reintroduced full prerendering of pages to improve navigation speed by using the address bar, bookmarks, search suggestions, and the Speculation Rules API. This feature enables near-instant page loads by opening pages in a hidden background tab and activating them when needed.

React Compiler is an experimental tool that aims to automate the memoization of components and dependencies Initial tests on simple examples showed promising results, with the Compiler successfully eliminating unnecessary re-renders. However, when applied to real-world applications, the Compiler struggles with complex scenarios and requires developers to have a deep understanding of memoization techniques and React's internal workings to make necessary code adjustments for optimal Compiler results.

Hanlon's razor is a mental model that states one should not attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. This engineering manager found this model helpful in promoting understanding and empathy at work by avoiding assumptions of bad intentions. They instead recommend focusing on improving a lack of skills or experience instead of blaming others for mistakes or miscommunication.

This author replaced his smartphone with a flip phone for a month. This experiment led to huge improvements in his focus, awareness, and engagement with others, but also presented challenges like difficulty managing his schedule and navigating traffic.

Inspectus is a visualization tool for large language models. It runs in Jupyter Notebooks via an easy-to-use Python API. Inspectus provides multiple views to show insights into language model behaviors.

Teo is a schema-driven web server framework. The server-side API is native to Rust, Node.js, and Python. It supports automatic database migration, generated ORM types and interfaces, generated frontend query clients, custom route handlers, and more.

Piku allows you to do git push deployments to your own servers.

In this online talk by Confluent and SAP, you'll learn how to keep every system that relies on SAP data in sync with the latest and greatest real-time data. The session includes a demo of using SAP Datasphere and Confluent's Kora Engine to build real-time applications at 60% lower cost. Watch now→

A startup lost $10,000 due to a single mistake in its code that was generated by ChatGPT. This bug caused a unique ID collision in its subscription process, preventing new users from signing up. Its backend setup had multiple instances, which masked the problem during the day due to frequent deployments but caused it to surface at night when deployments stopped.

The Backrooms is an internet legend based on an image of an empty series of rooms, which gained popularity in 2019 when it was connected to a “creepypasta” story about an endless, maze-like dimension. This led to the creation of numerous games and videos based on the Backrooms concept, which often went viral. However, the mystery of the original photograph was recently solved - it was found to have been taken in 2003 during the renovation of a furniture store in Wisconsin and preserved by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

Katalin Karikó, a Nobel Prize winner, faced criticism for expressing her dislike for the political aspect of academia, highlighting the challenges faced by "Weird Nerds" in such environments. “Weird Nerds” have an unyielding devotion to Truth, often placing it above social graces or conventional norms. These individuals usually have unique talents and intellectual courage, but struggle with the social and political aspects of academic life. A lack of "Weird Nerd-friendly" environments can hinder their contributions and potentially lead to a loss of valuable talent.

Unexpected assembly code discovered in a function using std::unordered_map::find turned out to be a complex method for counting set bits used by the Clang compiler to optimize the conversion of large hash values.

Corepack, a tool bundled with Node.js, simplifies package manager usage by making sure the correct version is used for each project and providing error messages for mismatches.

Building a competitive browser engine requires prioritizing security and performance, content main thread sanctity, fast JS-DOM calls, page load performance, scrolling and animations, typing latency, and quality video playback.

The creator of this video built a clone of visionOS to better learn how it works under the hood.