Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Why web tech is like this

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

Around the Web permalink

An interesting talk about why web tech is the way it is.

The React team has an RFC up for first class support for a async/await and Promises

RFC: First class support for promises and async/await by acdlite · Pull Request #229 · reactjs/rfcs · GitHub

Adds first class support for reading the result of a JavaScript Promise using Suspense:

Introduces support for async/await in Server Components. Write Server Components using standard JavaScript await syntax by defining your component as an async function. Introduces the use Hook. Like await, use unwraps the value of a promise, but it can be used inside normal components and Hooks, including on the client.

This enables React developers to access arbitrary asynchronous data sources with Suspense via a stable API. View the rendered text

github.com

A great talk about SolidJS

SolidJS: Getting Started - Viteconf

SolidJS: Getting Started | Ryan Carniato | ViteConf 2022

viteconf.org

This is work related, but regardless I’m pretty stoked about this. Netlify finally has pnpm support! 🥳

New for Netlify Build: Out of the box support for pnpm

Netlify has out of the box support for pnpm, the performant Node Package Manager known for saving disk space.

www.netlify.com

Fun Stuff permalink

What's the difference between black
eyed peas and chickpeas?

Black eyed peas can sing us a song while chickpeas can only hummus one

— PUNS (@ThePunnyWorld) October 16, 2022

Words of Wisdom for the Week permalink

This was an acceptance speech from Fred Rogers, a.k.a. Mr. Rogers, but what he said had lots of wisdom in it. I encourage you to give it a listen.

If you’re going to accept a prize and you have to give a speech, then here’s your blueprint, here’s possibly the greatest acceptance speech ever made - by FRED ROGERS upon receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1997 Emmy’s.

Beautiful beyond belief. pic.twitter.com/2Ccm7V9eZj

— Michael Warburton (@MichaelWarbur17) October 14, 2022

Shameless plugs permalink

I started a podcast recently and it inspired me to write this blog post about content creation.

Repurposing Content for Content Creation

So I’ve been streaming on Twitch since July 2020, blogging, and given some talks. To keep on with the “learning in public” theme and content creation, I’ve started a podcast called Nick’s Cuts, pod.iamdeveloper.com. https://twitter.com/nickytonline/s…

hashnode.iamdeveloper.com

I got to hang with Sami Jaber on my stream this week to discuss Mitosis, so I wrote a short post about it.

Build framework-agnostic components with Mitosis - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻

Sami Jaber, Software Engineer @ Builder.io joined me recently to discuss Mitosis, a tool for building… Tagged with react, javascript, svelte, vue.

dev.to

The stream at the start of Hacktoberfest is up! Jörn joined me to teach me more about Svelte and we started a repository for Hacktoberfest. Check it out!