Reading Log - January 20, 2023 (#15)
RIP Tweetbot.
In Depth
Tapbots: In Memory of Tweetbot
Tweetbot was how I almost always consumed Twitter. I can’t imagine the service without it. I’ve been using Ivory by Tapbots for Mastodon and it’s amazing.
Link Blast
👨🏼💻 Software Development & Design
Integration Testing ASP.NET Core APIs incl. auth and database (Chris Klug)
A Perfect CI Process (Chris Coyier)
:has is an unforgiving selector (Geoff Graham)
Writing Custom Hooks with React (Andrew Evans)
fetch with Timeout (David Walsh)
Some more C# 11 (Tom Deseyn)
What if writing tests was a joyful experience? (James Somers)
We invested 10% to pay back tech debt; Here's what happened (Alex Ewerlöf)
Why is my Jest Suite so Slow? (Steven Lemon)
So you want to make a new JS framework (Dave Rupert)
🖥 Technology & the Internet
Twitter Makes It Official: No More 3rd Party Clients Allowed (Mike Masnick)
📈 Business & Finance
Google, Microsoft, Amazon and other tech companies have laid off more than 70,000 employees in the last year (Ashley Capoot & Sofia Pitt)
🔬 Science
NASA's Webb telescope has discovered its first exoplanet (Ayana Archie)
The James Webb Space Telescope is Finding Too Many Early Galaxies (Monica Young)
Drought, floods, wildfires: Climate change upends archaeology (Jennifer A. Kingson)
Roman civil engineering has lessons for the modern world (The Economist)
🎧 Podcasts
On the Media: It's a Machine's World
CYBER: The Government Isn't Coming for Your Gas Stoves
🎒 Everything Else
NTSB chair says EVs are getting too big and heavy (Jon Fingas)
The Art of Knowing When to Quit (Jim Nielsen)