Reading Log ForJanuary 27, 2023 (#16)
A lot of CSS related posts this week. Also, Astro v2.0 was released this week. I've been toying with building something in it, and it looks like it's added a bunch of good stuff. And one of my favorite games as a kid has been re-launched on the Xbox and the Switch!
Don't target 100% coverage
I gave a talk to my company about unit testing last year and one thing that stood out to me was the idea that 100% coverage doesn’t always mean “good code”, but low coverage is a sign of potential issues. Antoine echoes that sentiment and is right here pointing out that just because you have 100% coverage, doesn’t mean that the tests are useful.
Software Development & Design
- 20 Things I've Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer (Justin Etheredge)
- Efficiency over performance (Steven Garrity)
- Visual design rules you can safely follow every time (Anthony Hobday)
- A CSS-based background grid generator (Stefan Judis)
- CSS Wishlist 2023 (Dave Rupert)
- Keyboard Shortcuts to Master Your Git Flow in Visual Studio (Jessie Houghton)
- Astro 2.0 (Fred Schott)
- Conditional CSS (Ahmad Shadeed)
- Behind the scenes of minimal APIs (Andrew Lock)
Technology & the Internet
- Google is freaking out about ChatGPT (Richard Lawler & James Vincent)
- Inside the Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight (Ken Shirriff]
- Microsoft Edge will soon let you split two tabs in a single window (Tom Warren)
Gaming
- GoldenEye controls better on Xbox than on Switch (Old Welsh)
Business & Finance
- The humbling of Goldman Sachs (The Economist)
Science
- A deep dive into the Neptune system with JWST (Heidi Hammer & Naomi Rowe-Gurney)
- Volcanic Activity on Mars Upends Red Planet Assumptions (Phil Plait)
Podcasts
Everything Else
- Can we kill the word 'project' please? (George Stocker)