Reading Log ForMay 19, 2023 (#29)
I’ve finally started going through all my RSS feeds, so there’s a lot to this week’s log. The topics are all over the place from the IRS doing what it should have done from the beginning, to a boneheaded decision to add some new top level domains, to the US Supreme Court saving Section 230.
The IRS is building its own online tax filing system. Tax-prep companies aren't happy
The IRS should have done this from the beginning but the tax prep companies lobbied hard against it. Their greed in hiding the free options is who they have to blame for this. Here’s hoping they follow through for the 2023 tax season.
Software Development & Design
- C# 12: Preview of Three New Features Coming - Almir Vuk
- Sending MediatR Notifications Immediately After Saving an Entity with Entity Framework Core - Bryan Hogan
- Minimal API growing with .NET 7 - Christian Nagel
- Solid Principles in C# - Harsh Matharu
- Web Components 2023 Spring Update - Rob Eisenberg
- The Safest Way To Hide Your API Keys When Using React - Jessica Joseph
- Push protection is generally available, and free for all public repositories - Zain Malik & Mariam Sulakian
- Visual Studio UI Refresh - Kaitlin Brooks, Cherry Wang, & Dante Gagne
- What Even Are React Server Components - Nick Teslan
- Crafting the Next.js Website - Rauno Freiberg
- Scoped CSS is Back - Keith J. Grant
- The ongoing defence of frontend as a full-time job - Christian Heilmann
- The JavaScript Ecosystem Is Delightfully Weird - Sam Ruby
- Modern minimal workers in .NET - Anthony Simmon
- Announcing Deno KV - Andy Jiang & Ryan Dahl
- Don’t use custom CSS scrollbars - Eric Bailey
- I gambled against React and lost (and I don’t regret a thing) - Jens Langhammer
- Selecting previous siblings with CSS :has() - Tobias Ahlin
- Hiding Empty Elements with CSS :empty and :has - Tobias Ahlin
- How to start using .NET Background Services - Khalid Abuhakmeh
- Big Changes Coming for Blazor in .NET 8 - Jon Hilton
- Announcing .NET 8 Preview 4 - Jon Douglas
- My 20 Year Career is Technical Debt or Deprecated - Matt Watson
- Your Jest tests might be wrong - Jamie Magee
- An alternative approach to structuring your tests in XUnit - Bart Wullems
- CSS HD Gradients
- Accessibility for designer: where do I start? - Stephanie Walter
- ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 4 - Daniel Roth
Technology & the Internet
- Two principles to protect internet users from decaying platforms - Cory Doctorow
- Right-wing Twitter worried Musk’s CEO pick could return Twitter to its roots - Ashley Belanger
- An Update on the Lock Icon - _ David Adrian, Serena Chen, Joe DeBlasio, Emily Stark, & Emanuel von Zezschwitz_
- The .zip TLD sucks and it needs to be immediately revoked - Swift on Security
- Once Again, ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Elon Musk Caves To Authoritarian Censorial Bullies - Mike Masnick
- Supreme Court Leaves 230 Alone For Now, But Justice Thomas Gives A Pretty Good Explanation For Why It Exists In The First Place - Mike Masnick
- Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams - Kyle Bradshaw
Business & Finance
- Missing mortgage contract innovation - John Cochrane
- The case for financial literacy education - Paddy Hirsch
- ESPN Plans to Stream Flagship Channel, Eying Cable TV’s Demise - Jessica Toonkel & Sarah Krouse
- A lot of offices are still empty — and it's becoming a major risk for the economy - Arezou Rezvani
- What America’s tiny banks do that big ones don’t - The Economist
Science
- FDA advisers vote unanimously in favor of OTC birth control pills - Beth Mole
- More evidence emerges that Saturn’s rings are much younger than the planet - Jennifer Ouellette
- The complicated history of how the Earth’s atmosphere became breathable - Howard Lee
- A private company has an audacious plan to rescue NASA’s last “Great Observatory” - Eric Berger
Podcasts
- On Point: Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt on democracy, social media and how to fix America's 'ailing' institutions
- The Indicator: The Man Who Busted the Inflation Myth
- Coding Blocks #199 - Job Hopping and Favorite Dev Books
- Pitchfork Economics - America isn’t Lost, it’s Adrift (with Scott Galloway)
- You’re Wrong About: Beanie Babies with Jamie Loftus
Everything Else
- Kia’s Logo Redesign was a Total Flop - Nick Hobson
- How to Make Friends as an Adult - Mark Manson
- Leading Successful Product Teams - Ariel Salminen
- What Was Selling Out - Anil Dash
- Cops say they're being poisoned by fentanyl. Experts say the risk is "extremely low" - Brian Mann
- The Memex Method - Cory Doctorow
- America's surprise revival: The suburbs - Erica Pandey
- Site Search in Arc Browser — For Your Own Site - Jim Nielsen