Reading Log - May 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.
In Depth
Scott Horsley: 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.
Link Blast
👨🏼💻 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
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
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