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
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