Friday, 26 February, 2021 UTC


Summary

Go Time’s Mat Ryer joins Jerod, KBall, and Nick to play Story of the Week, Today I Learned, Unpopular Opinions, and Shout Outs!
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Featuring
  • Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
  • Jerod Santo – Twitter, GitHub
  • Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
  • Nick Nisi – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Notes and Links

Story of the Week

  • Faster JavaScript calls in V8
  • Blitz.js
  • Blitz on JS Party
  • Citibank just got a $500 million lesson in the importance of UI design

TIL

  • Embedding SVG filters directly in CSS
  • Accessing hardware devices on the web

Shout Outs

  • freeCodeCamp’s DS Curriculum
  • swyx on Twitter
  • Vite

Miscellany

  • We hear Go Time is pretty good
  • Watch our live recording on YouTube