Not actually a devlog #8

Hello everyone! What a summer! I don't know about you but mine was full of surprises. For example I've finally launched back my photography website and played a bit with all the (not so anymore) cool kids, like Preact, Tailwind, Compose Multiplatform, deno and Netlify. It was great! The timing however is quite bad due to the fact I sold my camera around the same time (but you know sometimes stuff don't have to make sense I guess 🤷‍♂️). And now the articles!

Reads 📖

• 🇬🇧How Core Git Developers Configure Git. Git is probably the dev tool I'm using the most and I always look to have a better user experience with it so this article was definitely a tease for me. And without surprise I felt like a caveman at the end of it. So many good stuff to add to your config!
• 🇬🇧UI layer architecture for persistent UI elements. This one is for my Android UI dev peeps! It articulates really well how and why we should be persist UI elements per-screen or in a whole layout. Spoiler both are not easy and are critical choices.
• 🇬🇧The valley of engineering despair. Ooh Sean, why are you like that? So keen to let you articles found me right at the best time. During the summer I had a point where a project seemed less clear everyday and to quote the article "The trick is to recognize that the feeling is temporary - you can always work through it - and to make sure you don’t do anything stupid in the meantime". A quick but a must read.
• 🇬🇧The Perfect Commit, Software engineering practices and Writing better release notes are three articles I found during my constant goal of improving our processes in my day-to-day job. Nothing really new here but they are good reminders.
• 🇬🇧Write the most clever code you possibly can. I won't spoil you this one. It's a quick read and I was personnally outraged when seeing this title, ready to comment with some clean code or equivalent book quotes AAAAND nope :p.
• 🇬🇧Exploring PausableComposition internals in Jetpack Compose. I'm not a huge fan of pixel perfect tasks and stuff like that however I LOVE reading about UI frameworks internals. This article explores the PausableComposition API in Jetpack Compose and it's a blast!
• 🇬🇧How JavaScript Works Behind the Scenes. I haven't touched Javascript outside of personal pet projects for long and it's always good to learn the basics :)