Yet Another Newsletter LOL

By Nick Taylor

Yet Another Newsletter LOL - Issue #31

#31・ Jan 30, 2022

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Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

Around the Web

Native fetch is coming to Node.js,

lib: add fetch by targos · Pull Request #41749 · nodejs/node · GitHub

Refs: nodejs/undici#1183 /cc @nodejs/undici This adds a –experimental-fetch flag that installs the fetch, Request, Response and Headers globals.

github.com

How does !important in CSS actually work?

una.css 👩🏻‍💻

@Una

New "5-minute CSS" video on how the CSS !important rule actually works!

(Ok it's 7 minute this week, but worth it I promise!)

Here's the gist:

!important isn't just about increasing style rule importance, it actually *inverts* the cascade

https://t.co/fjsnrRm1Fz https://t.co/kdpqSNZL0j

4:51 PM - 28 Jan 2022

🔎Julia Evans🔍

@b0rk

life of a DNS query
https://t.co/5Xklb79VHx https://t.co/eF1XJYuA8r

7:34 PM - 24 Jan 2022

A great CSS layout workshop care of Rachel Andrews!

The fundamentals of CSS layout | Workshop

Fun Stuff

Nick Taylor (he/him) | nicktaylor.eth

@nickytonline

Vanilla Ice is the best open source maintainer because he always collaborates and listens. New release? Brand new edition. https://t.co/Lt7cqEkwX6

10:45 PM - 21 Jan 2022

YAYpril

@YAYpril

am I the first person to do this pls say yes https://t.co/Bi0TnCyJZP

6:10 PM - 28 Jan 2022

Words of Wisdom for the Week

Kelsey Hightower

@kelseyhightower

As builders we are responsible for calling out the flaws and limitations in the systems we work on so people don't hurt themselves by mistake. https://t.co/gfnhwf9D7E

10:02 AM - 28 Jan 2022

Shameless plugs

I had an awesome time chatting with Sunil Pai from the WORKERS team at Cloudflare on the DEV Twitch stream this week.

We discussed all the cool things being built at Cloudflare like Workers, KV Store, Durable Objects, wrangler, all the things! We also chatted about all things web dev.

Thanks for hanging Sunil!

Walkthrough Wednesday with Sunil Pai, Workers Team at Cloudflare

Ben Holmes, the creator of the Slinkity project is joining me in the DEV Twitch stream this Wednesday! Come by and say hi at 5 pm UTC

Walkthrough Wednedsay with Ben Holmes creator of Sl...

A constructive and inclusive social network for software developers. With you every step of your journey.

dev.to

Twitch

Twitch is the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers.

www.twitch.tv

I’ve got a talk for Codementor coming up in a couple of weeks. Come by and say hi virtually!

Nick Taylor (he/him) | nicktaylor.eth

@nickytonline

Looking forward to giving my talk "Tools for web developers: Live coding and debugging" for @CodementorIO on February 10th!

Come by and say hi!

https://t.co/mSDicqa2uJ #DEVCommunity

7:31 PM - 27 Jan 2022

Tools for web developers: Live coding and debugging - Codementor Events

Nick shares useful web development tools to help developers program and debug with efficiency

www.codementor.io

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