Newsletter #18

Links

• handsfree.js

  Quickly integrate face, hand, and/or pose tracking to your frontend projects in a snap.

• StaticShield - Password protect a website in less than 2 mins

  This project is very simple to use and can be integrated into static sites and many frameworks.

• WebSocket cat

  A tool to test WebSocket connections in the terminal.

• I made my first mobile game and here is what I've learned

  A good write-up with some non-game related things that are very important to a game - or any other project actually.

  Have you ever built a game? Reply with a link if you did. I'm working on a simple game to practice WebSockets and some other things. 🙃

• Git Graph

  A VSCode extension to see the commit tree as a graph, helpful for complex Git operations. It's similar to GitKraken and others but inside VSCode.

  I found out about it in this blog post about Git-related VSCode extensions.

• Dump anonymized PostgreSQL database with a NodeJS CLI

  Sometimes it's useful to have an exact copy of a production database but without the data that identifies a user. This CLI tool aims to help with that.

• Client/server side PDF printing in pure JavaScript

  The lib has a lot of utilities to dealing with things like tables, QR code and SVGs. You can find a lot of examples with code and output in the repository.

• npm audit: Broken by Design

  A deep look into how npm audit works and the big amount of false positives we see when working with Node.js dependencies. For some big projects out there, these have become a burden since the first npm install is a bit scary for beginners.

• VSCode Surround

  A simple yet powerful extension to add wrapper templates around your code blocks. This is so good - you can quickly wrap your code in a try/catch block or a loop.

• 150+ free high-quality illustrations

  This collection has a HUGE undraw vibe. I liked the with and without mask variations. 😂

• The next generation web framework for Cloudflare Workers

  A collection of modules with utilities to deal with Cloudflare Workers.

• Fully-local Cloudflare Workers Simulator

  A simulator for developing and testing Cloudflare Workers. It's an alternative to wrangler dev, written in TypeScript, that runs your workers in a sandbox implementing Workers' runtime APIs.

🇧🇷 Em Português

• O maior evento de Acessibilidade Digital do Brasil

  Em sua 4ª edição, o Link 2021 vai acontecer nos dias 9 a 12 de agosto de 2021, com conteúdos voltados à tecnologia, comunicação e diversidade, especialistas e personalidades discutirão o futuro da acessibilidade digital nas organizações e no mundo.

• Podcast Alumni #29

  A história de Lucas Thomaz Ribeiro, que trilhou uma jornada incrível como atleta profissional e hoje atua como dev full-stack da ZUP. Ele conta como a trajetória na seleção brasileira de vôlei motivou seu foco, resiliência e disciplina e como aplicar isso na programação.