July 15, 2021, noon

Newsletter #18

arthurdenner

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.

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