Author: Mark Otto

Why Does Remote Work Make Us Paranoid? And What To Do About It?

April 27, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

The number of people working remotely has significantly risen worldwide since the beginning of the COVID in January 2020. And in spring 2022, with ongoing pandemics, many businesses in Eastern Europe faced new threats and had to find new ways to organize safe employees’ workplaces.…

React 18.1 released

April 27, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Remotion 3.0: ‘Write’ Videos in React — Remotion provides a way for you to use your React knowledge to create videos by writing what you want to happen in code with Remotion then handling the rendering and encoding. ▶️ This video showing off the new…

Node.js 18, WebAssembly 2.0, and Ember 4.3

April 22, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

Lots of bits and pieces this week like running JavaScript on MS-DOS(!?), a deep dive on a V8 optimization, writing React apps on top of Ruby on Rails, a JS runtime for a tiny microcontroller, and, oh, a huge Node release.. Lexical: An Extensible Text…

Node.js 18 released

April 21, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Node.js 18 (Current) Released — Almost exactly one year after Node 16 and two after Node 14 comes the newest version of Node. It’s a ‘current’ branch release for now, but will become an LTS (Long-Term Support) release in October, and you can expect it…

Putting React on Rails

April 20, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

How to Create a Modern CRUD App with Ruby on Rails and React — A thorough, and newly updated, tutorial covering building a fully functional CRUD app with Rails 7, SQLite, esbuild, React 18, hooks, React Router, and more. An ideal guide if you want…

Stand With Ukraine!

April 19, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

The war in Ukraine is a ghastly tragedy and an outrageous event which can never be justified. The war has catastrophic effect on the lives of millions of people not only in Ukraine 🇺🇦, but around the whole world. The team of Flatlogic strongly condemns…

On function composition in JavaScript

April 15, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

JS Function Composition: What’s The Big Deal? — James’ articles on JavaScript fundamentals have been very popular over the years, so it’s great to see a new one focusing on a common activity: function composition — “Why, then, do functional programmers get all worked up…

Caching NextJS Apps with Serverless Redis using Upstash

April 14, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

The modern application we build today is sophisticated. Every time a user loads a webpage, their browser needs to download the bulk of data in order to display that page. A website may consist of millions of data and serve hundreds of API calls. For…

Wild wild property access

April 14, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Fight Bugs with AppSignal in Multiplayer Mode — Fighting bugs on your own is hard. You need to get information from your app, understand the problem, and come up with possible solutions. With AppSignal, the whole team comes together. AppSignal Quick bytes: Find Tech Jobs with…