Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

August 3, 2021

The most unbelievable things about life before smartphones - by Matt Ruby - The Rubesletter by Matt Ruby (of Vooza) | Sent every Tuesday
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Funny and somewhat balanced. It shows in the subtext that it's not just about "the good old days".

Exercises that programmers should do to avoid back and neck pain
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Yep, definitely do this on a regular basis. It takes only a minute several times a day.

RFC: Adopt a modern JavaScript framework for use with MediaWiki

There's been an announcement of MediaWiki adopting Vue.js. I think it's interesting to not stop at it and look what their workgroup evaluated and looked at to decide it was a good choice for them. There are a couple of interesting points in there.

The rise of never-ending job interviews - BBC Worklife
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Interestingly I'm less interview averse than what's explained in this article. Depends how it's done of course, but since I think I'm also evaluating the potential employer, seeing more people gives you a better idea of how things are internally.

Empty npm package '-' has over 700,000 downloads — here's why
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This ecosystem keeps baffling me... How come there are so little checks on what can get published or how the command line process parameters.