Coder Catchup

https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2017/04/07/react-v15.5.0.html Small update for some big future changes. What you need to know.

A run through of the newly announce Stripe Elements and how it can speed up your credit card collection in a secure way. https://stripe.com/docs/elements

A run through of the Web Developer Roadmap, 2017 Edition https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap/blob/master/README.md A set of charts demonstrating the paths that you can take and the technologies that you would want to adopt in order to become a frontend, backend or a devops.

Free and automated SSL certs for all paid Heroku dynos are now generally available, issued by letsencrypt. https://blog.heroku.com/announcing-automated-certificate-management

https://next.smashingmagazine.com/2017/03/a-little-surprise-is-waiting-for-you-here--meet-the-next-smashing-magazine/ Smashing Magazine is changing: a new design, a new layout, a new technical stack, a new printed magazine, a new Smashing Membership, and the same good ol’ obsession with quality content. Here’s a sneak preview of what’s coming up. jamstack - https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/08/using-a-static-site-generator-at-scale-lessons-learned/ Netlify CDNs - https://www.netlify.com/ GoCommerce - https://github.com/netlify/gocommerce A headless e-commerce for JAMstack sites Git Based CMS (Netlify's open source git cms) - https://www.netlifycms.org/ Real time search with Algolia - https://www.algolia.com/ HTTP/2 support Progressive web app (service worker toolbox library) - https://github.com/GoogleChrome/sw-toolbox dynamic components in JavaScript are all based on Preact Bye WordPress, Hello Hugo! - http://gohugo.io/ Introducing Hugo, a new idea for making website creation simple again. Hugo works f

Lottie http://airbnb.design/lottie/ Easily add high-quality animation to any native app. Lottie is an iOS, Android, and React Native library that renders After Effects animations in real time, allowing apps to use animations as easily as they use static images.

A run through my 2017 programming goals, emerging languages, a new direction and something you need to check out. Article: https://medium.com/@pixelstack/2017-programming-goals-1f9b3b98daf3#.8achbqsih

Back in the saddle for 2017, starting off this years run of episodes with my personal goals for 2017. Article: https://medium.com/@pixelstack/2017-personal-goals-17f30d79efaf#.ui60rid6r

Show notes can be found at: https://gist.github.com/jaymiejones86/3d1e7396103eac6d33dfd6032a7a1e98

https://amazonlightsail.com/ Virtual private servers made easy. Starting at $5 per month Starting at $5 512 MB Memory 1 Core Processor 20 GB SSD Disk 1 TB Transfer* Upto $80 8 GB Memory 2 Core Processor 80 GB SSD Disk 5 TB Transfer* Included in all plans Static IP address SSH terminal access DNS management Intuitive management console SSH key management Server monitoring Access to AWS services But what are the plans? Also referred to as a bundle, a Lightsail plan includes a virtual server with a fixed amount of memory (RAM) and compute (vCPUs), SSD-based storage (disks), and a free data transfer allowance. Lightsail plans also offer static IP addresses (5 per account) and DNS management (3 domain zones per account). Lightsail plans are charged on an hourly, on-demand basis, so you only pay for a plan when you're using it. Features VPS ready to deploy in seconds API Highly available storage Speedy & secure networking Snapshots ($0.05/GB per month) Access to AWS Services Basic server or application based

A run through of my article on the 2016 Web Developers Holiday Guide https://medium.com/@pixelstack/2016-web-developers-holiday-guide-9377ae8e6051#.r96fipm9a

A run through of a handy site to keep bookmarked for getting you out of some git mess. Checkout http://ohshitgit.com/

https://jamstack.org/ The JAMstack is an ideal way of building websites and apps that are fast, secure and simple to work with. JAM stands for JavaScript, APIs and Markup. It's the fastest growing stack for building websites and apps: no more servers, host all your front-end on a CDN and use APIs for any moving parts.

A JavaScript gesture detection library for the modern web Website: https://zingchart.github.io/zingtouch/ Sarah Drasner: https://twitter.com/sarah_edo Rachel Nabors: https://twitter.com/rachelnabors Tweet from: https://twitter.com/sarah_edo/status/793513026058059776

Upgrading to macOS Sierra will break your SSH keys and lock you out of your own servers. Article: https://medium.freecodecamp.com/upgrading-to-macos-sierra-will-break-your-ssh-keys-and-lock-you-out-of-your-own-servers-f413ac96139a#.eyh5nlovq By: Quincy Larson of FreeCodeCamp.com

What I wished I had done more of (regerts) Learn a language and learn it in depth Surrounded myself with other developers/designers Reached out to potential clients with some free work while I was building my portfolio and skills What I did that made a big difference Constantly putting myself out of my comfort zone Learned the command line Took a chance on a new language (PHP to Ruby) A lot of work on projects that I had a close connection with Starting a meetup group Podcasting What i am looking to do in the future Functional languages (taking a chance on a new language, Elixir) More focus on Javascript Teaching/mentoring more Reducing my freelance work

Vue.js 2.0 Is Here! Medium Article by Evan You - https://medium.com/the-vue-point/vue-2-0-is-here-ef1f26acf4b8#.cnmja7aa2 Website - https://vuejs.org/ 16kb min+gzip Runtime!

Fast, reliable, and secure dependency management for JavaScript. https://yarnpkg.com/ https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn Facebook Post: https://code.facebook.com/posts/1840075619545360 Facebook announced Yarn, a collaboration with Exponent, Google, and Tilde Yet another dependency manager, but for the better! Yarn wouldn't exist if it wasn't for excellent prior art. Yarn has been inspired by the following projects: Bundler, Cargo, npm Fast: Yarn caches every package it downloads so it never needs to again. It also parallelizes operations to maximize resource utilization so install times are faster than ever. Reliable: Using a detailed, but concise, lockfile format, and a deterministic algorithm for installs, Yarn is able to guarantee that an install that worked on one system will work exactly the same way on any other system. Secure: Yarn uses checksums to verify the integrity of every installed package before its code is executed. Features Offline Mode: If you've installed a package before, you can install it

A run through how performing a retrospective for the previous year, 6 months, 3 months, can make a huge difference in your personal and professional growth.

A tool to manage rack apps in development with puma https://github.com/puma/puma-dev