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Jane Manchun Wong Tweeted about it: https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1135701324589256704 Apple Support Article: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208050 Apple is changing the default shell as of macOS Catlina from Bash 3.2 to ZSH due to GPL licence changing that Apple is not happy with. Newer versions of Bash use GPL v3 that Apple has concerns with, whereas older versions of Bash that are running on Mojave and earlier are licensed under the GPL v2. Software Dropbox (backup and sync software) - https://db.tt/l33vnUkr6L Dashlane (password storage) - https://www.dashlane.com/en/cs/_FHtTXN3Rkdg Podcast Gear Blue Yeti USB Microphone (Silver) - http://amzn.to/2BjKEh9 Blue Yeti USB Microphone (Blackout Edition) - http://amzn.to/2By4byE Premium 6-inch Pop Filter For Blue Yeti Microphone by Auphonix - http://amzn.to/2DtK2aq Video Gear Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II Digital Camera w/ 1 Inch Sensor and tilt LCD screen - Wi-Fi & NFC Enabled (Black) - http://amzn.to/2Bwd0ZK Rode smartLav+ Lavalier Microphone for iPh

Announcement Tweet: https://twitter.com/sarah_edo/status/1133369255104094208?s=11 CSS Grid Generator by Sarah Drasner: https://cssgrid-generator.netlify.com/ A small tool for working with CSS Grid. You can designate rows, columns, gaps, and units, and then drag to create child divs to make dynamic layouts with ease! Software Dropbox (backup and sync software) - https://db.tt/l33vnUkr6L Dashlane (password storage) - https://www.dashlane.com/en/cs/_FHtTXN3Rkdg Podcast Gear Blue Yeti USB Microphone (Silver) - http://amzn.to/2BjKEh9 Blue Yeti USB Microphone (Blackout Edition) - http://amzn.to/2By4byE Premium 6-inch Pop Filter For Blue Yeti Microphone by Auphonix - http://amzn.to/2DtK2aq Video Gear Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II Digital Camera w/ 1 Inch Sensor and tilt LCD screen - Wi-Fi & NFC Enabled (Black) - http://amzn.to/2Bwd0ZK Rode smartLav+ Lavalier Microphone for iPhone and Smartphones - http://amzn.to/2Dtt38f JOBY GorillaPod 3K Kit. Compact Tripod 3K Stand and Ballhead 3K for Compact Mirrorless Cameras

WordPress 5.2, which is available now, comes with some great and much needed security features. Cryptographically-signed updates Starting with WordPress 5.2, the WordPress team will digitally sign its update packages with the Ed25519 public-key signature system so that a local installation will be able to verify the update package's authenticity before applying it to a local site. Adding support for cryptographically-signed updates is an important step in preventing threat actors from carrying out a supply-chain attack on all WordPress sites, something that security firms have warned for more than two years now. "Before WordPress 5.2, if you wanted to infect every WordPress site on the Internet, you just had to hack [the WordPress] update server," said Scott Arciszewski, Chief Development Officer at Paragon Initiative Enterprises, and one of the developers involved in securing the WordPress update system. "After WordPress 5.2, you would need to pull off the same attack and somehow pilfer the si

Ensure as much test coverage as possible Update gems & Rails versions (this ties into the next step) Update your Ruby version to 2.5.0 or later Fix All Deprecation Warnings Setup error tracking (Rollbar, etc) Use railsdiff.org to help you upgrade your files correctly https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/6_0_release_notes.html Software Dropbox (backup and sync software) - https://db.tt/l33vnUkr6L Dashlane (password storage) - https://www.dashlane.com/en/cs/_FHtTXN3Rkdg Podcast Gear Blue Yeti USB Microphone (Silver) - http://amzn.to/2BjKEh9 Blue Yeti USB Microphone (Blackout Edition) - http://amzn.to/2By4byE Premium 6-inch Pop Filter For Blue Yeti Microphone by Auphonix - http://amzn.to/2DtK2aq Video Gear Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II Digital Camera w/ 1 Inch Sensor and tilt LCD screen - Wi-Fi & NFC Enabled (Black) - http://amzn.to/2Bwd0ZK Rode smartLav+ Lavalier Microphone for iPhone and Smartphones - http://amzn.to/2Dtt38f JOBY GorillaPod 3K Kit. Compact Tripod 3K Stand and Ballhead 3K for Compact Mirr

April 30: Final release. Ship and celebrate the release of Rails 6.0 at RailsConf 2019! Rails 6.0 will require Ruby 2.5+ Action Mailbox Action Mailbox allows you to route incoming emails to controller-like mailboxes. ActiveStorage is required. Simple setup with: $ rails action_mailbox:install $ rails db:migrate Like the Mailman gem https://github.com/mailman/mailman Action Text Action Text brings rich text content and editing to Rails. It includes the Trix editor that handles everything from formatting to links to quotes to lists to embedded images and galleries. The rich text content generated by the Trix editor is saved in its own RichText model that's associated with any existing Active Record model in the application. Any embedded images (or other attachments) are automatically stored using Active Storage and associated with the included RichText model. Simple install with rails action_text:install and running some migrations that are generated from the command. Parallel Testing Parallel Testing allows yo

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NPM, the node package manager, has a new release, version 6 which brings along a small list of improvements and new features with a big bang for your buck. Release article: https://medium.com/npm-inc/announcing-npm-6-5d0b1799a905 Upgrade with npm i -g npm@latest NSP (Node Security Project) now built in through npm audit command Performance improvement of 17x compared to 1 year ago NPM CI command optimisation, 2 - 3x faster Configure webhooks via the CLI More visible integrity metadata Automatic lockfile resolution for conflicts Software Dropbox (backup and sync software) - https://db.tt/l33vnUkr6L Dashlane (password storage) - https://www.dashlane.com/en/cs/_FHtTXN3Rkdg Podcast Gear Blue Yeti USB Microphone (Silver) - http://amzn.to/2BjKEh9 Blue Yeti USB Microphone (Blackout Edition) - http://amzn.to/2By4byE Premium 6-inch Pop Filter For Blue Yeti Microphone by Auphonix - http://amzn.to/2DtK2aq Video Gear Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II Digital Camera w/ 1 Inch Sensor and tilt LCD screen - Wi-Fi & NFC Enable

https://stripe.com/billing Titled: Billing and subscriptions for fast-growing businesses Description: The most ambitious companies design billing around customer experience. Stripe Billing is a new set of tools to build and scale your recurring business model. FOR DEVELOPERS BUILDING BLOCKS FOR BILLING The Stripe Billing API is easy to integrate into existing websites, mobile apps, or even CRM systems. Developers can use out-of-the-box functionality to get started quickly or use our composable API building blocks to design fully customized subscription logic and pricing models. Flat Rate, Multiple Plans, Per Seat, Usage Based, Flat Rate + Overage FOR BUSINESS TEAMS END-TO-END BILLING—NO CODE REQUIRED Once you’re set up, you can create and manage subscriptions and invoices—and view detailed financial reports—directly from the Dashboard. Stripe doesn’t limit the number of team members you can add and supports granular roles and permissions to help manage access. INVOICES, HOSTED BY STRIPE Send your first invoic

Release Notes: https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/03/29/react-v-16-3.html Changelog: https://github.com/facebook/react/releases/tag/v16.3.0 Context API! No more props drilling! (Passing props through various components) Thanks to createContext function on the React class. Harry Wolff has a great overview video of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ilq6G-VMyQ Elijah Manor also has a great overview video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhWqy-vxKS8 Yes, it is a new Context API, but if you use the old Context API, all will be good until React 17 StrictMode Orders you to follow best practices, it basically will give you some warnings in the console. Wrap your components in and you are ready to go. AsyncMode Any child components of the tag will now make those childrens updates asynchronous, treating them as low priority updates. Check out https://build-mbfootjxoo.now.sh/ for a working interactive example Life Cycle Methods Are Changing componentWillMount, componentWillUpdate, componentWillReceiveProps will be depreca

Rails 5.2.0 RC2 Notes - http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2018/3/20/Rails-5-2-RC2/ Rails 5.2.0 Release Notes - http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/5_2_release_notes.html Active Storage With the new Active Storage framework in Rails 5.2, we’ve solved for the modern approach of uploading files straight to the cloud. Out of the box, there’s support for Amazon’s S3, Google’s Cloud Storage, and Microsoft Azure Cloud File Storage. If you’re dealing with images, you can create variants on the fly. If you’re dealing with videos or PDFs, you can create previews on the fly. And regardless of the type, you can analyze uploads for metadata extraction asynchronously. Redis Cache Store Redis for general partial, fragment, and other Rails caching jobs. The Redis cache store takes advantage of Redis support for automatic eviction when it reaches max memory, allowing it to behave much like a Memcached cache server. Deployment note: Redis doesn't expire keys by default, so take care to use a dedicated Redis cache server. Don't fill

My Top 5 Tips to Get Ready for Upgrading to Rails 5.2. Ensure as much test coverage as possible Upgrade to the latest 5.1.x release (step through each major release if you are on earlier versions such as 5.0.x or 4.x) Fix All Deprecation Warnings Setup error tracking (Rollbar, etc) Use railsdiff.org to help you upgrade your files correctly

Major browsers will be starting to mark your website as insecure in the very near future. How to prepare and make sure your website is not marked as insecure. Google Security Blog: https://security.googleblog.com/2018/02/a-secure-web-is-here-to-stay.html Mozilla Security Blog: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/15/secure-contexts-everywhere/ Secure for free with Let’s Encrypt: https://letsencrypt.org/getting-started/ Software Dropbox (backup and sync software) - https://db.tt/l33vnUkr6L Dashlane (password storage) - https://www.dashlane.com/en/cs/_FHtTXN3Rkdg Podcast Gear Blue Yeti USB Microphone (Silver) - http://amzn.to/2BjKEh9 Blue Yeti USB Microphone (Blackout Edition) - http://amzn.to/2By4byE Premium 6-inch Pop Filter For Blue Yeti Microphone by Auphonix - http://amzn.to/2DtK2aq Video Gear Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II Digital Camera w/ 1 Inch Sensor and tilt LCD screen - Wi-Fi & NFC Enabled (Black) - http://amzn.to/2Bwd0ZK Rode smartLav+ Lavalier Microphone for iPhone and Smartphones - http://

NPM 5.7.0 Release Changelog - https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v5.7.0 NPM CI The new npm ci command installs from your lock-file ONLY. If your package.json and your lock-file are out of sync then it will report an error. It works by throwing away your node_modules and recreating it from scratch. Beyond guaranteeing you that you'll only get what is in your lock-file it's also much faster (2x-10x!) than npm install when you don't start with a node_modules. As you may take from the name, we expect it to be a big boon to continuous integration environments. We also expect that folks who do production deploys from git tags will see major gains. Article by Tomas Trajan - https://medium.com/@tomastrajan/how-to-speed-up-continuous-integration-build-with-new-npm-ci-and-package-lock-json-7647f91751a Software Dropbox (backup and sync software) - https://db.tt/l33vnUkr6L Dashlane (password storage) - https://www.dashlane.com/en/cs/_FHtTXN3Rkdg Podcast Gear Blue Yeti USB Microphone (Silver) - http://amzn.to/2BjKEh9

Blog post by Sean Larkin: https://medium.com/webpack/webpack-4-released-today-6cdb994702d4 What’s New? Much faster, a bit of a give in, but, it is up to 98% faster! Huge! Zero config (crazy amounts of boilerplate be gone) Sensible defaults with the config too! WebAssembly suport Module Type’s Support Docs are coming, calm yourself! Software Dropbox (backup and sync software) - https://db.tt/l33vnUkr6L Dashlane (password storage) - https://www.dashlane.com/en/cs/_FHtTXN3Rkdg Podcast Gear Blue Yeti USB Microphone (Silver) - http://amzn.to/2BjKEh9 Blue Yeti USB Microphone (Blackout Edition) - http://amzn.to/2By4byE Premium 6-inch Pop Filter For Blue Yeti Microphone by Auphonix - http://amzn.to/2DtK2aq Video Gear Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II Digital Camera w/ 1 Inch Sensor and tilt LCD screen - Wi-Fi & NFC Enabled (Black) - http://amzn.to/2Bwd0ZK Rode smartLav+ Lavalier Microphone for iPhone and Smartphones - http://amzn.to/2Dtt38f JOBY GorillaPod 3K Kit. Compact Tripod 3K Stand and Ballhead 3K for Compact

Both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox now force all .dev gTLD to use HTTPS which may break your local development setup if you do not use HTTPS. Mattias Geniar has a great article on this at https://ma.ttias.be/chrome-force-dev-domains-https-via-preloaded-hsts/ Software Dropbox (backup and sync software) - https://db.tt/l33vnUkr6L Dashlane (password storage) - https://www.dashlane.com/en/cs/_FHtTXN3Rkdg Podcast Gear Blue Yeti USB Microphone (Silver) - http://amzn.to/2BjKEh9 Blue Yeti USB Microphone (Blackout Edition) - http://amzn.to/2By4byE Premium 6-inch Pop Filter For Blue Yeti Microphone by Auphonix - http://amzn.to/2DtK2aq Video Gear Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II Digital Camera w/ 1 Inch Sensor and tilt LCD screen - Wi-Fi & NFC Enabled (Black) - http://amzn.to/2Bwd0ZK Rode smartLav+ Lavalier Microphone for iPhone and Smartphones - http://amzn.to/2Dtt38f JOBY GorillaPod 3K Kit. Compact Tripod 3K Stand and Ballhead 3K for Compact Mirrorless Cameras or devices up to 3K (6.6lbs). Black/Charcoal. - http:/

Laravel 5.6 Release Notes - https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/releases Laravel 5.6 News - https://laravel-news.com/laravel-5-6 Laravel Spark - https://spark.laravel.com/ Laravel Logging Improvements, Single Server Task Scheduling, Dynamic Rate Limiting, Broadcast Channel Classes, API Controller Generation, Model Serialization Improvements, Eloquent Date Casting, Blade Component Aliases, Argon2 Password Hashing, UUID Methods, Collision, Bootstrap 4 Laravel Spark This release includes an enhanced UI built on Bootstrap 4, Localization, Per-Seat Pricing, Stripe v3, and a variety of other improvements. Software Dropbox (backup and sync software) - https://db.tt/l33vnUkr6L Dashlane (password storage) - https://www.dashlane.com/en/cs/_FHtTXN3Rkdg Podcast Gear Blue Yeti USB Microphone (Silver) - http://amzn.to/2BjKEh9 Blue Yeti USB Microphone (Blackout Edition) - http://amzn.to/2By4byE Premium 6-inch Pop Filter For Blue Yeti Microphone by Auphonix - http://amzn.to/2DtK2aq Video Gear Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II Digital Ca

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