The Daily Index — Wednesday, December 20, 2023 · TLDR Index

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WHAT VUE’S CREATOR LEARNED THE HARD WAY WITH VUE 3

Evan You, creator of Vue, recounts some of the challenges the release of Vue 3 unveiled and the lessons he learned with each one. One key lesson was minimizing breaking changes and adopting a deprecation cycle to ensure smoother transitions for users. Another lesson was recognizing the importance of collaborating with ecosystem library authors to address issues before releases and discouraging the use of internal APIs to prevent difficulties in upgrading. Embracing TypeScript and the composition API was crucial for a better developer experience.

thenewstack.io · 9 min

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WHAT IS A DISTRIBUTED DATABASE AND WHEN SHOULD YOU USE ONE?

Distributed databases are recommended when you need geographical distribution of data, scalability, high availability and data resilience, and routing traffic for lower latency. However, distributed databases also come with challenges such as efficient routing, maintaining data consistency, handling complex ACID transactions, cost considerations, and provisioning.

fauna.com · 7 min

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THE DAY I STARTED BELIEVING IN UNIT TESTS

Initially skeptical about the value of unit tests, the author was assigned to create and run them for embedded software. After a year of successful runs, the tests suddenly started failing due to a race condition in the test framework's threading abstraction. This experience led the author to recognize the importance of unit tests in uncovering hidden defects, improving code quality, and adopting new development methodologies when necessary.

mental-reverb.com · 5 min

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BIGGEST PRODUCTIVITY KILLERS IN THE ENGINEERING INDUSTRY

The top productivity killers include external distractions such as social media, email, and meetings, as well as poor time management and a lack of clear goals or expectations. Strategies for addressing these issues include setting boundaries around technology use, prioritizing tasks, and establishing clear communication channels.

open.substack.com · 8 min

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FOUR TRENDS THAT CHANGED AI IN 2023

2023 was an exciting year for AI. We witnessed many impactful changes and unanticipated shifts including product releases, policy changes, and boardroom coups. This article summarizes 4 trends that shaped the trajectory of AI in 2023 and may continue to do so into 2024. Although we’ve discovered a lot this year, we still have so much to learn about AI.

technologyreview.com · 9 min

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SAYING GOODBYE TO THIRD PARTY COOKIES

Web privacy continues to improve with the latest announcement from Chrome: third-party cookies will be deprecated in 2024. Chrome joins its browser counterparts Safari and Firefox with this change. This article explains why third-party cookies pose a privacy risk, how Chrome will incrementally deprecate them in 2024, and how these changes will affect web developers and general product users.

developer.mozilla.org · 8 min

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THE “CHEAP” WEB

The “cheap” web focuses on websites that are cheap to maintain, access, leave, participate in, explore, and contribute to.

potato.cheap · 6 min

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GOOGLE’S NEW AI, GEMINI, BEATS CHATGPT IN 30 OF 32 TEST CATEGORIES

Google gets a leg up in the AI race with its new AI tool, Gemini, which exceeds its competitors in 30 of the 32 academic benchmarks used to evaluate large language models.

forbes.com · 4 min

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MODERN CSS PROPERTIES YOUR WEBSITE MUST HAVE

This article highlights 3 modern CSS properties that can help make your website UI more seamless. It spotlights scroll-margin, color-scheme, and text-wrap and includes short code snippets that show you how and when to use each property.

bejamas.io · 2 min

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