TLDR WEB DEV 2023-04-27

PAYMENTS 101 FOR A DEVELOPER

FACTORS TO CONSIDER IN DATABASE SELECTION

TECHNIQUES

WHAT IS THE SPOTIFY MODEL IN AGILE?

WHY IS OAUTH STILL HARD IN 2023?

OAuth is a common need for most web applications, yet it is still difficult to properly implement even today. This article lays out the problems with modern OAuth in detail.

CONTRACTS YOU SHOULD NEVER SIGN

When it comes to software engineering and the IT industry in general, contracts are a necessary part of doing business. In this article, the author shares his experience with various contracts and legal documents. He lists out types of contracts he recommends a developer should not sign, such as an employee contract that contains any form of a non-compete clause.

NANGO

Nango is a service that simplifies OAuth implementation by containing everything you need to work with APIs that use OAuth. It contains a full OAuth dance for 90+ APIs, a frontend SDK to trigger new OAuth flows, a backend SDK and REST API to retrieve fresh access tokens for your API calls, and lastly, a proxy to both authenticate and perform authenticated requests to an API.

PYTHAGORA

Pythagora lets developers generate integration tests for their Node.js apps by recording server activity without writing a single line of code.

TUQL

Tuql is a simple tool that turns a formatted SQLite database into a GraphQL endpoint. It tries to infer relationships between objects, currently supporting belongsTo, hasMany and belongsToMany. It also forms the basic mutations necessary to create, update, and delete objects, as well as associate many-to-many relationships.

THE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS NON-ACCESSIBILITY OF COOKIE NOTICES

MISALIGNED INCENTIVES IN DEV TOOL BUSINESSES

Developer tool businesses with misaligned incentives can lead to software bloat and product degradation. Aligned incentives lead to good outcomes, and everything else is a problem waiting to happen. This article talks about the power of aligned incentives and how thinking about them ahead of time can be valuable to a business’s success.

HOW OBSIDIAN IMPROVED MY ORGANIZATION AT WORK AND AT HOME

MASTERING ERROR HANDLING IN JAVASCRIPT

MICROSOFT EDGE IS LEAKING THE SITES YOU VISIT TO BING

EDGE COMPUTING VS CLOUD COMPUTING — WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?

This is a Twitter thread explaining the pros and cons between edge computing and cloud computing.

NEUTRALINOJS

Neutralinojs is a lightweight and portable desktop application development framework. It lets you develop lightweight cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS.