TLDR WEB DEV 2023-06-14

SURVEY REVEALS AI’S IMPACT ON THE DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE

EXPLORING TYPESCRIPT 5 FEATURES: SMALLER, SIMPLER, FASTER

INSIDE AGODA’S PRIVATE CLOUD

DON'T MAKE THE SAME 3 PERFORMANCE REVIEW MISTAKES I MADE

4 MYTHS AND 1 TRUTH ABOUT SCHEDULING MEETINGS

DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE: WHAT IS IT AND WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?

MILLION

Million is an extremely fast and lightweight (<4kb) virtual DOM that makes React components up to 70% faster. It makes creating web apps with fast rendering and loading speeds easy (it's just wrapping a React component). Million.js reduces the overhead of React immensely by using a fine-tuned, optimized virtual DOM.

FUNCTION CALLING AND OTHER API UPDATES

OpenAI has released new updates to the gpt-3.5-turbo and gpt-4 APIs. These updates introduce function calling capabilities, a new way to more reliably connect GPT's capabilities with external tools and APIs. The updates also include a 75% cost reduction of embeddings and a 25% cost reduction on input tokens for gpt-3.5-turbo. gpt-3.5-turbo now has a 16k context version.

RESEND

Resend is a modern email sending platform focused on providing the best developer experience. With Resend, you can code your email using React instead of outdated HTML table layouts. It also provides higher performance and better observability compared to competing platforms.

DEVELOPER SURVEY

NON-CODE CONTRIBUTIONS ARE THE SECRET TO OPEN SOURCE SUCCESS

MICROSOFT AND OPENAI FORGE AWKWARD PARTNERSHIP AS TECH’S NEW POWER COUPLE

Microsoft invested billions to get early access to the generative artificial intelligence technology of a much smaller OpenAI. The partnership is considered a smart move on Microsoft’s part. However, the relationship has produced conflict and confusion behind the scenes. For example, people within Microsoft have complained about diminished spending on its in-house AI and that OpenAI doesn’t allow most Microsoft employees access to the inner workings of its technology. Also, Microsoft and OpenAI sales teams sometimes pitch to the same customers. Despite these issues, Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood has called it a “great partnership” where both sides benefit.

AND WORK FROM THE STACK OVERFLOW COMMUNITY

HOW TO BUILD AND PUBLISH YOUR FIRST REACT NPM PACKAGE

A SELF-LEARNING, MODERN COMPUTER SCIENCE CURRICULUM

This is a collection of modern resources on various undergrad level computer science topics for anyone with an interest in theory.

WHERE RESPECT IS DUE

This article contains an interview with Rich Siegel, the creator of BBEdit, a HTML and text editor that is considered one of the most beloved developer tools since its first release in 1992.