Welcome, Developers! 👋 Electron, once dismissed as just a memory-hungry wrapper for web apps, now powers numerous popular apps and even critical aerospace systems at NASA and SpaceX. Today’s newsletter covers Electron’s misconceptions, advanced CSS attr() usage, and a comprehensive Git guide. We also feature pieces around what LLMs are best for PDF processing and scaling support for developer-focused companies. |
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Welcome, Developers! 👋 Electron, once dismissed as just a memory-hungry wrapper for web apps, now powers numerous popular apps and even critical aerospace systems at NASA and SpaceX. Today’s newsletter covers Electron’s misconceptions, advanced CSS attr() usage, and a comprehensive Git guide. We also feature pieces around what LLMs are best for PDF processing and scaling support for developer-focused companies. |
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💻 Things People Get Wrong About Electron Electron powers some of the world’s most used apps today like Slack, Discord, and even VSCode but still gathers criticism in some of its design choices like shipping parts of chromium in its apps. Its co-maintainer aims to clarify several things from his perspective on how native code isn’t inherently better compared to Electron along with opinions around web apps and bundle size. |
💻 Things People Get Wrong About Electron Electron powers some of the world’s most used apps today like Slack, Discord, and even VSCode but still gathers criticism in some of its design choices like shipping parts of chromium in its apps. Its co-maintainer aims to clarify several things from his perspective on how native code isn’t inherently better compared to Electron along with opinions around web apps and bundle size. |
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⚙️ New Capabilities For attr() Chrome’s 133 update includes new capabilities for the attr() function allowing you to use attribute values in CSS beyond simple strings. Now, you can directly reference colors, numbers, percentages, and more from your HTML attributes, opening up a world of possibilities for dynamic styling. |
⚙️ New Capabilities For attr() Chrome’s 133 update includes new capabilities for the attr() function allowing you to use attribute values in CSS beyond simple strings. Now, you can directly reference colors, numbers, percentages, and more from your HTML attributes, opening up a world of possibilities for dynamic styling. |
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📖 Beej's Guide to Git Brian (Beej) has posted several extensive guides on a number of topics and this one’s on Git. This excerpt from his site defines it best:
“If you're suddenly needing to use Git for something, hopefully this is the Guide for you. Starting from zero, it builds up your Git mental model so that you can more easily make your way around. This isn't a cheat-sheet—the idea is that you'll form a foundation to build toward expert use!”
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📖 Beej's Guide to Git Brian (Beej) has posted several extensive guides on a number of topics and this one’s on Git. This excerpt from his site defines it best:
“If you're suddenly needing to use Git for something, hopefully this is the Guide for you. Starting from zero, it builds up your Git mental model so that you can more easily make your way around. This isn't a cheat-sheet—the idea is that you'll form a foundation to build toward expert use!”
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🔍 Gemini 2.0 For PDF Processing Gemini hasn’t been in the news much but its Flash 2.0 model is rather impressive for mass PDFs processing. It delivers near-perfect OCR accuracy at breakthrough costs compared to the competition with minimal errors and unmatched efficiency. |
🔍 Gemini 2.0 For PDF Processing Gemini hasn’t been in the news much but its Flash 2.0 model is rather impressive for mass PDFs processing. It delivers near-perfect OCR accuracy at breakthrough costs compared to the competition with minimal errors and unmatched efficiency. |
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🔧 Scaling Slack to Support 1000s of Developers If you’re a developer-focused company, you’ll eventually get overwhelmed with supporting customers at scale but Railway had a solution to it. Check out how they combined product-led growth with high-touch yet scalable support. |
🔧 Scaling Slack to Support 1000s of Developers If you’re a developer-focused company, you’ll eventually get overwhelmed with supporting customers at scale but Railway had a solution to it. Check out how they combined product-led growth with high-touch yet scalable support. |
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🧰 The Toolbox Tools and products we're excited about today: |
🧰 The Toolbox Tools and products we're excited about today: |
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Astro 5.2 Astro pushed a minor release as it now supports Tailwind 4, improves trailing slash handling and external redirects, and introduces TOML frontmatter in Markdown and the experimental Astro:config. |
Astro 5.2 Astro pushed a minor release as it now supports Tailwind 4, improves trailing slash handling and external redirects, and introduces TOML frontmatter in Markdown and the experimental Astro:config. |
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Ruck Ruck is an open-source, build-less React framework that runs directly in Deno. Its features include RegEx-based dynamic routing, SSR with component-level data fetching, and seamless GraphQL integration. |
Ruck Ruck is an open-source, build-less React framework that runs directly in Deno. Its features include RegEx-based dynamic routing, SSR with component-level data fetching, and seamless GraphQL integration. |
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Httptap Httptap lets developers view HTTP and HTTPS requests made by any Linux program without requiring root access or system-wide changes. |
Httptap Httptap lets developers view HTTP and HTTPS requests made by any Linux program without requiring root access or system-wide changes. |
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Airtop Airtop solves the pain of browser automation at login screens, seamlessly handling authentication, including OAuth and 2FA. |
Airtop Airtop solves the pain of browser automation at login screens, seamlessly handling authentication, including OAuth and 2FA. |
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