Quentin Delcourt

Awesome lecture from the Director of the University of Chicago's Writing Program. 1h21m but very easy to follow. Very much oriented towards academic writing but I think the lessons here are applicable to any kind of non-fictionnal writing.

Probably nothing new to you, at least if you work in the software industry. Adding this as a reference for myself mostly ;)

Writing technical documentation can be quite challenging. This system provides some help on how to organise the content of such documentation using several categories.

An extension that helps to find memory leaks

If you want to bullet-proof your app against SQL injections, this tool allows you to quickly look if a specific URL is vulnerable or not.

A collection of high-quality, free, online creativity tools.

A collection of Internet artifacts such as the first MP3, the first spam, etc.

Bruno is an alternative to Postman and Insomnia that allows you to share the collections using a git repository. Very interesting for teams that don't want to rely on a paid cloud solution.

Inspiration for building UI components

The Brutalist trend in web design is not new, but I quite like this definition of it. I also think it goes well with a global and necessary movement to go towards sobriety and fewer energy wasting.

Very simple service that will return specific HTTP status on demand. Very useful to play around with webhooks for example.

Command line tool that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format

Clear and very useful advice on how to clean up systemd journal and avoid them eating up all the space.

The four stages to go through to find a suitable name for a function/variable/class etc.

Jérôme's approach on how to modularise code with Eleventy. Sound advices as always.

On how clear software boundaries can help avoid teams interdependency mess.

How to tell a story with git commits and make your team's lives easier when they review your code. Great advices from Marijn Huizendveld.

There is never time for refactoring, therefore you have to do it a little, all the time. Here is an interesting approach on how to do that.

Some useful tricks to improve the readability of your browser console output

SSH tunnels are mostly used for local port forwarding, but you can do more with them. The possibilities are explained here very clearly.

Or how to help making your workplace a little less sexist every day.

Even though I've been writing technical specs for a long time, it's never easy to start them. Zara Cooper wrote this fabulous guide, with a complete template that will help you think of everything important for an application.

Max Böck created this boilerplate to quickly build and deploy a website on Netlify in order to handle a huge and sudden spike in traffic. Powered by the fabulous Eleventy.

Jérôme implemented a nice system to organise posts in categories in Eleventy. I find the paging system especially interesting. Now we await the plugin 🤓

As I always struggle to write proper documentation, these look like they could help me 🙂

A great reminder that links ≠ buttons

It's always interesting when an artist explain how they work. Especially when it's generative art 🤩

Training application to help you get better at typing without even looking at that damned keyboard.

As I often need to create diagrams for analysis I find myself spending 75% of the time battling with the tool to produce it.

This web app solves the problem by rendering the diagram based on text you wrote.

Test how accessible a color combination is.

Email equivalent of caniuse.com. If you still need to design those.

Jérôme wrote a really clear and to-the-point blog post on how to render static pages using 11ty and DatoCMS.

Leon Sans is a dynamic font that you can use with canvas.

At my company, we do our DSMs via Slack. I found it annoying to format properly the DSM each time, so I made a small generator for it. #lazydevftw

A little reminder that our beloved scripts will have to overcome many obstacles on their way to the user's browser.