Indeed is the first such large HR Tech company to downsize its team and joins the other "recession symbols" in our industry. Nonetheless, we can look for consolation in the quite high (but declining) number of job offers for programmers and the freedom that comes with a home office. Well, unless you work for Apple...
Frontend
Frontend
Apple takes course for PWAs | Frontend Weekly vol. 126
The topic of Apple and Safari returns to us like a boomerang. This time we're taking up the topic of PWA applications, as it looks like the Cupertino company has decided to take a serious interest in the topic. Besides, in today's report you will also read about an alternative* to RxJS from the Angular team.
Craftsmanship
Craftsmanship
How did you program games for retro systems? – Software Craftsmanship Weekly vol. 124
Since I got a ton of votes that you liked the Weekly about MarioGPT so much a week ago, I figured we'd make today's edition a special one. I'll toss you some of the most interesting links that will give you a better understanding of the mechanics of old games. I say right away - mainly Nintendo consoles, but not only.
Career
Career
Will fruit Thursdays survive the recession? – Career Weekly vol. 24
Let's see if tech companies want to cut benefits due to the market situation. Then we'll visit the Dublin offices and Toshiba's Tokyo headquarters, where there are again invoice troubles.
Craftsmanship
Craftsmanship
MarioGPT: What are Text2Level models? – Software Craftsmanship Weekly vol. 122
Today a mix of my two favorite topics - AI and retro gaming ❤️. In addition, about the big change in YouTube leadership and the new version of GitHub Copilot.
Frontend
Frontend
The fascinating story of core-js | Frontend Weekly vol. 125
Open source is not a piece of cake. This week, the tide of bitterness overflowed for the author of the core-js library - one of the most important dependencies of most modern projects.
JVM
JVM
Curious about Carbon Footprint your application has? There’s a tool to measure it – JVM Weekly vol. 125
Have you already optimized your applications to reduce your impact on global warming? In addition to this, a new version of Gradle, a follow-up to last week's edition.
Career
Career
How to fall in love with IT again? – Career Weekly vol. 23
Since you are reading this post, it means that working in IT is not a "marriage of convenience" for you. That's good! On the other hand, worse days happen to everyone, so today we'll talk about how to overcome them.
Frontend
Frontend
The end of the WebKit monopoly on iOS? | Frontend Weekly vol. 124
Rumors about alternative browser engines for iOS return to us every few months. However, this time things are a little different, as there are real actions from Google and Mozilla happening. Even Apple's recent moves indicate that something is going on.
Craftsmanship
Craftsmanship
What does the Post-Covid reality of software conferences look like? – Software Craftsmanship Weekly vol. 122
Today, exceptionally, two topics, one well-known to you already (I hope ChatGPT hasn't bored you yet...). However, we will also look at the fate of software conferences after the pandemic.
JVM
JVM
Will Valhalla bring better nulls to Java? – JVM Weekly vol. 124
Three topics today, and actually each of them deserved a headline... Which, however, shows how much has been going on in the past week. So there will be the announcement of Kotlin 2.0, a set of experiments with Project Loom, and.... could it be that Kotlin Nulls are about to appear in Java?
Career
Career
Money doesn’t buy happiness – Career Weekly vol. 22
Meet Michael, who worked at Netflix for $450k a year and decided to quit. In addition to his story, we zoom in on Amazon's old/new recruiting strategy and recommend some great YouTube channels.
Craftsmanship
Craftsmanship
What does reverse engineering of old games enable us to do? – Software Craftsmanship Weekly vol. 121
Today we will present the financial results of Big Tech, so it will blow a little frosty.... the main topic, however, remains a look at how enthusiasts are reverse-engineering the games of our childhood.