WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest

Hello fellow developer, in this edition, we help you learn about performance, look at some yearly wrap-ups in tech, catch up with old tech like Cobol and Flash, solve crimes with SQL and you can help Santa hit the chimney!

📰 Top developer news 

• Web Development in 2023: JavaScript Still Rules, AI Emerges
• GitHub Wrapped allows you to create a video of your GitHub activity this year!
• New developer course on web.dev: Learn Performance
• How Google takes the pain out of code reviews, with 97% dev satisfaction
• Oxlint - The Ja. vaScript Oxidation Compiler

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📚 Reading list

• Deleting 50,000 Lines of Code in 3 Days with no ill effect to the product
• Code is run more than read, so why optimise for humans?
• Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer
• Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes
• The await event horizon

☕️ Featured video

Love it or hate it, there was a time when Flash was a huge part of the web. As it was proprietary and not part of the open web stack all that content was lost when Apple pulled the plug on supporting it. Rob Bateman is a Flash veteran now working on converting old Flash content to web native code. Watch the new episode now

⌨️ CODE100 challenge: presents on chimney

Santa messed up, dropping lots of presents on and outside the chimney. Can you analyse with your code how many of the presents landed where? Try it out now!

📺 Handpicked talks

• Nishi Goel - Breaking Down Long Tasks - performance.now()
• 10 JavaScript changes you missed in 2023
• Probably the most underrated (and useful) CSS feature
• Ines Akrap - What you need to know about Core Web Vitals
• Onur Gumus - What's new in CSS for Designers?

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💻 Developer jobs

• Softwareentwickler C++ (m/w/d) at IDS in Obersulm
• Cloud Engineer (m/w/d) at toom Baumarkt GmbH in Cologne, Remote
• SAP ABAP Entwickler (m/w/d) at Hörmann Deutschland in Steinhagen
• Site Reliability Engineer (f/m/d) at cinemo GmbH in Karlsruhe
• Senior Cybersecurity Engineer (m/w/d) at Framatome GmbH in Erlangen

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Tonies - Wirecube - Aldi-Süd - Camunda - Viadee 

⚙️ Procrastination corner

• SQL Murder Mystery - can you find out whodunnit by writing SQL?

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