🌸 Newsletter #30: A new HTTP status, manage difficult colleagues, finally understand the DNS...
A bi-monthly newsletter about Ruby on Rails and the web.
In this issue we discover a new HTTP status code, we talk about the Heroku fail, how to recruit and onboard juniors, how we discovered the web when we were kids…
😙 French version (version française) | 🤌 Italian version (versione italiana) | 🤝 Spanish version (versión española)
We welcome Lucille to the editors’ team for the French version! Bienvenue 🎉
Aurelie who was already with us to translate the newsletter into English is now also editor! 🥐
The more we are, the more sustainable this project is and we can grow! 🤗 Don’t hesitate to join us!
Web News 🗞️
🐣 A lot of tech babies these past weeks 🐣
🕵️♀️ A new HTTP status code 103 Early Hint
💬 New features for discussions, votes… on Github, it will facilitate communications and collaboration and avoid spreading information between GitHub, Slack, Jira, Substack…
🧰 The versions 1.0 for the frameworks Astro and Redwood (just in case you thought there was not enough of them)
🏴☠️ Warning if you linked your GitHub and Heroku accounts, there was a security breach last week.
🛤️ Ruby and Rails News
Code Tip 💎
Transform a text input in HTML.This is a gem to transform a text input in HTML.
link_filter = AutoHtml::Link.new(target: '_blank')
ink_filter.call('Share our Newsletter: https://womenonrails.substack.com')
=> 'Share our Newsletter: <a target="blank" href="http://rors.org">https://womenonrails.substack.com</a>'On the Web 🕸️
🤝 Hell, is not always other people
Who never had a colleague who made us want to flee when we learned they were joining our project? In this meticulous article, Sally Lait gives some tips to learn to work with those we would prefer to avoid… And sometimes, even re-evaluate yourself.
✨ Building bridges with difficult co-workers - Sally Lait
🌱 How to (well) recruit juniors
Bad at recruiting juniors, bad at keeping them: Ceora Ford delivers an irrevocable report of tech. But the good news is that she went down that path and learned from her mistakes (and others), and she shares practical ways to onboard new hires in engineering teams.
✨ How to lead your junior engineers to success - Ceora Ford
👩💻 I am a Manager, Should I Continue to Code?
Reconciling management responsibilities and code sessions is a problem for many senior devs. Principal Software Engineer at Split.io, Joy Ebertz weighted the pros and cons of digging in the codebase as a manager, and gives us good pieces of advice. A great way to get further information after reading the articles by Charity Majors and Gemma Barlow we shared in last July issue.
✨ To code or not to code: What’s the right balance for Staff+ engineers? - Joy Ebertz
Du code 💻
👩🏭 DNS crash test
To understand what made Facebook sweat in 2021, the better way is to play with a DNS and test tons of things! Julia Evans created the perfect playground to experiment, break, play…
☁️ The Head in the Clouds
What we love with Priyanka Vergadia is the quality of the content and the enthusiasm she shares in her videos. We suggest you watch an introduction to Google Cloud very detailed, and with a lot of advice to scale an app depending on the stack you use. And the big bonus is the animations in the background, which facilitate comprehension a lot.
✨ Introduction to Google Cloud - Priyanka Vergadia
💬 HTML: Bigger Than You Think
As web developers, we are supposed to know how to write HTML. But doing it well is way better! In this article Abbey Perini gives you all the rules to write semantic HTML and proves it’s a powerful language.
✨ Semantic HTML: What, Why, and How - Abbey Perini
Fun 🎉
🌸 A Childhood on the Web
Amy Wibowo loves pink. Former developer who graduated from MIT, she loves programming which she discovered with fandom blogging. In her webcomic Home Sweet Page, she tells us a very sweet story with a lot of cute animals and little hearts. A must-read si, like her, you grew up online.
✨ Home Sweet Homepage - Amy Wibowo
Events 🎡
🥋 Hack and Kata Night - April 26 (10am PDT)
It’s for you the perfect moment to take advantage of the synergy groups provide and hit milestones on your projects. You can work as a pair or bigger groups on a side project, code exercise, or even Katas.
✨ Hack Evening - Women Who Code Berlin
🤓 Study Group - May 4
A working group to code with peers mostly on JavaScript, Python, or Java (or else), a good opportunity to make progress on a side project or on this tutorial you started a long time ago. It’s also the best place to share your experience and network.
✨ Studygroup - Female Coders Linz
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Editors: Aurelie, Camille, Lucille and Juliette
English version: Aurelie
Italian version: Paola
Spanish version: Kattya