May 23, 2021 articles snippets learnings

Infobeets week 20 - 2021

Development

Thanks Alex for passing me this eye opening video about promises in Javascript:

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases

How the API economy is powering digital transformation

The Architecture of Uber’s API gateway

JavaScript API to Recognize Humans vs Bots in Chrome

Specifications over Spreadsheets

Snippets

I found out that the best way to determine if an object in JavaScript has a property is to use the in keyword:

const hero = {
  name: 'Batman'
};

'name' in hero;     // => true
'realName' in hero; // => false

You can find more options here: 3 Ways to Check If an Object Has a Property in JavaScript.

Google I/O

Here’s a list of things I found interesting about this year’s Google I/O:

And for people without time:

Corporate Culture

Some workers aren’t that excited about a return to the office

The prolific João Alves this week published a couple of really interesting articles about hiring and interviews:

Random stuff

This week Apple announced some really cool stuff for people with disabilities. A list of accessibility features like this would have been perfect for WWDC, so I expect they have much more to show. Apple previews powerful software updates designed for people with disabilities

Each week I learn more about investing, and this simple tecnique seems good to invest in crypto futures. I’ve given a small try this week, but the crash and instability of the market stopped me from experimenting more. I’m going to study it more and come up with a tweaked strategy when things calm down a bit.

This week I fell into the rabbit hole of vocal coaches reaction videos, and this one about Disturbed’s The Sound of Silence was my favorite:

Calming Your Brain During Conflict

I watched Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead. An entertaining mix of a heist movie a la Ocean’s Eleven and a zombie movie. The most impressing thing is that an actor has been completely replaced by another in post production, so it seems that Dave Bautista and the other actors never actually meet with Tig Notaro (and her character was probably my favorite)

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