This month's newsletter comes to your inbox from Futurice's northernmost permanent office in Tampere. In the springtime, Tampere needs to pass that title for a brief moment to one of our fun activities called Operation Snowflake when a group of colleagues rent cabins from the north and spend the week skiing and working remotely.
Antti is a functionally-oriented full-stack developer from Futurice Tampere and finds it very weird to talk about himself in third person. He can often be found argui– I mean (he means? Damn!) sophistically discussing the latest in web frontend and explaining how an Antti is just an Antoid in the category of frontendo-developers! This is why the theme of this month’s newsletter is about both functional matters as well as the web frontend. In case you’d like to hear more about what Antti has to say and happen to understand Finnish, Antti is one of the hosts of the Webbidevaus.fi podcast!
I’ve been hammering my head against functional concepts for a while now. I’ve listened to this podcast from start to end twice now, and it just keeps getting better. A timeless classic!
A few months ago I was under the impression that Gitflow was the one and only way to develop software. How wrong I was! Turns out the term “trunk” is not just nightmare fuel from the old CVS days but the basis of a lean, mean way of working super efficiently and without a bazillion different types of branches. Suits the simple ol’ me!†eli
JavaScript moves fast, HTML glacially slow, CSS somewhere in between. Here’s a great, easily skimmable rundown on what’s bubbling under right now! I personally cannot wait to get my dirty paws on container queries.
Phoenix Framework is a kinda-sorta Ruby on Rails but written in Elixir, a proper functional language. In the last couple of years it has had this new LiveView feature, allowing programmers to build pretty smoking fast and sweet web applications that act as if they are SPAs, but they’re not! Utilizing websockets and the crazy good parallelisation features of BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine, it’s possible to say bye-bye to React and friends yet still provide ace user experience.
Juhis' personal website was built with Eleventy. And over time, he has added functionality and workflow improvements with Ghost Headless CMS and serverless Netlify Functions. It's as messy as real-life side-projects come and in this TechWeeklies session he shares the details of the techstack, flow, and observations from using these different tools together to build a fast static website with an enjoyable blog-writing experience.
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