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🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #174
Daily dispatches from the world of technology.
Friday's here - let's make the most of the day!
Well, this is a bit awkward! Yesterday, we welcomed a remarkable 3% increase in total subscribers (thank you and welcome!), but we find ourselves with a rather quiet newsroom today. It seems the holiday cheer is still going strong, with folks recovering from their epic Christmas celebrations—so the grapevine has gone silent. Nothing. Zip. Zilch. (Well, not entirely—Sacred Games Season 2 dropped, so there’s a flurry of spoilers and the usual sprinkle of low-effort content floating around.)
To our new subscribers: please don’t judge us on today’s lull! This isn’t our usual pace. Things might stay a little light until January 1st, but once the new year kicks off and everyone’s back in action, we’ll have plenty of updates and stories to share with you.
For now, we’ve rounded up some trending repositories and a bit of miscellaneous content to keep you engaged. Thanks for sticking with us.
Geek Gossip
Even the grapevine is quiet; must be debugging itself…
Latest Updates
No news is good news, or so they say.
Changelog
The changelog is on vacation; everything’s running smoothly
Trending Projects / Code Repositories
Mizu | Lightweight, intuitive, and customizable JS library that makes building powerful web apps a breeze!
Hookcn | Copy paste react hooks inspired by shadcn/ui
In Case You Missed It
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Job Board
No listings now, but your next role might just be compiling.
Miscellaneous
Scalable Systems 101: Expert Strategies For New Devs
Mastering scalability is key to building robust systems, as seen in giant tech companies like Amazon, Uber, and Netflix. Eight strategies to build scalable systems include stateless services, horizontal scaling, load balancing, auto-scaling, and caching. These strategies ensure systems can handle increased loads without sacrificing performance or user experience.
Tanstack Start: A New Approach To Server-side Rendering
TanStack Start is a thin server layer on top of TanStack Router, offering a unique approach to server-side rendering (SSR) that avoids common pain points. It allows for faster initial render performance and supports streaming, or "out of order streaming," to handle slow data requests.
Boosting Productivity As A Software Engineer
Dev expert shares 4 key habits to boost productivity: "flow" state, clear task writing, and mastering keyboard shortcuts, including examples from GitHub and IDEs, to work more efficiently and effectively.
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