Next month I’m giving a talk on the evolution of the deployment tools and processes in the last couple of decades. This article is going along the same lines but over a much shorter period of time and only covering the static websites, not web applications. Still quite impressive as to how far and how fast the technology is changing.
This Front-End Checklist is pretty awesome and quite extensive:
The Front-End Checklist is an exhaustive list of all elements you need to have / to test before launching your site / page HTML to production.
It is based on Front-End developers’ years of experience, with the addition from some other open-source checklists.
It goes over generic HTML bits, meta information, web fonts, CSS, images, JavaScript, security, accessibility, performance and more.
The best part is that large parts of this list are pretty easy to automate and integrate with your deployment / continuous delivery tool chain.
Here’s an interesting story of moving away from MailChimp to a combined setup of Amazon SES and MailWizz, which resulted in overall 92% reduction of the monthly bill. Given it’s not the same functionality, but if you are technical enough and your requirements are simpler than all the functionality of the MailChimp, this looks like a good alternative.
“What you should know as a founder of a software company” is a nice overview of subjects, with links to learn more, for anyone who is thinking about or have already started a software company. The article goes through:
Of course, no one article can tell you everything you need to know to run a software company – there’s just too much – but this one is a good place to start.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SAkq6lsnoE
Here’s Gordon Ramsey’s documentary on the shark over-fishing and the horrors of shark finning. I’ve heard about this before, but the video left me speechless.