Awesome List Updates on Jun 14, 2023

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1. Awesome Playwright

Integrations

• playwright-bdd (⭐144) - BDD testing with Playwright runner and CucumberJS.

2. Awesome Micropython

Display / LED Segment

• micropython-tm1638spi - MicroPython Library for a popular board with 8 7-segment digits, 8 separate LEDs and 8 push buttons controlled by a TM1638.

Motion / Stepper

• micropython-drv8825 - Driver and example in MicroPython to control a stepper motor via a DRV8825 controller board.

Sensors / Colour

• micropython-as7341 - MicroPython library for AS7341.

Code Generation / SRAM

• micropython-stubs (⭐105) - Stubs of most MicroPython ports, boards and versions to make writing code that much simpler.

Shells / Jupyter

• micropython-magic (⭐13) - MicroPython integrated into Jupyter notebooks.

3. Awesome Falsehood

Geography

• Top 5 most insane kanji place names in Japan - “There's one special group of kanji that's hard even for Japanese people to read: place names.”

4. Free for Dev

Email

• Resend - Transactional emails API for developers. 3,000 emails/month, 100 emails/day free, one custom domain.

5. Awesome Billing

Accounting / Software design and implementation

• Triple‐entry accounting with blockchain: How far have we come? - “Triple‐entry accounting is a new and a more efficient way to address fundamental trust and transparency issues that plague current accounting systems. Triple‐entry accounting with blockchain, when properly implemented, can fundamentally improve accounting.”

Contracts / Currencies

• Quantity discounts on a virtual good: The results of a massive pricing experiment - “Implementing price reductions ranging from 9–70% for large purchases, we found remarkably little impact on revenue, either positively or negatively.” If discounts are a placebo and are still widely used in the industry, maybe they are a marketing hack to lure big customers?

Payments / Receipt

• The humble receipt gets a brilliant redesign - When a Netflix data engineer revisit receipts.

6. Awesome Engineering Team Management

Recruitment / Interview

• The Technical Interview is an Ego Trip - Starts with anecdote of developers using a job interview as a vehicle to demonstrate their superiority. Then the author details a reasonable interview process that is trying to not waste anyone's time.

Culture / Procrastination

• Adaptation vs adaptability - There is a spectrum between perfect efficiency and being completely flexible. This article explores ecosystems and the flows of material and energy between different organisms within the ecosystem. (hinted by HN comment)

Facilities / Standups

• The impact of the 'open' workspace on human collaboration - Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration.

Communication / Writing

• Algorithm for writing a scientific manuscript - A process to guide the preparation and refinement of manuscripts.

Politics / Equity

• HiPPO FAQ - HiPPO stands for “Highest Paid Person's Opinion”, a trait of dysfunctional culture, in which power politics trumps data.

Setbacks and Failures / Burnout

• Steve Jobs explains - Why companies fail? - On how sales and marketing takes over product focused companies.

7. Awesome Iam

SAML / Macaroons

• SAML vs. OAuth - “OAuth is a protocol for authorization: it ensures Bob goes to the right parking lot. In contrast, SAML is a protocol for authentication, or allowing Bob to get past the guardhouse.”

Trust & Safety / Fraud

• After Car2Go eased its background checks, 75 of its vehicles were stolen in one day. - Why background check are sometimes necessary.

Trust & Safety / Captcha

• You (probably) don't need ReCAPTCHA - Starts with a rant on how the service is a privacy nightmare and is tedious UI-wise, then list alternatives.

8. Awesome Cpp

Documentation

• Doxide (⭐25) - Modern documentation for modern C++, configure with YAML, output Markdown. [Apache 2.0] website

9. Awesome Elixir

Reading

• Elixir Code Smells (⭐1.4k) - A catalog of Elixir-specific code smells that can harm the quality of software developed using this language.

10. Awesome React Components

Photo / Image

• @frameright/react-image-display-control (⭐14) - Define zoom regions for smart responsive images.

11. Awesome Typescript

Books

• 📚 The Concise TypeScript Book (Free and Open Source) (⭐8.2k) by Simone Poggiali

12. Awesome Zsh Plugins

Themes / superconsole - Windows-only

• bashplus (⭐0) - Colorized replica of the default bash prompt with decorators for virtualenv and git status.

• bouni (⭐0) - Includes decorators for user@host, current directory, active python virtualenv, and git status.

• hex (⭐0) - Heavily based on bira (⭐167k), and gruvbox (⭐101), which in turn is based on agnoster. Includes decorators for current directory, git status information, active python virtualenv, exit status of the last command run. Requires a Powerline-compatible font.

• hoffish (⭐0) - If the agnoster (⭐3.9k) theme and fish shell had a ZSH theme for a child. Includes decorators for git status, trimmed path to current directory, root status, exit status of the last command run and the active python virtualenv. Requires a Powerline font and the zsh-autosuggestions (⭐29k) and shrink-path (⭐167k) plugins.

• skgeek (⭐0) - Includes decorators for hostname, directory and git branch.

• thygod (⭐0) - Based off gnzh (⭐167k) and bira (⭐167k). Includes a git status decorator and changes prompt to a red cross when a command fails.

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