Welcome to Surf Report, your weekly dose of my open tabs! Each week, I’ll be rounding up a handful of links that caught my eye. Think of this as my digital spring-cleaning, where I finally rescue those tabs I’ve left open for weeks, promising myself I’ll read them… only to forget they exist until my browser is begging me to put it out of its misery.
React Reconciliation: The Hidden Engine Behind Your Components
A dive into Reacts reconciliation engine. Reconciliation is the process by which React updates the DOM to match your component tree. It’s what makes React’s declarative programming model possible – you describe what you want, and React figures out how to make it happen efficiently.
How to turn chaos into clarity with Investigation Docs as an engineer
Investigating urgent issues remotely can sometimes be a challenge, keeping track of multiple conversations and threads you can see how it could easily become a nightmare. This article talks about something I’d consider proposing next time in my team, a living investigation document so each engineer can keep track of all the explored avenues.
Repairing What’s Broken
Someone posted this anonymously in the aftermath of the unfortunate layoffs at Automattic but I really enjoyed the read and a lot of it likely resonates with anyone impacted by layoffs in tech recently.
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