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Now for something completely different. Fabricio collected some of the most outstanding "worst volume control interface" candidates from a reddit thread about deliberately bad design. We hope some of them give you a chuckle during your workday. By: Fabricio Teixeira

The worst volume control UI in the world A group of bored developers and designers has decided to start a thread on reddit to figure out who can come up with the worst volume…

The most recent Node.js release implements the Web Streams API, which is new to Node, but has been available in most browsers for some time. If you're not familiar with web streams, this article can give you the basics by showing how to digest the chunks of a fetch request as they stream down to your browser. By: Dean Hume https://deanhume.com/experimenting-with-the-streams-api/?&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=enterprise-react-newsletter

Often the advice you find coming out of huge enterprises like Google or Amazon have a hard time applying to smaller scale endeavors. In this article we get some great summaries of lessons learned in the book "Software Engineering at Google". has some succinct takeaways. By: Swizec Teller

What I learned from Software Engineering at Google | Swizec Teller When I first picked up Software Engineering at Google I thought it was another one of those FAANG books full of lessons that make no sense at human scale. I was surprised, lessons apply to teams as small as 5.

Dan Abramov of the React Team walks us through why 'npm audit' is broken and what that means your dependencies. By: Dan Abramov https://overreacted.io/npm-audit-broken-by-design/?&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=enterprise-react-newsletter

WebWorkers are awkward, but they're the best way to do heavy synchronous workloads without blocking the main JavaScript thread. In this article, Surma summarizes the current state of WebWorkers and lays out some abstractions that can help work around their limitations. By: Surma https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/06/web-workers-2021/?&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=enterprise-react-newsletter