HackerNews Summary (2023-05-11 06AM)

Source: Careers

Summary
👥💻 OneSignal offers remote work as the default option, with in-office experiences available in select locations.

Fact

👥 Our company is remote-first, with remote work as the default option.

💻 In-office experiences are available in San Mateo, CA and New York City in the United States, and in London in the United Kingdom.

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Source: Wind is main source of UK electricity for first time

Summary
🌞💨 Renewables make up 42% of the UK’s electricity in Q1 2023, while gas and coal account for 33%.

Facts

🌬️ Wind and 🌞 solar energy have experienced considerable growth in the UK.

🔋 Renewable energy supplies 42% of the UK’s electricity in Q1 2023.

🛢️ Fossil fuels such as gas and coal supplied 33% of the UK’s electricity in the same period.

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Source: The JavaScript Ecosystem Is Delightfully Weird

Summary
The JavaScript ecosystem is weird because of its historical background and the many ways people are not writing JavaScript anymore. While other languages stay within the boundaries of what can be done with them, JavaScript continues to evolve rapidly and is used differently across popular frameworks like Next.JS, Remix, or Svelte.

Fact

🤔 JavaScript was historically bad until ECMAScript 6 in 2015, with no imports, no classes, no async, no arrow functions, no template literals, no destructuring assignment, no default parameters, and no rest/spread parameters.

🤯 Bundling JS to run in the browser was the first sign of weirdness, leading to minimized, tree-shaken, code-split outputs that were not the same as the written code, requiring sourcemaps to help.

☕ CoffeeScript came along, a language compiled into JavaScript. Later, ECMAScript 6 mostly displaced CoffeeScript but gave rise to transpilers like Babel that compiled current and future versions of JavaScript into older versions that ran on supported environments.

🚀 esbuild is now rapidly rising in popularity as a JavaScript bundler/transpiler due to the slowed pace of innovation in JavaScript and better JavaScript implementations keeping up.

📈 People are not writing JavaScript anymore when using frameworks like Next.JS, Remix, or Svelte, where you are not coding in ECMAScript as standardized by ECMA TC39, but instead in JSX and other formats that enable different functionalities.

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Source: Product design & UX design resources – Degreeless.Design

Summary
Being a great designer requires constant learning and self-sufficiency. The journey to becoming a great designer involves amassing a collection of resources for personal and professional growth.

Fact

📚 There is more to becoming a great designer than just completing a single course or attending a bootcamp.

🌟 A great designer is curious and inquisitive, just like a good engineer.

💡 Becoming a great designer requires constant learning and self-sufficiency.

🔍 The journey involves collecting useful resources such as books, articles, and links to boost your career.

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