Dev Roundup, Jan 2023 Part 2

My collection of new, interesting, useful, and trending content for software developers. The Jan 2023 Part 2 edition features React Wrap Balancer, the Golden Kitty Awards, a Shader Gradient app, a mind-blowing secret, and more.

Noah Matsell • January 31, 2023

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Around the Web 🕷

This edition features React Wrap Balancer, the Golden Kitty Awards, a Shader Gradient app, and more. Let's dive in!

Improving readability with React Wrap Balancer

This is a deep dive into React Wrap Balancer and the problem it solves. I use React Wrap Balancer on this blog to keep titles visually balanced.

React Wrap Balancer tidies up bad typography and matches line lengths on the fly.

Hall of Fame - Golden Kitty Awards Winners

Browse 2022's top Product Hunt products. See the winners in categories like productivity, AI, Design, SaaS and more. This is a great way to discover new and exciting products.

The #GoldenKittyAwards2022 results have been announced! Check to see this year’s Golden Kitty winners 👇

A Tailwind Animated Loading Skeleton

A nice animated loading effected for a card component using TailwindCSS only.

An advanced online playground for Tailwind CSS that lets you use all of Tailwind’s build-time features directly in the browser.

Shader Gradient, A Generator App

An that showcases beautiful animated, textured gradients. Build your own for Framer, support coming to Figma and React soon.

The easiest and fastest way to create a 3D website using React Three Fiber and NextJS

Some Fave Tweets 🐦

This thread is packed with valuable resources for any developer looking to dive deep on the craft and philosophy of software development.

Thiago Ghisi @thiagoghisi

I've read thousands of articles over the last 20 years in Tech.
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Below are The 22 Articles that Impacted my Career the most ➕ my main highlights from each one.

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11:56 a.m. – January 22, 2023 - View Tweet

I'm going to reference this tweet any time I have to build a new component library and/or design system.

Dmitry Belyaev @blvdmitry

Working on the content update for the design system checklist content. Starting with reviewing the most common components we cover there. Would you add anything to this list that you think can be found in majority of the systems?

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9:23 a.m. – January 23, 2023 - View Tweet

A really interesting way to visualize discovery work in software development. Based on Ryan Singer's tweet about defining discovery work as "prototyping" instead of "iterating".

Des Traynor @destraynor

Ryan's thread overlaps with and reminds me of Bill Buxton's point about the difference in skills/approaches needed between "getting the right design, and getting the design right"