Welcome to Issue #6 of The Codbix! This week: Use code visibility to illuminate unfamiliar code, Laravel community and How to Get Your Brain to Focus.
From chaos to clarity: Use code visibility to illuminate unfamiliar code
At its core, code visibility is about mapping your code so that even the freshest of developers can reason about it.
Code visibility is about capturing knowledge of the various aspects of your codebase: The What, the why, and the where.
Is Laravel the happiest developer community on the planet?
Developers tend to be passionate about their favorite tools, but the shine can wear off over time. Laravel has been around since 2011, but the community seems to be in a perpetual honeymoon period. “They just seem so happy,” JavaScript developer Adam Elmore, who has only recently dipped his toe into the Laravel waters. “Other communities can be so toxic, but Laravel developers are just content to build stuff.”
So how did the Laravel community build such a well-loved platform? By ignoring trends and sweating the details.
Squoosh
Squoosh is an image compression web app that reduces image sizes through numerous formats. It is an Experimental projects from the Chrome team.
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