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Jane Manchun Wong Tweeted about it: https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1135701324589256704 Apple Support Article: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208050 Apple is changing the default shell as of macOS Catlina from Bash 3.2 to ZSH due to GPL licence changing that Apple is not happy with. Newer …

Announcement Tweet: https://twitter.com/sarah_edo/status/1133369255104094208?s=11 CSS Grid Generator by Sarah Drasner: https://cssgrid-generator.netlify.com/ A small tool for working with CSS Grid. You can designate rows, columns, gaps, and units, and then drag to create child divs to make dynamic…

WordPress 5.2, which is available now, comes with some great and much needed security features. Cryptographically-signed updates Starting with WordPress 5.2, the WordPress team will digitally sign its update packages with the Ed25519 public-key signature system so that a local installation will be…

Ensure as much test coverage as possible Update gems & Rails versions (this ties into the next step) Update your Ruby version to 2.5.0 or later Fix All Deprecation Warnings Setup error tracking (Rollbar, etc) Use railsdiff.org to help you upgrade your files correctly https://edgeguides…

April 30: Final release. Ship and celebrate the release of Rails 6.0 at RailsConf 2019! Rails 6.0 will require Ruby 2.5+ Action Mailbox Action Mailbox allows you to route incoming emails to controller-like mailboxes. ActiveStorage is required. Simple setup with: $ rails action_mailbox:install $ r…

Breaking the silence on the long hiatus of Coder Catchup, what has happened, what has changed and what will be happening.

NPM, the node package manager, has a new release, version 6 which brings along a small list of improvements and new features with a big bang for your buck. Release article: https://medium.com/npm-inc/announcing-npm-6-5d0b1799a905 Upgrade with npm i -g npm@latest NSP (Node Security Project) now bu…

https://stripe.com/billing Titled: Billing and subscriptions for fast-growing businesses Description: The most ambitious companies design billing around customer experience. Stripe Billing is a new set of tools to build and scale your recurring business model. FOR DEVELOPERS BUILDING BLOCKS FOR B…

Release Notes: https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/03/29/react-v-16-3.html Changelog: https://github.com/facebook/react/releases/tag/v16.3.0 Context API! No more props drilling! (Passing props through various components) Thanks to createContext function on the React class. Harry Wolff has a great overvi…