Episode 13: 2021 developer round-up

2021 has been an eventful year! From January's launch of the AVIF format, April's Basecamp employee speech controversy and the web hitting 30 years old plus much more. Hosts James & Josh take us on a journey through the highs and lows of the year.
Thanks to Cooper Press’ Frontend Focus and Ruby Weekly, invaluable resources that helped us go back in time to compile the monthly breakdown.
Google Cloud Functions adds Ruby support
GitHub makes it easier to rename branches
Google migrating Puppeteer to TypeScript
AVIF
The Web didn't change, you did
Edge Kids Mode
Sonic Pi 3.3
Homebrew 3.0
10 Years of Open Source D3.js
Basecamp's Employee speech controversy
All Day Hey! Live
25 Years of CSS
Sublime Text 4
Prawn library update
Tim Berners-Lee NFT
Github Codespaces
Chrome Removing IFRAME support
30 Years of the web
Decline of Firefox users
Cloudflare outages
Netlify
Dev tooling
LOG4J
Resources:
* Google Cloud Functions (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/ruby-comes-to-cloud-functions)
* GitHub - Support for Renaming an Existing Branch (https://github.blog/changelog/2021-01-19-support-for-renaming-an-existing-branch/)
* Hotwire (https://hotwired.dev/)
* Migrating Puppeteer to TypeScript (https://developer.chrome.com/blog/puppeteer-typescript/)
* AVIF has landed - Jake Archibald (https://jakearchibald.com/2020/avif-has-landed/)
* The web didn't change; you did - Remy Sharp (https://remysharp.com/2021/02/11/the-web-didnt-change-you-did)
* The Verge - Microsoft Edge (https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/16/22285839/microsoft-edge-browser-kids-mode-safe-search-themes-allow-list)
* GitHub - Sonic PI (https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi/releases/tag/v3.3.0)
* Homebrew (https://brew.sh/2021/02/05/homebrew-3.0.0/)
* Observable (https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/10-years-of-open-source-visualization)
* WordPress Tavern (https://wptavern.com/chrome-is-testing-a-follow-button-for-websites)
* Ghost (https://ghost.org/changelog/4/)
* Chromium Blog (https://blog.chromium.org/2021/03/a-safer-default-for-navigation-https.html)
* GitHub - Rails (https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/41750)
* John Nunemaker (https://www.johnnunemaker.com/speakerdeck/)
* The Verge - Breaking Camp (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406673/basecamp-political-speech-policy-controversy)
* All Day Hey! (https://2021.alldayhey.com/)
* Ruby on Rails (https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/effect-of-the-last-week-on-ruby-on-rails/77702)
* Sublime Text (https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-4)
* Meyerweb (https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2021/05/25/25-years-of-css/)
* Web Design Museum (https://twitter.com/WebDesignMuseum/status/1397228466693681163)
* The Register (https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/08/fastly_outage_takes_down_half/)
* GitHub - Prawn (https://github.com/prawnpdf/prawn/discussions/1210)
* CNN Style (https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/tim-berners-lee-nft-auction/index.html)
* Microsoft Edge Blog (https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2021/07/16/easier-debugging-developer-tools-in-visual-studio-code/)
* GitHub Copilot (https://copilot.github.com/)
* GitHub - Codespaces (https://github.blog/2021-08-11-githubs-engineering-team-moved-codespaces/)
* The Register - Chrome (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/05/google_chrome_iframe/)
* W3C (https://www.w3.org/blog/2021/08/30-years-on-from-introducing-the-web-to-the-world/)
* PC Gamer (https://www.pcgamer.com/firefox-has-lost-46m-users-over-the-last-three-years/)
* 9to5 Mac (https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/25/analysts-google-to-pay-apple-15-billion-to-remain-default-safari-search-engine-in-2021/)
* The Verge - Mozilla (https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/13/22671182/mozilla-default-browser-windows-protections-firefox)
* Cloudflare (https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/)
* Matthias Ott (https://matthiasott.com/articles/into-the-personal-website-verse)
* Missouri Independent (https://missouriindependent.com/2021/10/14/missouri-governor-vows-criminal-prosecution-of-reporter-who-found-flaw-in-state-website/)
* Lea Verou (https://twitter.com/leaverou/status/1452571681839534082)
* Microsoft Edge Insider (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/introducing-buy-now-pay-later-in-microsoft-edge/m-p/2967030)
* Netlify (https://www.netlify.com/press/netlify-raises-usd105-million-to-transform-development-for-the-modern-web/)
* David Heinmeier Hansson (https://world.hey.com/dhh/programmers-should-stop-celebrating-incompetence-de1a4725)
* Wired (https://www.wired.com/story/log4j-log4shell/)
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
Stac (https://stac.works)
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2021 has been an eventful year! From January's launch of the AVIF format, April's Basecamp employee speech controversy and the web hitting 30 years old plus much more. Hosts James & Josh take us on a journey through the highs and lows of the year.

Thanks to Cooper Press’ Frontend Focus and Ruby Weekly, invaluable resources that helped us go back in time to compile the monthly breakdown.

Google Cloud Functions adds Ruby support
GitHub makes it easier to rename branches
Google migrating Puppeteer to TypeScript
AVIF
The Web didn't change, you did
Edge Kids Mode
Sonic Pi 3.3
Homebrew 3.0
10 Years of Open Source D3.js
Basecamp's Employee speech controversy
All Day Hey! Live
25 Years of CSS
Sublime Text 4
Prawn library update
Tim Berners-Lee NFT
Github Codespaces
Chrome Removing IFRAME support
30 Years of the web
Decline of Firefox users
Cloudflare outages
Netlify
Dev tooling
LOG4J

Resources:

Google Cloud Functions
GitHub - Support for Renaming an Existing Branch
Hotwire
Migrating Puppeteer to TypeScript
AVIF has landed - Jake Archibald
The web didn't change; you did - Remy Sharp
The Verge - Microsoft Edge
GitHub - Sonic PI
Homebrew
Observable
WordPress Tavern
Ghost
Chromium Blog
GitHub - Rails
John Nunemaker
The Verge - Breaking Camp
All Day Hey!
Ruby on Rails
Sublime Text
Meyerweb
Web Design Museum
The Register
GitHub - Prawn
CNN Style
Microsoft Edge Blog
GitHub Copilot
GitHub - Codespaces
The Register - Chrome
W3C
PC Gamer
9to5 Mac
The Verge - Mozilla
Cloudflare
Matthias Ott
Missouri Independent
Lea Verou
Microsoft Edge Insider
Netlify
David Heinmeier Hansson
Wired

Find out more about Stac and Parallax:

Stac
Parallax