# The Week That Was

# Dear Reader; I am panicking
Perhaps that is hyperbolic, but I am a wee bit stressed.  See, I have forgotten one of the core truths: *writing content takes an eternity*.

For a passion project, I'm creating a developer activity log; A kind of free-form standup tool for making notes to oneself and one's team.  As part of that I'm building a session management system using DynamoDB, API Gateway Authorizers and some Svelte-y bits.  I decided to blog about it and it's turned into... A bit of a monster.  I'm yet to even complete the first draft.

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Part of my vexation arises from having problems deciding what to do with the length; Should I spilt it into multiple posts, *or* publish one, long, mega-tutorial?  Which leads me to a new idea; A Question of the Week.  You are cordially invited to respond below in the comments!
> Should longer how-to guides be published as one large chunk, or a series of smaller, inter-related pieces?

# Developer Stuff
## New Heroicons
The developers of TailwindUI have just released [Heroicons 2.0](https://heroicons.com/) for your delightful SVG icon pleasure.  Nicely done and only lightly styled, they'll prove useful for all kinds of project.

## Microfrontends
Sahas Purkuti has an interesting comparison of the [pros and cons of micro-frontends](https://scanskill.com/frontend/micro-frontends/); That is, the idea that a team should revolve around a specific, small feature of an app.

The idea is an interesting one... But one I fear may introduce more opportunity for peril then it removes.

## I implore you
Activate MFA on your AWS Account, lest you incur a [$200'000 bill](https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/x03vay/hacked_aws_account_is_facing_200000_in_charges/) due to abuse.

## Meaningful Statistics
SWEOR have an [interesting collection of stats](https://www.sweor.com/firstimpressions) about how Website performance impacts a customer's impression of your site.  Worth keeping in mind.  I particularly liked the advice to use an F-shaped pattern to advantage the fact that it takes 2.6 seconds for a user’s eyes to land on the area of a website that most influences their first impression.

# Developer Experience
## DXI
An excellent read from Kenneth.io 

# Task Manager of the Week
Everyone is going to write a task manager at some point.  It is an inevitability, like death, or a certain Billionaire saying something self-involved and stupid. 

(This could be several people and I shaln't clarify which.)

This week's featured task manager is [tsk](https://github.com/kakengloh/tsk), a Go-powered, terminal based manager with a reasonably CLI and filtering/tagging.  I imagine it's quite reasonable!

# For Joy
I have never seen a better reason to have robust education for your products.  Just [enjoy](https://twitter.com/dutraweather/status/1555154185938763776?s=21&t=RUISgfx6BIvDNPsydiC7fQ).