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
• 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

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