Episode 13: 2021 developer round-up - a podcast by Hey! Radio

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 branchesGoogle migrating Puppeteer to TypeScript
AVIFThe Web didn't change, you did
Edge Kids ModeSonic Pi 3.3
Homebrew 3.010 Years of Open Source D3.js
Basecamp's Employee speech controversyAll Day Hey! Live
25 Years of CSSSublime Text 4
Prawn library updateTim Berners-Lee NFT
Github CodespacesChrome Removing IFRAME support
30 Years of the webDecline of Firefox users
Cloudflare outagesNetlify
Dev toolingLOG4J
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)Parallax (https://parall.ax)

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