an overlooked yarn against modern technologies.
Modern technologies moves fast, innovation such as UI frameworks with VDOM approach, new backend framework with great benchmark, cloud-native infrastructure, brand-new platform, new programming language, and various useful tools for our chore are born rapidly and grow incrementally.
Documentation are boring and basically people are looking for a shortcut to help them adopt those technologies faster. Tutorial is a great resources but unfortunately they only talk about the surface...
...from the "X technologies advocate" perspective.
Which is basically only talk "the good part".
We are independent enough, we use those technologies because it solves our problem.
We want to talk about those technologies in free perspective, talking about both on the surface and below it, and talking all overlooked topics related with that technology.
- "Unboxing" uncovered topic by major tutorials
- Talking both the good & the bad parts related with topic
- Depth explanation related with topic
- Template-driven
- Major adoption
- Free perspective
- Boring topics
- In-depth explanation
- Based on data
All reports done based on template.md which is
rarely changes. In meta-level, this README.md was also based on template.md. We need to "standarize" our research
flow to prevent out-of-context topic, to making our research clear, and to welcome everyone in order want to create
their own.
This template is far from perfect, we absolutely update it incrementally. For now this template is perfect enough for us.
We only talk about technologies which is has major adoption on industries or becoming the hype train so the internet (and watercooler talk) are surrounded with those topics.
React developers are basically talking about the good part of React, and so on with Vue, Node.js, Serverless, etc etc.
They do that because they good on that. And they want people are using it because that was their job, as an "advocate".
We are independent enough, we not recommend people to use what we talk about. We only "share our discovery" related with the topic, something like "are we use it?" or "should I use it?" is not our business. Absolutely we are using it for research purpose, and some because we actually use it which is can be discovered on our blog.
Do you even care what Host tree and Host instance is on React?
Or, what is event loop anyway on Node.js?
We do.
Basically we are only interesting with the "surface" like public API, basic concept, etc etc. But we don't.
We are interesting with under-the-hood topic so we can use it and solve our problem with it. Not blindly use it, or like use it because everyone are using it.
Do you even care what "Fiber" on reconciliation is? Hey what is reconciliation and why should I even care?
Under the hood topic are interesting, so we can answer a question like "Why should we use React in our web-based game?" with answer "Because React was using Fiber in rendering, so all updates are scheduled based on its priority to keep the UI smooth, without glitch or even blocking the user interaction"
How did we know that? You know the answer.
One of reason why we publish it biweekly was because we took ~7 days to collect the datas. The truth. We do read source code, depth explanation from core team, etc etc. We (basically everyone) hate assumption, although we are storyteller but we use data from our story. A real insight.
Because that was our job.
We don't find yet in Indonesia who has the same interest with us, poor us. In abroad, there are like Increment by Stripe, Web Fundamentals by Google, MDN by Mozilla, etc etc which is have a great reputation and capabilities.
And we don't. But we have responsiblity.
If you wish this was a tutorial, you are on the wrong place. Probably visiting our blog was the right choice?
Like in the laptop, for example we cover something like CPU, GPU, processors, etc etc which is... The boring part. Like, people only care about "what brand" my CPU & GPU is, how much RAM on this laptop, etc. Why should even care with Moore's Law that processor speed will doubled every year so the laptop from 2017 is faster than laptop from 2016? Although this law is not "accurate" nowadays.
We have cover this topic on Ecosystem section, please take a look.
We might not have a great reputation and capabilities, you can take a look to:
- Increment by Stripe
- Web Fundamentals by Google
- MDN by Mozilla
As an alternative...
..Which is represented by a company, not "community" like us.
We care with this rapid innovation and trying to see it from different perspectives and share our thoughts to the internet. We create both tutorial & reports so our audience can following the tutorial without blindly choose it.
We are far from perfect, that's why we open all our contents to public in free culturemanner. So everyone can make this better.
- Increment, https://increment.com
- Web Fundamentals, https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals
- MDN, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US
- Template, https://github.com/evilfactorylabs/rndc/blob/master/template.md
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