If you're reading this for the first time, hello 👋! Most weeks I put a Slack post like this together for my team at The Times, pulling together some of the most interesting posts, videos and libraries I've found the week before. I'm sharing it here for the first time so you can read it too! Thanks, Chris.
It turns out, quite a lot! This post goes into great detail about automated hyphenation in CSS, all the rules you'll need to know, and what their browser support is. Well worth a read if you're ever looking to make website copy look a little nicer!
A really interesting library for bringing some predictive data-analytics to your web front end, all with the aim of improving the experience for users.
https://github.com/guess-js/guess
An excellent guide to how threads work in Node.js following their release in v10.5.0
https://blog.logrocket.com/a-complete-guide-to-threads-in-node-js-4fa3898fe74f?gi=12a56d75123e
Pika, a new build tool "dependency install-time tool" that promises to free us from the bundle! An interesting concept, and one to keep an eye on
https://www.pikapkg.com/blog/pika-web-a-future-without-webpack
This Twitter thread from @souvir goes through some of the most useful and interesting new language features that have been introduced to JavaScript with ES2019.
https://twitter.com/souvir/status/1107682529371410432?s=21 (and if you don't like Twitter threads: https://threader.app/thread/1107682529371410432)