🎃Halloween edition.
Next.js 15 and Svelte 5 are announced. Black Friday marketing. Product management pros and cons. OpenAI at $157B valuation and new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku released.
Halloween is just days away, and we’ve got treats (no tricks!) in today’s digest: dive into the latest dev thrills with Next.js 15 and Svelte 5, plus get your Black Friday marketing plans in top shape. We’re also spotlighting the ups and downs of product management, along with some spine-tingling just in time for spooky season creativity!
Don’t be scared.
Halloween Michael Myers story is still humans story, right?
Happy reading.
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⚙️Dev stuff
State of Frontend 2024 - The third edition of the biggest frontend report. Now, with expanded data for versatile insights.
State of CSS 2024 - New CSS is getting a lot of adoption.
2024 State of the API Report - the most comprehensive survey on APIs, with over 5,600 developers and API professionals sharing their thoughts this year.
State of React 2024 - React ecosystem...you are needed to take the survey.
✨💰Maximizing PIM Efficiency with GraphQL APIs - Product catalogs are rapidly expanding, and customer expectations for seamless, dynamic experiences are sky-high, making efficient Product Information Management (PIM) a necessity rather than a nice-to-have feature.
🎃Headless, boneless, skinless & lifeless UI - UI abstractions continue to evolve year over year. Let's talk about a couple of them.
How to Write Cleaner JavaScript Code with The Ternary Operator - What exactly is it, and when should you use it over the traditional if-else statement?
Rewriting JavaScript tools in “faster” languages - This opinionated piece is worth your time.
⚙️20 Git Command-Line Tricks Every Developer Should Know.
.📢Next.js 15 is officially stable and ready for production. What's up? It includes React 19 Support, Turbopack Dev (now stable), and Self-hosting Improvements, among other things.
🎉Next.js Conf 2024 - A quick recap of the biggest highlights from Next.js Conf 2024 in San Fransisco
Web Performance Optimization in Next.js - The best practices for improving the performance of your Next.js application and understand how to measure the performance of your optimized web app.
📢Svelte 5 is alive - 18 months of development, comprising thousands of commits from dozens of contributors. Svelte 5 is finally stable.
React Folder Structure in 5 Steps [2024] - Organizing large React applications into folders and files is a topic that often sparks strong opinions.
How to see like a designer: The hidden power of typography and logos | Jessica Hische (Lettering Artist, Author) via
.👨💻🔥16 Open Source Alternatives to Replace Popular SaaS Software & Apps.
How Clerk Partners with YouTube’s Dev Community - A strategic playbook for engaging developers via authentic partnerships by
, , , and for .📊Marketing stuff
Disney, Hershey execs share how holiday marketing campaigns are evolving - Executives spoke during Advertising Week about how the companies are working to engage audiences around cultural moments beyond just ads.
How to create a Black Friday social media marketing strategy - Black Friday is almost here. Don’t expect busy shopping malls and crowded parking lots. Your customers will be looking for deals online and on social.
🤡▶️How to Stand Out in the eCommerce Frenzy? - Use video to turbocharge Black Friday sales and subscription growth.
Bing Webmaster Tools Gets 16 Months Of Data, Recommendations & Copilot Tools To Come - Big is a search engine worth of your time.
How to Know When It’s Time to Pivot Your Startup? - Hustle. Grind. Sweat it out.
📊SaaS Metrics 2.0 – A Guide to Measuring and Improving what Matters.
Scale Ruins Everything - Your Startup Could Destroy Society via
.Scaling Product Management for Hyper-Growth - Lessons from Cribl.
💵How to Sell Subscriptions? - The best practices team at Crystallize found most of their clients follow.
Peak shopping 2024 - From brand preference to visual search — what’s important to Nordic and Benelux shoppers. Study from Google.
The Complete History & Strategy of Hermès - Podcast to listen whne you go out for a walk.
10 Effective Content Marketing Tactics for 2024 and Beyond - The most effective content marketing tactics.
👉How to prioritize marketing activities & avoid random acts of marketing? by
.3 Proven Ways to Create Leverage on LinkedIn 🧲 - Learn how to make content for growing your personal brand from
.Meta’s Head of Product (and 29th employee) on working with Mark Zuckerberg, early growth tactics, why PMs are like conductors, and more via
.How to Create a Great Social Media Strategy in 2025 (+ New Data) - Create a comprehensive plan for leveraging social media platforms to achieve your marketing and growth goals with this free workbook.
10 Skills You Need to Become a Great Social Media Manager.
🤖AI / ChatGPT stuff
✅What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? - If you only want to read one article on AI this week... this is the one.
How I Cloned Myself with LLMs to Work 24/7 – Even While I Sleep.
Why OpenAI’s $157B valuation misreads AI’s future?
Introducing computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku.
AI and the Future: What Lies Ahead for Society?🤔 - In a world where AI is evolving faster than ever, being merely agile isn’t enough. Anticipation becomes a critical advantage.
Behind the scenes: How AI is reshaping Google - Google reshuffles its teams to streamline its AI development.
👀Google Gemini vs ChatGPT - Which AI Chatbot Is Better?
Zuckerberg's Meta Towards Human-Like AI - The journey towards AGI involves addressing complex challenges across multiple domains of AI research.
Burn the Playbooks - AI won’t replace humans, or beat humans at what we do best, unless we turn ourselves into cheap AIs. Great read from
.7 Tips to Improve Your ChatGPT Prompts for Optimal Results.
How to incorporate machine learning in your SEO day-to-day? - What you actually need to grow as an SEO, or organic search marketer that uses machine learning.
Small Businesses Are Turning to AI for Content Marketing, New Semrush Report Shows.
Eval-driven development: Build better AI faster🚀 - A look at Vercel's philosophy and techniques in AI-native development.
Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition - Meta’s Llama does not fit OSI’s new definition.
🛠TOOL you should check out: ✨ Khoshnus - Craft Beautiful Handwritten SVG Text Animations.
🎸LISTEN TO: Sting - Message In A Bottle (Radio 2 in the Park 2024).
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