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Schalk Venter
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🔨 Software Engineering | 🎨 Interaction Design | 📚 Mentoring and Teaching | 🧠 Destigmatizing Mental Illness
@vitalyf.bsky.social, head at Smashing Magazine, recently compiled a helpful collection of “UX Job Interview Playbook” resources. It’s a great read for anyone working in user-facing design within the tech industry.

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September 13, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Google Engineering Lead, @addyosmani.bsky.social just published Beyond Vibe Coding through O’Reilly.

It’s a great read if you’re looking for a more measured take on the role of AI in software development, from someone who has been doing day-in, day-out software engineering for several decades.
September 13, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Another week, another security breach in the JavaScript ecosystem. This one is for the history books, topping the charts as the biggest supply chain attack on record. Paradoxically, however, it seems the attacker was only able to steal a meager $50 worth of cryptocurrency in total.
September 13, 2025 at 6:33 AM
The following (free) O'Reilly event is an opportunity to listen to perspectives on AI from some of the most prominent (actual) software engineers in the world right now.

www.oreilly.com/CodingwithAI/
Coding with AI: The End of Software Development As We Know It - May 2025 - O'Reilly Media
Join us to explore the future of AI-enabled development, for free!
www.oreilly.com
April 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Streaming right now 📺⚓: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TCy...
CSS breakpoint
YouTube video by Frontend Engineering & Design South Africa (FEDSA)
www.youtube.com
January 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
In a couple of weeks I will be speaking at NodeJS One Africa about using Web Components in React 19.

- Why you might want to.
- Why you might not want to.
- How you would do so.
- Implications of full interop with WC in React 19.
January 21, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Just another day working from home with a one year old and three year old running around. You're gambling with your career whenever you step away from your computer for more than a minute.
December 13, 2024 at 10:03 AM