047. Colorful Clouds 中
Taken while heading out for dinner last week. The sky looked absolutely stunning with those colorful clouds.
Record the down-to-earth trending technologies seen every week, and publish them here after screening. If you find it good, you can follow this weekly to get update notifications.
Front-End Technology
Everything You Need to Know About Authentication
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/-Yf6a58H7WDB1luOORhDJw
A clear and comprehensive look at the world of user logins and sessions.
Building and Applying Meituan’s Product Knowledge Graph
https://tech.meituan.com/2021/09/02/meituan-commodity-nlp-practice.html
As always, the Meituan tech team provides another exceptional case study.
A Summary of Audio and Video Knowledge in the Browser
https://juejin.cn/post/7002288264413446157
Reads like a very thorough set of study notes prepared right before a major exam.
Trending Open Source
ViteShot: Quick and Simple Component Screenshots
https://github.com/zenclabs/viteshot
You can finally stop relying on heavy headless browsers for your UI automated snapshots.

Filament: Google’s Lightweight Real-Time PBR Engine
https://github.com/google/filament
A natively cross-platform physically-based rendering engine that supports everything from Android and iOS to WebGL2.

yt-dlp: A Powerful YouTube Video Downloader
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
A feature-rich evolution of the legendary youtube-dl. Truly the gold standard for video archival.
devices.css: Render Modern Devices with Only CSS
http://marvelapp.github.io/devices.css/
A great way to show off your web apps inside realistic device frames without any images.

HyperFormula: An Excel-Style Calculation Library
https://github.com/handsontable/hyperformula
Bring the power of spreadsheet formulas directly to your JavaScript application.
import { HyperFormula } from "hyperformula";
const data = [["10", "20", "30", "=SUM(A1:C1)"]];
const hfInstance = HyperFormula.buildFromArray(data, { licenseKey: "gpl-v3" });
console.log(hfInstance.getCellValue({ col: 3, row: 0, sheet: 0 })); // 60
Just Looking Around
Mapping App Trends via the App Store Top 100
http://www.woshipm.com/it/5116194.html
A very clever analysis that uses Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to categorize the most popular apps.
The Legendary 2010 Real Estate Thread from Tianya
https://github.com/shenzhengfang/kkndme_tianya
A “cleaned” archive of the famous thread from ten years ago: “What have we learned from the 2010 real estate controls? Writing this before the prices explode.” Frighteningly prescient reading.