Insights and outlooks from the foobar universe

With this article, we want to honour the birthday of the first real debugging 🪲 🗑. Therefore our colleague Mansour shares a story of his life as a developer. It is about how he suspected the whole company he worked in systematically stole laptops just because of one tiny bug. But read it for yourself. Enjoy!

This is a short tutorial on how to successfully implement Google Maps using a handy library created by Google's own Developer Relations Engineer @jpoehnelt and maintained by the community. We'll have a map with a search and a location marker by the end of it. All using the native Google Maps API with the help of @googlemaps/react-wrapper.

It’s a given that everyone in management today hears about team empowerment and self-managed teams and how good they are doing in an agile context. Of course, when hearing about the type of success others are having doing this, we immediately want to try it out, or you know, wait a bit then be pressured into it in some way or another. And when that happens, as we all humans do, we take a concept that we don’t fully understand and run with it. Either because we’re excited to get stuff done better and faster or because we have to. No matter the reason, we need to understand that there is more to empowerment than we might imagine. In this article, I want to touch on one particular part of empowerment - trust and the need to control or tidy up.

"Developers around the world" - with this series, we want to give you an insight into the lives of our foobar team. Developers today are much more global citizens than they used to be taking up new challenges and switching countries more often: a.k.a expats. What is the life of a developer like in another country? What experiences have fed the curiosity of discovering other countries? Which countries have they already nested in? The stories are individual experiences and do not consequently represent a whole nation. They are just a glimpse of how diverse the world is. Enjoy this little journey and step into someone else's shoes.

The React team introduced Server components in December 2020. Zero bundled size components brought a lot of excitement to users because, in large scale applications, it's a well-known problem. This article will discuss the state of server components and how they can currently be used as an experimental feature in NextJs.