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Featured Articles ✍️🏾

1. Image Optimization and Transformation with Cloudinary

2. Git Clone Branch – How to Clone a Specific Branch

3. How to Ask Effective Questions: A Practical Guide for Developers

4. Accessibility Auditing with Axe for automated Web UI testing

5. The Security Vulnerabilities of The Target="_Blank" Attribute

6. Publish, ship, and install modern JavaScript for faster applications by Houssein Djirdeh and Jason Miller

7. Email Analysis Using Python 3 (Part I) by Yoma Okobiah

8. Introducing Open Web Docs by Robert Nyman

9. How To Solve the Quality vs Consistency Debate by Shawn @Swyx Wang

10. A practical guide to web app performance debugging by Tapas Adhikary

Featured Talks 🎙️

1. Beyond The Editor: Automating Your Writing Process​

2. Harnessing the power of the JAMstack with a Headless CMS

3. The Growth Mindset, Dealing with Intelligence, Imposter Syndrome and Personal Growth​

4. Optimizing Content Management with the Headless CMS

5. Effective Documentation: The Key to Open Source Growth​

Book Recommendations 📚

1. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel.

2. God, Greed, and the (Prosperity) Gospel: How Truth Overwhelms a Life Built on Lies by Costi Hinn.

3. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey.

4. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards.

5. The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko.

Special Updates 🔊

1. You can now sponsor freeCodeCamp on GitHub! Please do support Quincy and his amazing team to keep creating code learning resources for millions of people around the world.

2. I'm creating a curated list of resources about using the JAMstack. Do check it out and ensure to contribute if you get the time.

3. Want to level up your VSCode skills with Vim? Check out the Vim for VSCode course by Joe Privite.

4. For most students, real-world developer tools can be cost-prohibitive. Check out the GitHub Student Developer Pack, which gives students free access to the best developer tools in one place so they can learn by doing.

5. Check out this comprehensive headless commerce guide, which will walk you through the benefits of headless commerce and show you how Commerce Layer can help you go headless without pain.

6. Watch the Intro to GitHub Actions for Test Automation webinar recording — with Angie Jones and Brian Douglas.

7. Can .NET developers really utilize the Jamstack? Yes, they can use their existing .NET skills with the Jamstack architecture. Check out this article from Netlify’s blog to learn more.

8. This complete guide explains everything about CSS flexbox, focusing on all the different possible properties for the parent element (flex container) and the child elements (flex items).

9. Interested in learning more about cloud engineering? Obinna hosts live streams to explain core cloud concepts like IAM, EC2, Google Kubernetes Engine, S3, Route 53, etc. You can watch his past streams here.

10. The new CSS aspect-ratio property helps you maintain spacing in responsive layouts and is launching in Chromium 88, Firefox 87, and Safari Technology Preview 118. Read this article to learn more.

Featured Tweets 😍

Sarah Drasner @sarah_edo

Small suggestion: if you’re writing a message to someone you don’t know, either to network or to ask a favor, it’s good practice to reread it from the perspective of how it would feel to *get* the message. Being thoughtful of them and not just your goal can be helpful.

3:12 PM ∙ Feb 3, 2021

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Catalin Pit @catalinmpit

Perfection is the enemy of getting things done. Ship your work, get feedback, improve. If you wait until your work is perfect, you'll wait forever. Done is better than perfect.

10:00 AM ∙ Feb 4, 2021

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Bolaji Ayodeji @iambolajiayo

"The challenge for anyone interested in making progress is to simultaneously have: (1) The confidence to go after what you want (2) The humility to accept who you are right now (3) The willingness to build skills that bridge the gap between 1 and 2." –@JamesClear

5:41 PM ∙ Feb 4, 2021

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Quote of the day 💙

“Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important” ― Jonathan Edwards

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