[BAWD #18] Building Global Ecommerce Web Experiences

Hello there 👋🏾,

I trust you had a blissful week?! Btw, here’s a friendly reminder that you should stay on your course, friend. There's light at the end of the tunnel that you are digging.

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Featured Articles ✍️🏾

1. An Introduction to the JAMstack: The Architecture of the Modern Web.

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

3. Git Reset to Remote Head – How to Reset a Remote Branch to Origin.

4. Don’t Be Nice. Be Kind by Jason Lengstorf.

5. How does Commerce Layer compare with Shopify Plus? by Filippo Conforti.

6. 7 Tips for Career Advancement and Personal Fulfillment by Kim Maida.

7. Warren Buffett Portfolio: 6 of His Best Long-Term Picks by Adam Hayes.

8. Comments are useful. You just need to learn when to use them by Rodrigo.

9. Introduction to SEO for Developers by Stephanie Morillo.

10. Guide to Conducting Test Automation Code Reviews by Angie Jones.

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Product of the Week ✨

Gather is a video-calling space that lets multiple people hold separate conversations in parallel, walking in and out of those conversations just as easily as they would in real life.

Do check it out here and upvote on Product Hunt.

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Good Tidings 🔊

1. If you're looking to build global ecommerce web experiences, you should check out the Commerce Layer ecommerce starter that features the sanity studio built with Commerce Layer, Next.js, and deployed to Netlify.

2. ICYMI, BAWD (the tagline of this newsletter) means Bolaji Ayodeji’s Weekly Digest 👀.

3. I'm creating a curated list of resources about using the JAMstack. Do check it out and contribute too.

4. You can now sponsor freeCodeCamp on GitHub! Please support Quincy and his amazing team to keep creating code learning resources for millions of people worldwide.

5. Are you interested in learning more about cloud engineering? Obinna hosts live streams to explain core cloud concepts. You can watch his past streams here.

6. There’s a new hamburger menu (for README’s) on GitHub, which is really cool. You can check it out here.

7. Here’s a handy and comprehensive repository containing JavaScript-based examples of many popular algorithms and data structures.

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Book Recommendations 📚

1. A Quest for Godliness — The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life by J.I. Packer.

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

3. Salvation Plain and Simple by Curtis Hutson.

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

5. Guide to Tiny Experiments: Book & Audio by Sam Julien.

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Featured Tweets 😍

Ali Spittel 🐞 @ASpittel

Experienced dev twitter, I know a lot of newbies are struggling to learn frontend development. Can we use a thread to reassure them that it was hard for all of us at first too?

Sarah Drasner @sarah_edo

If you’re creating something that’s developer-facing, your docs are a part of your product. Your users are experiencing both at the same time, not as separate entities.

Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower

Documentation is a feature.

Daniel Feldman @d_feldman

If you've ever installed a program using "curl XYZ | sh" don't worry about what's in the vaccine

Ashlee Boyer 🦻 @AshleeMBoyer

Your advocacy must be intersectional. Add alt text to your tweet receipts. If you don’t know how, here’s a helpful link: https://t.co/avLXiFcllQ

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Quote of the day 💙

“Success isn't about getting more done, it's about having more fun. If you're having fun, productivity takes care of itself.” —Ali Abdaal

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