[BAWD #59] Why You Should Choose TypeScript Over Vanilla JavaScript
Hello there 👋🏾,
I trust you had a blissful week? Btw, here’s a friendly reminder that becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, upgrade, and expand your identity.
Erhmm, as you might have noticed, I did some little UI changes to the newsletter landing page and logo. Do let me know if you like or hate it 👀.
If you love the content I share, please forward this email, share it on social media or invite your friends to subscribe. I’ll also appreciate your feedback or suggestion(s); thanks!
Featured Articles ✍️🏾
Why You Should Choose TypeScript Over JavaScript by Gints Dreimanis and Olga Bolgurtseva.
Why is it Worth Taking a Look at Headless Commerce in 2022 by Kamil Krzywda.
Open Source Internships and Programs in 2022 by Saint Malik.
Goal Setting: A Scientific Guide to Setting and Achieving Goals by James Clear.
How to Invalidate a JWT in Node.js Using Redis Cache by Okikijesu Elewude.
A Free Accredited Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science – How Do We Get There? by Quincy Larson.
Crypto Wallets: Custodial vs Non-Custodial by Angie Jones.
Understand The JavaScript Ternary Operator like the ABCs by William Chuloo.
Deployment with GitHub Actions for Nuxt projects by Maya Shavin.
Higher-Order Functions(HoF) in JavaScript - Explain Like I'm Five by Tapas Adhikary.
Product of the Week ✨
Square QR allows you to easily generate, manage and track dynamic QR codes.
Do check it out here or upvote on Producthunt.
Good Tidings 🔊
What if bitcoin went to zero? What would happen to finance and the economy at large 🤔? Well, let’s find out.
Wondering whether you're ready to start a business? Here’s a research on what entrepreneurs have to say on the topic.
It's easier than ever to make an income from your personal projects. Are you interested in getting started with building and marking money out of your own projects? Then you should follow these steps.
Starting in January 2022, Kaggle will award up to three $1000 monthly prizes for the next six months to data scientists and ML researchers who share high-quality community content (either notebooks or discussions) using Tensorflow, TF Lite, Keras, JAX, or Flax.
Joe's Jobs curates the best roles at exciting startups and companies across product, engineering, design, open-source, and more.
Here's a recommendation of the top five websites to find remote jobs for different fields in tech.
Here’s a global summer internship program focused on introducing university students to bitcoin and open-source development.
The prestigious CS50x course is updated for 2022, covering abstraction, algorithms, data structures, encapsulation, resource management, security, software engineering, and web programming.
Want to learn how to build the future of global e-commerce with headless commerce APIs? Check out the Commerce Layer developer’s hub or join the slack community.
Here’s a curated list of project-based programming tutorials you can use to learn how to build applications from scratch.
Dev Term of the day 💾
Token: This is a physical device (that generates a combination of PINs) or a string of text that will grant authorized access to a computer system, API, or network. Learn more here (text) or here (video).
Book Recommendations
A Quest for Godliness — The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life by J.I. Packer.
Getting Things Done by David Allen and David Kelvin Allen.
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear.
SVG Animations: From Common UX Implementations to Complex Responsive Animation by Sarah Drasner.
Featured Tweets 😍
Sadly, I’ve been off Twitter, so I don’t have tweets to share. However, I’ll share some of my favorite videos from YouTube this week. Trust me; you might like them :)
⬇️: Tom & Jerry Nostalgia | Yannie Tan plays the Cat Concerto, Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 by Liszt
⬇️: Speed Chess ft. Botez Sisters in New York City
⬇️: Modern Web | State of Web Performance
⬇️: NFT Dev Talk, GenerativeMasks, and Building NFT APIs with OpenZeppelin, GraphQL, and The Graph
Quote of the day 💙
“Just take a deep breath. Life is and always will be hard and full of uncertanties. You’re meant to do your best and be at your best always and not to change life’s blueprint”–Bolaji Ayodeji
That's all for this letter. It will help if you forward this email to your friends. Also, if you've not subscribed yet, kindly subscribe below 😊. See you next week Sunday and stay safe!
Shout out to my current Patrons: Maya Shavin, Angie Jones, Sarah Drasner, Blessing Akpan, Samson Goddy, Obinna Odirionye, and Alabo Briggs.
Connect with me 👇🏾
LinkedIn | Blog | Twitter | GitHub | YouTube | Patreon