[BAWD #64] #MakeItShoppable and O$$ Programs

Feb 16, 2022

Hello there 👋🏾,

I trust you had a blissful last week? Sorry, I’m sending the previous week’s letter so late. I got some lemons, and I was busy making some juice with them :). Anyways, I hope this arrives timely, and you still find it useful. Btw here’s a friendly reminder that you can’t give more than you have. Normalize being a junior at several things and follow due process to grow.

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How to make any website shoppable with Commerce Layer by Bolaji Ayodeji.
Keeping an Ace up your sleeve by The Readme Project.
How to Contribute to Open Source by Ujah Emmanuel.
Asynchronous JavaScript: callbacks by Houssein Djirdeh.
The Wordle Wide Web by Paul Kinlan.
The Complete Guide to Full Stack Web3 Development by Nader Dabit.
Web Accessibility by Google Web Fundamentals.
Extracting Microservices from a Monolith by Alex Kondov.
Yes, That Web Project Should Be a PWA by Aaron Gustafson.
Understanding Stacks In Javascript by Maye Edwin.
Improving WordPress performance: an open letter by Erwin Hofman.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

How to Use Disaster to Learn Self-Reliance by LifeDev.
Motivation is a myth by Ali Abdaal.
The Proven Path to Doing Unique and Meaningful Work by James Clear.
How Important is Growth? by Scott H. Young.
How To Stop Overthinking: 7 Simple Ways by Ali Abdaal.

Product of the Week ✨

Automator allows you to build custom drag and drop automation that do time-sensitive Figma tasks for you in one click.

Good Tidings 🔊

Digital commerce is evolving, and there is an increasing demand for faster and highly efficient ecommerce solutions across multiple interaction channels. The rise of headless commerce allows for more creative flexibility, better performance, and an efficient software development workflow for ecommerce businesses. I wrote a tutorial where you'll learn about headless commerce and how to make ANY website shoppable using Commerce Layer and the Drop-in Javascript Library. Do check it out!
The UI Engineering team at Netflix is looking for New Graduates to help build great user experiences using TypeScript, React, and Node.js.
The Amazon Design team is offering a paid, up to 12 month UX Design and Research Apprentice Program to support candidates with a passion for design and creativity from non-traditional training and academic backgrounds.
Outreachy provides open source and open science internships with up to a $7,000 total internship stipend. The internship projects may include programming, research, user experience, documentation, graphical design, data science, marketing, user advocacy, or event planning. You can now apply for the May 2022 batch (closes 25th February 2022 at 4 PM UTC)!
Recently, Netlify announced Netlify Graph—a GraphQL-powered experience designed to help developers build interactive and connected web applications faster. Developers can now start using APIs without writing, learning every API's unique structure, or composing endless amounts of endpoints to get data from various APIs into their app.
Google Summer of Code is currently accepting mentoring organizations. You can follow the general timeline as an interested participant or submit your application as an organization.
Applications to the GitHub Campus Experts program are OPEN for the February 2022 Batch until the end of the month. You can read all about the new application process here.
You should send a token of appreciation to your favorite open source developers this week of love using Netlify’s virtual OSS cards.
Next week (22nd February 2022 at 18:00 WAT), join the State of Web Performance, where you'll hear from a panel of various web performance experts + have the opportunity to ask questions via live chat.
Here’s a free Web Accessibility Udacity course by Google, where you’ll get hands-on experience making web applications accessible. First, you’ll understand when and why users need accessibility and then dive into the "how": making a page work properly with screen readers, managing input focus, semantics, styling techniques, and more.
You can learn new design skills and land your dream design job with Uxcel’s interactive platform.
#OSCAFest22 is a high-profile event that would entail a series of technical talks, workshops, and open-source software awareness. You can learn more or purchase a ticket.
Here’s a curated list of project-based programming tutorials you can use to learn how to build applications from scratch.
Joe's Jobs curates the best roles at exciting startups and companies across product, engineering, design, open-source, and more.
Want to learn how to build multi-market ecommerce experiences with headless commerce APIs? Then you should check out the Commerce Layer developer’s hub or join the slack community.
Here's a recommendation of the top five websites to find remote jobs for different fields in tech.

Dev Term of the day 💾

Binary tree: is a data structure in which each node has at most two children (the left child and the right child). Learn more here (text) or here (video).

Book Recommendations

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert.
Tao of React by Alex Kondov.
Jonathan Edwards on Knowing Christ by Jonathan Edwards.
Atomic Habits by James Clear.

Featured Tweets and Videos 😍

Here are some tweets I think are cool and some of my favorite videos from YouTube this week.

Rachele DiTullio @racheleditullio

Errors are red Links are blue Don’t rely on color alone Add an icon or underline too

emawk @emawkwame_

if nothing else comes of this, it was still fun to make. but still @instagram if in some random stroke of chance, this somehow gets to you, please pull down my former account. it was hacked by folk who don't care about me or my music.

slickback @Bolaji___

⬇️: Comparison - Most Distant Objects In The Universe

⬇️: How He Made Millions Selling NFTs at 27 in Nigeria!

⬇️: Haze Monkey Society - Buying NFTs for less than 200$

Quote of the day 💙

“You need to place the right people in your life, and you need to make sure that the way in which you live your life and the environment in which you do is in and of itself is one that is conducive to your progress, and if it's not, you need to do everything within your power to change it.”–Rachel Rebecca Wisdom

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