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[BAWD #67] ReactJS 18 and Apple Internships

Mar 13, 2022

Hello there 👋🏾,

I trust you had a blissful week? Sorry, I’m way behind schedule and didn’t send a letter last week :(. I tried to meet up at the latter days of the week but decided to send one power-packed letter today that would combine last and this week. Soon, I’ll be back to sticking to every Sunday for shipping BAWD letters. Thank you for hanging on and constantly engaging 😊. Btw, here’s a friendly reminder that if you get 1% better every day in anything, you will end up being 37 times better at the end of the year (1.01^365). Now imagine you’re doing more than 1% :).

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Testing Pipeline 101 For Frontend Testing by Ramona Schwering.
Understanding & Optimising the Critical Rendering Path by Gyen Abubakar.
What are the best screen sizes for responsive web design in 2022? by Shaun Anderson.
Performance Signals For Customizing Website UX by Barry Pollard.
How to Connect Google Colab to a Local Runtime by Bolaji Ayodeji.
A complete guide to Flutter architecture by Temitope Oyedele.
The Developer Advocate's Guide to Metrics and Reporting by Kurt Kemple.
How to sell internationally with a single Shopify store and Commerce Layer by Filippo Conforti.
How to Build a Full Stack NFT Marketplace - V2 (2022) by Nader Dabit.
Screen Resolution ≠ Browser Window by Chris Coyier.
A Complete Guide To Mobile App Marketing by Sona.
How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics by Átila Fassina.
Getting Started With Kubernetes Ingress Controllers by Farhan Hasin Chowdhury.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

Force yourself to start by Ali Abdaal.
Zanshin: Learning the Art of Attention and Focus From a Legendary Samurai Archer by James Clear.
Productivity 101: An Introduction to The Pomodoro Technique by Alan Henry.
Why You’re Probably Not Working as Much as You Think You Are by Scott Young.

Product of the Week ✨

Magic Eraser is a free AI tool that allows you to upload an image, mark a part you need to be removed, and remove the unwanted part in a few seconds.

Good Tidings 🔊

Reactjs version 18 is now available as a Release Candidate (RC). This version introduces features powered by the new concurrent renderer, with a gradual adoption strategy for existing applications. If you’d like to give it a trial, then follow this detailed upgrade guide from the React core team.
Here’s a collection of comprehensive web performance tips and tutorials to help you speed up your web applications.
Apple’s University Recruiting team is looking for highly motivated engineering students with a strong background in Back-End Engineering and Web Development to join its highly skilled software engineering team.
Here’s a fantastic email course that will serve as a quick start guide to understanding TypeScript. Then, you’ll learn the process of migrating JavaScript code into a tested TypeScript codebase leveraging open-source and unit testing.
Here’s a curated list of project-based programming tutorials you can use to learn how to build applications from scratch.
You can apply for a scholarship to attend the annual Grace Hopper Celebration (the world’s largest gathering of women technologists) in the United States this year.
Catch up with the State of #WebPerformance by watching the live stream or reading the recap article.
Here’s a curated list of awesome resources: articles, books, videos, tools, podcasts about open source. Here, you will find the right resource to help you get started or advance with open source.
Joe's Jobs curates the best product, engineering, design, open-source, etc. roles at exciting startups.
Here’s a thread with 13 GitHub repositories to help you learn everything about blockchain.
Here's a recommendation of the top five websites to find remote jobs for different fields in tech.
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.

Dev Term of the day 💾

Loop: is the repetition of a sequence of instructions until a defined condition is reached. Learn more here (text) or here (video).

Book Recommendations

The Wright Brothers by David McCullough.
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert.
How to Develop a Super Power Memory by Harry Lorayne.
A Quest for Godliness — The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life by J.I. Packer.

Featured Tweets and Videos 😍

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

Sarah Drasner @sarah_edo

One opportunity I see across the industry is to be more considerate of hidden costs: - interviewing - developer experience gaps - perf - ramp up/down - internal training - process with little outcome/value The more we account for friction, the more purposeful we can become

Cassidy @cassidoo

As you might be starting to go back to in person meetups, conferences, etc, remember the Pac-Man rule: When standing as a group of people, always leave room for 1 person to join your group!

Prosper Otemuyiwa @unicodeveloper

Everyday you have to intentionally strive to not become the people you used to loathe as a result of your new found status or knowledge. Once you find yourself thinking “Newbie, what do they know?”, tell yourself to come off it! 😅

⬇️: Python for Everybody - Full University Python Course

⬇️: Davido O2 Arena 2022 Intro Featuring The Compozers

⬇️: How to Make Money Online in 2022

⬇️: Dave - Black

Quote of the day 💙

“What starts as an excuse can easily become a habit. Don't let a bad day become a lifestyle”–James Clear

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