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I trust you had a blissful week? Btw, here’s a friendly reminder that it cannot always be 19th April 2022. Time will keep changing, and life will continue to move forward. But are you moving too and making conscious efforts now to respond to these changes?

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Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻

1. React 18 Quick Guide & Core Concepts Explained by Shruti Kapoor.

2. So WTH is Lightning Network? by Gabby Precious.

3. Understanding TypeScript Generics | Generics Simplified by Dillion Megida.

4. How to build an international ecommerce website with Sanity and Commerce Layer by Bolaji Ayodeji.

5. Everything You Need To Know About Technical Writing by Linda Ikechukwu.

6. Headless eCommerce: A Developer’s Guide by François Lanthier Nadeau.

7. A practical tracing journey with OpenTelemetry on Node.js by Shalvah.

8. Iterating through JavaScript Objects  -  5 Techniques and Performance Tests by Bolaji Ayodeji.

9. There are no warranties on open source by Feross Aboukhadijeh.

10. How to Give Great Feedback by Rachel Schipull.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

1. How To Save 1 Day Every Week, Guaranteed by Erica Chappell.

2. The Productivity Guide: Time Management Strategies That Work by James Clear.

3. 5 Qualities Productive People Have by Erica Chappell.

4. The Parable of the Pottery Class by Ali Abdaal.

5. 55 Bulletproof Productivity Hacks – Do You Know Them All? by DLM.

Product of the Week ✨

Socket allows you to secure your JavaScript projects by protecting your application from malicious dependencies lurking in your open source supply chain.

Good Tidings 🔊

1. If you’re learning Reactjs, you should check out the beta version of the official documentation to learn with step-by-step explanations, interactive examples, and API references. I strongly recommend this resource :).

2. Join a community of over 25k tech folks to benefit from ideas, training, and resources that will help you better upskill and land your dream remote role abroad.

3. You can get started with learning Kubernetes by utilizing some KBE lessons that emphasize an ‘absorb by doing’ approach so you can practice as are explored and explained.

4. Designers, this is for you! Here’s your one-stop website for UX Articles, Design Kits, Books, Courses, Resources, etc.

5. Here’s another public collection of 40 plus editable documents that designers from all industries can utilize.

6. With Netlify, you can now drag and drop a folder with your site’s HTML, CSS, and JS files, and you’ll get the deployed link ASAP.

7. Here’s a curated list of project-based programming tutorials you can use to learn how to build applications from scratch.

8. Here’s a Twitter thread with 20 books to read in your 20s you might find helpful.

9. You can also apply to get the GitHub Student Developer Pack which gives you access to the best developer tools and courses for FREE using this link.

10. Are you looking for open-source projects to contribute to? There are a couple of TypeScript projects you can contribute to on GitHub.

11. You should check out this tutorial or join this slack community to learn how to build multi-market ecommerce experiences with headless commerce APIs.

12. Here's a recommendation of the top five websites to find remote jobs for different fields in tech.

13. Joe's Jobs curates the best product, engineering, design, devrel, open-source, etc., roles at exciting startups.

Dev Term of the day 💾

State is the concept of some data being tracked and remembered at different phases for changes. Upon these changes, some further actions would occur. Learn more here (text) or here (video).

Book Recommendations

1. The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance by Josh Waitzkin.

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

3. Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions by Gayle Laakmann McDowell.

4. All of Grace by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

Featured Tweets and Videos 😍

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

Louie Bacaj @LBacaj

The top 10 predictors of successful engineering careers. I've helped hire 100s of engineers in my 12+ year career. I've managed and steered the careers of multiple engineering teams. Some of these may surprise you, but I am confident they predict career success in our industry.

April 14th 2022

562 Retweets2,178 Likes

Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom

The ability to smile through chaos is a legitimate competitive advantage.

April 15th 2022

453 Retweets3,328 Likes

Evan You @youyuxi

I feel that the current web perf discourse obsesses too much on initial loading perf and largely ignores subsequent navigations. It’s not even quantified in lighthouse scores, but makes a noticeable difference even for static sites.

Ward Peeters @wardpeet

SPA navigations always feel faster than MPA to me. Even turbo doesn't feel amazing. Anyone has an example to change my mind?

April 12th 2022

69 Retweets733 Likes

⬇️: 1. Introduction to the Human Brain

⬇️: American Gospel: Christ Alone (1 Hour Version)

⬇️: Dangerous Code Hidden in Plain Sight for 12 years

Quote of the day 💙

“How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?”–Dr. Seuss

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