[BAWD #73] Google Africa and Headless Commerce Summit

Apr 29, 2022

Hello dear friend 👋🏾,

I trust you had a blissful week? Sorry, I’m some days late. Btw, here’s a friendly reminder from Pillow Thoughts: “You can't skip chapters; that's not how life works. You have to read every line and meet every character. You won't enjoy all of it. Hell, some chapters will make you cry for weeks. You will read things you don't want to read; you will have moments when you don't want the pages to end. But you have to keep going. Stories keep the world revolving. Live yours, dont miss, out.”

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Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻

What's Really Going On Inside Your node_modules Folder? by Feross Aboukhadijeh.
The Ownership Economy 2022 (A primer on the state of web3) by Li Jin et al.
Learn Assembly Language Programming with ARM by Beau Carnes.
How to build an international ecommerce website with Sanity and Commerce Layer by Bolaji Ayodeji.
8 Ways You Can Increase Registrations For Your Virtual Events by Rachel Drudi.
How to Build an Authorization System with JWT using Nodejs by Okikijesu Elewude.
A Netflix Web Performance Case Study by Addy Osmani.
Taking a DevRel approach to developer onboarding by Sonia John.
What is Memoization? How and When to Memoize in JavaScript and React by Germán Cocca.
Getting started with Commerce Layer JavaScript SDK by Bolaji Ayodeji.
5 Wrist Stretches to Try on Your Next Computer Break by Africa Kenyah.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

How to Handle Information Overwhelm by Tim Ferriss.
The Beginner’s Guide on How to Eat Healthy and Stick to It by James Clear.
How to Recover From Burnout by Laura Entis.
Force yourself to start by Ali Abdaal.
Life Is a Video Game—Here Are the Cheat Codes by Mike Manson.

Product of the Week ✨

EarlyAcquire is the marketplace created for Indiehackers who want to sell their side projects anonymously without any hassle.

Good Tidings 🔊

Are you an aspiring Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Software Engineer, Developer Relations Engineer, Senior UX Designer, or UX Researcher? Google is hiring for numerous open roles at their new product development center in Nairobi, Kenya.
OSS Capital has publicly announced their first and second funds with $200M dedicated to commercial open source (COSS) founders building transformative open core startups.
Headless Commerce Summit is happening again next month in London from May 23rd till 24th. You can learn more or register to attend physically/virtually on the website.
Here’s an exciting Typescript errors translation project that will allow you to translate your TypeScript errors into plain English. It’s fully open-sourced and aimed to be built by the community, so you can follow this guide to add new errors to make the project even more robust.
A friend is trying to survey to understand how Nigerians utilize various digital payment channels. If you don't mind, please fill out this form to help.
As you might have heard, Elon Musk recently bought the Twitter social media app with the desire to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features and making the algorithms open source.
Learn the fundamentals of Chakra UI in 60 minutes with this Chakra for beginners’ FREE course.
You can also apply to get the GitHub Student Developer Pack and access the best developer tools and courses for FREE.
Here’s a curated list of software engineering blogs you might find helpful.
Here’s a curated list of project-based programming tutorials you can use to learn how to build applications from scratch.
Are you looking for Java/Type Script open-source projects to contribute to? There are a couple of projects you can contribute to on GitHub.
Here’s a comprehensive Deno cheat sheet you can check out.
You should check out this tutorial or join this slack community to learn how to build global ecommerce experiences with composable commerce APIs.
Here's a recommendation of the top five websites to find remote jobs for different fields in tech.
Joe's Jobs curates the best product, engineering, design, devrel, open-source, etc., roles at exciting startups.

Dev Term of the day 💾

Null is a pointer reference used to represent an uninitialized or empty value that does not exist in the memory location. Learn more here (text) or here (video).

Book Recommendations

All of Grace by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance by Josh Waitzkin.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey.
The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Swartz.

Featured Tweets and Videos 😍

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

nader dabit (🧱, 🚀) | sha.eth | nader.sol @dabit3

Mapping the traditional tech stack to -> decentralized protocols, blockchain, & web3. As I talk with more developers, I've learned that this the best way to make it click for them & understand how they might build out their own ideas, or get started in this space: [🧵 a thread]

Angie Jones @techgirl1908

You're never going to know everything there is to know in tech. Instead, aim for the confidence to know that you can figure it out.

Emily Smith @Em1lySm

I’m just a girl, standing in front of the internet, asking you, for the love of goodness to stop using ‘Click here’ to embed your links: it’s inaccessible. 🧵 (1)

⬇️: Full Ethical Hacking Course - Network Penetration Testing for Beginners

⬇️: Chess Masterclass: 5 Step Thinking Strategy | Best Tips, Tactics, Moves & Ideas for Beginners

⬇️: I’m Not Going to Waste Your Time, I’m Guilty

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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