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Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻

1. Ensuring data(base) consistency during concurrent requests by Frank de Jonge.

2. Executable Tweets and Programs in Short URLs by Jeff Lindsay.

3. 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known by Kevin Kelly.

4. A one-line solution to highlighting search matches by Ire Aderinokun.

5. How to Connect Google Colab to a Local Runtime by Bolaji Ayodeji.

6. Debugging GitHub Actions workflows effectively by Harsh Bardhan Mishra.

7. Coding at the speed of design with Chakra UI by Segun Adebayo.

8. How to Run TensorFlow Lite Object Detection Models on the Raspberry Pi (with Optional Coral USB Accelerator) by Evan.

9. Building a Musical Instrument with the Web Audio API by Tania Rascia.

10. Lencioni’s 5 Dysfunctions of a Team by Jessica Zartler.

11. Understanding Collection Group Queries in Cloud Firestore by Todd Kerpelman.

12. Omnichannel has changed the way we build DX by Iñaki Barturen.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

1. Why the Best Things in Life Are All Backwards by Mike Manson.

2. Outsmart Your Smartphone: 4 Ways to Curb Digital Distraction by Locke Hughes.

3. How to Build Confidence by James Clear.

4. Can't Focus? These 8 Tips Will Help Promote Attentiveness & Productivity by Josey Murray.

5. Why autonomy is important for work by Ali Abdaal.

Product of the Week ✨

Acapela lets you take control of all your work notifications. You get to capture, filter, and action them all from one place.

Good Tidings 🔊

1. #Laptops4Developers, a tech training program for the financially constrained, is accepting applications for their third cohort. Hurry now to learn more and apply before it ends in two days.

2. CascadiaJS is offering scholarships for their annual conference. Suppose you live in Pacific Northwest and are a member of an under-represented minority in tech or have financial constraints that make purchasing a ticket difficult, then you should apply for the scholarship.

3. Andela, Grow with Google, and Pluralsight has announced a new partnership for the Google Africa Developer Scholarship 2022 program. This program will get free access to selected courses, projects, embedded labs, and skill assessments.

4. Love is great, necessary, and beautiful, but love is not enough.

5. Stripe has open-sourced the content-authoring system that powers their documentation. As a result, you can now freely build documentation, static pages, or tooling with Markdoc.

6. The number of hours in the day remains the same, yet our

   expectations for ourselves have multiplied; sighs. If you're drowning in tasks and experiencing responsibility fatigue, then this advice might be helpful.

7. Google is hiring for numerous open roles at their new product development center in Nairobi, Kenya.

8. GitHub Education is hosting an unconference for leaders of technical student communities next month in South-East Nigeria. You can learn more and register on this webpage.

9. You can also apply to get the GitHub Student Developer Pack and access the best developer tools and courses for FREE.

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

11. Are you looking for open-source projects to contribute to? There are a couple of Java/Type Script projects you can contribute to on GitHub.

12. You should check out this tutorial or join this slack community to learn how to build global ecommerce experiences with composable commerce APIs.

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

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

Dev Term of the day 💾

Webhook is the way to transmit data in real-time from one application to another upon the occurrence of certain events. Learn more here (text) or here (video).

Book Recommendations

1. Software Engineering at Google by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright.

2. A Software Engineer's Guide to Seniority by Jocelyn Harper.

3. All of Grace by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

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

Featured Tweets and Videos 😍

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

Bọ́lájí Ayọ̀dejì @iambolajiayo

You can't help the world until you help yourself.

May 10th 2022

6 Retweets21 Likes

Clint 'SpamapS' Byrum 🇺🇦 @spamaps

I always thought burnout happened when you work too much. Now I get it. It's investing emotionally and then not getting a return on that investment.

May 10th 2022

7,417 Retweets41,240 Likes

Dare Obasanjo @Carnage4Life

A recurring theme of being an adult is that no one is coming to save you. Act accordingly.

May 9th 2022

1,487 Retweets3,520 Likes

Stephanie Morillo @radiomorillo

I just recently came off of a job search, so I’d like to give five tips to recruiters, interviewers, and hiring managers that will hopefully help them improve the candidate experience! 👇🏽

May 9th 2022

87 Retweets466 Likes

Odogwu Machalla @unicodeveloper

Engineering takes a lot of effort for a few clicks here and there. It’s madness.

May 3rd 2022

64 Retweets298 Likes

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Quote of the day 💙

“The internet is an eatery hosting both positive and negative takes on life. Ensure you’re eating a balanced diet on the internet. Not everything is bad as they say; some things work and work just fine”–Bọ́lájí Ayọ̀dejì

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