[BAWD #78] Learn SQL and the Story of Heroku

Jun 12, 2022

Hello, dear friend 👋🏾,

I trust you had a blissful week? Btw, here’s a friendly reminder that you should breathe. I know it’s a lot, but just breathe.

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Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻

Building a Design System Monorepo with Turborepo by Lee Robinson.
Create a Smart Voicemail with Twilio, JavaScript, and Google Calendar by Nathaniel Okenwa.
Yet More New HTTP Specs by Mark Nottingham.
How to code review Firebase security rules by Rachel Myers.
A Comprehensive Guide to Commerce Layer Webhooks by Bolaji Ayodeji.
The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal by Josh Comeau.
Replace Text & Images Using Edge Functions and HTMLRewriter by Jason Lengstorf.
TypeScript Function Syntaxes by Kent C. Dodds.
What is Jamstack? by Salma Alam-Naylor.
React Video Player Component Using Hooks, TypeScript, and xState by Joel Hooks.
Ultrasonic payments by Charlie Gerard.
The Acronyms of Rendering on the Web by Brittney Postma.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

Turn Your Alarm Clock Into A Positive Trigger by Benjamin Hardy.
Who Am I Serving? - 3 Frameworks To Find Your Core Focus by Ali Abdaal.
The Physics of Productivity: Newton’s Laws of Getting Stuff Done by James Clear.
What’s the Point of Self-Improvement Anyway? by Mike Manson.

Product of the Week ✨

TanStack Query is a powerful asynchronous state management for JavaScript, TypeScript, Reactjs, Solidjs, Vuejs, and Svelte.

Good Tidings 🔊

If you’ve been working on the web for years, you should remember how Heroku made it easy for developers to deploy applications to the cloud. Lee wrote an insightful piece on why Heroku became so popular and what we can learn from their incredible and evolving developer experience.
Are you a student who is new to open source or just starting your maintainer journey? Then, GitHub Global Campus Community Exchange can help you make your first contribution or grow your project.
The CHAOSS Africa aims to empower African developers, designers, project managers, and community managers to integrate into the CHAOSS project and contribute in meaningful ways. If you’re interested, you can RSVP for their first virtual meeting happening soon.
You should check out this series of interactive lessons and exercises designed to help you learn SQL right in your browser.
The official Jamstack Discord community is still looking for communities and events to partner with in the Jamstack ecosystem. You can learn more or join the ride.
Here’s a handy platform that tracks 700+ startups with layoffs and 130000+ employees laid off since 2020. So if you’re hiring, this might be a good place to find talents open for new opportunities.
If you’re a student (at any level), you can apply to get the GitHub Student Developer Pack and access the best developer tools and courses for FREE.
Here’s a curated list of project-based programming tutorials you can use to learn how to build applications from scratch.
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 Week 💾

Structured Query Language (SQL) is a domain-specific language used in programming for storing, manipulating, and retrieving data in databases. Learn more here (text) or here (video).

Book Recommendations 📚

Soft Skills: The Software Developer’s Life Manual by John Sonmez.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey.
All of Grace by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
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 won't know that you don't know until you know. https://t.co/Ld3b8WemmM

Gift Ojeabulu @GiftOjeabulu_

The truth is the more you learn, the more you discover that there are a lot of things you don't know and still need to learn .

Kelly Vaughn @kvlly

If you're a software engineer who was recently laid off, I want to help! I opened up some time on my calendar for 15-minute sessions to either review your resume or offer interviewing advice on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 12-1 PM ET. Book a time:

calendly.comResume Review/Interview Advice - Kelly VaughnMy name is Kelly Vaughn and I’m an Engineering Manager at Spot AI. With so many software engineers experiencing layoffs, I’m setting aside some time each week to help you review your resume and answer interviewing questions from an EM/hiring manager’s perspective.Please come prepared with questions

James Clear @JamesClear

Most people need consistency more than they need intensity. Intensity: -run a marathon -write a book in 30 days -silent meditation retreat Consistency: -don't miss a workout for 2 years -write every week -daily silence Intensity makes a good story. Consistency makes progress.

⬇️: Open Source 101: Version Control with Git and GitHub

⬇️: A Tale of Web Development in Two Universes | Netlify

⬇️: How a Composable Transactional Layer Propelled an Award-Winning Commerce Experience

⬇️: All about Technical Writing w/ Linda Ikechukwu

Quote of the Week 💙

“If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.” –Barrack Obama

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