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Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽💻
The End of Localhost by Shawn Swyx Wang.
Remix-ing Routing in Angular by Brandon Roberts.
Adventures In TypeScript: Destructuring and Code Organization by George Offley.
A Comprehensive Guide to Commerce Layer Webhooks by Bolaji Ayodeji.
Past, Present, and Future of React State Management by Lee Robinson.
Don't Let a Bad Abstraction Cost You 2 Years by Nader Khalil.
Understanding Layout Algorithms by Josh Comeau.
Learn Firebase Cloud Firestore Security Rules by Raja Tamil.
Use Promise.all to Stop Async/Await from Blocking Execution in JS by Jason Lengstorf.
Five things you need to know about setting the right goals for engineering teams by Ella Morish.
Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅
Travel Is No Cure for the Mind by Lawrence Yeo.
The Reitoff Principle for Productivity by Ali Abdaal.
The Mistake Smart People Make: Being In Motion vs. Taking Action by James Clear.
How to Let Go: Learning to Deal With Loss by Mike Manson.
Product of the Week ✨
Spheron provides services for deploying full-stack applications to the decentralized cloud in just three clicks.
Good Tidings 🔊
On Addy’s 10th anniversary at Google, he shares a super detailed, lengthy, and insightful article on some software engineering soft skills he’s learned for ten years now while working on Google Chrome.
Here’s a collection of Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines that contains guidance and best practices for designing great experiences for any Apple platform.
Are you looking for free self-taught education in Computer Science? The OSSU Computer Science curriculum provides a complete computer science education using online materials designed according to the degree requirements of undergraduate computer science majors.
Here’s a detailed MDN guide on how to handle common JavaScript problems. It includes tips on using browser dev tools to track down and fix problems, using Polyfills and libraries to work around problems, getting modern JavaScript features to work in older browsers, and much more.
Hi Front-end developers, here’s an interactive course designed to help you become proficient with backend development.
Here’s a valuable project on GitHub which aims to implement Python 3.x on microcontrollers and small embedded systems.
The official Jamstack Discord community is still looking for communities and events to partner with in the Jamstack ecosystem. So you can learn more or join the ride.
What if you had an extra day a week? Find out and share what you could do with an extra day using this fun project.
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 💾
Normalization is the process of organizing data in a database to reduce redundancy and improve data integrity. Learn more here (text) or here (video).
Book Recommendations 📚
14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers by Zeno Rocha.
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 Covey.
Featured Tweets and Videos 😍
Here are some tweets I think are cool and some of my favorite videos from YouTube this week.
⬇️: Make the most of your GitHub account
⬇️: The State of JavaScript - The State of the Web
⬇️: True Prayer, True Power! - Charles Spurgeon Sermon
⬇️: Buju BNXN | Glitch Sessions
Quote of the Week 💙
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” –Colin Powell
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