[BAWD #80] The Product-Minded Software Engineer

Jun 27, 2022

Hello, dear friend 👋🏾,

I trust you had a blissful week? Btw, here’s a friendly reminder that the most dangerous distractions are the ones you love but don't love you back.

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Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻

The Product-Minded Software Engineer by Gergely Orosz.
Build a dialog manager with XState by Maya Shavin.
High Quality Face Recognition with Deep Metric Learning by Dlib Blog.
A layman's guide to thinking like the self-aware smol brained by Grug Brain.
How to Setup Google Analytics 4 in a Next.js Project by Bolaji Ayodeji.
How to break the cycle of tech debt by Cassidy Williams.
Optimize Core Web Vitals with Lighthouse and DevTools by Addy Osmani.
🚀⚙️ JavaScript Visualized: the JavaScript Engine by Lydia Hallie.
Beginners Guide to Web Accessibility by Ahmad Shadeed.
Mailbox: What's a good First DevRel Hiring Process? by Shawn Wang.
An Interactive Guide to Keyframe Animations by Josh Comeau.
Modern Face Recognition with Deep Learning by Adam Geitgey.
Which Back End Should I Use As A Front-End Developer? by Lee Robinson.
A Comprehensive Guide to Commerce Layer Webhooks by Bolaji Ayodeji.
Building an awesome image loading experience by Kent C. Dodds.
Case study: Designing Edu-commerce right by David Ukauwa.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

If You Commit to Nothing, You’ll Be Distracted By Everything by James Clear.
10 Reasons Why You Fail by Mike Manson.
The Many Worlds of Enough by Lawrence Yeo.
Are Lesser and Lesser Quality Distractions “Getting You”? by Benjamin Hardy.

Product of the Week ✨

LeadDev is the home of engineering leadership designed for lead engineers, engineering managers, and CTOs.

Good Tidings 🔊

Last week I learned that you could import environment variables from your local .env file directly into Netlify using their CLI with the command netlify env:import .env (Vercel has a similar feature too).
Suppose you’re a software engineer, a computer science student, or you belong to engineering-adjacent roles; you can improve your technical writing skills by taking one of Google's free technical writing courses (PS: there’s one scheduled for tomorrow and next).
Here’s a Python package that lets you draw cloud system architectures diagrams.
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.
And yes, JamstackConf is coming soon, November 7-8, in San Francisco. You can save the date now and get 20% off tickets.
Here’s a collection of practical CSS and design tips that helps in building future-proof user interfaces.
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.
You can use this package to generate better security questions for easy use in your projects.
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 💾

Environment Variables (ENV) is a dynamic-named value stored in a file to be utilized during the running processes of a computer program. Learn more here (text) or here (video).

Book Recommendations 📚

Learning Patterns by Addy Osmani and Lydia Hallie.
All of Grace by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers by Zeno Rocha.
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.

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

6 things I've learned in 10 years as a developer 1. You're almost never being paid enough 2. You'll never know everything 3. You can learn anything 4. Empathy & communication > strictly technical skills 5. Specialization is more lucrative than being broad 6. Shipped > perfect

Shaundai Person @shaundai

You might not have hit 100% of your goals yesterday, but you ✨showed up✨ which is more than most people do And today you’ll show up again. And the next day you’ll show up again. And each day you’ll get a little closer to that 100

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

Technology is a means to an end. Using (or not) a certain piece of tech should never matter more than achieving some end result Experimentation, learning, iterating, improving, & choosing what’s right can’t happen when there is maximalism or allegiance to a particular component

⬇️: College Dropout Making $500K as a Software Engineer

⬇️: 100+ Web Development Things you Should Know

⬇️: 33 Concepts JavaScript Developers "SHOULD Know"

⬇️: How & Where to Apply Fragrance

Quote of the Week 💙

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” –George Bernard Shaw

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