[BAWD #84] OSS Security and GPT-3

Aug 01, 2022

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Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻

How to avoid layout shifts caused by web fonts by Simon Hearne.
The Role of an Enterprise Architect in a Lean Enterprise by Kevin Hickey.
The Radiating Circles of DX Architecture by Shawn Wang.
Equity 101 for Software Engineers at Big Tech and Startups by Gergely Orosz.
11 timeless lessons Mário learned selling his first product by Mario Nzualo.
What is GitOps and Why Should Developers Care? by Shedrack Akintayo.
Adaptive Loading - Improving web performance on low-end devices by Addy Osmani.
The thrill of open source security by Jonathan Leitschuh.
Top 15 Recommended Tools for React Developers by Bolaji Ayodeji.
Functional Programming 101 by Cassidy Williams.
Marketing for maintainers: Promote your project to users and contributors by Klint Finley.
What are Micro Frontends? by Michael Geers.
Publishing your work increases your luck by Aaron Francis.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

The Time Trap of Productivity by Lawrence Yeo.
How to Get Better by Mike Manson.
If Nothing Changes, Nothing Is Going to Change by James Clear.
Turn Your Alarm Clock Into A Positive Trigger by Benjamin Hardy.

Product of the Week ✨

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Good Tidings 🔊

Are you struggling with consistency, learning, and growth? Then you should watch this!
CcHub, in collaboration with Google, Mojaloop Foundation, and the government of Rwanda, launched the Fintech Innovation Program in 2021. This year, they’re supporting early-stage fintech startups and innovators (with at least an MVP) through an incubation program for two cohorts with a $10,000 grant to each selected company. You can apply to join the cohort with this form.
Did you know that GitHub Sponsors is now available in 30 new countries, including Egypt, Gambia, Kenya, Morocco, South Africa, and Tunisia?
How to ship your code to production in a fast and reliable way is a question more engineers and engineering leaders should educate themselves on. In this insightful article, you will learn what shipping to production entails, the processes involved, the principles and tools for shipping to production responsibly, and much more.
Have you participated in the Jamstack Community Survey 2022 yet? If you haven’t yet, and you build websites or web apps, please do so.
Code for Philly is kicking off its third-year fellowships for underrepresented individuals in the tech industry with four $1,500 fellowships, including Software Engineering, DevOps/QA, Javascript Data Integration, and Project/Product management. You can learn more and apply here.
Here’s a series of valuable conversations on Test-Driven Development (TDD) and its impact on software design.
If you’re building a startup, you should check out “From Concept to Revenue: A Founder’s Guide to LinkedIn,” a guide to help founders leverage LinkedIn’s most helpful features to maximize impact and build their business brand.
Are you passionate about Kubernetes education, enjoy writing tutorials, or want to share your industry knowledge? Then, apply to be a Community Advocate for Ambassador Labs.
Re-start your local event with help from the Jamstack Community team and Netlify by filling out this form.
Here’s a curated list of project-based programming tutorials you can use to learn how to build applications from scratch.
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 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 💾

Log is a record of events that occur in a running operating system or computer software. Learn more here (text) or here (video).

Book Recommendations 📚

The Guide for Growing as a Software Engineer by Gergely Orosz.
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt.
All of Grace by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout.

Featured Tweets and Videos 😍

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

Debbie O'Brien 🎭 @debs_obrien

I think one of the reasons I so look forward to work on Mondays is that I fully switch off at the weekend. I don’t open emails/teams/slack at weekends. Most of my work apps are only installed on my work computer and not personal one. Everyone should fully switch off at weekends

Mitra Raman @ramannoodlez

When an engineer believes their “soft skills” don’t matter as much as their technical skills, that raises alarms. An engineer’s day consists of: working with others, giving/taking feedback, finding + solving problems. Almost all of these take “soft skills”.

Angie Jones @techgirl1908

Good prompt. I did this when I moved to the Bay Area. Went from Staff to Senior, but it was to work at Twitter. Bay Area + notable tech company was worth it to me. My career skyrocketed from that point.

Will @UXWD87

Why is that people dont talk about taking a step back in their careers to position themselves for better opportunities in the future?

⬇️: I quit using console.log in prod

⬇️: Lecture 2: Models of Computation, Document Distance

⬇️: MEAL PREP FOR WEIGHT LOSS + JOURNEY TO SLIM THICK + POTATO PORRIDGE

Quote of the Week 💙

“Many problems are minor when you solve them right away, but grow into an enormous conflict when you let them linger. As a rule of thumb, fix it now” –James Clesr

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