[BAWD #85] $10,000 Cloud Credits for Startups

Aug 09, 2022

Hello, dear friend 👋🏾,

I trust you had a blissful week. Btw, here’s a friendly reminder that it's easier to stay in shape than to get in shape. Likewise, keeping a house clean is easier than getting it clean 🥹.

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Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻

Don't Rush to Simplicity by Shawn Wang.
How to Send Emails with Commerce Layer Webhooks, Zapier, and SendGrid by Bolaji Ayodeji.
Number of Ones by Hristiyan Dodov.
A tech lead’s guide to effective communication by Addy Osmani.
How to extract a data-rich service from a monolith by Praful Todkar.
50+ Free Guides To Startup HR, Recruiting, Leadership by Hunterwalk.
Statements Vs. Expressions by Josh Comeau.
Great leaders create more leaders by Frances Coronel.
How Stripe Designs Beautiful Websites by Lee Robison.
The Case for Composability: 3 Lessons from Headless Commerce Summit 2022 by Charlotte Dillon.
A Technical Writer's Introduction To Docs As Code by Linda Ikechukwu.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

Multi-Tasking and Our Greatest Fear by Lawrence Yeo.
You Miss Every Shot You Don’t Take by Benjamin Hardy.
3 Time Management Tips That Actually Work by James Clear.
5 Mindsets That Create Success by Mike Manson.

Product of the Week ✨

Heyhack is an automated penetration testing solution that surpasses the level of ethical hackers by imitating real hacker sessions with an innovative browser-based approach.

Good Tidings 🔊

Oracle for Startups is offering African businesses the opportunity to experience the benefits of cloud computing at affordable prices with up to $10,000 cloud credits per startup. You can learn more and apply.
Check out the comprehensive MLH Hackathon Organizer Guide—a community initiative with many lessons that the hackathon community worldwide has learned from organizing hackathons.
Google Calendar now supports meeting appointments by default but as a premium feature. Similar to how Calendly works only maybe better with direct integration with other Google services. You can learn how this works on Google’s support doc. In addition, you can check out my page to book an appointment with me to discuss anything composable commerce and developer relations partnerships with Commerce Layer.
Apple Entrepreneur Camp applications are now open for underrepresented founders and developers with app-driven businesses. Attendees receive code-level guidance from Apple engineers, insight from Apple leaders, and more. You can learn more about the program and apply as a Black Founder, Female Founder, or Hispanic/Latinx Founder.
Applications to join the GitHub Campus Experts program are ongoing now. This is your chance to empower your college technical community by learning the necessary skills with training, mentorship, and support from GitHub.
Need support for your learning? You can get funding for your learning needs (from an internet subscription, a learning computer device, or course purchase) from anonymous people who care.
Did you know that GitHub Sponsors is now available in 30 new countries, including Egypt, Gambia, Kenya, Morocco, South Africa, and Tunisia? Join us tomorrow in a special edition of GitHub Africa to talk more about the sponsor’s program.
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 💾

Penetration test is an authorized simulated cyberattack on a computer system performed to evaluate the system's security. Learn more here (text) or here (video).

Book Recommendations 📚

All of Grace by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
The Guide for Growing as a Software Engineer by Gergely Orosz.
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt.
Knowing God by J. I. Packer.

Featured Tweets and Videos 😍

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

Bala or Hamza 🇳🇬 @b_hantsi

@iambolajiayo BAWD is one of the first things that comes to my mind when I wake up this morning. Can't wait for the #85 edition

Accessibility Awareness @A11yAwareness

You don't necessarily need to say "image of" in your alt text for users to know it's an image. Screen readers will announce that it's an image. But it can help readers to specify if it's a hand-drawn image, Polaroid, infographic, screenshot, chart, map, diagram, or so on.

nader (🧱, 🚀) | nader.arweave.dev | nader.lens 🧢 @dabit3

If you're in DevRel & want to be effective, spend a good amount of time also learning, sharing, building, and helping out with other software, tools, projects, etc you're interested in... If you're only focused on pushing / shilling your own product, it's hard to build trust.

Dare Obasanjo @Carnage4Life

Managing your career is about building credibility and earning the right to get more responsibility. It’s also about recognizing when you aren’t valued and your efforts cannot make up for a lack of being given opportunities.

AYODEJI 👨🏾‍💻 @ayodejidev

I'm super excited to share I have moved to Netherlands to join @Adyen as a Developer Advocate 🥳🎉 This is a dream come true😭! Can't wait to work on cool #Devrel stuffs with my team.

⬇️: Cyber Security, explained in Yoruba

⬇️: We’ve Gone Composable. Now What?

⬇️: 5 Mistakes Procrastinators Make (And How To Avoid Them...)

Quote of the Week 💙

“Try dey rest” –Anonymous

Shout out to my current Patrons: Maya Shavin, Angie Jones, Sarah Drasner, Samson Goddy, and Obinna Odirionye.

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