[BAWD #91] The Costs of Multitasking

Sep 26, 2022

Hello, dear friend 👋🏾,

I trust you had a blissful week. Sorry I didn’t send a letter last week; it was a hectic week for me. Btw, here’s a friendly reminder that life isn't a competition, so take your time and progress at your own pace. We all have different scripts, and you should focus on yours.

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Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻

The surprisingly high cost of multitasking (and how to avoid it) by Sara Sparrow.
Naming things to improve accessibility by Hidde de Vries.
React I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down by François Zaninotto.
8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot by Rizel Scarlett.
How to Migrate from Vue CLI to Vite by Daniel Kelly.
Contributing to Open Source Pocket Guide by Bolaji Ayodeji.
Coding peace of mind: A guide to testing by Chrissy LeMaire.
Testing a Sites Color Mode with Playwright by Debbie O'Brien.
How Stripe builds interactive docs with Markdoc by Ryan Paul.
Dyslexia friendly style guide by British Dyslexia Association.
Rendering on the Web by Jason Miller and Addy Osmani.
Why You Should Do A Tiny Product First by Amy Hoy.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

Why Most People Never Get What They Want by Benjamin Hardy.
How to Get Your Brain to Focus on What Matters by James Clear.
How to Calm the Anxious Brain by Lawrence Yeo.
How to Stop Procrastinating by Mike Manson.

Product of the Week ✨

Devtool Angels is a list of angel investors that invest in developer tools.

Good Tidings 🔊

Kickstart your tech career by enrolling in the Learnable internship program if you’re in Nigeria to learn frontend, backend, product design, and web3. You can learn more about the program (PS: application closes by the end of October).
JavaScript is a multi-paradigm, dynamic language with types and operators, standard built-in objects, and methods. This document includes a comprehensive overview of various features in JavaScript. I recommend you read it either as a beginner or an experienced JavaScript programmer.
I recently gave a presentation at Infobip Shift Conference. ICYMI, you can take a look at the slides, explore this list of composable commerce resources, or follow the workshop material at your pace to learn how to build an ecommerce store with Commerce Layer, Demo Store, and some other tools.
Bloomberg is coming to Nigeria to recruit software engineers (full-time and internship) to their London office at an event happening in Lagos, Nigeria, on the 17th of October, 2022. You should give it a trial or learn more about Bloomberg.
Google internship applications (engineering or business roles) for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa are now open.
Here’s a collection of helpful tips (in short video formats) that you wish you knew when you started using TypeScript.
If you want to learn Reactjs and you’re coming from a design background, these resources are a great place to get started.
Here’s a new self-study course from Google where you'd learn how to write more explicit and more effective error messages.
Need support for your learning? Every month, you can get funding for your learning needs (internet subscription, computer device, or courses) from anonymous people who care.
For open-source organizers, here’s a superb toolkit including suggestions and templates for sponsorship prospectus, one-time event report, and annual report.
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 💾

Pseudocode is the implementation of an algorithm in simple plain information language. Learn more here (text) or here (video).

Book Recommendations 📚

Knowing God by J. I. Packer.
Succinct Data structures and Algorithms for Practicing Engineers by Anthony Alaribe.
What is the Gospel? By Greg Gilbert.
Building Python Web APIs with FastAPI by Abdulazeez Adeshina.

Featured Tweets and Videos 😍

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

The Ant Philosophy @Ant_Philosophy

It took me 3 years to beat inconsistency, I'll tell you how to in 2 minutes...

Bọ́lájí Ayọ̀dejì @iambolajiayo

This is what the future of ecommerce looks like, and the work we're doing @commercelayer is pivoting this level of omnichannel and composable shopping experiences already.

⚡️ Salma | whitep4nth3r @whitep4nth3r

I can literally deploy my website by speaking to my watch. What a time to be alive.

me @markessien

When you see someone who works very hard, but is still unproductive, it's usually because they are always starting new projects and not ending the existing ones.

⬇️: 5 Pro-Level React Do's & Don'ts

⬇️: The Most Important Skill in Software Engineering

⬇️: 7 Habits of Successful Software Engineers

⬇️: Looking unto Jesus - Charles Spurgeon Sermon

Quote of the Week 💙

“If you're waiting for someone to hand deliver an excellent opportunity to you, it's unlikely to happen. But if you are exploring and moving-if you're in the mix and engaged-then you'll stumble upon many opportunities. The active mind comes across a lot. Keep tilling the soil and you will occasionally unearth something wonderful.” –James Clear

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