I trust you had a blissful past few months. It’s been about seven months since you last heard from me. Life got busy, change emerged, and I had to go slow. During this time off, I’ve had ~100 of you subscribe newly, bringing a new milestone of 1000+ people reading these letters. Apologies for the radio silence so far, and thank you all for sticking around. Indeed, I have missed writing to you, and I’m glad to get back to writing more. I’ll probably figure out a new cadence and re-strategize this newsletter a bit, but the goals remain the same. I have a lot to share and will take time to slowly disseminate all of them for your benefit!

Btw, here’s a friendly reminder that cold potatoes on your own table taste better than roast meat at your neighbours, and the honeysuckle at your own door is the sweetest you’d ever smell. When you are out, your friends do their best, but still, it is not home. "Make yourself at home," they say, because everybody knows that to feel at home is to feel at ease.” Find your home, and when you do, cherish it.

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Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻

1. The 10 Commandments of Navigating Code Reviews by Angie Jones.

2. Six ways countries are implementing safe, inclusive, and interoperable DPI with open source by Jon Lloyd.

3. Revisiting the difference between content and data by Michael Andrews.

4. How to Get Funding By Caring About Research Software (I) by Dr. Heidi Seibold.

5. How to Get Funding By Caring About Research Software (II) by Dr. Heidi Seibold.

6. Making a business case for documentation by Ravi Murugesan and Lana Novikova.

7. Overcoming obstacles to shutting down a digital service by Julia Harrison.

8. Open Up Guide: Using Open Data to Combat Corruption by Open Data Charter.

9. What is llms.txt and Why Your Website Might Need One by Gift Egwuenu.

10. How digital public goods can help unlock the public interest potential of AI by Liv Marte Nordhaug.

11. How to Build Design Editing Apps using Nextjs, Clerk, and IMGLY’s CE.SDK Engine by Bolaji Ayodeji.

12. SEO is sinking ship. Swim or Drown? by Linda Ikechukwu.

13. Elinor Ostrom’s eight rules for managing the commons by Jeremy Williams.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

1. The Nothingness of Money by Lawrence Yeo.

2. Better than a master of one by Ire Aderinokun.

3. 5 Boring Ways to Become More Creative by Mike Manson.

4. Letters to Avidan: On the Brevity of Life by Equiano Vitruvius.

5. The Ultimate Productivity Hack is Saying No by James Clear.

Product of the Week ✨

Open Food Facts is a collaborative, open database of 3M food products from 180 countries. It provides data on ingredients, nutrition, and environmental impact, empowering consumers, producers, researchers, and governments to make informed decisions for healthier and sustainable food. You can explore the source and contribute on GitHub.

Good Tidings 🔊

1. A few months ago, I participated in a summit to discuss how redefining how technology is built to serve humanity and the planet, and working with governments, is crucial for a radical shift in a world submerged in crises and conflicts. This is currently being facilitated at the Digital Public Goods Alliance, and I look forward to seeing even more participation from different stakeholders and digital solution builders like yourself. Moving forward, my career focus will lean more towards digital transformation for public service delivery and businesses, advancing how software, data, content, and AI systems can be used to make the world better and not just create solutions for people with free time and a spare laptop.

2. Do you know that you can turn any GitHub repository into an interactive diagram for visualizing the project 👀?

3. Finland and UNICEF Venture Fund launched a global investment opportunity for fem tech solutions (those improving the health, wellness and socio-economic participation of women and girls) in and for emerging economies. Ensure to apply before 8th May 2025 if you’re interested.

4. React and Next.js have powered some of the most ambitious projects on the web in the last few years. Here’s a breakdown of real-world case studies from engineering teams and products, highlighting their challenges, solutions, and results of building with these tools.

5. The long-awaited Open Source Festival is back and better this year, from August 14th to 16th. Expect elevating and educational talks about the open source ecosystem in Africa. If you’re interested, you can submit sessions to present, reach out to sponsor, or begin to make plans to attend.

6. Google for Startups Accelerator program for Africa is now accepting applications from early-stage tech startups.

7. If you’re interested in contributing to open source, GSOC has announced exciting organizations mentoring for this year. You can begin to reach out to them to increase your chances of being selected for the GSoC program.

8. The French (DINUM) and German (ZenDiS) governments are building Docs, an open source collaborative note-taking, wiki and documentation platform (alternative to Google Docs). This is a good collaborative digital transformation effort.

9. TIL about the funding.json standard, a very interesting way open source projects can communicate funding needs in a public and machine-readable format. Keen to see how it evolves and makes getting grants easier for FOSS projects, and contributes to financial sustainability challenges.

10. Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects can use the Best Practices Badge App to voluntarily self-certify, at no cost, to explain how they follow different industry best practices.

11. You should check out the Shubhra Kar Linux Foundation Training (LiFT) Scholarship Program, which aims to increase diversity in open source technology by providing access to training courses and certification exams for deserving individuals at no cost to the recipient.

12. Recently, the Nigerian government (through the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy) released the Nigerian Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) framework to achieve a unified approach to delivering digital services across critical life events for Nigerians. This is a very solid start, and I'm keen to see how far the implementation will go and how citizens, communities, and other stakeholders will be involved.

13. Interested in Data Visualisation and AI? There’s an open PhD paid position at Tallinn University: Data Visualization and Artificial Intelligence for Monitoring Competence Needs in Industry and Lifelong Learning. You can apply before 30th June 2025; studies start by 1st September 2025.

14. Starting an Open Source Program Office? GitHub OSPO has shared their policies, tools, and best practices to guide you through the first 6-12 months of your organization's open source journey.

Lists and Collections 🗂️

1. You can take over 2,500 MIT courses from various fields online for free through MIT OpenCourseWare.

2. Here’s a curated list of project-based programming tutorials you can use to learn how to build applications from scratch.

3. Here’s a collection of digital solutions for different use cases, designed with privacy, security, open standard, and best practices in mind, you can adapt to your unique contextual needs.

4. Here’s a complete computer science study plan you can use to become a software engineer.

5. Here is a collection of universities, companies, and organizations that offer free online courses with certificates.

6. Here’s a collection of the best promotional deals for developers to level up your skills, workspace gadgets, etc.

7. If you’re looking to get started with technical writing, you should check this for a curated list of articles, books, videos, tools, podcasts, etc.

8. For managers, here’s a collection of engineering leadership resources that you’d find helpful.

9. Are you looking to network with other student community leaders and professionals or level up your skills and give back to your community? You can join the GitHub Campus Experts program now and expand your connections!

10. Here's a recommendation of the top websites to find remote jobs for different software engineering and product fields in tech.

11. Here’s a curated list of interview questions for different programming languages, frameworks, and technologies.

Book Recommendations 📚

1. Why Students Don’t Like School by Daniel T. Willingham.

2. Saved from What by RC Sproul.

3. Zero to One by Blake Masters and Peter Thiel.

4. Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner.

5. Building Python Web APIs with FastAPI by Abdulazeez Adeshina.

Featured Tweets and Videos 😍

Here are some cool tweets and my favorite videos from YouTube these past weeks.

⬇️: Hackers Find Missing People For Fun

⬇️: Your Space Reflects Who You Are.

⬇️: Guess the Language

⬇️: Why Some Animals Can't be Domesticated

Quote of the Week 💙

“The improvement or growth in understanding is the highest form of progress a natural man can attain, so real EDUCATION is the highest gift or blessing to natural man. Because the greatest thing in man is his mind and the greatest thing in the mind is understanding.” —Dr. Duro Ehalaiye.

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Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻

1. Better than a master of one by Ire Aderinokun.

2. ‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling Startups by Molly Graham.

3. Exploring software design problems and solutions: Transactions and side effects by Shalvah.

4. Create Interactive Digital Logic Circuits in React by Vivisa Ganesan.

5. Using data science to tackle land degradation by Data4SDGs.

6. How to Build Design Editing Apps using Nextjs, Clerk, and IMGLY’s CE.SDK Engine by Bolaji Ayodeji.

7. Introduction to Open Source for Nonprofits and Social Sector Organizations by GitHub Social Impact.

8. Six ways countries are implementing safe, inclusive, and interoperable DPI with open source by DPGA.

9. How to Create an Automated Profile README using Nodejs and GitHub Actions by Bolaji Ayodeji.

10. The 10 Commandments of Navigating Code Reviews by Angie Jones.

11. Forked Communities: Whose Property Is It Anyway? by Stephen Walli.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

1. Good Enough Is Just Fine by Lawrence Yeo.

2. Why Growth Requires Struggle by Mike Manson.

3. Hard work vs. Long work by Seth Godin.

4. What I Do When I Feel Like Giving Up by James Clear.

Product of the Week ✨

Puter is an advanced, self-hostable open-source internet operating system designed to be feature-rich (many use cases), fast, and highly extensible. You can explore the source and contribute here.

Good Tidings 🔊

1. Sarah shared this excerpt from the introduction of the book “A Philosophy of Software Design” by John Ousterhout, and I loved it.

   

2. You can now add a CITATION.cff file to the root of your GitHub repository to help users correctly cite your software.

3. Confused about the "right way" to fetch data in React? Here’s a nice diagram showing you the different options.

4. Switzerland 🇨🇭 has introduced the Federal Law on the Use of Electronic Means for the Fulfillment of Government Tasks (EMBAG), which requires all public bodies in the country to open source the code of all software developed by or for them. This approach aims to enhance government operations' transparency, security, and efficiency (love it!).

5. Here’s a mini-course designed to help React developers learn Vim commands and apply them to real-world scenarios by fixing and editing React code.

6. Here’s a good opportunity (w/ a monthly stipend) for anyone interested in Nigerian history (historians, ethnographers, journalists, artists, technologists, researchers, writers, filmmakers, and content creators). The fellowship is a multidisciplinary six-month programme designed to enhance the world’s understanding of Nigerian history in engaging and meaningful ways. Applications are closing by October 10th; please hurry.

7. If you’d like to learn how to commercialize your open source project from a VC and YC-backed startup founder who has invested $500M+ in 100+ startups, including OSS devtools like Nginx, you should watch this video.

8. Here’s a free React 19 cheat sheet you can take a look at.

9. The Principles for Digital Development are nine living guidelines that are designed to serve as a compass for those working to promote sustainable and inclusive development in today’s complex digital landscape. Using these Principles as a starting point, policymakers, practitioners, and technologists will be better equipped to ensure that all people can benefit from digital initiatives and from the broader digital society.

Lists and Collections 🗂️

1. You can take over 2,500 MIT courses from various fields online for free through MIT OpenCourseWare.

2. Here’s a curated list of project-based programming tutorials you can use to learn how to build applications from scratch.

3. Here’s a complete computer science study plan you can use to become a software engineer.

4. Here is a collection of universities, companies, and organizations that offer free online courses with certificates.

5. Here’s a collection of the best promotional deals for developers to level up your skills, workspace gadgets, etc.

6. If you’re looking to get started with technical writing, you should check this for a curated list of articles, books, videos, tools, podcasts, etc.

7. For managers, here’s a collection of engineering leadership resources that you’d find helpful.

8. Are you looking to network with other student community leaders and professionals or level up your skills and give back to your community? You can join the GitHub Campus Experts program now and expand your connections!

9. Here's a recommendation of the top websites to find remote jobs for different software engineering and product fields in tech.

10. Here’s a curated list of interview questions for different programming languages, frameworks, and technologies.

Book Recommendations 📚

1. All of Grace by Charles Spurgeon.

2. Developer Experience (DX) by Addy Osmani.

3. Fluent React by Tejas Kumar.

4. Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner.

5. Building Python Web APIs with FastAPI by Abdulazeez Adeshina.

Featured Tweets and Videos 😍

Here are some cool tweets and my favorite videos from YouTube these past weeks.

⬇️: Stanford Computer Scientist Answers Coding Questions

⬇️: Open Source Stories - Episode I | Hello World

⬇️: Unlocking Career Success: The Secret to Thriving in Tech

⬇️: Digital Public Goods Decoded

Quote of the Week 💙

“You can carve out a very good career simply by being the most reliable person on the team. You would not think that always showing up on time, hitting every deadline, and responding quickly and professionally to all communication would be such a differentiator, but these traits are always in short supply.” —James Clear.

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Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻

1. The Gap by Ahmad Shadeed.

2. Avoiding Beginner Mistakes Hampering You to Scale Backend by Riken Shah.

3. Data Fetching Patterns in Single-Page Applications by Juntao QIU.

4. How to Build an Audio Chatbot with Nextjs, OpenAI, and ElevenLabs by Bolaji Ayodeji.

5. How to Become a Good Backend Engineer by Hussein Nasser.

6. Pulling off zero-downtime PostgreSQL migrations with Bucardo and Terraform by Shalvah.

7. The Rise of the AI Engineer by Swyx and Alessio.

8. Find the last matched element - the bad, the good, and the better by Maya Shavin.

9. The Overlapping Principles of Prompt Engineering and Software Development by Jacky Liang.

10. The “const” Deception by Josh Comeau.

11. 4 Levels of Measurement: Nominal, Ordinal, Interval & Ratio by Emily Stevens.

12. How to Create an Automated Profile README using Nodejs and GitHub Actions by Bolaji Ayodeji.

13. The 10 Commandments of Navigating Code Reviews by Angie Jones.

14. From ESLint and Prettier to Biome by Kitty Giraudel.

15. How Obinna Odirionye is building the future of the Internet by BI Africa.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

1. The Release Ratio: How to Make Use of Everything You Know by Lawrence Yeo.

2. The Complete Guide to Goal Setting (Backed by Science) by Mike Manson.

3. How Innovative Ideas Arise by James Clear.

4. Hard work vs. Long work by Seth Godin.

Product of the Week ✨

Our World in Data provides research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems with efforts from thousands of researchers around the world who dedicate their lives to it.

Good Tidings 🔊

1. Here’s an opportunity to showcase your OSS project on GitHub’s Open Source Friday live stream event, where they dive into engaging discussions with maintainers from some of GitHub's most popular projects.

2. I spent some time building transactional email templates for a cool devtool startup a few weeks back and this caniemail tool came in handy to check which HTML or CSS feature will work in different email clients (screams in Gmail). The tool is like caniuse.com but for email.

3. “Learning how to learn effectively is super important, especially as a software developer; learning new things is practically the whole gig! If you can learn to quickly pick up new languages/frameworks/tools, you'll be able to be way more productive than the average developer.” In this article, you will learn more about learning and how to pick up new skills.

4. Resend just open-sourced their entire strategy on how they approach engineering, design, support, and marketing in this handbook.

5. Research shows that to have a fulfilling career, you should do something you’re good at that makes the world better. For years, some researchers at Oxford have studied this phenomenon, and the 80,000 Hours project has put them all into this Career Guide that explains how to find a fulfilling career and why you shouldn’t always “follow your passion or gut.”

6. Google Open Source has shared its internal open-source documentation so maintainers can learn from it. The doc covers how Googlers release code that they've written and how they bring open-source code into the company.

7. Here are some free and open educational resources from the world’s leading experts on sustainable development, with the mandate to enrich the field of sustainable development and advance the SDGs Agenda 2030.

8. Here’s an interesting computer networking fundamentals course for Developers, DevOps, and Platform Engineers.

9. If you're wondering why the dancing cat below is here, I stumbled on this GIF in the past weeks and I so loved it 🥲. I thought to share it with you; maybe you can pick up some new moves :).

Lists and Collections 🗂️

1. You can take over 2,500 MIT courses from various fields online for free through MIT OpenCourseWare.

2. Here’s a curated list of project-based programming tutorials you can use to learn how to build applications from scratch.

3. Here’s a complete computer science study plan you can use to become a software engineer.

4. Here is a collection of universities, companies, and organizations that offer free online courses with certificates.

5. Here’s a collection of the best promotional deals for developers to level up your skills, workspace gadgets, etc.

6. If you’re looking to get started with technical writing, you should check this for a curated list of articles, books, videos, tools, podcasts, etc.

7. For managers, here’s a collection of engineering leadership resources that you’d find helpful.

8. Are you looking to network with other student community leaders and professionals or level up your skills and give back to your community? You can join the GitHub Campus Experts program now and expand your connections!

9. Here's a recommendation of the top websites to find remote jobs for different software engineering and product fields in tech.

10. Here’s a curated list of interview questions for different programming languages, frameworks, and technologies.

Book Recommendations 📚

1. All of Grace by Charles Spurgeon.

2. Fluent React by Tejas Kumar.

3. Developer Experience (DX) by Addy Osmani.

4. Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner.

5. Building Python Web APIs with FastAPI by Abdulazeez Adeshina.

Featured Tweets and Videos 😍

Here are some cool tweets and my favorite videos from YouTube these past weeks.

⬇️: Harvard CS50 – Full Computer Science University Course

⬇️: British Students Join Korean Navy: Boot Camp Day 1

⬇️: I Read 2,216 Resumes. Here’s How You Stand Out

⬇️: [AUDIO] The Power of Forgiveness

Quote of the Week 💙

“Sugar is sweeter than salt but not in a soup. You're very important but may be in the wrong place.” —Anonymous.

Sponsors and Patrons 💫

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1. Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of classes on design, music, photography, freelancing, etc. Sign up now for a free one-month premium membership trial and 40% off your first subscription.

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Nerd Memes of the Week 🥲

Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻

1. Fear makes you a worse programmer by Julia Evans.

2. CSS Modules; Welcome to the Future by Glen Maddern.

3. The “const” Deception by Josh Comeau.

4. Who is Speaking On Your Behalf? by Prosper Otemuyiwa.

5. How to Navigate Tech as a Woman by Angie Jones.

6. Why do Client Components get SSR'd to HTML? by Dan Ambrov.

7. Do you need an LLM for that? by Sophia Willows.

8. You probably don't need GraphQL by Max Stoiber.

9. Become a +10% engineer by Tomasz Łakomy.

10. How to Create an Automated Profile README using Nodejs and GitHub Actions by Bolaji Ayodeji.

11. Measuring Successful Communities in Open Source by Brian Douglas.

12. Why you should probably be using SQLite by Kent C. Dodds.

13. How to Build an Audio Chatbot with Nextjs, OpenAI, and ElevenLabs by Bolaji Ayodeji.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

1. The Proven Path to Doing Unique and Meaningful Work by James Clear.

2. Hard work vs. Long work by Seth Godin.

3. How to Take Risks by Mike Manson.

4. The Omnipresence of Work by Lawrence Yeo.

Product of the Week ✨

IMG.LY has built a creative engine that allows developers and businesses to add video and photo editing features to their applications. The engine is used to build different SDKs, that can power photo, video, design editing, and creative automation features for unlimited distributed end-users.

Good Tidings 🔊

1. Here’s a collection of some ongoing Udacity scholarships you can apply for including the AWS AI & ML Scholarship Program, Vodacom Mozambique Foundation STEM Scholarship Program, etc.

2. Awarri has announced Nigeria’s first multilingual Large Language Model (LLM), in partnership with the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), National Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (NCAIR), and data․org. The Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy mentioned that the LLM will be trained on five low-resource languages (Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Pidgin, Ibibio) and accented English to ensure stronger representation in existing datasets. Anyone can assist with data collection using this website.

3. React 19 Beta is now available! You can learn more about all the new cool features like actions, use API, and some hooks in the official blog post.

4. Here’s a YouTube playlist of computer networking videos created by Prof. Nick Feamster and also used in Udacity's Computer Networks offering.

5. If you write Golang, you should check out Uber’s open-sourced style guide. “The goal of this guide is to … by describing in detail the Dos and Don'ts of writing Go code at Uber. These rules exist to keep the code base manageable while still allowing engineers to use Go language features productively.”

6. If you reside in Abuja 🇳🇬, you should consider participating in this open-source hackathon. There are cool software/hardware challenges with prizes up to 2000 USD. This is an opportunity to network and build new experiences in the Energy Access sector

7. Here’s a very insightful 6000-word guide to developer marketing written by a dev tool startup CMO for practitioners.

Lists and Collections 🗂️

1. You can take over 2,500 MIT courses from various fields online for free through MIT OpenCourseWare.

2. Here’s a curated list of project-based programming tutorials you can use to learn how to build applications from scratch.

3. Here’s a complete computer science study plan you can use to become a software engineer.

4. Here is a collection of universities, companies, and organizations that offer free online courses with certificates.

5. Here’s a collection of the best promotional deals for developers to level up your skills, workspace gadgets, etc.

6. If you’re looking to get started with technical writing, you should check this for a curated list of articles, books, videos, tools, podcasts, etc.

7. For managers, here’s a collection of engineering leadership resources that you’d find helpful.

8. Are you looking to network with other student community leaders and professionals or level up your skills and give back to your community? You can join the GitHub Campus Experts program now and expand your connections!

9. Here's a recommendation of the top websites to find remote jobs for different software engineering and product fields in tech.

10. Here’s a curated list of interview questions for different programming languages, frameworks, and technologies.

Book Recommendations 📚

1. All of Grace by Charles Spurgeon.

2. Fluent React by Tejas Kumar.

3. Developer Experience (DX) by Addy Osmani.

4. Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner.

5. Building Python Web APIs with FastAPI by Abdulazeez Adeshina.

Featured Tweets and Videos 😍

Here are some cool tweets and my favorite videos from YouTube these past weeks.

⬇️: Node.js Crash Course

⬇️: JavaScript Visualized - Event Loop, Web APIs, (Micro)task Queue

⬇️: Do Square Eggs Have Square Yolks?

⬇️: The Early Church - Daily Life for Believers

Quote of the Week 💙

“Finish your projects. Don’t let fear or that last 10% hold you back. Keep finishing things and your body of work will continue to grow over time.” —Aaron Francis.

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Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻

1. Tech stack lessons from my 7+ year indie dev journey by Takuya Matsuyama.

2. How to Build an Audio Chatbot with Nextjs, OpenAI, and ElevenLabs by Bolaji Ayodeji.

3. How I Keep Myself Alive using Golang by Matt Boyle.

4. Event Interception by Ian Cartwright, Rob Horn, and James Lewis.

5. Exploring The Math of Thresholds by Emmanuel Bakare.

6. FLAME for JavaScript: Rethinking Serverless by Annie Sexton.

7. Build a Nuxt app with Azure serverless REST API by Maya Shavin.

8. The Python Paradox by Paul Graham.

9. Building an Investor List App with Novu and Supabase by Prosper Otemuyiwa.

10. How to Create an Automated Profile README using Nodejs and GitHub Actions by Bolaji Ayodeji.

11. Exploring Next.js Forms with Server Actions by Robin Wieruch.

12. The TSConfig Cheat Sheet by Matt Pocock.

13. Just write by Sara Soueidan.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

1. How to Create a Chain Reaction of Good Habits by James Clear.

2. The Leap by Seth Godin.

3. When to Say “Yes” and How to Say “No” by Mike Manson.

4. The Omnipresence of Work by Lawrence Yeo.

Product of the Week ✨

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Good Tidings 🔊

1. Last week the software engineering ecosystem was aroused with the launch of Devin, the AI software engineer. Devin is an autonomous agent that can solve engineering tasks using its own shell, code editor, and web browser just like a human engineer would. While this is limited now, in some time, Devin will perfectly finish the tasks of an engineer. So yes, it’s scary. Just like Tejas rightly mentioned in his new podcast, AI won’t take your job but AI + some other things will take some jobs. But be rest assured that AI won’t render you completely redundant if you don’t stay stagnant. We all must keep utilizing the key components that make humans unique and get ready to maximize the use of AI tools to enhance our work.

2. Contributor applications are now open for Google Summer of Code 2024 from now until 2nd April at 18:00 (UTC). Now is your time to finish up your application or get started! There are 195+ organizations this year.

3. You should check out TypeHero, a community of TypeScript developers where you can elevate your TS skills through interactive coding challenges, discussions, and knowledge-sharing.

4. Labeling comments encourages collaboration and saves hours of misunderstanding. Here’s a great comments convention with different labels you can adopt personally and even in your team for different review types.

5. You should check out this tool to elevate your job hunt with AI-tailored resumes and cover letters you can personalize for different applications.

6. You should also take a look at the Made In Nigeria project to explore the curation of awesome OSS projects built by Nigerians. Spoiler: it just got a cool makeover :).

7. I built an audio chatbot (more like chatting with Siri) you can play around with if you want (PS: you will need your own OpenAI and ElevenLabs API key—it’s easy to get one if you don’t have one already :)).

8. The creator of FastAPI just launched a full-stack modern web application template that supports FastAPI, React, SQLModel, PostgreSQL, Docker, GitHub Actions, automatic HTTPS, and more. You should check it out!

9. Tomasz joined a new ML company and embarked on a homemade AI boot camp to get up to speed. Here's a thread with all the AI resources used.

10. I would end today’s good tidings with this beautiful quote by Seth, “Learning is about becoming incompetent on our way to getting better. If you’re not open to the tension that is caused by knowing you could do better, it’s unlikely you’re willing to do the work to get better. As you’re doing that work, there’s the satisfaction it brings, but also the knowledge that just a moment ago, you weren’t any good.”

Lists and Collections 🗂️

1. You can take over 2,500 MIT courses from various fields online for free through MIT OpenCourseWare.

2. Here’s a curated list of project-based programming tutorials you can use to learn how to build applications from scratch.

3. Here’s a complete computer science study plan you can use to become a software engineer.

4. Here is a collection of universities, companies, and organizations that offer free online courses with certificates.

5. Here’s a collection of the best promotional deals for developers to level up your skills, workspace gadgets, etc.

6. If you’re looking to get started with technical writing, you should check this for a curated list of articles, books, videos, tools, podcasts, etc.

7. For managers, here’s a collection of engineering leadership resources that you’d find helpful.

8. Are you looking to network with other student community leaders and professionals or level up your skills and give back to your community? You can join the GitHub Campus Experts program now and expand your connections!

9. Here's a recommendation of the top websites to find remote jobs for different software engineering and product fields in tech.

10. Here’s a curated list of interview questions for different programming languages, frameworks, and technologies.

Book Recommendations 📚

1. All of Grace by Charles Spurgeon.

2. Fluent React by Tejas Kumar.

3. Developer Experience (DX) by Addy Osmani.

4. Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner.

5. Building Python Web APIs with FastAPI by Abdulazeez Adeshina.

Featured Tweets and Videos 😍

Here are some cool tweets and my favorite videos from YouTube these past weeks.

⬇️: Build a Chatbot with Nextjs, OpenAI, and ElevenLabs

⬇️: React Crash Course 2024

⬇️: Catch Up on Today's Web: AI, CSS, JavaScript and HTML

⬇️: Build a viral event sharing page

⬇️: OSCA x Google Summer of Code 2024 Webinar

Quote of the Week 💙

“Existing and imperfect is better than perfect but imaginary.” —Jason Lengstorf.

Sponsors and Patrons 💫

Shout out to my amazing supporters: Maya Shavin, Angie Jones, and Obinna Odirionye. Their support enables me to keep writing, teaching, curating resources, and supporting others. Thank you!

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It’s been a while. I trust you had a blissful past few days and are keen for the week ahead. Btw, here’s a friendly reminder not to wait for some magical inspiration before you get to work but just actually get to work. The process of doing the work in itself is the inspiration that will fine-tune your ideas. Just do it!

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1. Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of classes on design, music, photography, freelancing, etc. Sign up now for a free one-month premium membership trial and 40% off your first subscription.

2. Udemy is an online learning platform where you can take programming courses. Sign up now and get up to 30% off any course, 60%+ off career courses, 60%+ off web dev courses, or 60%+ off mobile dev courses.

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Nerd Memes of the Week 🥲

Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻

1. The Ultimate Guide to Centering in CSS by Josh Comeau.

2. The Two Reacts by Dan Abramov.

3. Why LinkedIn chose gRPC+Protobuf over REST+JSON by Rafal Gancarz.

4. Next.js App Router migration: the good, bad, and ugly by Brandon Bayer.

5. Common mistakes with the Next.js App Router and how to fix them by Lee Robinson.

6. Component Testing in Vue: Using routing for states by Maya Shavin.

7. How to Study for Data-Structures and Algorithms Interviews at FAANG by Esco Obong.

8. Creating Standalone PHP App Binaries using Static PHP CLI by Bosun Egberinde.

9. Array Types in TypeScript by Dominik Dorfmeister.

10. How to Create an Automated Profile README using Nodejs and GitHub Actions by Bolaji Ayodeji.

11. Delivery matters (more?) Emmanuel Bakare.

12. Freemium and open source business models. Friends or Foes? by Andi Gutmans.

13. Ignore All Web Performance Benchmarks, Including This One by Miguel Grinberg.

14. Sharing in the Age of 3p Cookie-mageddon by Aaron Gustafson.

15. The most popular licenses for each language by Nick Vidal.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

1. Screw Finding Your Passion by Mike Manson.

2. Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds by James Clear.

3. The Many Worlds of Enough by Lawrence Yeo.

Product of the Week ✨

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Good Tidings 🔊

1. React Server Component (RSC) has been buzzing for a while now with many takes, confusion, and difficulties experienced by many engineers trying to understand the paradigm and how it fits into modern web engineering, given a decade of React.js usage. As Bobae puts it in this short tutorial, “RSC is best understood as React Server + Component, not React + Server Components. The key difference between React Server Components and React Client Components lies in not what they are but rather where and when they’re executed—and consequently, the computing environment they have access to during execution.” To learn more, you can read this tutorial and this one; both should get you up to speed.

2. Sequoia’s Open Source Fellowship is now accepting applications for folks working on OSS projects with real-world adoption. Their goal is to support OSS outside of the walls of companies by covering reasonable living expenses for a 6-12 month period without any form of equity.

3. Application is ongoing for the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences AI for Sciences Master’s degree through Google DeepMind’s scholarship for 40 scholars. The funding covers full scholarships, equipment, and computation costs. You should apply now before it closes on 29th March 2024.

4. Do you know how large language models (LLMs) like GPT or LLaMA that power generative AI applications actually work? Here’s an insightful guide you can read to learn something new today.

5. The application for the Google Season of Docs 2024 is now ongoing. This is your opportunity to get direct grants to improve your documentation (for OSS projects) or gain paid experience (for professional technical writers).

6. ICYMI, adding .new to the end of some of your favorite developer tools domains will quickly start a new project for you. Here are some examples: design.new (Canva), email.new (Gmail), excel.new (Microsoft Excel), docs.new (Google Docs), repo.new (GitHub), invoice.new (Stripe), database.new (Supabase), hn.new (Hashnode), etc.

Lists and Collections 🗂️

1. You can take over 2,500 MIT courses from various fields online for free through MIT OpenCourseWare.

2. Here’s a curated list of project-based programming tutorials you can use to learn how to build applications from scratch.

3. Here’s a complete computer science study plan you can use to become a software engineer.

4. Here is a collection of universities, companies, and organizations that offer free online courses with certificates.

5. Here’s a collection of the best promotional deals for developers to level up your skills, workspace gadgets, etc.

6. If you’re looking to get started with technical writing, you should check this for a curated list of articles, books, videos, tools, podcasts, etc.

7. For managers, here’s a collection of engineering leadership resources that you’d find helpful.

8. Are you looking to network with other student community leaders and professionals or level up your skills and give back to your community? You can join the GitHub Campus Experts program now and expand your connections!

9. Here's a recommendation of the top websites to find remote jobs for different software engineering and product fields in tech.

10. Here’s a curated list of interview questions for different programming languages, frameworks, and technologies.

Book Recommendations 📚

1. All of Grace by Charles Spurgeon.

2. Fluent React by Tejas Kumar.

3. Developer Experience (DX) by Addy Osmani.

4. Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner.

5. Building Python Web APIs with FastAPI by Abdulazeez Adeshina.

Featured Tweets and Videos 😍

Here are some cool tweets and my favorite videos from YouTube these past weeks.

⬇️: Web Development In 2024 - A Practical Guide

⬇️: Large Language Models in Five Formulas

⬇️: Build a Habit Tracker Web App that Makes You Laugh

⬇️: Training an Unbeatable AI in Trackmania

Quote of the Week 💙

“In delivery, some say “simple is best” but only because the simple appeals to a wider audience. Where a wider audience need not be aware and the situation allows it, the far more complicated delivery might serve a greater outcome in the end.” —Emmanuel Bakare.

Sponsors and Patrons 💫

Shout out to my amazing supporters: Maya Shavin, Angie Jones, and Obinna Odirionye. Their support enables me to keep writing, teaching, curating resources, and supporting others. Thank you!

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Welcome to 2024 ✨🎆! I trust you had a blissful and refreshing holiday and back to work. Btw, here’s a friendly reminder that a common failure mode for most of us is that we fall in love with our ideas, get defensive of our designs when challenged, or try to “explain away” issues or feedback others raise. Rather than run down with ego, let’s treat feedback and criticism as clues.

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3. Namecheap offers domains, SSL certificates, website hosting, and more. Sign up now and get 20%-50% off your domain purchase.

Nerd Memes of the Week 🥲

Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻

1. The UX of UUIDs by Andreas Thomas.

2. Relational Databases Explained by Mahdi Yusuf.

3. The Art of Code Comments by Sarah Drasner.

4. The 10 Commandments of Navigating Code Reviews by Angie Jones.

5. Tech Apprenticeships and Opportunities for Non-Traditional Talent by Veni Kunche.

6. Exploring Serverless CI/CD for Embedded Devices by Kayode Alade.

7. Accessible notifications with ARIA Live Regions by Sara Soueidan.

8. How to Configure Router-level DHCP in Cisco Packet Tracer by Osinachi Chukwujama.

9. How to Use Regular Expressions in YAML File by Kolade Chris.

10. Certificate Based Wifi Authentication With RADIUS and EAP-TLS by Linda Ikechukwu.

11. Effortless Machine Learning: BentoML by Abdulsamod Azeez.

12. The Two Reacts by Dan Abramov.

13. How to Create an Automated Profile README using Nodejs and GitHub Actions by Bolaji Ayodeji.

14. SolidStart: A Different Breed Of Meta-Framework by Atila Fassina.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

1. The Beginner’s Guide to Deliberate Practice by James Clear.

2. Why Goals Are Overrated (And What to Do Instead) by Mike Manson.

3. From Ignorance to Wisdom: A Framework for Knowledge by Lawrence Yeo.

Product of the Week ✨

Podsqueeze allows you to elevate your podcasting game with amazing features like video clips, audiograms, transcripts, episode landing pages, blog posts, and more with one click.

Good Tidings 🔊

1. CcHub and Mastercard Foundation are partnering to empower ed-tech startups, building tools that enhance learning and quality education for Africa’s next generation. The accelerator programme includes $100k in equity-free funding, mentoring, investor network, support, etc.

2. The application for Outreachy Internships May 2024 cohort is now ongoing for everyone around the world. This is your opportunity to get an internship in open source and open science with a total stipend of up to $7,000.

3. Wonderful is running an initiative where teams will build a product (a simple alternative to an existing expensive product) every month for the next 12 months in 2024. The aim is to create a conglomerate of micro tech companies that eventually get acquired or help junior engineers/designers put meaningful projects on their CVs. You can learn more or apply now.

4. You should check this insightful report to learn from the output and session notes of the Sustain Africa 2023 summit, a one-day conversation where they talk about the sustainability of resources and people behind open-source.

5. This LeetPrep Coach GPT tool can coach you on how to answer interview questions. Paste the link of a LeetCode question, and the GPT will guide you through how to understand the problem and solve it in the way you are expected to in an interview setting.

Lists and Collections 🗂️

1. You can take over 2,500 MIT courses from various fields online for free through MIT OpenCourseWare.

2. Here’s a collection of the best promotional deals for developers to level up your skills, workspace gadgets, etc.

3. If you’re looking to get started with technical writing, you should check this for a curated list of articles, books, videos, tools, podcasts, etc.

4. Here’s a curated list of project-based programming tutorials you can use to learn how to build applications from scratch.

5. Here is a collection of universities, companies, and organizations that offer free online courses with certificates.

6. For managers, here’s a collection of engineering leadership resources that you’d find helpful.

7. Here’s a complete computer science study plan you can use to become a software engineer.

8. Looking to network with other student community leaders and professionals or level up your skills and give back to your community? You can join the GitHub Campus Experts program now and expand your connections!

9. Here's a recommendation of the top websites to find remote jobs for different software engineering and product fields in tech.

10. Here’s a curated list of interview questions for different programming languages, frameworks, and technologies.

Book Recommendations 📚

1. All of Grace by Charles Spurgeon.

2. Developer Experience (DX) by Addy Osmani.

3. Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner.

4. Building Python Web APIs with FastAPI by Abdulazeez Adeshina.

5. The Pragmatic Programmer by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt.

Featured Tweets and Videos 😍

Here are some cool tweets and some of my favorite videos from YouTube these past weeks.

⬇️: HTMX Crash Course | Dynamic Pages

⬇️: do THIS to get a developer job in 2024

⬇️: How to make your Node.js API 5x faster!

⬇️: Comprehending God’s Love

Quote of the Week 💙

“The greatest skill one can develop is to reduce the gap between idea and execution” —Dan Koe.

Sponsors and Patrons 💫

Shout out to my amazing supporters: Maya Shavin, Angie Jones, and Obinna Odirionye. Their support enables me to keep writing, creating, teaching, and supporting others. Thank you.

You can now sponsor me to support this newsletter. I also added some one-time tiers if you're looking to promote your product/company in this newsletter. Thank you :).

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Compliments of the season 🎄! I trust you had a blissful past few days and are keen for the holidays. Btw, here’s a friendly reminder to not get distracted by other people’s expectations of what success should look like. You’ve probably had a tough year, but survived it—well done!

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3. Udemy is an online learning platform where you can take programming courses. Sign up now and get up to 30% off any course, 60%+ off career courses, 60%+ off web development courses, or 60%+ off mobile development courses.

Nerd Meme of the Week 🥲

Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻

1. How to Create an Automated Profile README using Nodejs and GitHub Actions by Bolaji Ayodeji.

2. Effective Engineering Teams by Addy Osmani.

3. Introducing Netlify Blobs Beta by Eduardo Bouças.

4. Visualizing your AAARRP priorities as a way to manage up in your DevRel team by Julien Lengrand-Lambert.

5. Ledger Connect-Kit Supply Chain Attack Hits Decentralized Crypto Apps with Wallet-Draining Code by Sarah Gooding.

6. Building a pagination feature with SWR by Caleb Olojo.

7. How to Test JavaScript Code with Jest by Beau Carnes.

8. Turbulent times call for adaptive leadership by Tramale Turner.

9. Making Sense of React Server Components by Josh Comeau.

10. Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend by Tef.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

1. How to Take Risks by Mike Manson.

2. Creativity Is a Process, Not an Event by James Clear.

3. Good Enough Is Just Fine by Lawrence Yeo.

Product of the Week ✨

The Valley of Code is a reference website that will help you become a web developer with topics ranging from web fundamentals to advanced concepts.

Good Tidings 🔊

1. Here’s a collection of 300+ open-source software alternatives to popular projects.

2. I’m sure you’ve had a wave of wrapped posts from platforms like Spotify, YouTube, etc in the past weeks. Well, as develop,ers, how about a personalized wrapped video of your GitHub activity in 2023? You can get yours now and share or see mine.

3. Last week, Google launched the first version of their generative AI model, Gemini. Developers will get a free quota and access to a full range of features, including function calls, embeddings, semantic retrieval, custom knowledge grounding, chat functionality and more. You can watch the launch video or read this blog post to learn more.

4. Meta recently open-sourced StyleX, the JavaScript UI library that powers Facebook and Instagram.

5. Want to level up your skills, desk setup, or gadget collection with promotional deals? Here’s a collection of the best deals for developers.

6. The Ethereum Foundation Next Billion team seeks individuals with incredible stories and projects shaping the future! This includes research, proofs-of-concepts, and initiatives.

7. If you’re looking to get started with technical writing, you should check this for a curated list of articles, books, videos, tools, podcasts, etc.

8. Here’s a curated list of project-based programming tutorials you can use to learn how to build applications from scratch.

9. Here is a collection of universities, companies, and organizations that offer free online courses with certificates.

10. For managers, here’s a collection of engineering leadership resources that you’d find helpful.

11. Here’s a complete computer science study plan you can use to become a software engineer.

12. Looking to network with other student community leaders and professionals or level up your skills and give back to your community? You can join the GitHub Campus Experts program now and expand your connections!

13. Here's a recommendation of the top websites to find remote jobs for different software engineering and product fields in tech.

14. Here’s a curated list of interview questions for different programming languages, frameworks, and technologies.

Book Recommendations 📚

1. All of Grace by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

2. Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner.

3. Simplified JavaScript for VIPs by Ebenezer Don.

4. Building Python Web APIs with FastAPI by Abdulazeez Adeshina.

5. The Pragmatic Programmer by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt.

Featured Tweets and Videos 😍

Here are some cool tweets and some of my favorite videos from YouTube these past weeks.

⬇️: GitHub ML Magic: Secrets with an Expert

⬇️: 4 Web Devs, 1 App Idea

⬇️: How to Be Effortlessly Disciplined: 5 Mindset Shifts

⬇️: A Christian Home

Quote of the Week 💙

“Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right” —Henry Ford.

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Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻

1. Five Ways to Address Complexity In Your Product by Casey Winters.

2. An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid by Josh Comeau.

3. An Introduction To Full Stack Composability by Facundo Giuliani.

4. The Node.js Event Loop by Matteo Collina.

5. How to Bring Your Own Root from AD CS to Smallstep by Linda Ikechukwu.

6. The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode by Nikita Prokopov.

7. Becoming a good engineer is about collecting experience by Addy Osmani.

8. A Digital Toast: My Encounter with Louisiana's Mobile Driver's License by Angie Jones.

9. Unsaved Changes Alert and Unsubmitted Data Preservation on Page Exit in React App by Robiul H.

10. Effective communication is not about what you say by Melanie Ensign.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

1. The Power of Imperfect Starts by James Clear.

2. 10 Reasons Why You Fail by Mike Manson.

3. Good Enough Is Just Fine by Lawrence Yeo.

Product of the Week ✨

ClassroomIO is an open-source platform for technology boot camps, individual educators, and training businesses. You can run multiple classes and cohorts all from one user interface.

Good Tidings 🔊

1. ICYMI, last week was a rollercoaster of tech drama. Here’s a quick summary: Sam Altman, former ex-CEO 🥲 of OpenAI (the company that developed ChatGPT), was fired alongside a co-founder (Greg) for some unclear reasons and replaced with the CTO (Mira). Mira was eventually replaced with a new hire, Emmett (ex-CEO, Twitch), who became the interim ex-CEO of OpenAI 🥲 after ~72 hours. Microsoft then hired Sam and co (over the weekend). They were later re-hired back to OpenAI after the OpenAI board members all resigned following employees who stood their ground and were willing to resign and follow Sam to Microsoft. So much wild drama, right?!

2. You should check out HTML First, a set of principles that aims to make building web software easier and more maintainable by leveraging the default capabilities of modern web browsers.

3. Want to contribute to fighting climate change and solving world hunger with your software engineering skills? You can do so by contributing to OSS projects focused on Digital Public Goods.

4. If you know any NGO, student club, or companies supporting people in need, tell them to register for the DataCamp Donates Partner program. This will allow them free access to their data science education platform and empower their members to learn and land data jobs/opportunities.

5. Now that the State of CSS, State of HTML, and State of React are completed, it’s time for the State of JavaScript 2023. Please take some time to fill out the survey if you love or !hate JavaScript.

6. Want to learn to build user experiences with gestures and animations that run at 60 fps, even on low-end devices with React Native? Here’s a perfect course for you.

7. Nader just shipped a full-stack framework for building cross-platform mobile AI apps supporting LLM real-time streaming text, chat UIs, image processing, etc. You can get started right now with the npx rn-ai command.

8. Tejas also shipped a tool for generating subtitles for videos with secure, on-device machine learning models.

9. If you’re looking to get started with technical writing, you should check this for a curated list of articles, books, videos, tools, podcasts, etc.

10. Here’s a curated list of project-based programming tutorials you can use to learn how to build applications from scratch.

11. Here is a collection of universities, companies, and organizations that offer free online courses with certificates.

12. For managers, here’s a collection of engineering leadership resources that you’d find helpful.

13. Here’s a complete computer science study plan you can use to become a software engineer.

14. Looking to network with other student community leaders and professionals or level up your skills and give back to your community? You can join the GitHub Campus Experts program now and expand your connections!

15. Here's a recommendation of the top websites to find remote jobs for different software engineering and product fields in tech.

16. Here’s a curated list of interview questions for different programming languages, frameworks, and technologies.

Book Recommendations 📚

1. All of Grace by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

2. Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner.

3. Simplified JavaScript for VIPs by Ebenezer Don.

4. Building Python Web APIs with FastAPI by Abdulazeez Adeshina.

5. The Pragmatic Programmer by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt.

Featured Tweets and Videos 😍

Here are some cool tweets and some of my favorite videos from YouTube these past weeks.

⬇️: 4 Web Devs, 1 App Idea

⬇️: AWS Cloud Complete Bootcamp Course

⬇️: 10 JavaScript changes you missed in 2023

⬇️: We Have Not Known Thee As We Ought

Quote of the Week 💙

“One of the most unexpected gifts you can receive is an early loss. An early setback can become the catalyst for a wonderful next chapter if you channel the emotion effectively. Disappointment is a hot burning fuel. Let it light your fire to become better.” —James Clear.

Sponsors and Patrons 💫

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Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻

1. Can Next.js Handle 5000 Pages? by Christian Nwamba.

2. Cloud Engineering- All You Need To Know by Esther Okobiah.

3. What I learned getting acquired by Google by Shreyans Bhansali.

4. Migrate a Large React Codebase to Nx by Nicolas Beaussart.

5. Why Socket is the Best Tool for Developers to Stop Supply Chain Attacks by Feross Aboukhadijeh.

6. Build a Shared Decentralized Todo App by Adewale Abati.

7. Everything you need to know about monorepos and the tools to build them by Nrwl.

8. Things I Learned the Hard Way by Bryan Cantrill.

9. Clarifying Cloud Development Terminology by Ivan Burazin.

10. The Product-Minded Software Engineer by Gergely Orosz.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

1. What I Do When I Feel Like Giving Up by James Clear.

2. Possibilities if you don't ask for what you want vs. if you do by Addy Osmani.

3. 5 Boring Ways to Become More Creative by Mike Manson.

4. The Riddle of the Well-Paying, Pointless Job by Lawrence Yeo.

Product of the Week ✨

Socket fights vulnerabilities, provides supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go open-source dependencies, and allows you to evaluate the security and health of any OSS package.

Good Tidings 🔊

1. The official Python Developers Survey for 2023 is ongoing. The results of this survey serve as a source of knowledge about the current state of the Python community. If you use Python, I encourage you to support this initiative with 10–15 minutes.

2. The recent Octoverse 2023 report announced at GitHub Universe, shows that Nigeria 🇳🇬 (alongside other countries like Ghana and Kenya) is a hot spot for open-source adoption and technological investments with a 45% year-over-year growth rate, making it the largest worldwide increase.

3. Want to work for open-source projects and get paid? Here’s an open database of numerous opportunities you can apply to.

4. The New York State Department of Labor is partnering up to $12M with Coursera to provide free data science, business, and technology courses. You don’t need to pay for Coursera if you’re a NY resident. Here’s how to access this opportunity and the full list of available courses.

5. As AI and LLMs continue to blossom, Mozilla recently announced their AI Guide, a community-driven resource that will onboard new engineers of any level to generative AI. You can explore the resources or even contribute to developing the guide.

6. Here’s also a prompt engineering guide that contains all the latest papers, learning guides, models, lectures, references, new LLM capabilities, and tools related to prompt engineering.

7. Rereading, highlighting, and summarising are ineffective methods of studying. The two most effective methods are active recall and spaced repetition. Here’s a comprehensive guide from one of my favorite tutors that will teach you why and how.

8. Career laddering is a system used to show what expectations are at different levels of a role and how employees are promoted. Here’s a detailed framework covering engineering, developer experience, and documentation roles.

9. If you’re looking to get started with technical writing, you should check this for a curated list of articles, books, videos, tools, podcasts, etc.

10. Here’s a curated list of project-based programming tutorials you can use to learn how to build applications from scratch.

11. Here is a collection of universities, companies, and organizations that offer free online courses with certificates.

12. For managers, here’s a collection of engineering leadership resources that you’d find helpful.

13. Here’s a complete computer science study plan you can use to become a software engineer.

14. Looking to network with other student community leaders and professionals or level up your skills and give back to your community? You can join the GitHub Campus Experts program now and expand your connections!

15. Here's a recommendation of the top websites to find remote jobs for different software engineering and product fields in tech.

16. Here’s a curated list of interview questions for different programming languages, frameworks, and technologies.

Book Recommendations 📚

1. All of Grace by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

2. Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner.

3. Simplified JavaScript for VIPs by Ebenezer Don.

4. Building Python Web APIs with FastAPI by Abdulazeez Adeshina.

5. The Pragmatic Programmer by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt.

Featured Tweets and Videos 😍

Here are some cool tweets and some of my favorite videos from YouTube these past weeks.

⬇️: Harvard Professor Explains Algorithms in 5 Levels of Difficulty

⬇️: What is C# for Beginners

⬇️: Recursion in Software Development

⬇️: The Benefits of Abiding in Christ, Part 1 (John 15:4–11)

Quote of the Week 💙

“Your saboteur doesn’t like change. Change is unknown and the unknown is scary and what’s scary can hurt us. Our saboteur wants to protect us by keeping us where we are. It wants us to sit, be still, stay small and quiet. It does not like big goals. It does not dream of dreams. So when you dream your dreams, it tells you terrible things about yourself – things that make you lose hope, that make you feel shame, that make you stop dreaming and sit still instead." - Saron Yitbarek.

Sponsors and Patrons 💫

Shout out to my amazing supporters: Maya Shavin, Angie Jones, and Obinna Odirionye. Their support enables me to keep writing, creating, teaching, and supporting others. Thank you.

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Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻

1. What do you do about the high shege/minute you get from API integrations? by Anthony Alaribe.

2. When life gives you lemons, write better error messages by Jenni Nadler.

3. The Automation Paradox by James Bessen.

4. A Complete Guide to Buffers in Node.js by Ruan Martinelli.

5. 44 React Frontend Interview Questions by Yan Levin.

6. Understanding open source licenses by Julia Ferraioli.

7. Effectively loading ads without impacting page speed by Markus Bordihn.

8. Documentation Overload: Can Comprehensive Documentation Hinder Product Adoption? by William Imoh.

9. Unit Testing Supabase in Kotlin using Test Containers by Julien Lengrand-Lambert.

10. 5 Tips to Solve Common Pitfalls With React Native by Dan Neciu.

11. AI and APIs: What works, what doesn't by Tom Johnson.

12. A Complete Guide to Buffers in Node.js by Ruan Martinelli.

13. Widgets! for PWAs by Aaron Gustafson.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

1. Give it five minutes by Jason Fried.

2. The Beginner’s Guide to Deliberate Practice by James Clear.

3. The Point Is to Stop by Mike Manson.

4. Managing the chaos of context switching by Addy Osmani.

5. Burnout Is the Echo of Self-Judgment by Lawrence Yeo.

Product of the Week ✨

OpenSauced is an intelligence platform for open-source developers and maintainers that helps maintainers optimize their OSS projects with deep insights. Engineers can also use the platform to expand their resume through proof of open source contributions.

Good Tidings 🔊

1. Research shows that to have a fulfilling career, you should do something you’re good at that makes the world better. For years, some researchers at Oxford have studied this phenomenon, and the 80,000 Hours project has put them all into this Career Guide that explains how to find a fulfilling career and why you shouldn’t always “follow your passion or gut.”

2. GitHub recently launched its All In for Students program for students from underrepresented backgrounds that provides open source education, training, and internship opportunities to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion within open source. You can learn more and apply.

3. It’s rumoured that the United Nations has decided to adopt a new calendar system to replace the Gregorian calendar, which will feature 13 months, each consisting of 28 days, and an extra holiday day at the end of the year 🥹 (looks like some countries like Ethiopia already do this). One of the co-founders of Cal•com wrote about this and its advantages.

4. If you’re new to TypeScript or even experienced with it but don’t understand why you’re actually using it, this guide is a very good start to learning the basics and why you need it. In addition, you should read this one too. I highly recommend both.

5. Here are 33 concepts every JavaScript developer should know (with detailed resources that explain them) and 13 super rad web dev tricks you don't know about (but should).

6. Here’s a solid collection of soft skill books that will make you a better developer.

7. If you’re looking to get started with technical writing, you should check this for a curated list of articles, books, videos, tools, podcasts, etc.

8. Here’s a curated list of interview questions for different programming languages, frameworks, and technologies.

9. Here is a collection of universities, companies, and organizations that offer free online courses with certificates.

10. For managers, here’s a collection of engineering leadership resources that you’d find helpful.

11. Here’s a complete computer science study plan you can use to become a software engineer.

12. Looking to network with other student community leaders and professionals or level up your skills and give back to your community? You can join the GitHub Campus Experts program now and expand your connections!

13. Here’s a curated list of project-based programming tutorials you can use to learn how to build applications from scratch.

14. 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.

15. Here's a recommendation of the top websites to find remote jobs for different software engineering and product fields in tech.

Book Recommendations 📚

1. All of Grace by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

2. Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner.

3. Simplified JavaScript for VIPs by Ebenezer Don.

4. Building Python Web APIs with FastAPI by Abdulazeez Adeshina.

5. The Pragmatic Programmer by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt.

Featured Tweets and Videos 😍

Here are some cool tweets and some of my favorite videos from YouTube these past weeks.

⬇️: Jenny Truong - The Unexpected States of Burnout

⬇️: What Happened to Javascript? | Fred K. Schott | Pizza Byte

⬇️: These 10 Mistakes Are Destroying Your Web App

⬇️: Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake - Tony Hoare

Quote of the Week 💙

“And just as Steve loved ideas, and loved making stuff, he treated the process of creativity with a rare and a wonderful reverence. You see, I think he better than anyone understood that while ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts, so easily missed, so easily compromised, so easily just squished." - Jonathan Ive.

Sponsors and Patrons 💫

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Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻

1. How to Be a Good Open Source Contributor During Hacktoberfest and Beyond by Ashley Willis.

2. Composing graphs with Breadboard by Dimitri Glazkov.

3. High and low cardinality by Shalvah Adebayo.

4. Software Engineering Seniority Levels by Automation Panda.

5. Resilience and Observability by Punit Lad and Carl Nygard.

6. Typing your JavaScript without writing TypeScript by Phil Nash.

7. How to correctly use TF-IDF with imbalanced data by Saurav Pattnaik.

8. Exploring Generative AI by Birgitta Böckeler.

9. Add notifications to a Node app by Jason Lengstorf.

10. Making Sense of React Server Components by Josh Comeau.

11. The 10 Commandments of Navigating Code Reviews by Angie Jones.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

1. Beyond the comfort zone is where all magic happens by Addy Osmani.

2. How Experts Figure What to Focus On by James Clear.

3. Why Goals Are Overrated (And What to Do Instead) by Mike Manson.

4. Cannot Measure Productivity by Martin Fowler.

5. The Many Worlds of Enough by Lawrence Yeo.

Product of the Week ✨

FindCity helps you find the perfect city for your needs using a wealth of up-to-date statistics, including the cost of living, job market conditions, crime rates, education, healthcare, transportation, and more.

Good Tidings 🔊

1. Hacktoberfest starts today! You can now get started with contributing to open-source throughout the month of October.

2. Last week, I gave a workshop at React Alicante on deploying machine learning models to the web. If you’re an ML engineer or someone who works with models/data, you can check out the workshop materials to learn how to build a basic machine learning model using Python/Scikit-Learn, turn the model into an API using Python/Flask, build web applications using HTML/CSS/JavaScript and Nextjs/Flask, and deploy it to the web.

3. Building on the success of the State of JS and the State of CSS, there’s a new State of HTML 2023 Survey to complete the survey that tracks the evolution of the web as a whole. The responses from this survey will help browser vendors prioritize their roadmaps and work towards better compatibility.

4. Photoshop desktop application is now on the web! It’s powered by WebAssembly, Emscripten, Web Components + Lit, Service Workers + Workbox, and the new Web APIs. You can read this article to learn how the Adobe and Chrome team brought this complex and graphically intensive software to the browser.

5. Some mobile engineers in Nigeria are organizing a Mobile Core Summit in Lagos, Nigeria, for mobile engineers (both native and cross-platform) across Africa. You can learn more or purchase a ticket now.

6. Vercel recently launched v0, a generative user interface system powered by AI that generates copy-and-paste friendly React code based on shadcn/ui and Tailwind CSS that people can use in their projects.

7. Bun also shipped Bun 1.0, a fast, all-in-one toolkit for running, building, testing, and debugging JavaScript and TypeScript from a single file to a full-stack application.

8. Here’s a super-helpful list of software products and services with free developer tiers.

9. Here’s a step-by-step guide to becoming an AI and Data Scientist with a detailed roadmap and course/project recommendations.

10. OpenAI just shipped their new Cookbook, an open-source collection of examples and guides for building with OpenAI API.

11. Shalvah made his API Documentation for Developers course free! It’s a rich hands-on guide to creating and maintaining API documentation.

12. You should check out this OSS Code Interpreter that runs in your local terminal and could be used to summarize PDFs, visualize datasets, and control your browser.

13. If you’re looking to get started with technical writing, you should check this for a curated list of articles, books, videos, tools, podcasts, etc.

14. Here’s a curated list of interview questions for different programming languages, frameworks, and technologies.

15. Here is a collection of universities, companies, and organizations that offer free online courses with certificates.

16. For managers, here’s a collection of engineering leadership resources that you’d find helpful.

17. Here’s a complete computer science study plan you can use to become a software engineer.

18. Looking to network with other student community leaders and professionals or level up your skills and give back to your community? You can join the GitHub Campus Experts program now and expand your connections!

19. Here’s a curated list of project-based programming tutorials you can use to learn how to build applications from scratch.

20. 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.

21. Here's a recommendation of the top websites to find remote jobs for different software engineering and product fields in tech.

Book Recommendations 📚

1. All of Grace by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

2. Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner.

3. Simplified JavaScript for VIPs by Ebenezer Don.

4. Building Python Web APIs with FastAPI by Abdulazeez Adeshina.

5. The Pragmatic Programmer by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt.

Featured Tweets and Videos 😍

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

⬇️: TypeScript Origins: The Documentary

⬇️: How To Get Ahead of 99% of Software Engineers (Starting Today)

⬇️: Astro 3.0 Crash Course

⬇️: Give Me a Sight, O Saviour

Quote of the Week 💙

“The best time to make friends is before you need them." - Ethel Barrymore.

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Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻

1. The 10 Commandments of Navigating Code Reviews by Angie Jones.

2. Email Etiquette: 27 Rules to Make a Perfect Impression on Anyone by Aja Frost.

3. Get your work recognized: write a brag document by Julia Evans.

4. Patterns for Reactivity with Modern Vanilla JavaScript by Marc Grabanski.

5. Attract a Technical Audience Without Writing New Content by Adam DuVander.

6. A guide to designing accessible, WCAG-conformant focus indicators by Sara Soueidan.

7. Sales Safari in a Nutshell by Lauro Silva and Zac Jones.

8. Array Types in TypeScript by Dominik Dorfmeister.

9. How to get promoted by Slava Akhmechet.

10. Brief Note on Buttons, Enter, and Space by Adrian Roselli.

11. Aligning product-market fit with company's values by Levi Cee.

12. Why Software Is Eating the World by Marc Andreessen.

13. How architecture diagrams enable better conversations by Ken Ross.

14. How to know what to test by Kent C. Dodds.

15. Coordinating major documentation projects with GitLab by Alyssa Rock and Aaron Peters.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

1. The Hidden Costs of Happiness by Mike Manson.

2. Are You Living an Urgent Life or an Important Life? by James Clear.

3. Cannot Measure Productivity by Martin Fowler.

4. The Omnipresence of Work by Lawrence Yeo.

Product of the Week ✨

Fossfox is an open database (kind of a job board) for different open-source projects that are hiring for different engineering roles in different locations across the globe. You can also contribute or post your job(s) in this GitHub repository.

Good Tidings 🔊

1. Wondering how you can accomplish big things and not end up too burned out to enjoy your success? You need to apply constant, gentle pressure.

2. You should check out Vercel AI SDK, an open-source library with a collection of tools/templates for building AI-powered user interfaces in JavaScript and TypeScript with React/Next.js, Svelte/SvelteKit, Vue/Nuxt, Nodejs, and Serverless support.

3. You should check out The Framework Field Guide, a free and practical way to learn Angular, React, and Vue all at once.

4. You should check out Tech Exchange, a virtual academic program for students attending select Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) in North America. The program teaches applied computer science and problem-solving skills. If you’re interested, please learn more and apply today (closing soon…).

5. If you or your parents in Nigeria made some investments and haven’t claimed the dividends or proceeds from secondary market transactions, the Nigeria Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has made it easy to claim them. You can quickly search for your name on their portal to confirm your status.

6. A group of non-profit newspaper archivists are preserving Nigeria’s past by digitising old newspapers (currently from 1960-2010). Please consider donating to support their work.

7. Stripe has opened applications for their 2024 Software Engineering Internship and New Grad roles for different countries. Netflix is equally doing the same.

8. Google, in partnership with Canada Learning Code, is offering a Cybersecurity Career Certificate. Learn more and apply to kickstart a career in cybersecurity with a full scholarship.

9. Mastercard Foundation is running its 12-month Associate Program for graduates to gain hands-on leadership, employability, and basic entrepreneurship knowledge and skills.

10. Google is working on Project IDX, an experiment to improve full-stack, multiplatform app development in an AI-assisted cloud environment. You can learn more by reading this post.

11. MDN recently launched their curriculum for front-end development to provide an up-to-date industry recommendation for the fundamental skills and best practices that a front-end web developer should have.

12. Watch this to hear Matt Pocock and Joel Hooks discuss how Total Typescript came to be and some of the processes involved with turning the idea of a course into a business that delivers world-class Typescript training to thousands of developers.

13. The Open Graph protocol is an internet protocol that enables any web page to become a rich object when shared across the internet. You can read this intro guide to learn more.

14. Paystack is now out of private beta and available to all businesses and merchants in Kenya.

15. If you’re looking to get started with technical writing, you should check this for a curated list of articles, books, videos, tools, podcasts, etc.

16. Here’s a curated list of interview questions for different programming languages, frameworks, and technologies.

17. Here is a collection of universities, companies, and organizations that offer free online courses with certificates.

18. For managers, here’s a collection of engineering leadership resources that you’d find helpful.

19. Here’s a complete computer science study plan you can use to become a software engineer.

20. Looking to network with other student community leaders and professionals or level up your skills and give back to your community? You can join the GitHub Campus Experts program now and expand your connections!

21. Here’s a curated list of project-based programming tutorials you can use to learn how to build applications from scratch.

22. 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.

23. Here's a recommendation of the top websites to find remote jobs for different software engineering and product fields in tech.

Book Recommendations 📚

1. All of Grace by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

2. Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner.

3. Simplified JavaScript for VIPs by Ebenezer Don.

4. Building Python Web APIs with FastAPI by Abdulazeez Adeshina.

5. The Pragmatic Programmer by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt.

Featured Tweets and Videos 😍

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

⬇️: (Life) Advice From The Creator of C++

⬇️: AsakeLive at The O2 Arena London

⬇️: WHY I LEFT DEVELOPER RELATIONS (dev rel)

⬇️: The Christian’s Pursuit of God-Given Holiness

Quote of the Week 💙

“Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.” –Roy T. Bennett.

Shout out to my amazing Patrons: Maya Shavin, Angie Jones, and Obinna Odirionye.

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We’re partnering with CityJS for their Conference in Lagos 🇳🇬 on November 9-11, 2023. This will be an informative conference for developers, software architects, and engineers! Expect a program featuring the latest topics in software development, covering everything from JS Frameworks and Web Performance to Nodejs and TypeScript. As an active BAWD reader, if you register now and use the code CITYJS25, you will get 25% off the conference pass.

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Dev Meme of the Week 🥲

Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻

1. On Cross Roads and Coming Face to Face with Myself by Chukwuemeka Afigbo.

2. The New Generation Of Data Stores by Alexander Reelsen.

3. My Notes from Software Engineering At Google: Lessons Learned from Programming over Time by Matt Boyle.

4. Use Databases Without Putting Domain Logic in Them by Alex Kondov.

5. The Computer Backup Rule of Three by Scott Hanselman.

6. Is Laravel the happiest developer community on the planet? by Klint Finley.

7. Rate limits by Filippo Conforti.

8. TS Reset Improves TypeScript's Built-In Typings by Matt Pocock.

9. The Human API Experience with Web5 by Adewale Abati.

10. What developers need to know about generative AI by Damian Brady.

11. The problem with disabling paste and what to do instead by Adam Silver.

12. ChatGPT: 6 Tips to Ace Your Tech Interviews (With Prompts!) by NodeFlair.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

1. Screw Finding Your Passion by Mike Manson.

2. How Innovative Ideas Arise by James Clear.

3. No More Blanket Feedback by Zef Hemel.

4. From Ignorance to Wisdom: A Framework for Knowledge by Lawrence Yeo.

Product of the Week ✨

Hackmamba Creators Community is a space to learn, build, write, and network with other technical writing professionals. They’re also running their 4th bi-weekly Community Challenge with the Commerce Layer product. Join the community now to get started if you haven’t yet.

Good Tidings 🔊

1. Do you know that there are several open-source projects you can use instead of some commercial products? You can discover and explore high-quality, secure, and reliable OSS products for your specific use case.

2. You should check out Black Genius Academy, a career exploration app that equips aspiring Black tech talent with resources and knowledge to identify, enrol, and succeed in technical education programs (cybersecurity, software engineering, and user experience (UX) design).

3. Curious to know what happens when you run a program on your computer? Then, read this article to learn how multiprocessing works, what system calls are, how computers manage memory with hardware interrupts, and how Linux loads executables.

4. Porsche is moving from commercial software to FOSS, where possible and embracing/contributing to open-source. You can learn more about their principles and OSS projects you can contribute to or check out some of their GitHub repos.

5. If you’re looking to get started with technical writing, you should check this for a curated list of articles, books, videos, tools, podcasts, etc.

6. Here’s a curated list of interview questions for different programming languages, frameworks, and technologies.

7. Here is a collection of universities, companies, and organizations that offer free online courses with certificates.

8. For managers, here’s a collection of engineering leadership resources that you’d find helpful.

9. Here’s a complete computer science study plan you can use to become a software engineer.

10. Looking to network with other student community leaders and professionals or level up your skills and give back to your community? You can join the GitHub Campus Experts program now and expand your connections!

11. Here’s a curated list of project-based programming tutorials you can use to learn how to build applications from scratch.

12. 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.

13. Here's a recommendation of the top five websites to find remote jobs for different fields in tech.

Book Recommendations 📚

1. All of Grace by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

2. Simplified JavaScript for VIPs by Ebenezer Don.

3. Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner.

4. Building Python Web APIs with FastAPI by Abdulazeez Adeshina.

5. The Pragmatic Programmer by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt.

Featured Tweets and Videos 😍

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

⬇️: Typescript Tools That Make You Productive

⬇️: HOW TO TALK TO A BABY.

⬇️: Solve This Coding Question To Win $100

⬇️: Knowing You, Jesus - Graham Kendrick

Quote of the Week 💙

“Life is all about not knowing, and then doing something anyway. All of life is like this. All of it. And it’s not going to get any easier just because you found out you love your job cleaning septic tanks, or you scored a dream gig writing indie movies.” –Mike Manson.

Shout out to my amazing Patrons: Maya Shavin, Angie Jones, and Obinna Odirionye.

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Dev Meme of the Week 🥲

Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻

1. Stop Being a Junior by Kent C. Dodds.

2. The key to understanding complex systems is patience by Addy Osmani.

3. Focus or focus visible? A guide to make your focus state accessible by Maya Shavin.

4. Understanding React Server Components by Alice Alexandra Moore.

5. The Nitty Gritty of API Methods by Velda Kiara.

6. Use AI to moderate abusive and vulgar comments by Jason Lengstorf.

7. Distributed Locks in Node.js by Bruno Paulino.

8. The Fall of Stack Overflow by Ayhan Fuat Çelik.

9. Multi-domain shopping carts by Filippo Conforti.

10. Guidelines for optimistic UI in modern CRUD apps by Jacob Paris.

11. Fixing a Memory Leak in a Production Node.js App by Kent C. Dodds.

12. Demystifying developer advocacy by Angie Jones.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

1. The Proven Path to Doing Unique and Meaningful Work by James Clear.

2. The Complete Guide to Goal Setting (Backed by Science) by Mike Manson.

3. The Release Ratio: How to Make Use of Everything You Know by Lawrence Yeo.

4. No More Productivity Hacks by Zef Hemel.

Product of the Week ✨

Brimble is an efficient and modern cloud deployment platform and CLI for web applications built by Nigerians.

Good Tidings 🔊

1. Google Career Certificates provides flexible online training programs to help people learn job-ready skills in the following fields: Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, Digital Marketing & E-commerce, IT Support, Project Management, and UX Design.

2. If you’re a student (at any level), you can apply to get the GitHub Student Developer Pack and access the best developer tools, resources, and courses for FREE.

3. Aniedi is running the Automagic Internship, where you can work as an intern remotely and earn 75k NGN. If you meet expectations at the end of the month, they will immediately hire you for an entry-level role (200k - 250k NGN/month) or place you on a waiting list for their next project.

4. If you're looking for a paid tech internship, Sultan is running a 100kInterns drive to collect structured data and pair applicants with companies looking for interns.

5. I was on a podcast with Wunola recently to talk about web standards and the evolving web landscape. You should check it out.

6. I customized a maths-themed geek wall clock for a friend's birthday (with the solutions explained), and it turned out well. You can check out the Figma design and change the equations as you deem fit.

7. If you’re looking to get started with technical writing, you should check this for a curated list of articles, books, videos, tools, podcasts, etc.

8. Here’s a curated list of interview questions for different programming languages, frameworks, and technologies.

9. Here is a collection of universities, companies, and organizations that offer free online courses with certificates.

10. For managers, here’s a collection of engineering leadership resources that you’d find helpful.

11. Here’s a complete computer science study plan you can use to become a software engineer.

12. Looking to network with other student community leaders and professionals or level up your skills and give back to your community? You can join the GitHub Campus Experts program now and expand your connections!

13. Here’s a curated list of project-based programming tutorials you can use to learn how to build applications from scratch.

14. 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.

15. Here's a recommendation of the top five websites to find remote jobs for different fields in tech.

Book Recommendations 📚

1. All of Grace by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

2. Simplified JavaScript for VIPs by Ebenezer Don.

3. Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner.

4. Building Python Web APIs with FastAPI by Abdulazeez Adeshina.

5. The Pragmatic Programmer by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt.

Featured Tweets and Videos 😍

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

⬇️: AfricaHackTrip - The Movie

⬇️: OSCA Documentary 2022

⬇️: STACKING CONTEXT in CSS, Simplified | Solving Z-INDEX problems

⬇️: People Made New

Quote of the Week 💙

“I trained 4 years to run 9 seconds and people give up when they don't see results in 2 months” –Usain Bolt.

Shout out to my amazing Patrons: Maya Shavin, Angie Jones, and Obinna Odirionye.

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I trust you had a blissful week. Btw, here’s a friendly reminder that you should stick to boring architecture for as long as possible and spend most of your time and resources building something your customers are willing to pay for. Use the right tools that help you get valuable things into the hands of users.

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Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻

1. Stick to boring architecture for as long as possible by Addy Osmani.

2. Finish your projects by Aaron Francis.

3. How React 18 Improves Application Performance by Lydia Hallie.

4. CRA is dead: Best Alternatives to Bootstrap React Applications by Zainab Tijani.

5. Express payments by Filippo Conforti.

6. A developer’s guide to prompt engineering and LLMs by Albert Ziegler and John Berryman.

7. Make your first open source contribution in four easy steps by Ruth Ikegah.

8. TypeScript and the dawn of gradual types by Mike Melanson.

9. How To Become A Better Speaker At Conferences by Andy Budd.

10. A case study on scroll-driven animations performance by Yuriko Hirota.

11. Building an external payment gateway with the Twitter API by Bolaji Ayodeji.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

1. 5 Boring Ways to Become More Creative by Mike Manson.

2. What I Do When I Feel Like Giving Up by James Clear.

3. No More Productivity Hacks by Zef Hemel.

4. Speculation: A Game You Can’t Win by Lawrence Yeo.

Product of the Week ✨

The Good Docs Project creates best practice templates and writing instructions for documenting open-source software.

Good Tidings 🔊

1. Life is a journey of precious moments that should be preserved and remembered. If you’re in New Zealand, my brother specializes in preserving memories through photography. You can learn more, see samples, or book him anytime :winks:.

2. If you’re looking to build a career in tech, especially if you’re in Africa, AltSchool has commenced applications for its second year. You can learn more about all the courses they offer and apply for either the School of Engineering, Product, or Data. Some scholarships are going on too, and acing the assessment test could qualify you for one. All the best!

3. If you’re looking for work, Deel currently has 120+ open remote roles across several departments, Netflix is hiring, TBD is too, etc.

4. In GitHub, you can specify the theme an image is displayed for in Markdown by appending #gh-dark-mode-only or #gh-light-mode-only to the end of an image URL. You can look at this PR to see how it works, plus some of the limitations.

5. This is the best course you can use to learn about documenting APIs, either as a technical writer or software engineer.

6. If you want to level up your JavaScript skills and need project ideas to work on, you can take inspiration from this thread.

7. If you’re looking to get started with technical writing, you should check this for a curated list of articles, books, videos, tools, podcasts, etc.

8. Here’s a curated list of interview questions for different programming languages, frameworks, and technologies.

9. Here is a collection of universities, companies, and organizations that offer free online courses with certificates.

10. For managers, here’s a collection of engineering leadership resources that you’d find helpful.

11. Here’s a complete computer science study plan you can use to become a software engineer.

12. Looking to network with other student community leaders and professionals or level up your skills and give back to your community? You can join the GitHub Campus Experts program now and expand your connections!

13. If you’re a student (at any level), you can apply to get the GitHub Student Developer Pack and access the best developer tools, resources, and courses for FREE.

14. Here’s a curated list of project-based programming tutorials you can use to learn how to build applications from scratch.

15. 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.

16. Here's a recommendation of the top five websites to find remote jobs for different fields in tech.

Book Recommendations 📚

1. All of Grace by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

2. Simplified JavaScript for VIPs by Ebenezer Don.

3. Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner.

4. Building Python Web APIs with FastAPI by Abdulazeez Adeshina.

5. The Pragmatic Programmer by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt.

Featured Tweets and Videos 😍

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

⬇️: It's not worth switching tech stacks in 2023

⬇️: High-school student makes React a million times faster

⬇️: Home Network For Beginners

⬇️: People Made New

Quote of the Week 💙

“When presenting at work or [at a conference or] anywhere else, never assume the audience has pledged their undivided attention. They have pledged maybe 60 seconds and will divide their attention as they see fit after that. Open accordingly.” –Mike Davidson.

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

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I trust you had a blissful week. Btw, here’s a friendly reminder that you can’t improve what you don’t measure. Always take an inventory of different parts of your life and compare where you are to where you want to be—then do what you need to fill that gap.

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3. Udemy is an online learning platform where you can take programming courses. As an active BAWD reader, you will get up to 30% off any course, 60%+ off career courses, 60%+ off web development courses, or 60%+ off mobile development courses.

Featured Technical Articles ✍🏾👩🏽‍💻

1. Why is z-index not working?! - Explaining CSS Stacking Context by Corbin Crutchley.

2. Becoming an Engineer by Obinna Odirionye.

3. The journey to a 10GbE home network by Ezra Olubi.

4. What The Heck, z-index?? by Josh Comeau.

5. What the heck is the edge anyway? by Glauber Costa.

6. Observing Node.js processes with eBPF by Ope Onikute.

7. How I prioritise web performance in my development workflow by Adewale Abati.

8. Abandoned cart recovery by Filippo Conforti.

9. Building a Startup from Scratch: My Mistakes as CTO by Egor Romanov.

10. The Performance Golden Rule by Steve Souders.

11. Testifying at the Senate about A.I.-Selected Content on the Internet by Stephen Wolfram.

Featured Productivity Articles ✍🏾🦅

1. How Experts Figure What to Focus On by James Clear.

2. The Release Ratio: How to Make Use of Everything You Know by Lawrence Yeo.

3. No More Brainstorming by Zef Hemel.

4. How to Stop Procrastinating by Mike Manson.

Product of the Week ✨

Script Kit makes it easy to optimize your developer workflow by creating and running scripts that solve your daily problems.

Good Tidings 🔊

1. Want to get your first software developer job? Here are some tips, tricks, and general advice you can use to get into tech.

2. SVG icons are usually made up of a bunch of path elements; in this interactive guide, you can learn about how SVGs are made.

3. Ex-GitHub CEO is running the second batch of the AI grant for AI-native product startups, and you can still apply in some hours/minutes, depending on where you are right now. This grant offers $250,000 on an uncapped SAFE, $350,000 in Azure credits + $200,000 additional credits, and a summit in San Francisco with advisors and founders.

4. If you want to level up your JavaScript skills and need project ideas to work on, you can take inspiration from this thread.

5. JetBrains is giving free product licenses to help event hosts attract more attendees to their meetups. Tech communities that get together every 1-3 months can receive free licenses to any JetBrains IDE as door prizes for each meetup.

6. If you work in tech, you should read the original Netflix culture deck for insights on managing your career.

7. If you’re looking to get started with technical writing, you should check this for a curated list of articles, books, videos, tools, podcasts, etc.

8. Here’s a curated list of interview questions for different programming languages, frameworks, and technologies.

9. Here is a collection of universities, companies, and organizations that offer free online courses with certificates.

10. For managers, here’s a collection of engineering leadership resources that you’d find helpful.

11. Here’s a complete computer science study plan you can use to become a software engineer.

12. Looking to network with other student community leaders and professionals or level up your skills and give back to your community? You can join the GitHub Campus Experts program now and expand your connections!

13. If you’re a student (at any level), you can apply to get the GitHub Student Developer Pack and access the best developer tools, resources, and courses for FREE.

14. Here’s a curated list of project-based programming tutorials you can use to learn how to build applications from scratch.

15. 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.

16. Here's a recommendation of the top five websites to find remote jobs for different fields in tech.

Book Recommendations 📚

1. All of Grace by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

2. Simplified JavaScript for VIPs by Ebenezer Don.

3. Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner.

4. Building Python Web APIs with FastAPI by Abdulazeez Adeshina.

5. The Pragmatic Programmer by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt.

Featured Tweets and Videos 😍

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

⬇️: #TechGirlWorldTour: Angie Jones Visits Lagos, Nigeria

⬇️: Write React Server Components from Scratch

⬇️: Commerce Layer at Contentful Storylines with AKQA and Fredericia

⬇️: Doctrine Matters

Quote of the Week 💙

“Even the simplest efforts require commendation, nothing is ever really easy. Far stronger forces of opposition exist for everyone in their own doing, avoid the plague of being blindsided by privilege.” –Bakare Emmanuel.

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

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