5 online resources you didn't know you needed

Kris Yotam — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 02:30:29 +0000

#1 Emaildrop

Assuming you are like me and tired of the constant spam, and marketing emails here's a solution. Emaildrop.com servers a temporary online inbox. You just open the url and without signing up for anything it drops you in a inbox. You then give spam sites, and other sites you don't want to have personal info this address. You will receive mail in your browser to this address until you hit random/custom to change the the link to your inbox. Check out emaildrop.com below!

https://www.emaildrop.io/

#2 123Movies

As a lot of us busy quite often we rarely get time away from craft. However 123movies brings a large catalog of old, new, and still in theater movies to watch on demand. No sign up, no hassle. The best part is. It's free. free, free free free.

https://ww5.0123movie.net/home.html

#3 Claritus

Tracking your net worth, is never a easy/inexpensive task. Well actually it is. With claritus you can freely track your net worth in one free UI. It can sync with your bank accounts including paypal and cash app. Store the worth of assets, and cryptocurrency. It is very easy to catalog transactions through the website, a over all straightforward process.

https://claritus.io

#4 Skillshare

Imagine if you had your music prodigy friend as a on demand tutor to teach you lesson by lesson when you are ready. Well this is the foundation skillshare is built upon. Skillshare allows you to spend time learning all types of skills from advanced people working in those fields. The courses are their for you to pick up at any time, and totally to be completed at whatever pace you feel like. Skillshare may be the only payed item on this list with a starter subscription coming in at $13.99 a month billed $168 annually. However I do believe that skillshare has the potential to add great value to your life, by helping you to refine skills you already had, and dabble in skills you have never had the chance to. Also feel free to start your own course and earn a % of your viewers.

https://www.skillshare.com/

#5 Fiverr

Their are a tremendous amount of good online side hustles. However I'd have to say that fiverr ranks above quite a lot of them. Fiverr is a website where you can setup and sell numerous different things, from something as simple as file conversion, to building a website, or discord bot for someone.

https://www.fiverr.com

Hope You Enjoyed!!!

feel free to add other resources that would fit on this list in the comments, and maybe I will make a pt. 2

Why I decided to become a full-stack developer in 2022

Kris Yotam — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 03:47:48 +0000

Call To Action

Being the most technical in my immediate family I would often get called for bug fixes, and casual errors, to some of the larger thing such as websites using builders such as wix, wordpress, squarespace, and webflow. Naturally as I learned the more intricate details of these programs and became more aware of the outrageous prices of websites, and the inability to transfer websites. I began to look around for a more flexible option. The clear next step was web-development.

The Research

Researching about web development was a shorter process than expected. It boiled down to 2 sections, front end web development, & back end web development. Front End Web-Development is defined as developing the GUI(Graphical User Interface) with the use of HTML, CSS, & JS. Back End or server side development is development of the code that communicates the database information to the web browser. An example of some frequently used back end languages would be

Java
PHP
Ruby On Rails
Python
.NET

Is It Useful?

In an age of information overload, their are many platforms to share information. Who builds them. Web-developers. From Dev.to, to the most veneered blogs, and forums. Fullstack web-dev is an amazing skill to have in this day, and age. It provides and insane amount of opportunities from being able to get a job at a FAANG company, Freelance, create a startup, ect.

MISC.

Don't take for granted the soft-skills that you will also develop becoming a dev. Collaborating with others will help to build clear communication skills, you will also learn to ask for help, and clearly communicate to other when helping them. Another underrated skill is that of learning. In the tech space technology is ever evolving meaning devs, are forever learning to keep pace. This will require exemplary research skills, to get to the point as soon as possible.

What is the The Market like

While looking at sites like fiiver you will notice the market is over saturated with skilled developers from other countries that charge far less than a admissible amount for the average American. A prime example of this is india. They have no national minimum wage but it tends to range from 160 rupees ($2.40) per day in Bihar to 423 rupees ($6.35) per day in Delhi based on Minimum Wages Act,1948 (according to minimum-wage.org). As you can guess the living expenses are also far less their. Now you should have a clear vantage point of the market. However the situation is quite different as far as 9-5, or start-up would go. Their are many large companies and startups looking for developers to build their website and/or maintain it.

Extra

If you would like to go further in depth on this topic here are some more articles!

Thanks for reading!

As always if you think their is something to be added, or I said something incorrect please correct me in the comments.

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