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Hello 👋🏻.
Welcome to my "Week in Review" series. Each week I'm going to share what I discovered, learned, and tested with you.
Let's jump right into it.
Highlights
One of the biggest news with lots of tweets last week was GitHub's profile README! You can finally add more than just pinned repositories to your GitHub profile! Take the chance and use this valuable free advertising space now.
I updated my GitHub profile immediately too. Mine is pretty simple, but I have seen so many creative ones. Like the one from Cyris or Jay Rogers. Of course, Jhey had to optimize it by using CSS animation inlined within an SVG 😅. You can find many more inspiring ones here. Developers like Anurag created tools like GitHub Readme Stats and others explain how to track and display profile views.
Chaoo Charles shared another awesome browser extension with me called "GitHub Isometric Contributions" (Open Source). It transforms your GitHub contributions into a fancy chart.
In the last week, I published two new articles on dev.to:
- How to add a README to your GitHub profile - it was shared by ThePracticalDev on Twitter too 🕺🏻.
- and Enhance your git commands with ASCII Art ☜(˚▽˚)☞
It hardly surprised me when I read Cloudflare's summary of their question "Will JavaScript libraries ever be updated?". Take your own projects as a baseline for the question. How often (and do you) update your dependencies? Thanks to Dependabot, although the e-mails can be annoying, and to Renovate we have tools helping us to stay up to date with our apps.
📗 Currently Reading
I finished reading "This Is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn To See" by Seth Godin. It is an insightful book for marketers and non-marketers. If you want to build an audience for your product, service, or company you should read it.
The next book I am reading is "Clean Code" by Robert "Uncle Bob" C. Martin.
Due to an injury, I did not further listen to "Thinking, Fast and Slow" written by Daniel Kahneman on Audible last week.
What are you reading? Share your recommendations in the comments below. 🙏🏻
⛓ Links of the Week
- Are you using Notion? Then this tool is probably for you. Create interactive presentions slides from your Notion pages with wunderpresentation! I got another tip for you shared by Emma Butler: "Alternative for Paying for more Members" in Notion. Nabil shared his Software Project Template with me last week too.
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thefuck(GitHub) corrects errors in previous console commands. A life-saver for me. - JetBrain's Mono has three new lighter weights now.
- A few weeks ago I jumped on the Alfred train and got hooked. Here are some Workflows I installed recently: DeepL Alfred Workflow, Alfred Top, Dark or Light, Hide Desktop, Notion Search, and Alfred Project Manager. Here is another amazing list of Alfred Workflows.
- Ever heard of roamresearch.com? It is a note-taking tool of a different kind. Instead of organizing notes in folders or with "flat" labels, it creates an interconnected knowledge graph. I have to admit I still not got used to it and use Notion instead.
- Here is how you can activate the CSS Overview Tab in Chrome - thanks, Niall!
- In my previous reviews, I mentioned Jhey multiple times. He recently published an article with an overview of his work. It is incredible. CSS magician.
- Matching my article about the git alias, I found this one with a great trick for navigating faster in your terminal.
- I fell in love with DeepL. They do an amazing job and translations seem pretty accurate and sometimes even better (IMHO) than Google's.
- This is how you can listen to variable changes in JavaScript.
- In case you do not know it already: I ♥️ Storybook. No wonder I get excited when reading they introduce "Storybook Args".
- You might already know carbon.now.sh, do you? Copy and paste a few lines of code into their online editor and download an image of your code. But you do not even need to leave your editor to create screenshots with syntax highlighting. It is super easy in VS Code with polacode or CodeSnap.
- Sizzy will change your life as a web frontend developer. It transformed mine at least! 🎉
- js-coroutines is for you if you need to manipulate (e.g. sort or compress) large data sets in JavaScript while staying smooth and interactive at 60fps.
- Last week, I discovered ToolDeck. They promise to be the "Launchpad for your favorite tools". Sign up with Twitter or GitHub and create your own deck of tools. The idea is great, but it just does not fit in my daily routine. Nevertheless, I found some helpful tools in their Explore and Feed tab. I might not use it frequently but visit it every now and then to find new (dev) tools.
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react-responsive is helpful when using CSS media queries to React. Add their
useMediaQueryhook to your component and control what happens based on the current screen size, orientation, and many more. - Last but not least another fun site: open a new window somewhere in the world here.
Tweets of the Week
🛰️Francesco💙JavaScript@francescociull4
🔗Useful URL ⓨⓐⓨⓣⓔⓧⓣ
A simple way to add bold, italic, and other effects on twitter messages
yaytext.com/bold-italic/05:42 AM - 08 Jul 2020
Florin Pop 👨🏻💻@florinpop1705🔥 Free resources thread 🔥
👇Share below any free resources you know of. Shameless plugs allowed.05:54 AM - 08 Jul 2020
🧵Design Tips for Developers 🧵
With so much to learn, design is easy to neglect but learning a few basic design principles is a great investment for any developer.
Apply the following to your own projects to make a huge visual difference 👇
#100daysofcode #CodeNewbies #webdev08:24 AM - 09 Jul 2020
Marc Backes ⚡️@_marcbaIn case somebody is interested in my watering scheduler, here's the source code:
🔗 github.com/themarcba/wate… twitter.com/_marcba/status…10:05 AM - 09 Jul 2020Marc Backes ⚡️ @_marcbaToday I wrote a silly over-engineered app that reminds me to water the plants 🌱💧 If it doesn’t rain in the morning, it sends me an SMS. If the daily temperature is > 24 degrees Celsius, it sends an additional SMS in the evening. It also logs every attempt to counter-check.
Find a list of my favorite GitHub repositories which are helpful for every (self-taught, no CS degree) developer!
A Thread 🧵13:11 PM - 10 Jul 2020
Nehemiah@nehemiahkivTrying to figure out how to focus your time on learning new technologies?
Here's my advice, and also my first thread 💪
🧵🧵🧵17:41 PM - 12 Jul 2020
Website of the Week
Jason Lengstorf's website is full of tiny details that make the website shine. Click on his head in the navigation or hit the reload button in the Hero element. Then you know what I mean. (Thanks to Danny Thompson for the link).
Video of the Week
A good friend of mine released new songs this year and thanks to COVID-19 he cannot promote them the way he planned to. I will use my platform to share some of his songs. Here is one of them. Enjoy it and please leave a comment on YouTube! You do me and my friend a huge favor. THANK YOU!
This is it for week 28/20.
See you next week - same place, same platform. 👋🏻
Thanks,
Stefan
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Top comments (11)
I just updated mine with a list of latest Twitter followers, using GitHub actions.
That’s a great idea! Have you open-sourced the GH action?
Yep, its in the repo.
Thanks, will check it (and thanks for the follow by the way).
I actually tried to spend two evenings coming up with a web app that could use handlebarjs to generate a Github profile for someone. So far I've got one really basic template down but it's open for expansion. What do you guys think?
markdownprofile.com/
Hi Danny, that is a helpful idea and tool. I am gonna mention it in my upcoming newsletter and week in review. Thanks!
Thanks Stefan! I'll have a go at adding some more useful templates to choose from and a contribution guide in the meanwhile :)
Hey Stefan!
First time reading this 'week in review' posts and I'm already finding several gold nuggets!
I also updated my own GitHub profile repo not as cool-looking as yours lol.
I'm putting that Seth's book on my reading list, he has really good content. I'm currently reading 'The Infinite Game' by Simon Sinek. Didn't have much hype for it but I'm loving it more and more as I continue reading.
On another note, I've been enjoying being useful in contributing to the Foam repo last week.
Cheers!
Hi Juan,
it is nice to meet you. Thanks for the feedback. I appreciate that.
Don't be so humble, yours looks great too.
Thanks for the book recommendation. I put it onto my reading list now.
Wow, Foam looks promising. Thank you for the link, gotta test it.
Cheers,
Stefan
Thanks for spreading the word about creating presentations from Notion via Wunderpresentation.
By the way, now it's also possible to create presentations from Markdown via: wunderpresentation.com/markdown
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