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For those of you on macOS, here’s a tip about using Preview

I started my new role at Netlify this week. I’m a big fan of Conventional Comments, but Netlify has their own spin on this, Feedback Ladders. Both ways are great for commenting, so thought I’d share for inspiration in your pull request reviews.

Feedback Ladders: The Code Review System We Follow at Netlify

Learn more about Netlify UX team’s code review process called the Feedback Ladder. We developed a system of shared terminology - naming conventions that describe each step. Check it out!

www.netlify.com

If you’re on Windows, this is a great guide for getting set up for web development.

If you’re a fan of VS Code, like I am, local history is a great add. It’s currently only available on the Insiders edition. On another not, I highly recommend the Insiders edition. I’ve been using it for years and it’s super stable.

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If you’re looking for a new type of online game to play with your remote co-workers or anyone honestly, collaborative jigsaw puzzle solving is a great option. I’m hooked!

Here’s some other ideas for games

What online games do you play with your remote co-workers? - DEV Community

In the remote world where a lot of us are now, what online games, if any, do you play with your… Tagged with watercooler, discuss.

dev.to

Words of Wisdom for the Week

The future of leadership is kindness

Command and control-style leadership will not help organisations attract and retain talent anymore. Now, the focus must be on empathetic leadership.

bluenotes.anz.com

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I joined Netlify!!!! 🎉

April 4th is a new beginning for me! I start my new role at redacted. This newsletter drops on Sundays, so you’ll just have to check Twitter tomorrow for my announcement. 😎

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Understanding Layout Algorithms

As front-end developers, we often learn CSS by focusing on individual properties. Instead, we should focus on how the language uses those properties to calculate layouts. In this blog post, we’ll pop the hood on CSS and see how the language is structured, and how to learn it effectively.

www.joshwcomeau.com

Words of Wisdom for the Week

Shout to my man Will for dropping this.

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Since I’m off still before starting my new role, I’ve had more time to write and stream.

Here are some posts I dropped this week. Maybe you’ll find them helpful.

Strongly Typed JSON in TypeScript - Just Some Dev

Someone in one of the Slack communities I’m a part of asked today how to type JSON in TypeScript, specifically importing JSON and then typing it.

www.iamdeveloper.com

Using a Hook in a Class Component - Just Some Dev

Did you know that you can use hooks in class components? OK, I’m lying kind of. You can’t use a hook directly

www.iamdeveloper.com

Productivity Tools I Use - Just Some Dev

Here is a short list of some great tools I’ve discovered over the past year.

www.iamdeveloper.com

Enabling keyboard navigation on your Mac - Just Some Dev

I’m starting a new role soon, and they shipped me a brand new Macbook Pro. I got everything set up…

www.iamdeveloper.com

I’ve started streaming on my own stream again. Feel free to give me a follow if that’s your jam!

nickytonline - Twitch

I am a Lead Software Engineer with a focus on the front-end. I am a big fan of TypeScript, JavaScript, P/React and Node. I enjoy contributing to open source, hitting the gym, snowboarding, and a long long time ago, rugby. I am also not a big fan of spiders. 😬

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Introducing Ladle | Ladle

Ladle is a tool for developing and testing your React components in an environment that’s isolated and faster than most real-world applications. It supports Component Story Format - a concept widely popular thanks to Storybook. In fact, Ladle has been developed as a drop-in replacement of Storybook - it should already work with your existing stories.

www.ladle.dev

For folks building communities, Kurt’s got your back if Discord is your jam

Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates - The Verge

Scientists have renamed 27 human genes to stop Microsoft Excel misreading them as dates. The changes have been underway for the past year but have been formally announced as new guidelines published by the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee. Scientist are overjoyed but annoyed Microsoft didn’t make the changes itself.

www.theverge.com

Words of Wisdom for the Week

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I’ve been off work since Wednesday and I am starting a new role on April 4th! Stay tuned! It’s been a fun 2.25 years at Forem/dev.to!

This was my last week at Forem, so it also meant my last DEV Twitch stream. Thanks for joining me, Stacie Taylor! I loved our convos about The Collab Lab, career, and all the things!

And a big thanks to everyone that tuned in to the stream these past couple of years. ♥️

I wrote a couple of articles this past week. One is about the work I did at Forem. The other is a handy tool I use with new projects. Check'em out!

My Impact at Forem - DEV Community

This is my first post about impact. What do I mean by impact? How did you influence the place where… Tagged with career.

dev.to

npx git ignore

I’ve done this a few times on a live stream and there is always someone unaware of this so I wanted to share. Assuming you have Node.js installed on your machine, you can run npx gitignore your_language, e.g. npx gitignore node, and it will generate …

nickytonline.hashnode.dev

I started work on my Deepgram hackathon project. I’m not sure how far I’ll get, but streaming on my own stream again has been super fun!

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A great writeup from my old colleague Vaidehi Joshi

GitHub - RunaCapital/awesome-oss-alternatives: Awesome list of open-source startup alternatives to well-known SaaS products 🚀

Awesome list of open-source startup alternatives to well-known SaaS products 🚀 - GitHub - RunaCapital/awesome-oss-alternatives: Awesome list of open-source startup alternatives to well-known SaaS products 🚀

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Words of Wisdom for the Week

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Stacie Taylor joins me on my last DEV Twitch stream. We’ll discuss all things The Collab Lab. Pop by and say hi!

Some big news…

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Monorepos are changing how teams build software – Vercel

Monorepos are codebases containing multiple projects in a single unified code repository. This post explores how monorepos can improve your development workflow.

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Jhey always amazes me and he’s done it again. This is a really cool Slinky Codepen.

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Educational and super funny. Heydon is spicy! 🌶️

Words of Wisdom for the Week

Thanks for the share Nader!

Shameless plugs

Part three of building out a GitHub action that Tweets to first time contributors dropped this past week on my YouTube channel. Thanks again for pairing on this Matt Foley!

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I’m taking blackmagic.so for a spin after the recommendation from my friend Vic. Maybe take it for a spin yourself!

For all the TypeScript fans out there, Chance drops a TIL (for me at least!)

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A handy tip from my old co-worker Jon Jones

https://twitter.com/jonjones/status/1499579381491986433

Words of Wisdom for the Week

I’m dropping my own words of wisdom this week. Take your PTO folks! Even in a pandemic and even if you don’t travel to anywhere exotic. It’s good for your brain and body. 😎

Shameless plugs

No shameless plugs going on at the moment. I’ve been on vacation, so my only plug is to take vacation. I’ve been snowboarding all week!

The world is a mess right now, I know. I don’t really know what to say. No real way to segue to the usual line, so let’ get to it.

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Explain the First 10 Lines of Twitter’s Source Code

Managering in Terrible Times | Lara Hogan

These are terrible times. You may be facing these events head-on as a member of a marginalized group or as an ally, and if you’re a manager, you likely have direct reports who are doing the same.

larahogan.me

This just looks interesting to me.

Introducing Beam

We’re sharing the PlanetScale-powered communication tool we use internally.

planetscale.com

A cool use of Web Workers.

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Singer Michael Bolton re-enacting scenes from the film Office Space. If you don’t know who Michael Bolton is, this might not be as funny to you.

Words of Wisdom for the Week

More of. a thread of wisdom this week.

Shameless plugs

A while back I started a project with Matt Foley for building out a GitHub action that Tweets out to first-time contributors. Here is part 1. Also, no it’s not built in Rust. I hadn’t streamed on my own stream in a while and forgot to update my banner lol. I should probably automate that.

Not much going on this coming week as I’m still on vacation. Snowboarding is on this week’s menu.

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You can now add diagrams to your GitHub issues and pull requests!

Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid | The GitHub Blog

Mermaid is a JavaScript based diagramming and charting tool that takes Markdown-inspired text definitions and creates diagrams dynamically in the browser.

github.blog

This is only funny if you know what the dish is.

Words of Wisdom for the Week

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I had an amazing time with a bunch of career changers from my Virtual Coffee community this week. Thanks Jessica Wilkins, Reda Baha, Rebecca Key, Seth Hall, and Steve Carroll for hanging!

There won’t be a DEV Twitch stream for the next little while as I’m on vacation. Back at it in Mar

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I know it sounds obvious, but…

Thinking Is Work | Daniel Eden, Designer

I’ve spoken with a lot of folks recently about a challenge imposed on us by increased remote work: losing time to think. Because of an increased need to communicate and align with peers and teammates—and few, ineffective tools for doing so (video-conferencing meetings and documents)—we find ourselves spending more time communicating than executing and, more critically, thinking about work.

daneden.me

A great tip from Swyx

A great Twitter thread on what CORS is

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https://twitter.com/musictvtweets/status/1489889387689226243

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Shameless plugs

I had a blast hanging with Domitrius Clark on the DEV Twitch stream this week. We discussed the Jamstack community, community best practices, building in public, all the things!

This week coming up on the DEV Twitch stream, I’m going to be talking to five career changers. Tune in at 5 pm UTC this Wednesday, February 16th.

Twitch

Twitch is the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers.

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I gave a talk for Codementor this week! The video will be out sometime this upcoming week, but for now, here’s the slide deck.

It’s been a draining month for me. Nothing bad, just lots going on. I am looking forward to two weeks off though in a couple of weeks. Anyway…

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Scheduled functions come to Netlify! Did someone order some serverless cron?

I still haven’t checked out Script Kit, but my buddy Jhey is a big fan. Maybe you and I should be checking it out too?! 🤔

Jhey 🔨🐻✨ on Twitter: "What's your favorite automation tool? And why is it @scriptkitapp by @johnlindquist? 🚀 Really looking forward to creating some content around it once I get some articles off the list. Saves me so much time 🙏 https://t.co/njiNu3XK0r"

“What’s your favorite automation tool? And why is it @scriptkitapp by @johnlindquist? 🚀

Really looking forward to creating some content around it once I get some articles off the list. Saves me so much time 🙏

https://t.co/njiNu3XK0r”

twitter.com

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Fun, but also mandatory Ryan Reynolds “But why?” meme lol 👇🏻

Words of Wisdom for the Week

Shameless plugs

Ben Holmes joined me on the DEV Twitch stream this past week! I had a lot of fun learning about Slinkity and we even did some live coding! Check it out!

This week on the DEV Twitch stream, Domitrius Clark, Community Engineer at Netlify joins me to discuss the new Jamstack community, community best practices, building in public, all the things!

View Nick Taylor's highlight 'Preparing for a Twitch Stream'

I’m looking forward to hanging with Domitrius Clark on the DEV Twitch stream next week! We’ll discuss the Jamstack community, community best practices

www.polywork.com

Come by and hang this week on Wednesday, February 9th at 5 pm UTC!

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DEV is a community of software developers getting together to help one another out. The software industry relies on collaboration and networked learning. We provide a place for that to happen.

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