Yet Another Newsletter LOL: So long and thanks for all the fish

Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

Around the Web

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

Discord: The Missing Manual

Three years into the pandemic and a lot of community activities have moved completely virtual. Because of this, more and more Discord servers are popping up daily. In this guide you’ll find everything you need to configure Discord to work for you, not against you.

theworst.dev

A great post from Jason Lengstorf on leading teams

The three things leaders owe their teams | LeadDev

Setting engineering teams up for success

leaddev.com

Fun Stuff

This just cracked me up

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

Shameless plugs

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!