⭐️ apply for that talk!
Hello, friend!
I don’t want to take too much space here so my message will be short: please do write that blog post, do submit a talk for that conference and do apply for that job.
There’s no point in holding back – you are ready enough, even if you don’t feel that!
Fingers crossed – and reach out if I can help you succeed!
✨ Lovely events
🔻 Gatsby Conference (free!)
This conferenceis for everyone: code newbies and experts alike. It is a celebration of Gatsby community and all the cool features to be soon released. Catch great talks and workshops by registering early for free.
The conference is taking place online on 2-3 March 2021.
🔻 CodeNewbie Community Writers Contest
If you’re just starting out at a tech writer or blogger, please consider taking part in this marvelous community-powered tech writing contest:
To celebrate and acknowledge all of the fantastic and diverse voices we have in this growing community, we are thrilled to announce our new monthly writing contest: CodeNewbie Writers of the Month! 🥳 This ongoing, asynchronous “awards ceremony” is all about great writing (in all its many forms), making your voice heard, and having fun. Each month, we’ll celebrate three members for their contributions to this space.
🔻 Rails Conf Call for Proposals
Yesss, the 2021 RailsConf that will take place in April has just invited us all to submit talk proposals! Please don’t worry if you’ve never spoken at a conference or if you are just a beginner – Rails welcomes you as well! See yourself:
We’re looking for technical and non-technical talks covering a broad range of topics in the Rails ecosystem. (…) We want a mix of beginner, intermediate and advanced-level material.(…) If it’s interesting to you, chances are we’d love to see it. (…) RailsConf fully embraces both new and experienced speakers.
Consider sending in your talk by February 15th. I’m happy to read your proposal if you need help!
🔻 This weekend: Global CFP Day!
Speaking of submitting conference talks, the Global Diversity CFP day is a yearly initiative of workshops and talks aimed at helping members of underrepresented or marginalised groups become speakers of tech conferences.
This year, the workshop will take place on Jan 23rd and it will be hosted online.
You can still join!
✨ Dev Snacks
- One of my favorite tech writers, Yechiel Kalmenson shared his favorite bash tips, tricks and shortcuts and I wish everyone around me has read it!
- Variable naming conventions – who hasn’t struggled with that at some point? Here’s a great cheat sheet by Artem Zakharchenko that provides you with a good framework
- If you’re looking to start your adventure with Big O Notation, here’s a lovely talk by Alison Quaglia (Pinterest) where she uses Ratatouille analogies to explain these complex concepts
- Here’s 30,000 free icons for your website or app!
✨ All the Fluff
- Okay, Derya Tanriverdi has outdone herself! Check out her codepen with a CSS polaroid camera that takes a picture of you! Also, follow her on Twitter.
- I love Fran Lebowitz! I saw her the first time in a kinda boring documentary about book-handling where she definitely added a lot of flair with her fiery comments. Now there’s a whole interview-series based on her conversations with Martin Scorsese, which I binged last weekend. Also, here’s a list of all of the locations visited in the series.
- This thread of web development haikus made my day
- Since there has been a significant increase in the subscribers (hi, hello, thank you!), I will just encourage you to subscribe to DiversifyTech newsletter by Veni Kunche because it’s a true gem and I’m a life-long fan!
🛑 News corner
- Guess what! Rails has changed the default branch from master to main! If you are curious as to why Rails and other frameworks are reworking their vocab, Scott Hanselman from Microsoft explains it in this post
- The US-based folks here most probably all heard about the 140,000 jobs that were cut in December – this number is very misleading because it was, in fact, only Hispanic and Black women’s jobs were cut, as visualized in this infographic by a data journalist Mona Chalabi
- After last-week’s firing of a Jewish employee over a safety warning, the head of HR has resigned and the employee has been re-hired – it’s a pity that a massive twitterstorm was needed for this to happen, though
- Did you know that in order to unlock your phone through facial recognition, AI builds and compares a “map” of 30,000 points? I found this “secret life of AI” infographic fascinating
- I finally had the time to learn that I am a scutoid and so are you