⭐️ Hello world!
Hello world!
Creating a newsletter has been on my mind for the past year and I'm glad that I'm ending 2020 by starting one. What can you expect? The future will show but I'd like this newsletter to be a way for me to share the fluffy corners of the tech world, delightful news, wonderful opportunities and helpful stuff that may help you out with your career.
✨ Wholesome news
🔻 Out in Tech U: Application Deadline Jan 24
Out in Tech have just opened applications for the next cohort of their youth mentorship program.
The program is free and runs over 8 weeks in the spring of 2021. The program is designed to support those who identify as part of the LGBTQIA+ community as they begin their careers in technology. You can apply as a mentee (ages of 17-24, no specific academic background is expected or required) or a mentor.
🔻 DigitalOcean x Dev Hackathon: Deadline Jan 10
You’ll have the opportunity to win some seriously sweet prizes for building an application using DigitalOcean’s new App Platform. In the process, you’ll get to know the DigitalOcean App Platform and walk away with a shiny new app to your name.
The categories include "Personal Site/Portfolio", "Program for the People", "Built for Business" and "Random Roulette". Everyone gets a Dev.to badge (I'm a sucker for those) and a sticker pack (those as well) and there's a chance for other great prizes. Read more here.
🔻 Bite-Size Bash: new zine by Julia Evans
The wonderful Julia Evans has published a new zine, this time devoted to intro to Bash. The zine goes for $12 but in her awesomeness, she's giving away 1,000 copies to folks who can't afford it — please check it out!
✨ Dev Snacks
- when I'm thinking of the project ideas I wish I had come up with, this warming stripes generator definitely pops into my mind — it's a simple visual storytelling of how the average temperature has increased over the past century.
- speaking of climate change, School of Disobedience is running a course on Cryptocurrencies and Climate Change that's available in Berlin or afterwards, online.
- Maxi Contieri has been posting amazing content on code smells in OOP, it definitely is worth of your time and attention!
- have you read Torah && Tech yet? It's a newsletter but also a wonderful book by Yechiel Kalmenson and Ben Greenberg about an intersection between tech and judaism but also about how tech impacts the way we define ourselves and relate to others. Definitely an awesome read!
✨ All the Fluff
- @TheCodePixi has come up with the loveliest 2000s nostalgia idea of creating/exchanging friendship bracelets with their mutuals — please be lovely like Pixi and share your magic with others!
- I really loved this list Tom Whitwell of 52 things he learned this year