Yet Another Newsletter LOL: New Beginnings
Tags: productivity, react, css, javascript
Published: 2023-09-17 14:10:47

<p>Before we get started, some news. Friday was my <a href="https://x.com/nickytonline/status/1702797217478709696">last day at Netlify</a>.

I’ve decided to join a startup as a founding engineer! I’m nervous and excited at the same time. Check my socials for the announcement tomorrow. 👀</p>
<p>And with that, another week, another newsletter. Let's get to it!</p>
<h2>Around the Web</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://levelup.gitconnected.com/use-grep-like-a-boss-9c07a147c5b2?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-new-beginnings-8323" target="_blank">Use Grep like a Boss</a> — I’m OK on the command line, but grep is one of those tools I don’t know that well, so this was a nice find for me.</li>
<li>Chris Sev has <a href="https://x.com/chris__sev/status/1702343305223451069?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-new-beginnings-8323" target="_blank">released a bunch of his courses</a> for free. If you’re looking to learn some React, Tailwind or become more productive with VS Code, check it out!</li>
<li><a href="https://dev.to/this-is-learning/islands-server-components-resumability-oh-my-319d?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-new-beginnings-8323" target="_blank">Islands &amp; Server Components &amp; Resumability, Oh My!</a> — My very recent old co-worker Ryan Carniato dives into a lot of concepts that have popped up in the frontend space over the past couple of years. Definitely worth a read.</li>
<li>Partykit releases their new API <a href="https://blog.partykit.io/posts/partyserver-api?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-new-beginnings-8323" target="_blank">Party.Server</a> to make it even easier to create multi-player digital experiences.</li>
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<h2>Fun Stuff</h2>
<p>I came across this in my feed this week. <a href="https://x.com/cassidoo/status/1701615851827319018?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-new-beginnings-8323" target="_blank">Cassidy Williams</a> (@cassidoo) made a fun game called <a href="https://thirteen-potions.netlify.app/?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-new-beginnings-8323" target="_blank">13 potions</a>! Check it out!</p>
<h2>Words of Wisdom for the Week</h2>
<blockquote>
<p>Do good things for others, for no reason at all. It makes life more fun.</p>
<p>Transactional relationships are meh.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>— <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lexfridman_do-good-things-for-others-for-no-reason-activity-7108841283430862848-33Hk?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-new-beginnings-8323" target="_blank">Lex Friedman on LinkedIn</a></p>
<h2>Shameless Plugs</h2>
<p>Aiden Bai (@aidenybai) joined me on <a href="https://nickyt.live?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-new-beginnings-8323" target="_blank">nickyt.live</a> this week to discuss all things <a href="https://million.dev?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-new-beginnings-8323" target="_blank">Million</a>. Million touts improving the performance of client-side React. Check out the highlight from the stream.</p>{% embed https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1925207212?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-new-beginnings-8323 %}
<p>The full video will be dropping on <a href="https://nickyt.tube?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-new-beginnings-8323" target="_blank">nickyt.tube</a> this coming week.</p>
<p>Also, this coming week Dev Agrawal (@devagrawal09) joins me on nickyt.live to discuss <a href="https://www.nickyt.co/pages/stream-schedule/?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-new-beginnings-8323#dev-agrawal-clerk-authn-authz-web-dev-all-the-things-" target="_blank">Clerk, Authn/Authz, Web Dev, All the Things!</a>.</p>
<h2>Jobs</h2>
<ul>
<li>Heroku is looking to hire someone for a <a href="https://www.heroku.com/careers/lead-software-engineer-front-end-infrastructure-246?utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-new-beginnings-8323" target="_blank">front-end infra role</a></li>
<li>Beeper is hiring for <a href="https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/beeper?locationId=9a9a0cb4-df3e-4a0b-af3b-47b594a531c5&amp;utm_source=nickytonline&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=yet-another-newsletter-lol-new-beginnings-8323" target="_blank">a few roles</a></li>
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