I was offline for a few days and I enjoyed it. [Week in Review - Week 27/20]
Tags: music
Published: 2020-07-06 18:38:01

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Hello 👋🏻.

Welcome to my "Week in Review" series. Each week I'm going to share what I discovered, learned, and tested with you.

Last week [I took a few days off from Social Media](https://twitter.com/natterstefan/status/1280003245067427843) and spent some hours in the mountains. It was necessary and overdue to refill my energy tanks. That is the reason for a shorter than usual week in review episode. Hopefully, you still enjoy reading it.

Let's jump right into it.

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## Highlights

In the last few weeks, I released that I lost my focus and was stressed a lot. It felt like I aimed at the "wrong" targets. Unsurprisingly I felt happy when I discovered [Reflectly](https://reflectly.app/). They claim to help you reflect upon your daily thoughts and problems. Doesn't that sound great? Funny node aside, I pitched the same idea to my friend Lukas in fall 2017. 😅 Time flies; and too bad we did not invest more time into the project. Now I give Reflectly a try.

Do you know [brain.fm](https://brain.fm/) or [endel.io](https://endel.io/)? They both offer sound environments to help you focus, relax, and sleep. Luckily I bought a lifetime membership for brain.fm a while ago. My usage time is still high. A few days ago I found endel. It looks like they offer a pretty good service as well. Haven't tried it since still. Do you use any of those two? Which one do you prefer?

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Last week my friend Barnabas reminded me of [netdata](https://www.netdata.cloud/).  He even showed me there is a [package for macOS](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/packaging/installer/methods/macos). Here is a little gist for you, run it with docker, and get a glimpse of netdatas capabilities:

{% gist https://gist.github.com/natterstefan/8b3502b77d694cb1552d280e40168ce9 %}

Cheatsheets are super helpful. Whether you are learning a new framework, or can't remember all the commands of your favorite tools, they got you covered. [devhints](https://devhints.io/) is my go-to website when I look up cheatsheets. Where do you find yours?

## 📗 Currently Reading

I did not progress reading ["This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn To See" by Seth Godin](https://amzn.to/2Zg41VS) or listening to ["Thinking, Fast and Slow" written by Daniel Kahneman](https://amzn.to/2ZlCSk2) on Audible last week.

What are you reading?

## ⛓ Links of the Week

- ["Every Noise at Once"](http://everynoise.com/) is a fun way of discovering new music. If you love music and want to find more of your favorite genres, give it a try.
- Have you ever wanted to customize your macOS icons and customize folders? With [image2icon](http://www.img2icnsapp.com/) you can.
- When thinking about moving to another country or city, it is a piece of good advice to calculate your must-have salary to maintain your standard of living. Guess what, there is a tool for that too: The [relocation calculator](https://getwanted.com/en-us/relocation-calculator).
- [Onyx](https://www.onyx.fit/) is on my fitness apps watchlist. Right now I have an injury and need to stop with sports 😐, but I will be back on track soon and try it. For running ["adidas Running"](https://www.runtastic.com/de/) is my #1 app. What are your fitness apps?
- As you might already know, I listen to books with Audible and read them on my [Kindle Paperwhite](https://amzn.to/2Z8hsZb). A few days ago I was talking with a friend about the value of highlights in audiobooks. If you are like me you highlight either a lot or nothing. What do you do with the highlights afterward? Have you ever looked at them again? Most of the time I forget about them. Not anymore, thanks to [readwise.io](https://readwise.io/)!
- [Teleport Meeting Space](https://www.teleportmeetings.space/) offers some funny background wallpapers and videos for your next Zoom meeting.
- Stay focused and be present with [Forest](https://forestapp.cc/).
- Automate your answers for new clients and recruiters [with Alfred](https://yourstack.com/pro-tips/540-half-automated-answer-for-new-clients-recruiters) (thanks to [David Leuliette](https://yourstack.com/pro-tips/540-half-automated-answer-for-new-clients-recruiters)).
- Do you need free web development resources? [Marko Denic](https://dev.to/denicmarko/free-web-development-resources-323a) has created an awesome list for you.
- Are you new to the CSS Grid Layout? Have you used it already but want to learn more about it? Then this [complete CSS Grid guide](https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/) is for you.
- [react-query](https://github.com/tannerlinsley/react-query) is an interesting library offering hooks for fetching, caching, and updating asynchronous data in React. To be honest I have not used it yet. We use [Apollo](https://www.apollographql.com/) in many of our projects and are fine with the tools offered. But I want to. Do you use it and can share some insights with us?

## Tweets of the Week

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## YouTube Video of the Week

A good friend of mine released new songs this year and thanks to COVID-19 he cannot promote them the way he planned to. I will use my platform to share some of his songs. Here is one of them. Enjoy it and please leave a comment on YouTube! You do me and my friend a huge favor. **THANK YOU**!

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This is it for week 27/20.

See you next week - same place, same platform. 👋🏻

Thanks,
Stefan

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