Organize your GitHub Stars with Astral  [Week 38/20 in Review]
Tags: github, books, react, blogging
Published: 2020-09-24 14:49:20

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Hello 👋🏻.

Welcome to my "Week in Review" series. Each week I will share what I discovered, learned, and tested with you. Let's take a look at what I got this week.

Last week I allowed myself a few days offline. The silence without push notifications and emails did very well. It was pure relaxation. For this reason, this issue is also shorter and also a bit late. I ask for your understanding. Oh yes, I am interested: How do you recharge your batteries?

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## Organize your GitHub Stars with Astral

![Organize your GitHub Stars with Astral](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1600958330102/pCmQ6x59J.png)

As of today, [I have over 650 stars on GitHub](https://github.com/natterstefan?tab=stars). How many do you have? Do you know what you have starred? Have you ever missed looking at your stars when you were looking up a solution for your current task? Well, then you are like me. I like bookmarking (aka. add a star) GitHub repositories, but at the same time, I do not derive any value from the stars. I’ve not yet found a tool to properly lookup starred repositories. Until [Chris](https://twitter.com/chriskalmar) showed me [Astral](https://astralapp.com/?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me).

Astral is both [free and open source](https://github.com/astralapp/astral?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me). Organize all of your GitHub stars with tags, filters, notes, and a powerful search feature.

Sounds great, doesn't it? I started using it more and more and finally make use of my GitHub stars.

## 📗 Books

I started reading ["We Are All Leaders: Leadership is not a position, it's a mindset" by Fredrik Arnander](https://amzn.to/3kRLadF) again. It's a handy book for entrepreneurs, managers, and leaders.

I told you that I have finished reading [Ego is the Enemy](https://amzn.to/2FPTlYm) last week. At the end of Ryan's book, he shares a list of books with the readers. You might want to see the list too.

- [The 16 Best Books About Marketing, Period.](https://thoughtcatalog.com/ryan-holiday/2014/10/the-16-best-books-about-marketing-period/?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me)
- and [24 Books To Hone Your Strategic Mind](https://thoughtcatalog.com/ryan-holiday/2014/01/24-books-to-hone-your-strategic-mind/?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me)

I mentioned this in one of my past reviews already, it is important to me to find a proper way to [digest books and preserve what I have learned](https://thoughtcatalog.com/ryan-holiday/2013/04/read-to-lead-how-to-digest-books-above-your-level?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me). So I was all the more pleased to see that Ryan has a few tips in store here too.

*What are you reading? Share your recommendations with me. 🙏🏻*

## ⛓ Links of the Week

- [⚛️ 🚀 React Component Patterns](https://dev.to/alexi_be3/react-component-patterns-49ho?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me)
- Monica Lent's [Blogging for Devs](https://bloggingfordevs.com/?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me) is a very valuable free email course teaching you how to grow your reach through blogging.
- [Update your macOS packages with a single command](https://dannys.cloud/update-macos-packages-single-command?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me) - thanks @[Danny Steenman](@dannysteenman).
- You have probably seen [my favorite Chrome extensions](https://dev.to/natterstefan/my-top-22-chrome-extensions-week-32-2020-in-review-1224) in one of my previous reviews with you already. Here are some more I discovered thanks to both [Karen Efereyan](https://dev.to/efereyank/chrome-extensions-every-developer-should-have-doh?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me) and [Chris Bongers](https://h.daily-dev-tips.com/top-10-chrome-extensions-for-developers?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me). Among other things they mentioned [Web Developer](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-developer/bfbameneiokkgbdmiekhjnmfkcnldhhm), [Window Resizer](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/window-resizer/kkelicaakdanhinjdeammmilcgefonfh), [Lighthouse](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lighthouse/blipmdconlkpinefehnmjammfjpmpbjk), [daily.dev](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dailydev-news-for-busy-de/jlmpjdjjbgclbocgajdjefcidcncaied) and [Coil](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/coil/locbifcbeldmnphbgkdigjmkbfkhbnca), [Grammarly](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/grammarly-for-chrome/kbfnbcaeplbcioakkpcpgfkobkghlhen).
- [GitHub CLI 1.0 is now available](https://github.blog/2020-09-17-github-cli-1-0-is-now-available/?utm_campaign=natterstefan.me)
- Automatically scanning your code for vulnerabilities and errors with GitHub's [code scanning](https://docs.github.com/en/github/finding-security-vulnerabilities-and-errors-in-your-code) feature (beta - [join the waitlist](https://github.com/features/security/advanced-security/signup))
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This is it for week 38/2020.

See you next week - thank you. 👋🏻

Stefan

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