šŸ† Best of Web Development - Weekly Picks #139

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Ido Shamun

Posted on August 5, 2020

šŸ† Best of Web Development - Weekly Picks #139

šŸŒŸ This week is so diverse! We have articles about monetization, GPU development, web development, and even low-budget architecture.
As always, all posts were ranked by daily.dev community. Shout out to all the authors. šŸ‘

So, let's get it started.

1ļøāƒ£ Ways To Make Money As A Developer

šŸ’° Many devs want to monetize their free time. This article provides 4 ideas to achieve this goal. You can create courses, sell templates, sell services, or create a side project.

2ļøāƒ£ Awesome Web Effect

āœØ The author collected an awesome list of references to cool web effects and animations from across the web. In this post, he launches his brand new list.

3ļøāƒ£ Git Commands for Everyday Use

šŸ¤– If you are new to git this post will get you started. It lists the most common commands of git with a detailed explanation.

4ļøāƒ£ GPU Accelerated JavaScript

āš”ļø GPGPU (General-purpose computing on graphics processing units) exists for a few years already, especially relevant for deep learning domain. It has finally landed in Javascript as well, thanks to GPU.js. If you run some heavy linear math, you can utilize this library to improve performance.

5ļøāƒ£ Hiring Without Whiteboards - Companies that don't have a broken hiring process

šŸ‘Øā€šŸ« Most of the developers just hate these CS (computer-science) questions during a job interview that has nothing to do with the actual position. Here is a list with worldwide companies that don't have this session in their hiring process.

6ļøāƒ£ Simple Explanation of Objects and Memory References in JavaScript

ā†©ļø This excellent post will make sure you understand Javascript memory references. Javascript stores differently primitives and objects in the memory, it's better for you to understand this concept. Otherwise, you might get yourself some weird bugs.

7ļøāƒ£ Best Tech Movies That Every Programmer Must Watch

šŸæ Despite the myth that hackers don't have free time, here is a list of movies you should watch. Grab some popcorn and a beer (or whatever you like) and start crossing movies of this list.

8ļøāƒ£ In case you were wondering, Ionic is powerful!

šŸš€ The post describes the process of creating a Fortnite companion app using Ionic and Golang. It's a very high-level post, so don't expect anything technical.

9ļøāƒ£ Top 5 Most Loved Programming Languages in 2020

šŸ… Every now and then someone publishes a list of the most popular languages. This list is heavily based on StackOverflow's survey. Here they are Rust, Typescript, Python, Kotlin, and Golang. The author covers the best features of these languages.

šŸ”Ÿ How I Build Scalable Modern Web Applications for Real Users

šŸ— Trey Huffine explains how to build low-budget scalable applications. These are lessons learned in the process of building his project skilled.dev. Vercel, Hasura, Heroku, Postgres, Sentry, and many more for less than $100 per month.

šŸ™Œ Wrap Up!

That was all for this week. We will come back with another list of interesting development posts next week.


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Ido Shamun

Posted on August 5, 2020

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