Week 40 of 2017

❤️.of(code) // 008

With ❤️.of(code) number 8 I'm finally back at the regular schedule: recapping my week in Twitter, every Sunday.

Tech 🚀

A report on the state of automated testing came out:

https://twitter.com/coderbyheart/status/917070835751489536?embed

Five hours of setup, for two hours of LAN party:

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/912517731571736576?embed

Mozilla is the poster child of open-source:

https://twitter.com/coderbyheart/status/915472808020504576?embed

AWS has some quirky behaviour when it comes to lambdas and environment variables, so use Parameter Store. I do and it works great. Not only for that.

https://twitter.com/coderbyheart/status/914807927231406080?embed

JavaScript 🛠

npm now has 2FA and read-only tokens:

https://twitter.com/npmjs/status/915615028497264640?embed

JavaScript (in contrast to Python) has no hard to explain concepts (like list comprehensions). It's a great beginners language:

https://twitter.com/NeoIghodaro/status/916908182122921984?embed

Node.js is everywhere:

https://twitter.com/fhinkel/status/915603328607727621?embed

https://twitter.com/fhinkel/status/915973586267004928?embed

Diversity 🌈

It's sad that this is still not a thing: equal pay.

https://twitter.com/norway/status/916680335772938241?embed

Verena tells her experience with RailsGirls (Thread):

https://twitter.com/viddity/status/914746997948780544?embed

Studies show that men won't believe evidence when it comes to gender bias:

https://twitter.com/coderbyheart/status/915095082864451585?embed

Culture ✌️

You should follow Substack, not only for their opinion:

https://twitter.com/WoodyZuill/status/916731091779801088?embed

Do this and the whole company will benefit (emphasis on measurable!):

https://twitter.com/johncutlefish/status/916957862835843072?embed

Don't trust a consultancy that sells you the Spotify model. It's does not exist!

https://twitter.com/dwitherick/status/916253643858378752?embed

Thread with great resources on changing organizations:

https://twitter.com/adibolb/status/916206973862936578?embed

Conferences 💡

A BarCamp in my former hometown:

https://twitter.com/bc_rm/status/916562519329857537?embed

I signed up for codefreeze 2018! Here is why you should, too.

https://twitter.com/RidingWolf/status/916649224950992896?embed

Jobs / Hiring 💪🏻

Make yourself familiar with this, because soon I'll have more concrete details to share:

https://twitter.com/NordicTweets/status/915142730732449792?embed

Listening to 🎧

Remember to follow me on Twitter! DMs are open! I'm happy to answer your questions ...