Week 42 of 2017

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I talked about autumn last week, and this week the temperatures dropped below 0°C in the nights — but the rain stopped and we are having a series of beautiful and sunny days this week.

https://twitter.coderbyheart.com/status/921009917728886784

Jobs / Hiring 💪🏻

This week I'm happy to share the seconde position we are hiring for the nRFCloud.com team. We are looking for an experience frontend developer to join us here in Trondheim (Nordic is offering a relocation package!). For an impression of what Trondheim has to offer, check out my flicker, I'll write up a post about my experience moving here so far in the next week.

https://twitter.coderbyheart.com/status/919970952489861122

More information on nRFCloud after this click:

https://twitter.com/NordicTweets/status/920923969435336705

Tech 🚀

There is a new project by betterplace: demokratie.io, funding projects that imrove democracy.

https://twitter.com/betterplacelab/status/921378984490950656

Bootstrap v4 Beta 2 has been (release):

https://twitter.coderbyheart.com/status/921271013886832640

I've just updated my blog to Beta 1 last week, so time to look at it again ...

And I wonder if Bootstrap v5 will strip out its own grid implementation in flexbox to use the CSS Grid which is now available in all evergreen browsers:

https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/920385124159672320

https://twitter.coderbyheart.com/status/921255746335137792

Check out what is possible with CSS Grid in this example:

https://twitter.com/dudleystorey/status/920343180582752262

Samsung wants to appeal more to developers:

https://twitter.coderbyheart.com/status/921057190798032897

When knee-deep in HTML, check out this list and especially the tools in each section, which will help you to ensure you are covered:

https://twitter.com/TrendingGithub/status/920755736854126600

MDN will get even better (I use it all the time when pointing students to specs):

https://twitter.com/ChromiumDev/status/920704120390111232

Great guide by Raimo Radczewski about wht makes a great README:

https://twitter.com/rradczewski/status/919981621813633024

JavaScript 🛠

At least once a day I think: JavaScript has to die.

https://twitter.coderbyheart.com/status/921262773706936322

This could be interesting if you need to leverage multiple cores in one Node process:

https://twitter.com/littlefirecode/status/920737689850269696

Robin Wieruch has released an update to his Road To Learn React book, which is a great introduction to React. You can read it for free!

https://twitter.com/rwieruch/status/920336212069515264

Diversity 🌈

This whole thread by Sallyann Freudenberg is a must read for event organizers:

https://twitter.com/SalFreudenberg/status/921421125434986496

This thread by Sarah Mei discusses the misconception that passionate developers is something to look for:

https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/921366047122268165

Culture ✌️

This weeks big culture topic was #meetoo.

https://twitter.coderbyheart.com/status/919818697090437120

https://twitter.coderbyheart.com/status/919818998811852801

https://twitter.coderbyheart.com/status/919819462089560064

https://twitter.coderbyheart.com/status/919819809621270533

Conferences 💡

No time to go to a conference?

https://twitter.com/AlterConf/status/920415377166946304

Listening to 🎧

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