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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Community building

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Community building
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Welcome to the 27th edition
Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one.
This week I’ve spent a surprising amount of time changing diapers… and thinking about life (nope, those are not mutually exclusive!).
Community building
This week, I’ve participated in the “Before Community” learning sprint organized by Orbit. This free workshop was dedicated to what happens before a community is formed. It was fascinating and a ton of fun. Our hosts were Rosie Sherry and Erin Mikail Staples.
Rosie has been building communities for many years now, so it was a treat to have her teach us about her craft. The results of the workshop are accessible here for free. It’s really worth a look! If you’re interested, then I’ll share my notes.

Creating online communities was not a skill that I planned on acquiring, but the more I think about it, the more I’m realizing that it’s a valuable skill to learn, so I’m diving right in!
If some of you are interested, then I’ll share my notes. I hope to leverage the things I’ve learned in order to better shape the two communities I’ve created recently:
If you’re curious about community building, then check out the upcoming events that Orbit is organizing:
Orbit also has a nice Discord server.
Svelte
After hesitating a bit, I’ve finally decided to start learning more about Svelte. I’m just getting started, but what I’ve discovered so far looks really promising. I like the simplicity and the interactive tutorials.
As some of you know, I’m a huge fan of Nrwl NX, so the first thing I did was look for a Svelte plugin. Fortunately, Dominik Pieper has got me covered. He has created @nxext/svelte, which is a breeze to install and configure. Thanks to it, I was quickly able to add a Svelte application to my Nx workspace. Neat!
Next, I wanted to add Tailwind to the mix, because there’s no going back for me; Tailwind is a must now. I found a documentation page by Dominik which showed me one possible way, but I didn’t want to hide away my PostCSS config, so I looked for other options. I ended up creating a template:
I’ll write an article to explain the few steps required to get started.
My next step is to continue to explore the documentation and create a Chrome extension to do something concrete while learning.
If there’s interest, I could maybe try and stream my explorations on Youtube. You’d get to see the gazillions of silly things I try while learning new things ;-)
Recent articles
This week I’ve published a lengthy article (~20min read) about periodic journaling & daily note-taking:
It may sound silly, but journaling & periodic reviews are really transformative. Both play an important role in my productivity system. Do you also keep a journal? If not, why? What’s keeping you from keeping track of what happens in your life?
Tips of the week
5 steps to designing the life you want | Bill Burnett | TEDxStanford
5 steps to designing the life you want | Bill Burnett | TEDxStanford
On using Design Thinking techniques to design a better life for yourself
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How to get in the flow in 3 easy steps
How to get in the flow in 3 easy steps
Getting in the flow may feel like that elusive, hard-to-reach state, but it doesn’t have to be! Want to feel deeply focused and do great, productive work?
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Chrome side panel
Chrome side panel
Did you know that you can enable a side panel in Chrome with Bookmarks & articles to read later?
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Books corner
This week I want to share a book that I’m curious about. As a workaholic, I certainly need to dive into this one re-learn the art of doing nothing without feeling guilty ;-)
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
On the benefits of doing nothing. From time to time, obviously.
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Quotes of the week
  • Life is about “Wanting what you get”, not “Getting what you want”
  • If it’s not actionable, it’s not a problem, it’s a circumstance
  • The mind has no firewall
Links of the week, ideas and tips
Here are a few links that I found interesting this week:
GitHub - BuilderIO/partytown
GitHub - BuilderIO/partytown
Relocate resource-intensive third-party scripts off of the main thread and into a web worker. A super interesting technique to improve your Web vitals!
github.com  •  Share
daisyUI — Tailwind CSS Components
daisyUI — Tailwind CSS Components
An awesome UI kit using Tailwind
daisyui.com  •  Share
PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocket | Podcast on Spotify
PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocket | Podcast on Spotify
Given the quality of LogRocket’s blog, I’m convinced that the podcast is worth a listen!
open.spotify.com  •  Share
How to Use TypeScript with React Components
How to Use TypeScript with React Components
How to use TypeScript to type React components: validate props, mark props as optional.
dmitripavlutin.com  •  Share
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