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DeveloPassion's Newsletter #113 - Grains of sand and Mountains

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host. You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ Welcome to the 113th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week, I've decided to acquire new

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #15

The poison of Perfectionism

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #112 - Consistency

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #111 - Passion

Content curation as a way to level up communities

In this article, I want to discuss about community content curation. It's a practice that can truly empower communities. Subscribe to the newsletter Introduction All communities have domain-specific knowledge. For that knowledge to be disseminated within the community, it must first be curated, regrouped, organized, and managed over time. Community

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #14

Focus on things that don't change

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #110 - Breathe

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #109 - New Bet

IT Concepts Wall

Discover the IT Concepts Wall, a huge collection of resources about IT and Software Development.

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #108 - The Future of Community Knowledge Management

Meta-learning, the missing link in (your) education

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #107 - Time to build

Optimism, pessimism and freedom

Optimists tend to find more creative solutions. Here's why.

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #106 - Oops

Tools for Thought's greatest benefit

The greatest benefit of Tools for Thought (TfT) is not what you think

My daily note template in Obsidian

In this article, I want to share the template I use in Obsidian for my daily notes. Introduction As journaling is part of my habits, I use my daily note template every single day. That's why I like to keep it simple and usable. My daily note template Let me

Showing Obsidian front matter using Dataview queries

How to use the dataview plugin to display the YAML front matter of Obsidian notes as a table

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Issue #105 - 10K

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #13

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Issue #104 - Pushed to write

How to fight against decision fatigue

Our decision-making power is limited. Each day, it quickly depletes as we make decisions. Learn more about decision fatigue and discover tips to avoid it

Are my Thoughts Useful?

Community Knowledge Management

Communities need specific Knowledge Management solutions

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Issue #103 - Mistakes help us learn

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Issue #102 - Planning time

Systems for health, intention, productivity, learning, knowledge, information management and control

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Issue #101 - Looking back at 2022

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Issue #100 - New Beginning

Keep the power to end things

Why is Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) useful

The key reasons why Personal Knowledge Management is useful

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #12

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Issue #99 - Peak

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Issue #98 - Migration

Effective note-taking tips

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Black Friday Experiments

Note-taking vs Note-making

Taking notes and making notes are different but complementary. Learn about the difference and why you should care

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #11

Top of mind note

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Unnamed

Why take and make notes

Why taking and making notes can change your life for the better

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Falling off the clouds

The Capture Habit

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Time off

50 Tabs means 50 Mental contexts and needless cognitive load

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #10

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Month in review

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Gearing up

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Energy crisis

The Must-Have Obsidian plugins

An overview of the best Obsidian plugins. Make sure to read this and try these out!

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Silence is golden

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Month in review

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Procrastination

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Prompt engineering

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #9

Calm businesses are a viable path too

Startups and fast growth are not the only way. Creating a calm business is also a viable path to success

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Calm Business

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Eyes on target

Saving and restoring your mental contexts to improve mental health and productivity

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Back to it

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Misguided

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Disconnected

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Heat waves

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #8

The Feynman Technique

Richard Feynman has given us a wonderful technique to improve the way we learn. Discover the famous Feynman technique and start learning more effectively

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Personal Organization System

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Metronomes and momentum

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Next steps

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - What is life anyway?

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #7

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - New chapter

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Bending, not breaking

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #6

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Boomerang

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Truly dead

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Reach

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - 3K

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Proof of Work (PoW)

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Eventual reciprocity

Why and how to tag notes in your PKM

Periodic reviews for a happier and more productive life

Maps of Content (MoCs) for better Knowledge Graphs

Understand what Maps of Content (MoCs) are in the PKM ecosystem. Discover why they are useful and how they can help strengthen your knowledge graph

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Financial captivity

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #5

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Overlapping realities

The Zettelkasten method

The Johnny Decimal system

Discover the Johnny Decimal system and organize anything with grace

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Broken records

The PARA method

The LIFT principle

Markdown introduction

Markdown is everywhere. Learn what it is, why it is useful as well as its pros and cons

Why you need a single source of truth for your PKM system

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Launch too soon

The mythical right time

Introducing the Obsidian Starter Kit

Get started with Obsidian with a solid and scalable organization system

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - It's later than you think

It's later than you think

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #4

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Data hoarder

25+ Years of Personal Knowledge Management. From scattered ideas to networked thoughts

In this post, I describe my entire Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) system and its evolution over 25+ years

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Chaos bag

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - The right time

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Unbundling PKM

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Audio turmoil

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - War in Ukraine

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - The Lab

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #3

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How to capture book notes and turn those into smart notes

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Void

Introducing the Personal Knowledge Management Library

Learn how to learn and explore Personal Knowledge Management with the PKM Library

Why you should take notes while reading non-fiction books

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Flywheels

The focusd community: Let's focus on Zen Productivity

Discover the focusd community, a space for people who want to be more focused and productive without burning out

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Personal Knowledge Management Matters

My current Indie Hacking toolkit

Discover some of the tools I use as an Indie Hacker and creator

Product development process: From idea to code

How to go from an idea to an actual product. A story about product development

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Interleaving books

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #2

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Don't fit in

How to think logically

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #1

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Focused

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Community-first learning

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - 2021 Lessons Learned

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Looking left and right

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Growth

Personal Knowledge Management organization

In this post, I dissect my Personal Knowledge Management system

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Creativity

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Prototyping

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Laser Focus

An online community for lifelong learners

Discover the Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) community, a community for lifelong learners

Developer Career Paths

Discover developer career paths you can choose to pursue

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Small and riskless bets

Angular 13 in Depth

Everything you need to know about Angular 13

Why Craftsmanship Matters

Craftsmanship has been around for ages, but why does it matter in software engineering?

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Neurodiversity

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Entrepreneurial journey

Practice an evening routine to feel better every day

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Web3 hype

How to use Tailwind with Svelte and Nrwl NX

Learn how to use Tailwind with Svelte and Nrwl NX

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Community building

Journaling every day is powerful - Part 1: Introduction

Journaling every day is powerful - Part 2: Going further

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - About Time

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Home sweet home

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - The Next Waves

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - The Clock is ticking

Problem-solving 101

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #22 - Ecosystems and Integrated Thinking Environments

Quality vs user satisfaction

Software crafters care a lot about the quality of their work, but business realities are generally much more important. As a software crafter, you'll often be faced with the following conundrum: how to deliver the best possible quality results, hence satisfying the crafter in you, while pleasing end users, who

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #21 - Communities makes us stronger

An online community for Software Crafters

A software development community for beginners, professional and artisans

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #20 - Future of Work

Software professionals are crafters

On why Software Craftsmanship matters

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #19 - A Second Brain for Everyone

How to get started in IT and grow as a Software developer

Learn how get started in IT, and how to grow as a software developer

What is the difference between software developers, engineers, coders, and programmers

What is the difference between software developers, engineers, coders, and programmers

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #18 - Exponential Change

What is software engineering

In this article, I'll share my personal take on the difference between software development and software engineering (SE). It is a personal opinion, so take it with a grain of salt. This content is part of my Dev Concepts series of books. So what is it about? Many people may

What is software development

A clear explanation about what software development is about

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #17 - Next Generation Personal Knowledge Management

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #16 - Dad x3

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #15 - New Site

Angular 12 in Depth

Everything you need to know about Angular 12

Why Tailwind's Just-In-Time (jit) mode is a game-changer and how to use it right now

Learn how to migrate to Tailwind 2, and enable just-in-time for applications and Storybook

How Angular applications start

Discover how Angular applications start and what main.ts does

Lazy loading Angular applications

How to delay the execution of your Angular app

Welcome on my brand new blog

First post on my new blog

21 months in and 80K views later

Configuring and using the Apollo client in a Next.js TypeScript application

Learn how to integrate the Apollo GraphQL client in a Next.js TypeScript application

Design Sprint cheat sheet

A cheat sheet for Design Sprint 2.0

How User Interface, User Experience and Customer Experience relate

Learn about UI, UX and CX

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #14 - Startup Woes

Startup failure stories: 20 months in, 2K hours spent and 200K € lost.

I’ve been working for ~20 months on my current project, spend 2K hours on it, and “lost” 200K € by not doing something else. That project is not ready yet. Here’s the story behind it

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Less is more

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #13 - Nrwl Nx 11 and Prime NG 11

Creating a table of contents with HTML and CSS

Learn how to use HTML and CSS to build a table of contents

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #12 - New Book and Angular 11

Create Office add ins with Angular and Nrwl NX

A modern way to develop Office plugins using Angular and Nrwl NX

Angular 11 in Depth

Everything you need to know about Angular 11

How to mock TypeScript method overloads with Jest

Learn how to mock TypeScript method overloads with Jest

Software Development Concepts e-book collection

A collection of e-books to turn you into a full-stack developer

How to write simple code: Avoid the Pyramid of Doom

Here's how to avoid nesting code needlessly

Creating custom class-validator validators for MomentJS

Learn how to custom validators for MomentJS

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #11 - Team Management

Histoire courte — Zoey & Jenny — Partie 1

Zoey est de retour

Team management tips: 10 more ways to kill a team

Team management tips: 10 ways to kill a team

How to manage junior staff: Don't leave them alone!

The journey from 4K to 30K views per month. Lessons learned

Angular roadmap analysis

Exploring the roadmap of Angular

What's new in RxJS 7

Exploring everything new with RxJS 7

Git tutorial for beginners — Part 4: Branches

Let’s now learn about Git branches!

Angular 10 in Depth

Everything you need to know about Angular 10

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #10 - Nrwl NX 10

Translating the MatPaginator Angular Material component

The MatPaginator component of Angular Material can be translated, but it requires a specific approach

Typesafe checks against TypeScript interface property names at runtime

Learn how to safely use TypeScript interface property names at runtime

How to implement input validation with NestJS

Learn how to validate incoming data with NestJS

Introduction to TypeScript

What is TypeScript? Let's find out!

Loop through a TypeScript enum

Discover how to iterate over the keys and values of a TypeScript enum

Force change detection on third-party Angular components using ChangeDetectorRef

Discover how to force change detection on third-party Angular components with the ChangeDetectorRef

Removing Moment.js locales from your Angular app JS bundles

Reduce the bundle size by removing unused momentjs locales

Analyzing Your Angular app JS bundles

How to analyze the JS bundles of your Angular applications and fix bundle size issues

What's new in TypeScript 4.0

Everything new with TypeScript 4.0

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #9 - Angular 10

NGRX Component-store deep dive - Part 2!

Part 2: Let's dive into the new Component-store library of NGRX!

Introducing NGRX component-store

Part 1: Component-store is an upcoming reactive library of the NGRX family. Let’s discover it and see what it’s all about!

Angular Template Type Checking

Leverage strict template type checking to create bulletproof Angular applications

How to create a custom Angular Webpack configuration

Understand how you can customize the Webpack configuration of your Angular applications

Taking notes at work: How to never forget anything

Use a proxy to bypass firewalls in corporate environments

In medium to large companies, it’s almost always the case that your Web traffic has to go through a corporate proxy to reach the Web. Here’s how to find out more about those proxies and how to use them from your tools and terminals

Git tutorial for beginners — Part 3: Commits, log and amend

Discover how to create and modify commits with Git, but also how to look at the commit log

Embedding translations in your JS bundles with ngx-translate

Embedding translations in your JS bundles can be useful to speed things up if you know that users need to switch between languages regularly. Here's how to do it

TypeScript Switch Case best practices

Switch statements are sometimes considered a code smell, but when they do make sense to use, you’d better make sure you don’t forget a single case. Luckily, TypeScript can help

Angular best practices: Constructor vs ngOnInit

Learn why ngOnInit is not always the best solution

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #8 - Bash

Strongly typing your Angular route data

Use typed route parameters to improve the quality of your Angular code

NPM best practices: Stop installing npm packages globally

There is almost no use in installing npm packages globally. Here's why

Git tutorial for beginners - Part 2: Git repository, working tree and staging area

Understand Git repositories, the working tree and the staging area

What's new in TypeScript 4.0: Language features

Discover all the new language features in TypeScript 4.0

Git tutorial for beginners — Part 1: What is a DVCS?

Learn everything about git, step by step. Part 1

Team management tips: What's the bus factor and 7 ways to increase it

What's new in TypeScript 3.9

Discover what's new with TS 3.9

Angular Tips: Understand Angular scroll position and ScrollPositionRestoration

How to correctly handle scrolling upon Angular route transitions

Optimizing Tailwind for production

Learn how to configure PurgeCSS with Tailwind to reduce get rid of useless styles

Discover Bash aliases and understand why those are great

How to leverage Bash aliases to boost your productivity

Kubernetes tip: Force delete terminating pod

How to get rid of pods that are stuck in the "Terminating" state

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #7 - Node module

Dynamically translating a PrimeNG menu using ngx-translate

How to translate a PrimeNG menu dynamically

What's coming with TypeScript 3.9

The coolest improvements coming with TypeScript 3.9

TypeScript Language Design: Non-goals

The goals of TypeScript are obvious, but do you know about its non-goals?

How to write code comments like a pro

In this article, I’ll explain how my commenting practice (yes, that’s a thing :p) has evolved as well as what I currently recommend, whether you’re a junior fresh out of school, a seasoned developer…

Creating a Storybook instance including stories from multiple libraries in a Nrwl Nx workspace

Learn how to create a Storybook including stories from multiple libraries in a Nrwl Nx workspace

Quickly amend a git commit by skipping edit

Here is the quickest way to amend a git commit

TypeScript best practices: Interfaces and custom types vs classes

Why you should favor TypeScript interfaces and custom types over classes

Fixing the "can’t resolve all parameters" error with Angular DI

TypeScript monorepo best practices: Avoid import issues

Leverage TypeScript paths to avoid problems with your shared types imports

NGX Quill tip: Dynamically custome ngx-quill editors in an Angular application

How to customize Quill editors through ngx-quill in an Angular application

TypeScript type only imports and exports

How to use Type-Only imports and exports with TypeScript

Using ngx-translate with Storybook stories

How to use ngx-translate with Storybook stories

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #6 - TypeScript and Tailwind

Tips to manage remote teams

Tips and tricks to better manage remote teams and overcome challenges

NodeJS best practice for production: Use stable node and npm versions across your projects and teams

Use stable versions of Node.js and npm to avoid surprises in production

Improving Gitlab CI performance with a custom Docker image

How to improve Gitlab CI performance and reduce CI/CD build times for Node.js projects using custom Docker images

Adding Tailwind to a Nrwl NX monorepo, Angular and Storybook

How to use Tailwind with Angular, Storybook and Nrwl NX

Going through depression and dark times

Authorization best practices

Authorization best practices to improve the security of your applications

How to start writing

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #5 - Angular 9

Self study tips for hungry minds

DeveloPassion’s fifth newsletter

Fifth newsletter of DeveloPassion

Steps towards a better work/life balance

Work/life balance

Building a Service Worker with Workbox 5, TypeScript, Webpack and Angular

How to implement a service worker using Workbox, TypeScript, Webpack, and Angular

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #4 - Web Almanac

Deploying TLS certificates for local development and production using Kubernetes, cert-manager, mkcert and Let’s Encrypt

How to deploy TLS certificates for local development and production using Kubernetes, cert-manager, mkcert and Let’s Encrypt

Adding missing GPG keys for apt-get on WSL

How to add missing GPG keys when using WSL

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #3 - TypeScript News

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #2 - Tooling News

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #1 - Welcome

The best VSCode extensions grouped in extension packs

Boost your productivity with the best VSCode extensions

Typewriter sounds on Linux

How to enjoy beautiful typewriter sounds while writing on Linux

TypeScript 3 Projects: What's next?

An appendix to my TypeScript book

VSCode tips and tricks

Tips and tricks to use VSCode like a pro

MoSCoW prioritization for daily todos

Configuring sourcemaps with the Angular CLI

How to configure sourcemaps with the Angular CLI

Tip of the day: using capture groups and back references to search and replace in IntelliJ

Using capture groups and back references to search and replace in IntelliJ

Searching for final methods in a Java project

Efficient way to find final methods in a Java project

Fixing ‘bash’ is not recognized as an internal or external command when used within npm scripts on Windows

The story behind my upcoming book: Learn TypeScript by Building Web Applications — part 1

The story behind my TypeScript book

How to write integration tests for a GraphQL API with Spring Boot and Kotlin

Cleaning up database tables after each integration test method with Spring Boot and Kotlin

Using JUnit 5 with Spring Boot 2, Kotlin and Mockito

How to validate UUID with bean validation in Kotlin

How to install and configure GPG