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😴 tl;dr

or, the “ain’t nobody got time for this” part.

table of contents

next: you can do this.

1. + tl;dr

see definition of: recursive.

2. + you can do this.

you will be constantly learning and failing. it’s cool. so is everyone around you.

working well with others is more important than your work.

approach your work with principle. find your “why” and the “what” and “how” will follow.

dig deep under the surface to find out how things actually work.

probably all this will change in 5 years, get used to it!

3. + tools of the trade

hardware: Mac

security: 2fa, 1Password, Signal, uBlock Origin, Arc, YubiKey, encrypt your hard drive

software: chrome (maybe Arc), VirtualBox + VMs, iTerm2 (Fig, Warp), Homebrew, zsh + oh-my-zsh, Night Shift, Dropbox, Postico / Sequel Pro, ⌘-Shift-[3|4|5], Kap

etc: Color Note, LibreOffice, Disk Inventory X

editors: VSCode, Sublime, vim

4. + how-to linux

absolute basics: cd, ls, rm, mv, vim

shortcuts: [ctrl] + [a|e|c|k|z]

intermediate: |, history, grep (ripgrep), cat, less, man, find (fd), df, du (dust), sudo, tail, touch, alias, sh, exit

processes: &, >, top, ps, kill, killall, which, locate, fg

network: curl, whois, traceroute, ping, lsof, scp

handy commands: SSH key generation, handling archives, replacing en masse, permissions, JSON parsing, shell script checks, zx

5. + the server

Vercel

6. + db

recommendations: PostgreSQL, Supabase, Postico

ORM: prisma

migrations: schema upgrades in your source code, gh-ost

quick note on NoSQL: MongoDB, CouchDB, OrbitDB

useful commands: a quick cheat sheet of commands

7. + workflow & collaboration

repository: git, GitHub, signing, npm, npm-check-updates, .gitattributes, git secrets, turborepo or nx

collaboration:

with yourself: reduce email, maker time, headphones, hide

with others: Slack, Dropbox Paper, Linear, GitHub issue tracker, diagrams.net, agile, RACI

consistency: Google code reviews, Airbnb JS Style Guide, Airbnb CSS Style Guide, Airbnb CSS in JavaScript, Google JS, Google JS coding conventions, Google CSS, ESLint, Prettier (+ import sorting), Semantic Versioning, alex

documentation: Docusaurus, Read the Docs

website: GitHub Pages

support: Buy me a coffee, Patreon, Open Collective

newbies: commit code the first day!

a word on open source: just do it., Open Source Guides, 6 motivations

healthy contribution: overview, changelog.md, code_of_conduct.md, contributors.md, license.md, readme.md, CODEOWNERS, ISSUE_TEMPLATE, PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE, contributing.md, acknowledgements.md, authors.md, support.md

continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD): Github Actions, Travis CI, Danger JS

staging / canary servers: dogfood before prod does.

8. + javascript

JS for newbies: MDN, CodeSandbox, CodePen, node’s REPL, Glitch, RunKit, npm sandboxing