It is time for the second issue of this newsletter. Thanks for subscribing and reading this. Hope I can help you and in any case if you want to get into contact with me, contact me on Twitter.
Last month was quite full of indie hacking and work stuff, but still quite productive. I also have a bigger announcement to make. But maybe only in one of the next newsletters. Maybe I will even write an own blog article about what happened. Anyway, a short recap of my last month and the progress on side projects can be found here.
So let us jump into the usual content. The content I found the most worthwhile to read last month. Most of these links you can also find on my bookmarks page.
An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We’ll see how I use Next’s API routes to implement my hit and like counters, how I use MDX to add interaction and customization, and how I organize my codebase, among others.
Raylene Yung has spent a decade scaling eng and product teams at Facebook and Stripe. Here’s her advice for engineers at every stage of their careers, from IC to org leader.
Project section on top of your experience or below in your resume? These and many other questions regarding your projects section will be explained in this blog post. Improve your CV with these simple tips that helped me to get interviews at the biggest tech companies in the world.
Working on side projects is difficult but April and May were awesome. I have made a lot of progress on my side projects and traffic is growing slowly but surely.
In late 2020, Stripe quietly introduced a wonderful new feature. Get to know how it works in this blog article and make charging your customers in the EU easy.
I have also contributed to one repository during the last month. Chakra Templates is a collection of Chakra UI component blocks that you can use on your landing page by simply copy-pasting. I added some blog templates and will try to add more content as well.
Want to improve your JavaScript/TypeScript knowledge? Wondering how to build side projects efficiently? Or dreaming about getting into an international tech company? This newsletter should give you some insights into all of that. I am a passionate blogger for almost 4 years and try to cover these topics regularly.
