Hacker Noon turned 1 year old this month :) Thanks for joining this journey. In our 6th month we surpassed 1 million minutes reading per month, and over the last 6 months, we’ve accumulated 18,801,558 minutes reading! That’s the equivalent of 35 years, 9 months and 12 days reading.
This week — we’re bringing you the stories, mindsets, moves, tools, management, series’ and the-why-it’s-built that makes a hacker a hacker.
4 Hacker Stories
The Sandnigger Programmer from Mississippi by Nader Dabit
Donald J. Trump’s $30M Testing Team by Michael Babyak. The GOP tweeted this…
I’m Sorry, Surface, But I Just Can’t Anymore. by Jennifer Hoelzer
I used LAMP to make a SaaS with $3700/mo profit. Here’s how. by Alex Moskovski.
10 Hacker Mindsets
The 9 Types of Programmers and Why Some are Better than Others by Dominik T. Very funny.
Learn To Code In 2017, Get Hired, And Have Fun Along The Way by Andrei Neagoie.
The best way to learn new technologies is by doing. Here’s some inspiration by André Pena
5 Tips for Shipping Your App by Pedro Silva Moreira
The advantages of building your website from scratch by Owen Far
Practical scaling techniques for web sites by Adam Derewecki
Want to become a Software Developer? Here’s how to get there by André Pena
Documentation is a bit like people dying… by William Belk
It’s All Fun & Games until AI wins them all by Matthew Biggins
If we build it, why would anyone care? by Christian Sepulveda
4 Hacker Moves
AI can help you choose where to live by Silver Keskkula.
The Programmer’s Guide to Booking a Plane by Zeke Gabrielse.
After 6 incredible years at Buffer I’m moving on to something else by Leo Widrich
No time to read? Just listen! by Mahmoud Felfel. Is your move to listen to blog posts instead of reading them? We got you covered.
10 Hacker Tools
React Studio Public Beta 2 by React Studio. Launch here!
Polyfills: everything you ever wanted to know, or maybe a bit less by David Gilbertson
Appointment Web Forms by Matthew Talebi
How do GANs intuitively work? by Chanchana Sornsoontorn
From “What is a Markov Model” to “Here is how Markov Models Work” by Alexander Dejeu
Top 11 JavaScript Libraries That Are Worth Your Attention by Eugeniya Korotya
Offline First React Native + Meteor Apps by Spencer Carli
Straightforward code splitting with React and Webpack by Didier FRANC
Exclude files from git without committing changes to .gitignore 🙅 by Dave Lunny
Build an Alexa Skill in 7 Minutes Flat with Node.js and StdLib by Keith Horwood
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4 Hacker Management Tips
10 Big Software PM Time Wasters by John Cutler
Taking the Associate Android Developer Exam by Josh Burton
Seniority by Krzysztof Zabłocki
Building an app? Do these things. by Paul Keck
A Couple of Hacker Series’
The Learn AI If You Suck at Math Series (4 Parts) by Daniel Jeffries
How I Hacked Google DayDream Controller (5 Parts) by Matteo Pisani
And a Why it’s Built The Way It’s Built Story:
Apple’s Icons Have That Shape for a Very Good Reason by Mark Stanton.
“A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things,” said Steve Wozniak.
Until next time — enjoy the power of your digital sabbatical,
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