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Here are 3 hand-picked articles from the tech world, 2 web development guides, and 1 best Tweet of the week.

🔥 Picks from the tech world

1. The State of Developer Ecosystem 2021​

This report presents the combined results of the fifth annual Developer Ecosystem Survey conducted by JetBrains. 31,743 developers from 183 countries or regions helped us map the landscape of the developer community.

Key takeaways:

• JavaScript is the most popular language.
• Python is more popular than Java in terms of overall usage, while Java is more popular than Python as a main language.
• The top-5 languages developers are planning to adopt or migrate to are Go, Kotlin, TypeScript, Python, and Rust.
• The top-5 languages developers were learning in 2021 were JavaScript, Python, TypeScript, Java, and Go.
• Ruby, Objective-C, and Scala have all decreased in popularity over the last 5 years.
• The 5 fastest growing languages are Python, TypeScript, Kotlin, SQL, and Go.
• A majority of the respondents (71%) develop for web backend.

2. The Future Of The Web​

A retrospective on the current state of the web and its future (with predictions). I like how it is written and the ending of the article:

"The web will be the final OS, all connected, forever evolving.

There will come a time when somebody points to their computer device and they'll not point to their laptop, or their phone, or their glasses, or even their microwave, they'll point to the sky and say "it's somewhere...everywhere!""

If you want to know where everything is going, I highly recommend reading it.

3. Good Meetings​

What is a good meeting, types of meetings and how to run a good one, from a VP of Developer Experience at Netlify.

TL;DR on a good meeting:

• The purpose of the meeting is clear
• There’s an agenda (we’ll dive in to the complexity of this in a moment)
• There are the right people in the room. Not too many where communication is overly complicated, not too few where the people you need to move forward aren’t there.
• There’s some order. People aren’t dropping in and out, talking over each other, or being generally inconsiderate
• There’s a clear decision, outcome, and next steps at the end

Suggest reading the article for anyone who feels anger at the word "meeting"...like me.

⚡️ Web development guides

1. High-level advice and guidelines for writing sane, manageable, scalable CSS​

CSS Guidelines provides a great knowledge base and best practices for writing high-quality CSS based on general programming patterns and architectural principles. Incredible guidelines.

2. Refactoring CSS: Introduction (Part 1)​

Refactoring CSS is not an easy task. It's literally a pain in the ass. It has to be done in a way that doesn't cause problems. And this article will show you how to do it.

Tweet of the week

The best tweet of the week goes to Shaan Puri for his method to build a personal brand in a big tech company. Basically, it's a hidden door for building a name in a company.

Shaan Puri @ShaanVP Here's my 1 hour a week hack to building a personal brand inside any Big Company™️. Now that I'm never-gonna-be-employed-again, you can steal this. July 23rd 2021 160 Retweets 2,189 Likes

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🎁 Bonus for you

A funny and short story about what would have happened if Richard Feynman had applied for a job at Microsoft: https://sellsbrothers.com/12395​

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