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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Growth

By Sébastien Dubois • Issue #35 • View online

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Welcome to the 35th edition

Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩

This week I’ve participated in the Community Growth event of Orbit. It was a week-long, but I only managed to attend the first two days. Hopefully, I’ll play catch-up later and watch the recordings.

I’m really enjoying my journey into community building. This week, the Personal Knowledge Management community that I’ve launched back in August has reached 50 members 🎉

It takes time and lots of effort to turn an idea into a living community, but it’s really motivating to see people coming back and exchanging ideas. A fun part for me is also noticing how this initiative creates bridges between different groups of people I follow. Community building is definitely fun!

Alright, let’s go! 🚀

An overview of the notes I've added to my PKM this week

Paid newsletter

This week I’ve decided to launch a paid version of my newsletter. Here’s what I have in mind for it.

First, don’t worry; the weekly edition of this newsletter will remain free.

As you know, I like running small experiments; small and riskless bets as I like to call these. Creating a paid newsletter is one of those experiments. I’m exploring different possible sources of income, in the hope of being able to dedicate more time and energy to activities that I find more fulfilling, such as writing, sharing knowledge, and creating digital products.

One of the main goals I’ve already set for myself for next year is to read a lot more non-fiction books. I want to read a lot about neurosciences, personal development, motivation, success, community building, communication skills, and many more topics.

As I read through those books, I intend to systematically take notes. I’ll capture the best quotes, the core ideas, and as much knowledge as I can. I’ll write a summary for each book, and I’ll take the opportunity to expand my personal knowledge base.

I’ll share those summaries and lessons learned with all of my paid subscribers. Also, I’ll let them pick what I should read next. This should be fun! 🎉

👉 Curious? Become a supporter now! ❤️

Product development

This week, André and I have continued working on the user interface of our product.

We’re becoming professional designers, one hour at a time 😂.

On a more serious note, we have learned how to use very powerful features of Figma, such as auto layout, how to create components and component variants.

Progressively, we are building ourselves a solid design system:

Some of the components we're working on

Thanks to this work, our design is getting more polished:

UI progress

Aside from that, we have conducted a few interviews, and want to discuss with more productivity nuts like us to help us shape the product.

André and I really can’t wait to start building this app! ❤️

👉 Join the waiting list if you’d like to be amongst the first to try our product: https://apps.developassion.be/productivity

Recent articles

This week I have published a new article about Personal Knowledge Management:

Personal Knowledge Management organization

In this post, I dissect my Personal Knowledge Management system.

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How cool is that?!

Welcome to Fleet! | JetBrains News

Jetbrains has launched a competitor for VS Code. The future is bright for IDEs!

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Tips of the week

Regex Learn - Step by step, from zero to advanced.

Learn RegEx, step by step, zero to advanced. Playground and Cheatsheet.

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Here’s Bill Gates’s Advice to New Programmers

A programmer’s journey is a fascinating one. It is a long and arduous one, full of trials and tribulations. When you’re just starting, you’re bound to run into a few obstacles along the way.

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Books corner

This week, I want to share a book that I really enjoyed a while back. If you fancy writing, then you should definitely check it out:

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

A book in which Stephen King shares his own story, ideas, and tips for aspiring writers.

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Quotes of the week

“Appreciate what you have, before it turns into what you had”
“Fear is the only thing that gets smaller when you run towards it”

Links of the week

Here are a few links that I found interesting this week:

A Comprehensive Approach to Personal Note-taking | by Cameron Flint | Medium

If there’s one aspect of my personal system that’s gone through more fads and phases than any other area, it would surely be my note-taking methods. Note-taking is at the center of every…

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What's New In DevTools (Chrome 97) - Chrome Developers

New Recorder panel, refresh device list in Device Mode, and more.

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The Power Of Pen And Paper Sketching — Smashing Magazine

When designing for digital spaces, it’s natural to default to digital mockup tools, but doing so cuts out a world of possibilities. Analog drawing can unleash your imagination and allow you to focus on what’s most important at the start: the ideas.

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Volta vs. nvm for JavaScript tooling – Sirreal

Why Volta is better than nvm.

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Using tsm as a shebang interpreter in TypeScript - LogRocket Blog

Learn about tsm, a new TypeScript module loader for Node.js that provides native TS support without needing to transpile it to JavaScript first.

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