{23} Live Training, Cheat Sheets & Sponsor Ninja

Featuring Gergely Orosz, freeCodeCamp.org, Rohan Paul, Vincent Will, and Mohammed Furqan

Design: Live Training

Gergely Orosz

Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz

I really struggle to understand companies where they make up for a horrible user experience by offering live training to customers to explain the twisted logic on how their product can be used. Instead of attempting to fixing said UX, or at least document it in some way.

This is a problem with enterprise SaaS. Growing startups want to be that all-in-one solution, requiring a tangled rat’s nest of functionality. Live training is the bandaid solution because it’s hard to provide a good user experience as the product grows in complexity.

Companies should focus on making the core use case as obvious as possible. The onboarding experience should be about getting from A to B without being distracted by a side quest. Once users have that foundation, introduce them to a plugin marketplace to tack on value add features.

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Frontend: Centering Things

freeCodeCamp.org

freeCodeCamp.org @freeCodeCamp

Centering things in CSS can feel like the hardest thing you'll have to do as a dev. But don't worry – @kriskoishigawa is here to help you out. In this tutorial, he shows you how to center anything with CSS - you'll learn to align a div, text, and more.

freecodecamp.orgHow to Center Anything with CSS - Align a Div, Text, and MoreCentering things is one of the most difficult aspects of CSS. The methods themselves usually aren’t difficult to understand. Instead, it’s more due to the fact that there are so many ways to center things. The method you use can vary depending on the HTML element you’re trying

Centering things in CSS used to be complicated. You used to have to use unintuitive margin or position hacks. I still occasionally use a position+transform hack if I’m doing something uncommon. I use flexbox to center things 95% of the time.

/* parent */
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;

Even if you do use flexbox, I’d recommend reading that article. It’s useful to know other techniques. When you encounter that code in the wild, you’ll know what is going on.

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Backend: Cheat Sheets

Rohan Paul

Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai

#SQL is probably the most important tool for #DataScientists Heres a quick SQL summary #CheatSheet refresher of SQL commands #Python #DataAnalytics #Python3 #databases #MachineLearning #DataScience #AI #Database #databasestorage #Cloud #Deeplearning #BigData #Analytics

It has been a while since I've written SQL. I’ve worked primarily with NoSQL solutions and key/value stores more recently. In the future, I’d love to explore vector databases.

Even if I’m not writing SQL today, it’s likely I’ll need revisit that skillset at some point. These cheat sheets are so valuable. Five minutes of reading through a well designed cheat sheet can save hours of Googling.

I’d love to have access to cheat sheets for every technology I’ve ever used or plan to use. Thinking about this makes me want to design a book of cheat sheets. Imagine a 300 page book covering 150 technologies. Every technology gets 2 pages so you can lay the book flat and see everything.

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Marketing: Sponsor Ninja

Vincent Will

Vincent Will @wweb_dev

Just added my latest project sponsor.ninja to my blog wweb.dev 😊 So if you donate to wweb.dev you will be displayed in the sidebar as a sponsor with a link to your website 💻 #BuildInPublic

Self-serve sponsorship opportunities are very interesting to me. I’d much rather pay $5-10 for a low-friction sponsorship that has the potential to drive brand awareness and dozens of clicks over the lifetime of the ad than investing $5 in a single click through PPC.

As I build the next iteration of Subset, I plan to create a resource hub for self-serve sponsorship options. Apps that integrate Sponsor Ninja will be a nice starting point. I even have a domain for the project. (sponsified.com 😎)

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Team: Managers of One

Mohammed Furqan

Mohammed Furqan @thefurqanstory

Why do I have a feeling that @merajismeraj wrote this book? Book name - Rework

My wife is reading Rework currently. I’ve always been inspired by the the 37signals crew, Jason Fried in particular. They are pioneers of doing more with less. Hiring managers of one is a perfect example. You don’t need a crazy hierarchy of people owning other people’s time if you can find and inspire people to be autonomous contributors.

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