Kolade Dev DIgest #5

Hi there 👋🏽

Welcome to the 5th issue of the Kolade Dev Digest newsletter.

I hope you had a great weekend.

Here’s a reminder that starting over is always never a bad idea.

When you start over:

• you bring with you the wisdom and insights from your previous attempts

• you get to to correct your mistakes

• you get to try new approaches

• and ultimately create a better product

Last week was much about work, but I got some things done for my blog too. I finished up the articles on how to format currencies in both PHP and JavaScript. And now, I have articles to share with you for the next 10 weeks 🎉

Latest Posts From My Blog

Yesterday, I published an article on how to highlight the active link in Next.js.

Here are other articles I recently published:

• How to Fix Next.js Image LCP Error

• PHP Scope Resolution Operator Explained

And here are my two most popular articles:

• What is the Difference between a .js and .jsx File

• How to Fix the invalid literal for int() with base 10 Error In Python

Tech How to Articles of the Week

Here are some inspiring and helpful tech articles I found on the internet this past week:

• 101 React Tips & Tricks For Beginners To Experts by Ndeye Fatou Diop via Dev.to. 40-minute read.

• How to Create a Color Picker Tool with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript by Fanny Nyayic via freeCodeCamp. 3-minute read.

• How to Build Anything Extremely Quickly by Learn How To Learn

YouTube Videos of the Week

• Next Font for Astro Sites. 4 minutes YouTube video by Code in Public

• Ultimate Guide to Web Scraping. 50 minutes YouTube video by Traversy Media

• Local Storage vs Session Storage vs Cookies | Examples | UseCase 12 minutes YouTube video by Oladetoun Gbemisola

• Quincy Larson interviews Angie Jones. 1 hour 30 minutes YouTube video by freeCodeCamp

• The Complete Guide to New Borns. 5 minutes YouTube video by How to Dad

Tech Tool of the Week

Zod is a TypeScript-first schema validator for your JavaScript-based project. It allows you to define the structure of your data and then validate it to ensure it matches that structure.

Zod is framework-agnostic. So you can use it with any frontend framework you want.

If you’ve missed any of the previous issues, you can read any of the earlier editions.