🎁 Free resources
Tool recommendations
Although I include affiliate links, I use or strongly recommend these based on what I’ve seen from them. I’ll also always tell you when it’s an affiliate link. I don’t always make money off the affiliate link. Sometimes it just extends my active subscription.
Taro (affiliate - 20% off) - Career growth community
Codecrafters (affiliate - 40% off when you upgrade) - Practical coding challenges where you learn the fundamentals
Todoist (affiliate) - How I manage my tasks. See the article on how I do it.
Notion (affiliate) - Storing second brain
CleanShot (affiliate) - Screenshotting tool
GreatFrontend (affiliate) - Frontend learning and interview prep
Mailbrew (affiliate) - Groups a bunch of newsletters into 1 email per day so you don’t have to clear 15 items from your inbox every day and can choose just what you want to click into.
Readwise (referral) - Highlight anything in a book or the web to be sent an email of 3 highlights (integrates with Mailbrew) per day, then apply what you saved.
Rectangle - Window management
1Password - Password manager
iTerm2 - Terminal
See this post for how I use some of these tools.
Find me in other media
🚀 Courses
🎥 YouTube collaborations
The 3 secrets to managing up with Jeff Matlow on The Best Leadership Podcast
21 ways to become a better engineer on JoinTaro (YouTube video)
Journey to 50k+ subscribers and $35k revenue in 1 year on BeginnerMaps
Overcoming imposter syndrome, seeking feedback, and staying curious on TraceTalks Podcast
Getting a job as a software engineer, career growth, creating a popular newsletter on Cloud with Raj
How you can achieve your engineering career goals with Mark Bayer
Junior to mid-level: The right way to get promoted with “Jordan has no life”
Mid-level to Senior SWE: How to get your promotion with “Jordan has no life”
How to go from Junior Engineer to Mid-level with Chris Blakey on The Developer Link
How engineers unlock huge impact with artificial intelligence (AI) on JoinTaro
From intern to Senior SWE: Strategies for career progression with Alan Stein
Metrics, strategies, and burnout prevention for tech teams with the Typo team
⚡️ Live events
Grow and get promoted fast in software engineering - with
Lead and influence at all levels - with
How to ace your next behavioral interview - with
Everything you wish you could ask your manager - with
, ,How to get more interviews, offers, and compensation at top tech companies with Alan Stein
✍️ Articles
Top 5 CSS Mistakes made by Frontend Engineers on GreatFrontend
Tips and Lessons from Jordan Cutler's Rapid Career Growth on GreatFrontend
💻 Web Developer Technical Newsletter Guide
As a front-end engineer, I need to keep up with industry trends to apply that knowledge on the job. At various points in my career, I’ve subscribed to over 50 front-end newsletters.
These are my most recommended resources:
TLDR Web Dev: Daily newsletter of news and articles in Web.
Frontend at Scale by Maxi Ferreira: Frontend architecture.
Web Weekly by Stefan Judis: A bundle of web updates each week.
Total TypeScript by Matt Pocock: Typescript tips for pros.
Josh Comeau’s newsletter: The best technical deep dives.
CSS Tricks: CSS is hard. This helps.
A11y Weekly: Make the web inclusive.
Web Developer: Curation of some of the best articles in frontend.
Alex Kondov: Frontend deep dives. Similar to Josh Comeau.
Developer Way by Nadia Makarevich: Advanced frontend patterns.