Showwcase Release #38: Making a Career in Silicon Valley. Guestbook features. Teams > People.

Making A Career in Silicon Valley. Guestbook. We Need Crypto.

24 February, 2022

Contributors

Rong

@tianrongliew

"We Don’t Need The Best People, We Need The Best Teams"

Hello Developers,

Welcome to the 271 new developers that joined Showwcase in the last week. Every week we'll reveal what's happening on Showwcase, the latest features, and interesting resources for the community on engineering, technology, and productivity.

What's new on Showwcase

You now have a Guestbook!

We've added a fun Guestbook feature to everyone's developer profile!

It's a fun way to leave a nice message, some words of wisdom, or just a drop of appreciation to someone.

Hope you enjoy it!

Check out my Guestbook

https://www.showwcase.com/tianrongliew?tab=3

What's happening on Showwcase

Making a Career in Sillicon Valley w/ Jon Rahoi

We can't chat with you on Showwcase just yet but we're meeting Jon Rahoi on Twitter Spaces this weekend to learn how he's made a successful career in Silicon Valley!

Jon Rahoi is currently a Sr Staff Software Engineer @ Credit Karma. He's an ex-Apple, ex-Amazon, ex-Yahoo, ex-TenX Software Engineer totalling more than 25 years in the tech industry. He's also an emcee for MMA fights happening in San Francisco and an Adjunct Computer Science Professor @ University of San Francisco.

Have questions about how to make it in tech? How to get into FAANG companies in Silicon Valley? Being a leader in the workplace?

Saturday, 26th February 2022

9AM PT | 5PM GMT | 1030pm IST

Twitter Spaces @ShowwcaseHQ

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Web3 is a big deal, and developers are averaging $150K/year A good roadmap is your key to success! Frontend → → HTML → CSS → JavaScript → React Blockchain→ → Solidity → Truffle → Moralis Projects→ → NFT minting Dapp → Crypto Exchange Dapp

Pratik Rathod

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Approaches of web2.0 vs web3.0 to the metaverse.

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Marko ⚡ Denic

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I made this small tool - Buttons Generator. 100+ buttons you can use for your projects. Check it out: [https://markodenic.com/tools/buttons-generator/](https://markodenic.com/tools/buttons-generator/)

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Best from My Week of Reading

Do we really need Crypto?

I was wrong, we need crypto

To say I've been skeptical about Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto universe would be an understatement of epic proportions. Since the early 2010s, some of my most ferocious Twitter battles have been against the HODL army with the laser eyes. There's just so much to oppose: Bitcoin's grotesque energy consumption, the ridiculous transac...

https://world.hey.com/dhh/i-was-wrong-we-need-crypto-587ccb03

https://yt3.ggpht.com/9Dujsn8WqOheYvkwIHckvc8-VS-nGYJMUBC3AcNvNDhxFHcYgdfOoleR_Zja2nEJx4IaSxNfqGA=s900-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj

ETHDenver

How Apple Will Be First to Do $1 Trillion in Revenue

A trillion in revenue will require stealing markets from incumbents.

https://marker.medium.com/how-apple-will-be-first-to-do-1-trillion-in-revenue-398c8843c09e

The Romantic Lie of Software Developers

Developers have less control of their careers than they think

https://blog.devgenius.io/the-romantic-lie-of-software-developers-441a1e1484ee

Every Grant is also a Bounty

The people you see have a reputation. Some of them are high-status, some are low-status. Some have their reputation conferred upon by a higher power, some have cultivated it for themselves. What you m

https://applieddivinitystudies.com/bounties/

An Argument for Automation

Why it can be worth spending 1 hour automating a 10 second task

https://kentcdodds.com/blog/automation

Netlify Graph: A faster way for teams to develop web apps with APIs

With Netlify Graph, developers can start using APIs without spending time writing undifferentiated glue code, learning every API's unique structure, or composing endless amounts of endpoints to get data from various APIs into your app.

https://www.netlify.com/blog/announcing-netlify-graph-a-faster-way-for-teams-to-develop-web-apps-with-apis