books My 10 Best Books of 2022: Books I Have Used to Change My Life There were some books this year that were so amazing that I read them multiple times and took away action items that have changed my life. Those are the ones I want to share with you here.
speaking Speaking at Tech Events: What I've Learned About Overcoming Anxiety & Public Speaking I love speaking at tech events. The two things that stop me from doing it more often are time constraints and anxiety about speaking in front of people. I have been working to overcome the latter problem for many years so I wanted to share some of the techniques that have helped me.
Weekly Update, September 5th Hi, everyone! Hope you're all enjoying the end of summer :B (or winter, for those below the equator) I thought we should chat about senior developers today and how you can become one as well. Let's start with the basics: what exactly is a
Weekly Update, August 1st Hi everyone, how are you doing? As someone who works remotely, I know it can be challenging to build a proper routine that we actually stick to it. By trying out different tools and techniques throughout the years, now I'm happy to have a
Weekly Update, July 20th Hi, everyone! How's your summer (or winter) going? Here are some wholesome news for you... we have a new member at Faraday Academy, and she's adorable :B Meet Fauna, she's 3 months old and ready to dive into our new project this week: I've
Weekly Update, July 11th Hi everyone, how's it going? I hope July has been treating you well! For today's newsletter, I thought of talking about some awesome resources out there that will help your skills as a developer. These are a few of my go-to places for supplementary
Weekly Update, June 27th Hi, everyone! How's it going? I took some time off streaming to focus on other things I had to get done, but I can't wait to see you all soon!! Here something we haven't talked about in a while: speaking at conferences. This is
Weekly Update, June 13th Hi, everyone! How are you doing? After receiving tons of questions about Hackathons during these last couples of weeks, I decided to write a newsletter fully dedicated to it :B Let's start with the basics, so why should you even join a hackathon? I
Weekly Newsletter May 30th Hi everyone, how are you doing today? Let's celebrate these last days of Mental Health Awareness month by talking about mental health in the tech industry (+ why you should always put your health first). Mental health is still not discussed enough in the corporate
Weekly Update, May 17th For this week’s newsletter, I thought it was time we caught up on some of our Python skills. Python is one of the most popular languages used by developers (rightfully so :B ), & one reason to why developers love it is because of
Weekly Update, May the 4th (be with you) Hi there, I hope May has been treating you well so far! Yesterday I shared my journey with autism and being diagnosed as an adult. Getting the diagnosis and sharing my experience with you all is a huge milestone for me, and I truly
mental-health Autism: My Journey & Being Diagnosed as an Adult It's the end of autism awareness month and we are heading into mental health awareness month, so... This is a post that I've been wanting to make for a while,
Weekly Update, April 25th Hi everyone, how are you doing? I have some exciting news to share with you all today. I've been volunteering with freeCodeCamp through multiple ways since 2015, and now I
Weekly Newsletter, April 19th Hi, everyone! How's it going? I spent some quality time this week writing scripts for my upcoming YouTube videos, and I cannot wait to share them with you all! This new video series will be all about new developers diving into the marketplace, from
How the Book "Deep Work" has Helped Me Become a Better Software Developer I read the book "Deep Work" by Cal Newport about five years ago now and it completely changed how I think about my work habits. The book promotes intense periods
Weekly Update, April 13th Hi everyone, how's it going? Let's talk about how to find the right job as a developer. People don't usually see our field of work as the broad spectrum that it actually is, and there are so many companies and jobs out there to
Weekly Update: VueJS month! Hi everyone, I hope April welcomes you well :) If you read the title, you know what's about to come... I've assigned April specially for our Vuers out there! Throughout this
Newsletter March 28th Hi everyone, how's it going? Last week was filled with (positive) challenges and accomplishments :B I got to present my talk on blockchain at the Python Web Conference and also publish an article at realtoughcandy! You can check out my repo from the talk
Weekly Update, March 22nd Hi everyone, how's it going? In case you're new here... welcome to our Faraday fam and weekly newsletter! This is where I stop by once a week to chat with you about some interesting tech topic. For this week's newsletter, let's talk about some
Weekly Update, March 14th Hi everyone, Welcome back to our weekly update, where we talk about what's coming up on my channel and share some insightful information on some tech-related topics :B Let's begin with some life updates! I spent this past week in Boston for work-related reasons
speaking Vue.js Meetup Talk Follow Up & Links I gave a talk on state management in Vue.js with Pinia the other night: I gave a talk last night at the Boston Vue.js meetup on Pinia! First
Weekly Update, March 8th Hi everyone, how are you doing? I'll be spending this whole week in Boston for work, so I won't have time to livestream but I thought about doing a Q&
Weekly update, Feb 28th Hi guys! How's it going? Last week I got to stream at Eddie Jaoude's channel and it was awesome! We built a LinkTree clone using VueJS and you can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYW5U7S3eRM I absolutely understand the
Weekly Update, Feb 22nd Hi guys! How are you all doing? Who also loves a Python challenge out here? A few months ago, I streamed a whole series of short Python projects based on FreeCodeCamp's Python Challenges and had so much fun working on it! This is the
Weekly Update, Feb 16th Hi guys! How are you doing? Thank you for all those who joined my stream last week, that was quite fun! I organized a new desk setup and it was a great to give it a test drive. Here's a picture of it behind