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How's everything going? This week's question for you - what skills do you want to learn this year?

Good news - this week's  Developer Nation t-shirt winner a*t*p*m*@*m*i*.*o*  from India 👕🎉 If you're reading this, then you stand a chance to win next time. We've also published the list of winner from our 22nd Developer survey - you can see the winners here.

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Resources

The front-end developer's guide to the terminal. Josh calls this post the missing manual of terminal fundamentals needed to work with modern JS frameworks like React. [JOSHWCOMEAU]

Apple’s App Store stubbornness may be iOS’s greatest security vulnerability. Security expert Rich Mogull shares his thoughts on why both side loading and alternative stores would hurt the security of iOS. [TIDBITS]

SwiftUI performance tips. Some useful tips to optimise performance. [MARTINMITREVSKI]

How to prevent hackers from reverse engineering your Android apps. Here are a few tips to make it difficult for hackers. [PROANDROIDDEV]

Python debugging tools. In this tutorial, you can see what the pdb can do for you as well as some of its alternatives. [MACHINELEARNINGMASTERY]

C# async await explained. Do you understand the logic behind async and await and what can influence it? [NDEPEND]

20 easy ways to be more productive as a developer. 20 easy, tried and tested methods for becoming more productive as a developer! [DEVTO]

Choosing the right integers. This is a blog post is based on a Reddit question "How do I determine when to use i8-64 (same for u8-64)?" [THECODEDMESSAGE]

A programmer turned a failed game with almost zero traction into a $27,000,000,000 app. The crazy story behind this fantastic application. [JAVASCRIPT.PLAINENGLISH]

Events

Games Job Fair 2022 will be taking place between 27-29 April online. This event is dedicated to recruitment and career-building in the games industry.

Devs for Ukraine is a free, online, engineering charity conference in support of Ukraine taking place between 25-26 April. So far there are 9 Front-End and 8 Back-End speakers at the event. 

Join Meta virtually for Conversations on May 19 to learn about innovations in Meta's messaging APIs from WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram and how you can customize them for your business.

Secure Programming Workshop takes place every first Tuesday of the month and is an opportunity to learn a new secure engineering skill in the one hour free workshop. 

SmashingConf 2022 is back as an in-version event in June, but you can also attend online, plus there are online workshops to register for in April and May.

What tools do you have in your digital toolbox? How about on your desk? Share what makes your life better as a developer. We'll spotlight you in our next newsletter issue!  Also, don't forget, we feature more resources on our repo.

Industry News

Starting your AI career has never been easier. One of the world’s most popular machine learning courses is getting updated to become even more accessible for beginners. Join the waitlist. [DEEPLEARNING]

Mads asks what you want for Visual Studio 2022.Microsoft's Mads Kristensen -- Visual Studio developer and extensions author extraordinaire -- is asking his 30,000-plus Twitter followers what features they would like for Visual Studio 2022. [VISUALSTUDIOMAGAZINE]

WebAssembly 2.0 begins to take shape.W3C publishes working drafts for Wasm core, JavaScript interface, and Web API details. [INFOWORLD]

Node.js 18 released with prefix-only core modules, experimental fetch API, and more.[DEVCLASS]

IntelliJ IDEA 2022.1 is out. [JETBRAINS]

.NET 7 Preview 3 is here. [DEVBLOGS.MICROSOFT]

C# 11 preview updates – raw string literals, UTF-8 and more! [DEVBLOGS.MICROSOFT]

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