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🗂️Track Your Brag File: How a Simple Wins & Impact Tracker Can Change Your Career

🪶 Write It to Speak It: The 5-Minute Journal That Will Change How You Communicate

🥄 Casual or Formal? Use the “Coffee vs Conference” Scale to Get the Tone Right

🧪 Turn Feedback Into Fuel: How to Stop Taking It Personally and Start Getting Better

🫥 Why Imposter Syndrome Is More Normal Than You Think

📎 Why Bullet Points Beat Paragraphs (Especially in Tech)

** *A few years ago—and still today—listicles became one of the most effective writing formats. Why? Because most people don’t read anymore. They scan.* *A listicle is simply a piece...

🫶 Working Across Cultures? Be Curious, Not Careful

Canada — especially Toronto — is a cultural pot. You meet people from every corner of the globe. And if you’re lucky, you get to work, laugh, and learn with them too.

🧃 Stop Cramming So Much: The “Rule of One” That Will Instantly Sharpen Your Writing

I used to be way too verbose in my emails and messages. I thought giving people all the context would help them make better decisions or reply faster.

🪞Your Words Are Fine — But Where You Say Them Might Not Be

** *Have you ever been criticized in front of your coworkers? Or seen it happen to someone else in a meeting? I have—and every time, I cringe.* *If I’m being honest, I’ve been guilty...

🛑 Say This Instead: “Let Me Check My Current Priorities”

🪁 Why analogies are your secret weapon for clear communication

🗣️ Stop Rambling: Start with the Bottom Line (BLUF Method)

🧱 Stop Sabotaging Yourself: Spot the Weak Language Hiding in Your Voice

🧨 Before You Explode: Use the 10-Second Rule to Handle Conflict Like a Pro

🧭 Presenting to Leadership? Start With This One Line or Lose Them

🤖 Struggling to Explain Technical Stuff Clearly? AI Can Be Your Practice Partner

🪜 Not Sure If You Should Speak Up in a Meeting? Ask This One Question

🔥 Nervous Before Speaking? Good. That Means You’re Human (and You Care)

🧯 How to Handle Tension Without Blowing Things Up (Start With Curiosity)

📆 Want to Get Noticed at Work? Start Tracking Your Wins Weekly

🎤 Want to Communicate Better? Start by Watching Yourself (Without Judgment)

💭 Stop Asking “Any Feedback?” (Here’s What to Say Instead)

🧠 If Your PM Doesn’t Get It, You’re Explaining It Wrong (Use This Trick Instead)

⚡️This Simple Email Trick Gets Your Message Read Every Time (Even by Busy People)

🔑 How to Crush Fear of Speaking Up in Meetings — Before the Meeting Even Starts

🧘‍♂️ Why Stepping Away Can Save Your Passion Project

🔧 AI-Powered Job Search Secrets: Land Your Dream Job Faster!

We’ve all heard it: to stand out, you must customize your resume and cover letter for each job. Add in the right keywords to get past application systems, and suddenly you’re looking ...

💬 The Job Interview Secret You’re Missing: Answering 'Tell Me About Yourself' Like a Pro

Interviews can be downright nerve-wracking, can’t they? I used to feel like I could never prepare enough for the barrage of questions coming my way.

✨ New Year, New Job Search: Try These Alternatives to Resolutions for Career Success

It’s never too late to wish you a Happy New Year—so here’s mine to you!

🧩 Why Betting on the Latest Tech Isn’t Always a Winning Move: Balancing Trends and Stability in Your Developer Career

It feels like just yesterday when I was deciding which technologies to dig into as a young developer. Back then, every other month, a new “must-learn” language or framework would pop ...

📝 Build Experience and Land Jobs with Freelance and Gig Work (Even Without Formal Job Experience)

🖥️ Cursor AI Code Editor: Your Next-Level Coding Partner

I usually like to focus on career oriented articles, but it got to a point that I heard and read so much about this topic, that I had to mention to you.

📄 How to Format Your Resume for Easy Reading and ATS Compatibility (And Land More Interviews)

I used to believe I needed a long, detailed resume to get noticed. Turns out, the opposite is true. Simpler is better these days. Just recently, I helped someone with very little expe...

🤝 The Secret to Successful Networking: Provide Value Before Asking for Help

In our busy lives, it is very easy to think about connecting with people only to ask for a favor right away. “Is there any job openings in your company?”. If you just met someone, why...

💡 The Shocking Truth About Motivation Every Job-Seeking Developer Needs to Know

Today, as I write this, it was just a few minutes ago actually, I woke up and I didn’t want to leave bed. It isn’t that I’m lazy and I want to sleep more. Not because of that. It is b...

🧊 The Hidden Interview Hack: Mastering Small Talk to Get Hired!

Is it just me or do you also have a hard time with small talk? “The weather is so good today”, “How is the day going for you?” - I usually feel so awkward about it. Should I ask these...

🚀 Is AI Going to Replace Programmers? Here’s What You Should Be Doing Instead!

“Are we going to lose our jobs to AI?” — This question is born from fear of the unknown, and honestly, no one can predict exactly what the next 5 to 10 years will bring.

💼 Struggling to Stand Out? Build a Personal Brand That Lands You the Job!

In the crowded market that we live in, where job openings have 500 other professionals competing for the same position, how do you get your resume to be picked? To be place at the top...

🪴 Flip Your Weaknesses into Strengths for Your Next Job Interview

🔍 Overwhelmed by Job Options? Narrow Down by Industry!

Are you overwhelmed by the endless job opportunities in tech? I get it—there are so many choices, it’s hard to know where to focus. But here’s the thing: you don’t have to apply to ev...

🎯 Achieve Your Tech Career Dreams with SMART Goals

🌟 Find Your True Career Passion with These Simple Steps

I have been thinking of changing the content of my weekly newsletter for a little while.

🪟 Windows Breaking Badly

🖋️ The Only Fonts We Need

🤣 Source

📉 Tech Jobs Cool Off - It is not all bad news!

“Where do boats go when they’re sick? **To the dock.”

🏷️ Naming Variables

“There are two rules for success:1) Don’t tell all you know.”🤣 source: One Line Fun

📖 A Dev Journal

“I came in first place on the IQ test!When I got the paper back it said ‘IQ: 1’.”🤣 source: UpJoke

⚠️ Debugging & Troubleshooting

🔥 Firefighters or Developers?

“I searched online for something to light a fire.- It said, ‘No matches found’.”🤣 source: Scary Mommy

🌐 Refactoring, Testing, Domains

“Why did the Mother’s Day gift arrive the day after Mother’s Day?- It was choco-LATE”🤣 source: Good Housekeeping

🧘 Do or do not. There is no try.

“Why does Princess Leia keep her hair tied up in buns?- So it doesn’t Hang Solow”🤣 source: Men’s Health

📈 Chasing Titles

“Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now”🤣 source: Undercover Recruiter

🦸 A Few Heroes

“An SQL statement walks into a bar and sees two tables. It approaches and asks: May I join you?.”🤣 source: Fortra

🆘 Just Ask for Help

“I was at the park wondering why this frisbee kept getting bigger… and then it hit me.”🤣 source: Culture Amp

🎓 Learn Golang

“The past, present, and future walked into a bar. Things got a little tense.”🤣 source: Science of People

🧠 Smart Curiosity

“True friendship: Walking into a persons house and your wifi connects automatically.”source: Scary Mommy

📋 Copy & Paste from Stack Overflow

🧠 Second Brain Tools

✅ 500 Frontend Interview Question

👨‍💻 Top Programming Languages

Today I bring to you Microsoft News, top programming languages, and good coding.

🎥 Pick Netflix Hits with Python!

*“Why shouldn’t you tell secrets when a clock is around? Because time will tell.”*

🤞 Pinky Promises

🪑 Desk Posture Made Easy

Memory Evolution

😎 CSS Custom Properties

🍅 Flowmodoro

🎤️ A Speaking Gig. Anyone?

🫂 Best Friends Forever (BFF)

Today I bring to you a job search story, an open-source project, and an architectural pattern.

🍃 Letting Go

“Last year, I was able to keep all of my New Year’s resolutions…tucked away in a journal on my bookshelf.”

🔍 Did you know HTML could do this?

🤣 “1st Rule Of Programming:- If It Works Don’t Touch It”

🤔 Struggling to Land Your First Job?

I’m in the process of selecting 10 people who have graduated already from college but were not able to find a job.

🧑‍🎨️ An image is worth a thousand words

“What kind of Christmas music do elves like?- Wrap music!”🤣 source: Reader’s Digest

🧑‍🎓️ All about learning to code

*“What is an algorithm? A word used by programmers when they don’t want to explain what they did.”*🤣 source: SEO Chatter

😨 AI Drama

“Why are vegetarians never involved in any drama?- They can’t stand beef.”🤣 source: UpJokes

🧑‍🎨️ A Front-end inspired edition

“Where does a cow hang their paintings?- In a mooooseum.”🤣 source: Jokes4us.com

🪨 A SOLID approach to coding

“I’ll be celebrating Black Friday in my own way— by completely ignoring it.”🤣 source: Scary Mommy

💬 Build your own ChatGPT without coding

“Why did the teacher wear sunglasses to school?Because her students were so bright.”🤣 source: We Are Teachers

🧑‍🚀️ "To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before"

“Where do astronauts keep their foods snacks🍦🍌🍓?In their launch box.🚀📦”🤣 source: Astronaut Foods

🧠 Developer's Mindset

“Why wouldn’t the ghost dance at the party?He had no body to dance with him.”🤣 source: Country Living

🤥 Productivity Myths in Coding

🤣 source: Toggl

🥴 Domain Junkies (**opportunity inside - don't miss it**)

“What do monsters serve at their birthday parties?I scream cake.”🤣 source: Parade

😎 Metaverse in Canada

“When are turkeys the most grateful?The day after Thanksgiving”🤣 source: Good Housekeeping

🏃 100 days of code

“Training for a marathon can be hard work, but it’ll be good for you in the long run.”🤣 source: VITESSE RUNNING

👹 The Worst Programmer Ever

🤣 source: Scott Adams

🆕 Carbo: New Programming Language

“How does a computer learn new things?Bit by bit.”🤣 source: upjoke

💵 Salary Negotiation

“Me to HR: Your careers page says the company offers ‘competitive salary’. What does that mean exactly?HR: That means your salary will be competing with your bills.”🤣 source: upjoke

🙌 It works on my machine

“What’s the difference between a teacher and a train?A teacher says, ‘Spit out that gum!’ and a train says, ‘Chew! Chew!’”🤣 source: Scout Life

👩 A Tech Profile from OpenAI

“Rest in peace, boiling water.You will be mist.”🤣 source: UPJOKE

💽 Backup Anxiety

”- What would be a good backup name for a baby boy?- Justin Case”🤣 source: JokoJokes

👷 Becoming a "Product Manager"

”- What’s the scary dessert that keeps coming back?- Boo! meringue”🤣 source: UPJOKE

✅ COMP123 - Bonus 3

This is your third bonus. This is a bit more challanging as it requires the content of week #6 about File IO. Read carefully.

🔎 Software Engineers & ADHD

“I was on the beach and got hit by a massive wave of cake. It was a tiramisu nami.”🤣 source: Here’s a Joke

COMP123: Bonus GitHub Link

There seems to be some confusion from some students when submitted their bonus.

✅ COMP123 - Bonus 2

This is your second bonus. Read carefully.

🧐 A look at React

🤣 source: Spring Chicken

🤑 Tech Salaries Growth

🤣 source: Saying Images

✅ COMP123 - Bonus 1

This is your first bonus. Read carefully.

🎤️ Bill Gates

🔮 A positive future for AI and Coders

🤣 source: css-tricks.com

👔 Work Opportunities

“0, 1, 2, 3… Real programmers count from 0.”

🔗 Are you Rust'ed?

“Why did the Easter egg hide? Because it was a little chicken!”

🃏 Happy April Fools!

“Today’s the day to propose. If they say yes, great. If they say no, just say: ‘April Fools!’”

👁️ Coding with your Eyes

🤣 by Lokajit Tikayatray

🤝 1-1 Meetings

“Why did the programmer get cold?Because she left her Windows open!”

🏛️ Tech Bank Collapsing

“Three SQL databases walked into a NoSQL bar. A little while later they walked out. Why?Because they couldn’t find a table.”

🐞 Debugging Stories

📏 The 10-10-10 Rule

✅ COMP123 - Bonus 3

This is your third bonus. This is a bit more challanging as it requires the content of week #6 about File IO. Read carefully.

💸 Quitting a $450,000 job

🤣 by Chukwuebuka Sunday

✅ COMP123 - Bonus 2

This is your second bonus. Read carefully.

👎 Event: What is bad code?

“Q: Tell me a coding joke about headless CMS”“A: Why did the headless CMS have trouble sleeping? Because it couldn’t REST!”🤣 source: ChatGPT

🗣️ Prompt Programming - Talking to AI

I bring to you a hiring event, learning to talk AI, and career options with ecommerce.

✅ COMP123 - Bonus 1

This is your first bonus. Read carefully.

🚀 Boost your career

I bring to you a recording of my presentation about career in tech, a book review, and access to Stack Overflow in prisons.

🤯 Deep work

I bring to you links about creating a static site with GitHub, distraction-free work, and the JAMStack.

🎯 Set actionable goals

I bring to you links about career, how to create a tree view with CSS and how to set action-driven goals for 2023.

🤖 ChatGPT - The robots are taking over

I bring to you links about a revolutionary AI tool, taking smart notes, and coding puzzles to help you with job interviews.

✍️ Note taking by hand

🤣 source: Martin Cote

🚸 Coding for kids

“Q: How do methods break up?A: They stop calling each other!” 🤣 source: Murat Purç

💣 Coding in a war zone

“Q: What’s the object-oriented way to become wealthy?A: Inheritance” 🤣 source: Hongkiat.com

🦥 Lazy can be good

🤣 source: MokeyUser.com

🧳 Tech Layoffs - What can you do about it?

“I was feeling bad about my code, so I went outside and take a run.And then I realized my code isn’t the only thing that can’t run.”🤣 by @VishalMalvi_

🌟 The Prestige of Big Tech Companies

“Programming jokes are fun… but only when executed properly.”🤣 source: Jokes Buzz

🦘 Job Hopping

🦇 Dracula UI

🤣 source: Reader’s Digest

♾️ Programming is everything

🤣 - from my student Khaled - thank you!

🤖 An Intro to Data Science

“Security is like an 🧅 onion; it has many layers and makes us cry!” 🤣 - source: Stack Overflow

🤲 Understanding Open Source

“I know I did okay on today programming test…. Well …because my teacher gave me C++” 🤣 - source: Haider Imtiaz

🔠 Choosing a Font

“When I wrote this code, only God & I understood what it did. Now… Only God knows.” 🤣 - by Lokajit Tikayatray

📚 Learning How To Learn

“How did the developer become so poor? They run out of cache” 🤣

🧹 Writing better code automatically

*“Why do Java programmers have to wear glasses? Because they can’t C#”*- Thanks to one of my students for this joke! 🤣

🔮 Now what? Web 3.0?

Today I have two articles and a video for you. All three are focused on technical topics.

👔 Getting your first Dev job

Today I have 3 articles for you. Yes, a lot of reading, but they are worth it. I have a design, a technical and a career article:

🚀 Tools to help you keep growing in your tech career

This week I’m bringing two links to help with your tech career planning and one to an event (which is about to happen 🎆).

🥀 It's not all roses in Tech

I’m a very positive person but sometimes we have to discuss things that are not that good. In today’s newsletter you will find an article about layoffs in tech.

🎨 Is coding an art?

I’m super excited to write the first newsletter!

🏝️ Microsoft MAUI Event

I decided to send the first email already cause it is relevant for tomorrow Tuesday August 9th. Microsoft has an online event tomorrow starting 12pm EST (Toronto Time).

Hello, Hello! Aderson Oliveira Here!

Career, Coding, Education & Productivity