My dear audacious reader!

Thank you for sticking with me on this journey, especially for this very special issue. It's the 10th issue!🎉. I'm incredibly proud of myself, and for you, reader, for being here. You anxiously await these issues, reading them with such dedication, and showing unwavering support.

You know, before I started, I was filled with fear: what if I couldn't be consistent? What if no one read it? What if I ran out of ideas? But none of those fears came true. It's safe to say that fear can be a mile wide and an inch deep. Once you take the first step, those anxieties often fade away, and you realize they were just a storm in a teacup.

I want to thank Bọ́lájí Ayọ̀dejì specifically. Receive your flowers, boss! Thank you for talking through ideas with me to help me figure out how I wanted my newsletter to look. Thanks for the advice and encouragement to start. He has a newsletter that I follow too, with a lot of insights. Give it a read.

I like the above aphorism by Alex because it highlights that to be really good in something you need to put in the hours of work there is no shortcut to become an overnight success.

Now to the good stuff, this comprehensive tutorial by Bolaji takes you through how to build an audio chatbot with Nextjs, OpenAI, and ElevenLabs APIs.

There is a new open-source alternative to Github called Radicle. It uses Git with cryptography and a gossip protocol to enable a developer network.

Learning is a lifelong activity. Knowing where to start learning, especially about things new to you, can be a challenge. This website makes it easy for you to learn anything by providing resources like books, articles, and videos. It creates a custom guide to what you need to learn, specifically for you. This is a good alternative to roadmap.sh.

Open-source is a gift that keeps giving. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make a contribution to the open-source community in whatever capacity you can. Eddie Jaoudie created a public speaking resource that contains a roadmap, common fears, and tips for before and during public speaking sessions.

Part of the role of a software engineer means that you will, at some point, deal with mysterious bugs. Mainly because bugs exist to spice up your life, to make you rethink all your life decisions that led you to that point, and then to give you validation after you have solved them. This post shares how to diagnose a mysterious process that takes too many resources, like memory.

For those of you who love documentaries about computers, hacking, and hackers, I recommend this discussion. You will have a list of entertainments on this topic.

To the code thrill seekers, here is a catalog of challenges you can jump into to keep you learning and occupied. The beauty of the challenges is that there are so many language tracks covered, including Python and Java.

Distributed systems are collections of independent machines working together to appear as a single machine to the user. This course is for anyone who wants to learn about distributed systems.

Before Docker tricks you, here are 13 things you should know about Docker.

A good problem to have is grappling with multiple offers from different companies. Adora shares some things about choosing an offer from multiple.

You will be pleased to know that I completed reading What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School and started on You Can Negotiate Anything: The World's Best Negotiator Tells You How To Get What You Want by Herb Cohen.

I have a few quotes to share from What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School before I get around to writing a review:

By organizing myself in a way that fits my personal work habits, by planning out my leisure time as well as my work time and by writing everything down, I am able to free-my mind totally from work-related thoughts when I am not working and focus totally on work when I am. This allows me not to carry my problems to bed with me at night. I sleep like a log.
- Mark H.McCormack

The people I respect the most in business are all instant decision makers. They don't need to know every 'knowable’ fact first. They accept that they are going to make their share of wrong decisions and are confident enough in themselves to know that most of the time they are going to make the right one.
- Mark H.McCormack

I hope that throughout this year, you are as consistent as Bic in whatever you choose to do.

The word of the day is echelon. Echelon refers to the level of authority or rank in a large organization. Example in a sentence: The decision to stop the current marketing campaign rests with the upper echelons of management.

I'm making my grand departure into the unknown. Until the next issue, my beloved reader, go forth, and may the odds ever be in your favor!