This Week in Tech Twitter 8/8/21
Being a Woman on Tech Twitter, Among Us Tech Edition, How to Make $3mil+ on the Internet, AWS Fundamentals, and more!
1. Being a Woman on Tech Twitter
Vy Tran (@tweevtran) hosted a powerful Twitter space with several other awesome woman on the topic of “Being a Woman on Tech Twitter”.
This was such a refreshing and informative conversation that at one point had several hundred listeners. Congrats to everyone involved for this amazing event!
2. Among Us, Tech Edition
@AlexandriasTech hosted an awesome community Among Us session on Twitch!
Alexandria hosted several big names in the Tech Twitter community as they played through the popular multiplayer game Among Us.
This was such a fun way to wind down the week. If you missed it live, check out the stream recording here.
3. Boost Your Website’s Performance
If you are looking to better understand your website’s performance, then don’t miss out on the 4 part thread from @_georgemoller on Google’s UI/UX initiative called Web Vitals.
George dives deep into some important topics including Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), First Input Delay, (FID) and more!
4. Looking for Some Inspiration?
@ShawnAxsom, aka “The Kindness Guy”, asked followers for their favorite tweet ever. Check out this wholesome thread for that motivation we all need!
5. Earning $3mil on the Internet?
@csaba_kiss nearly broke Twitter after dropping the much anticipated thread
How I Earned $3mil+ On The Internet and What Was the Trick to Beat The Competition
This is an incredible biographical thread where Csaba details the journey of monetizing programming on the internet.
6. What Should I be Learning?
@oliverjumpertz hits us with an incredibly important thread on the pros and cons of learning the frameworks that are hot right now versus learning what you are passionate about.
In the end, Oliver reminds us that frameworks are simply tools and what is important is learning the fundamentals that transfer.
7. Website Templates!
Favor @heyOnuoha put together a fantastic thread to help jump start your next web application project.
Favor curated a list of 10 different free sources that offer website templates, theme and color pallets, and general website design inspiration!
8. AWS Fundimentals
Tobias @tpschmidt_ gave us a great thread for anyone starting their backend/cloud journey in AWS.
Tobias highlights costs and tutorial websites before diving into each of the main AWS services you are likely to encounter as a new backend cloud engineer including EC2, RDS, VPC, and more!
