Best of Level Up Coding (March 2023)

Trey Huffine
Level Up Coding
Published in
3 min readMar 6, 2023

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Welcome to the Level Up Coding newsletter! From the world’s 123rd richest person sharing insights on how to become wealthy to a software developer’s experience of dealing with job layoffs, to two programmers who rejected a $1 billion acquisition offer from Google, to understanding content delivery networks, and mastering SQL and Python, this newsletter has something for everyone. Let’s dive in and level up!

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🏆 Top Articles 🏆

World’s 123rd Richest Person Says if You Understand the Stanford Experiment, You’ll Become Wealthy. | Jayden Levitt

I am a bad software developer and this is my life | Mohamed Aboelez

Why Google Didn’t Lay Me Off as 1 of 12,000 | Alexander Nguyen

Meet Two Programmers Who Rejected a $1,000,000,000 Acquisition Offer From Google | Sanjay Priyadarshi

5 Proven Things You can do to Level Up Your Coding | Arslan Mirza

Google Should Have Fired 10x More to Make It Work | Pen Magnet

Rust Basics for Data Engineer/Scientist| Arli

Bash vs. Python: For Modern Shell Scripting | Shalitha Suranga

9 Python String Manipulation Tricks That Make Your Coding Easier | Yang Zhou

Content Delivery Network (CDN): Explained in simple words | Animesh Gaitonde

13 SQL Statements for 90% of Your Data Science Tasks | Youssef Hosni

Transitioning to a Staff Engineer | Freeze Francis

The Secret History of Apple and Google: The Rise and Fall of a Strategic Partnership | Benjamin A.

Stop Using React Native Async Storage | Tarik

The Ultimate Software Developer’s Pitfall — Avoiding the Worst Mistake | Guillermo Martínez Espina

Microservices Explained with Node.js | Concepts and Hands on Experience | Yasas Sandeepa

Quantum Computing vs. Classical Computing: Which One Should You Use? | SPX

Digital Transformation | Victoria Riess, MBA

Prompt Engineering Is Probably More Important Than You Think | Vivek Naskar

9:30 am: “What did you do yesterday? What are you doing today? Any blockers?” | Nicklas Millard

Everything A Software Engineer Should Know About The M2 Pro MacBook Pro | Attila Vágó

How to Use the Asset Administration Shell | Leon Eversberg

10 Killer Programming Tools That Can Save You 1,000+ Hours While Working — No BS | Nitin Sharma

Master System Design Interviews with the Top 7 Most Asked Questions & Expert Answers | Arslan Ahmad

What I Learned as a First-Time Tech Lead | Keenan Zucker

Microsoft BioGPT: Towards the ChatGPT of life science? | Salvatore Raieli

How to Grow Really Fast as a Software Engineer | Edward Huang

Managing Configuration Settings in .NET | Maroun Maroun

9 Logging best practices | Matt Bidewell

SparseGPT: fewer parameters is better? | Salvatore Raieli

Optimize your Go code using Singleflight | Dzaky Widya Putra

You’d Better Chat With This AI Model Rather Than ChatGPT To Do Scientific Exploration | Yeyu Huang

10 Lesser-Known Tools for .NET Developers | Abnoan Muniz

Properly Prevent useEffect Re-Rendering In React.js | Christopher Clemmons

In Language Modeling, (Selective) Attention Matters | Arun Jagota

Model Predictive Control for Autonomous Vehicle: An In-depth Guide | JC Chia

Introduction to EASYOCR: A Simple and Accurate Python Library for Optical Character Recognition | Arjun Gullbadhar

The Evolution of Cloud Computing in Software Development | Selim Yıldız

ChatGPT Will Replace Programmers Within 10 Years | Adam Hughes

7 useful macOS tools you should know | Tinz Twins

isort — How to Fix RuntimeError: The Poetry configuration is invalid | Giorgos Myrianthous

All about SQL Loops and Its Structures: A Comprehensive Guide | Morpheus

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