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Dear Subscriber,

Welcome to Codestories newsletter! 🚀

You might have noticed a brand new Illustration in the header that was custom made for this newsletter.

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Iryna Korshak
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🏆 Weekly Highlights

  • Swedish startup shows off its electric truck design
  • 12 Node.js packages that every developer should know
  • 10 essential GitHub repos to put to use
  • Is it time for your company to bring aboard a chief innovation officer?
  • The lazy way to an awesome life: 3 secrets backed by research

🔥 News

Tandem Bank due for major 'restructuring' as credit cards wind down (Sifted)
One of the UK’s earliest digital banks is leaving behind the company’s standout credit card line as it turns the focus to a better financial standing.

Swedish startup unveils electric truck design for London, Paris (Bloomberg)
The Volta Zero will be equipped with a 360-degree camera and lowered seat to give drivers better visibility of the road, pedestrians, and cyclists.

A new guide and set of tools for building a modern web (Better Programming)
The Modern Web project wants to help developers reduce abstraction layers and build powerful sites and applications.

Material Design team launches new blog to showcase features (Material blog)
A new blog from the Material Design team promises to provide design explorations, how-to guides, and other resources about using this design scheme.

Omio takes $100M to shuttle through the coronavirus crisis (Techcrunch)
The travel platform formerly known as GoEuro has brought in a funding round that should keep the company going as it weathers the COVID-19 pandemic.

✅ Must-reads

How to spot toxic software jobs from their descriptions (The Startup)
Toxic software jobs are often hiding in plain sight. Get a batch of useful tips for ensuring you don’t get sucked in.

12 useful packages every Node.js developer should know (Better Programming)
Explore a list of NPM packages that may save you a ton of time and effort in your development projects.

Europe is making faster cars and better batteries than Tesla (Sifted)
While Tesla gets the largest spotlight when it comes to electric vehicles, European technology companies like Rimac, Skeleton Technologies and Einride are challenging the American giant with their own innovation.

How companies should be redesigning offices for a post-pandemic world (Wired)
Offices in a post-Covid world won’t be as open and free flowing, with more emphasis on private space and ensuring sufficient distance.

Does your organization need a chief innovation officer? (Entrepreneur)
In the dizzying rush of daily company life, growing and fostering continual innovation may be best handled by a dedicated individual.

🌱 Sustainable Tech

Our first Disruption Forum Sustainability 2020 (Netguru)
Learn how to use business and technology as a positive force for the environment from our event on sustainability and impactful giving.

Livestock farming is turning to new tech (Direct Industry EMag)
Livestock farming is getting more efficient and healthier with the use of AI and other technologies.

💡 Get inspired

10 essential GitHub repos for software developers (JavaScript in Plain English)
GitHub is the go-to resource for developers today. But you can probably use some guidance in finding those hidden gems, which this author offers in this piece.

3 mistakes developers make when they're in a hurry (Better Programming)
Help ensure that doing your job quickly and efficiently also means with minimal error. Here are three mistakes that are easy to make.

Lokalise raises $6 million to make it easier to localize your product (TechCrunch)
The Latvian startup offers a SaaS product to improve the processes of translating the languages in your application.

⚙ Tips & tricks

7 awesome command line tools (Better Programming)
A helpful list of some of the more powerful tools to use with your command line development process.

What's so hard about PDF text extraction? (Filing DB) ​
Ever wondered why what should be a simple operation is so difficult with PDFs? Read on to get the backstory about the structure of PDF text.

How to Make Your App Respond Gracefully to Region Change (Netguru)
We walk you through how to use Firebase Remote Config and our Sticky Parallax Header library to change up your app’s appearance for different regions.

👀 Must-sees

🎥 Videos

Oxford mathematician explains exponential growth for COVID-19 (Tom Rocks Maths)
Gain a better understanding about the numbers being discussed during the pandemic and how statisticians conduct their modeling.

Stopping vulnerabilities at the source - (GitHub)
By building security into the core workflows, it can prevent vulnerabilities before they even get into the codebase.

Automate software with GitHub Actions (Drifting Ruby)
In this tutorial, learn how to set up GitHub Actions on your Ruby on Rails application through automated tests, code coverage reporting, security testings and other strategies.

🖼 Design of the issue

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Fresh edtech illustration project from Leo Natsume. Check it out here on Behance.

🎙 Quote of the week

“Tech companies have, in the last few weeks, found the confidence to begin hiring again. It looks likely that the tech sector will continue to be one of the best sources of new jobs this year and can provide the jobs of the future.”
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Gerard Grech, chief executive of Tech Nation, in an interview with Sifted.

☕ After hours

The ladder is no more. Here’s how to navigate a ‘squiggly’ career path (Wired)
Today’s careers are characterized by change, flux, and ambiguity. Learn more about how to thrive in a world of continual change.

Most dangerous sea creatures (Taking pitches)
Things may be rough, but they could be worse if you cross paths with one of these masters of the ocean.

The lazy way to an awesome life: 3 secrets backed by research (Barking up the Wrong Tree)
They’re really lazy in name only, as this piece outlines many helpful, actionable mental health strategies for managing the pandemic and beyond.

Sincerely,
Codestories Team

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