🔥 5 Awesome Design Tools 🔥

Have you been eyeing these cool cards and thumbnails that a lot of us are sharing?

Do you want to get started as well?
Here are 5 tools to get you going 👇 🧵

🔸 Figma

This is the one I personally prefer.
It's a little more advanced than other tools, but you can really make some cool stuff once you get familiar with

🔸 Canva

This is a super popular tool - if you're a beginner in graphic design, this tool is for

🔸 Carbon

With Carbon, you can make cool-looking small code snippets.
Their UI is a bit clunky, but you can configure your snippets in a broad range of different

🔸 Snappify

Snappify is similar to Carbon, but has an overall better UX.
With Snappify, it's really easy to make beautiful looking snippets *fast*, even though it's a bit more limited in terms of customizability than

ES2021 is going to land soon 🚀
It's gonna be really exciting.

Meanwhile - are you fully up to speed with all the cool things we got from ES2020?

Let's take a look at a few of them here 🧵 👇

⚡ Dynamic import

With this new feature, we can import JavaScript modules dynamically, as we need it.

This pattern is also known as code-splitting, and with ES2020 we can do this natively instead of relying on tools like Webpack.

⚡ Optional Chaining

With this feature, we can now access deeply nested properties without having to null-check.

Notice how 'quxBaz' becomes undefined instead of throwing a reference error.

⚡ Nullish Coalescing

With Nullish Coalescing, we can now evaluate values that are 'nullish', not just 'falsy'.

Notice how the variable 'foo' is falsy, but not nullish (null or undefined).
In some cases, we want to use fallbacks only in the case of null or undefined.

⚡ globalThis

If you want to reuse code across different runtimes, you'll run into trouble with the global object.

globalThis will reference 'window' in browsers, 'global' in Node.js, and 'self' in Web Workers.

Now we don't have to manually detect the runtime anymore.

Why should you start your own business instead of becoming an employee?

Well, being a business owner isn't for everyone.
But it may be exactly the change you need!

Let me give you some great reasons to quit your job and become self-employed.

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1️⃣ You become free and independent

You get the ability to steer the direction of your life in any way you want, instead of working for the whims of others.

You also get to manage your own time and schedule.
Who wants to ask for permission to spend time with your loved ones?

2️⃣ You get to follow your passion

In your own business, you get to do what excites you.
Not only does a passion make your job fulfilling, but it also unlocks hidden powers in you!

Why do you work?

❌ Because my boss wants this done by tomorrow.
✅ Because I love what I do!

3️⃣ You can make a lot of money

Of course, wealth isn't everything.
But let's be real, it's important!

By freelancing, you can triple your income.
I take home more than $300K/y on consulting alone.
So can you 🔥

Combine that with selling products!
Only the sky is the limit.

4️⃣ You pay way less in taxes

Earned income (salary) is the type of income that is taxed the highest.
By being an employee, you're a 50/50 partner with the government.

By incorporating your business, you can lower taxes by reinvesting in assets such as stocks or property.