Selling Products from the Beach 🏖️

Something really nice at the moment is seeing sales of  “Side Projects Making $$$+” without my marketing it all the time. I tweeted about it once this month, whilst at the beach on holiday last week. Somehow that has generated the same amount of revenue in a week than in the last 4 months since it was released! It's that old adage of doing the work once I guess.  All this serves as lovely explanation as to why this months issue is a week late.

Before heading away, I released my video review of the Framework Laptop over on YouTube. It's my best performing video in a while and was a simple one for me to produce having got a little quicker at editing. It's a stark contrast to the performance of my last tutorial and I'm happy to release only a video a month if it always performs well.

If producing videos wasn't difficult enough already, here in the UK right now it's absolutely boiling weather. I hate it when it's like this, there's no escape. It's the one time of the year when it's useful having a cold house.

I’ve included a regular assortment of code as well as affiliate links to discount kindle books you might like amongst this issue. Let me know if you enjoyed this months issue by responding to this email.

Until next time, keep on shipping!

Ian

Stories

DigitalOcean Buys CSS Tricks for $4M

You're probably very familiar with Chris Coyier and CSS-Tricks if you're a web dev. Now, DigitalOcean have decided to buy it.

How I manage running multiple products of ~$18K/mo

Tony Dinh has a collection of tools he's working on for developers. I'm a customer of his Xnapper screenshot tool myself and love the fact it's getting so many features added so quickly. Find out how he manages them all here.

How to make $1M a year in your 20s

I found this youtube video on how to make $1M hilarious.

Code

shhh Noise: sounds to increase focus and relax

Lose yourself in wonderful ambient sounds his app from Marie Ng.

How to create a Python package in 2022

How do you create a Python package? How do you set up automated testing and code coverage? How do you publish the package? That's what this article teaches you.

Tip: How to Set the Locale Used in Cypress Tests

A tip from my blog on how I set the locale of the browser in Cypress - specifically for Chrome which I was using with Cypress.

microsoft/fluentui-emoji

Need an open source emoji? Microsoft has you covered with this huge collection from their apps.

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