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In My LinkStack

That is enough about me; let's see what I have in my LinkStack.

From My Ears To Yours

Podcast episodes I have enjoyed and possibly shared elsewhere.

MakerBench

Tools and hopefully useful utilities.

Open Sourcery

Make all the things ethically open and accessible.

Artificial Friends

I tried Claude Code, and it was interesting...

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Work Opportunities

And that is it for this one. Until the next one, keep rocking the open web.

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Frontend Engineering Explained

FrontEnd Engineering Explained is a bi-weekly (every two weeks 😁) newsletter read by 200+ subscribers and includes, one frontend engineering topic explained, links to some of the posts I wrote, valuable and interesting frontend related reads of the last two weeks, podcast recommendations, tools, open source projects, and occasionally even some job opportunities. The author: Schalk Neethling is a passionate front-end engineer, podcast host, mentor, and open web and web accessibility evangelist.

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