⚔️ Div[ide] and conquer

Hello Reader

Last week was a sprint. This week, we’re catching our breath. The team celebrated, naturally, by centering a few divs across the platform (only took a few years, but who’s counting).

Quick housekeeping while we’re here: you can now catch each edition via email, on LinkedIn, over in r/scrimba, and now X too. A dedicated newsletter archive is also coming soon, so more ways to find us and stay in the know.

TL;DR

◉ Platform Updates: We’ve centered some divs!

◉ Student of the Week: Maitri!

◉ Fab Resource: nnnoise — Noise texture generator

◉ Poll of the Week: Left vs. center aligned + last week’s results!

Platform Updates

Before-and-after comparison of The Fullstack Developer Path course page. The "before" version on the top left shows course details and the module list left-aligned. A white arrow points to the "after" version on the bottom right, where the same content is centered on the page.

It only took our devs two years to center a div, but they got there.

Course pages got a quiet redesign this week: content now sits centered on the screen instead of left-aligned. We think it feels better, but the houses are divided over on LinkedIn, with a real left vs. center debate hiding under all the “they finally did it” jokes.

Which side are you on? Tell Per in the comments, or weigh in on our poll further down this edition.

Student of the Week

This week the spotlight is on Maitri Upadhyay, who’s been treating June as a serious deep-dive month. She’s stacked Python, DSA, and most recently JavaScript Deep Dive, intentionally building her foundations before shifting into project mode.

Now she’s eyeing the next step: more complex, logic-driven applications. And she’s asking the community for tips on making that jump from courses to building.

Got advice for Maitri? Drop it in the Discord or comment on her Linkedin post, here!

Fab Resource

Screenshot of nnnoise, a free SVG noise generator. A large dark purple square with grainy orange and white noise texture sits at the top, with two control panels below. The left panel has color pickers for background and light source plus a desaturate button. The right panel has fractal noise and turbulence toggles and sliders for opacity, frequency, light surface scale, elevation, and specularity.

fffuel is a small treasure trove of free SVG generators for gradients, patterns, textures, and backgrounds. Each tool gets its own oddly-named subdomain (nnnoise, ssspring, ppplinear) and an interface full of sliders to play with.

The noise generator is a good place to start. Pick your colors, drag a few sliders, copy the SVG. Great for adding grain to flat designs without bloating your assets!

Poll of the Week

Last week’s verdict: the keyboard wins, and it isn’t close.

Scrimba poll results graphic asking "How do you take notes while learning?" Three horizontal bars on a gradient blue-to-purple background. Keyboard. Always has been, always will be: 64.3%, with a mechanical keyboard illustration. Mic. Why type when you can talk?: 7.1%, with a podcast mic. Depends what I'm writing: 28.6%, with a shrugging person emoji.

Last week was keyboards. This week, we want to settle a debate happening in our own LinkedIn comments. Our course pages used to sit left-aligned, now they’re centered.

Which layout actually works better for you?

📐 Center it. Reads better

⬅️ Left aligned. Always

🔀 Make it a toggle

🤷 Hadn't noticed