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Hello ReaderHappy weekend! We've been thinking about how much of a dev career runs on other people. Not always in a networking-event, business-card kind of way. More like the person who answered your question in Discord at 11pm. The instructor whose course you didn't expect to still think about months later. The connection that turned into an interview that turned into an actual conversation. This week's edition has a bit of that thread running through it. Some familiar faces, some new ones, and one very opinionated cat. TL;DR◉ Milestones: We've reached Top 10 on Product Hunt ◉ Feature Updates: Create Explainers though the new ChatGPT plugin ◉ Explainer of the Week: Explore abstract ideas and concepts through community explainers ◉ Interview of the Week: Teaching styles with Kevin Powell ◉ Poll of the week: Networking styles + last week's results! Milestones
Top 4 Product of the Day wasn’t even the ceiling. Explain went on to land Top 10 Product of the Week on Product Hunt 🏆 None of that happens without you. Every upvote, comment, and share came from this community, so thank you for showing up for us. Feature Updates
We built a plugin so you can pull Explain straight into a ChatGPT conversation, no tab-switching, no copy-pasting your question into a new tool. Ask ChatGPT something, get the text answer, then turn it into a video walkthrough without leaving the chat. Two tools, one flow. Explainer of the Week
Every week, people are using Explain to make sense of things that used to take a Google rabbit hole (or three). Here’s a handful of what the community explained this week, and each week we’ll bring new ones to your attention.
Got a question of your own, code-related or not? Try it at scrimba.com/explain. Interview of the Week
A familiar face popped up in our feed this week. Kevin Powell joined Design Systems Architect, Donnie D’Amato, on Wireframe Live for a proper deep dive. If the name rings a bell, it’s because he teaches our HTML & CSS crash course, among others. They get into how Kevin fell into teaching almost by accident, why YouTube let him break out of the repetitive classroom loop, and what it’s like making content in a world where AI is reshaping how people learn (and pay for courses). From there, it’s new CSS features, browser support headaches, and what it actually takes to influence the CSS spec, accessibility included. Watch the full interview here Poll of the Week
Last week we asked where you operate: digital nomad or home base? Turns out most of you have made your peace with a permanent outlet. Home base, plugged in for life took it in a landslide, with roaming nomads trailing behind and exactly nobody admitting to running on 2% and a prayer (bold of you). This week we want to know...
Meme of the Week
“Error on line 265” and line 265 is just… air. Wrap UpIt’s time for your weekly dose of cuteness from #scrimba-pets !🐶🐱🐍🐟
Meet Git. Not the version control, the cat. Equally likely to break your workflow. Thank you for reading, everyone! Have a lovely week, keep calm and Scrimba on.
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Hello Reader, Did you know that you can reach Explain from inside ChatGPT? Ask GPT to make a video to explain something; a concept, a piece of code, an article you're reading, or anything else, and it'll whip an Explainer up for you. It's the same teaching engine you've been using on Scrimba, just a prompt away from where you're already chatting. TRY EXPLAIN IN CHATGPT I hope you enjoy Explain in ChatGPT. I'm very keen to hear your thoughts on Explain in GPT! If you're happy to share, just...