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Hello ReaderSomehow it's August. The weeks have been moving fast enough that I had to check the date twice before writing this. There's a strange comfort in that though. Fast weeks usually mean things are happening. Let's get into it. TL;DR◉ Platform update: Captions now in 10 languages ◉ Upcoming Courses: DevOps coming next week! ◉ Feature update: Explain just crossed 10,000 explainers, plus a new Chrome extension! ◉ Team Member of the Week: Leanne! ◉ Coding challenge: Comfort Food Edition ◉ Poll of the week: Dust off that resume + last week's results! Platform Updates
Scrimba courses now come with captions in 10 languages: English, Arabic, Bengali, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Hindi, Chinese, and Japanese. More languages are on the way. If there's one you want to see next, comment/reply and let us know! Upcoming Courses
Learn DevOps is coming, with Don and Tom at the wheel. That’s all we’ll say for now, but keep an eye out next week. In the meantime, check the roadmap to see what else is in the pipeline Feature Updates
Explain just crossed 10,000 explainer videos, and it only took a month. Type any question, get a video explainer back instantly. And now it’s even easier to reach. Explain now has a Chrome extension, so you can get an instant explainer without leaving the page you’re already on. Highlight something confusing anywhere on the web, and let Explain do the rest. Speaking of Explain, we need a favor. We’re launching it on Product Hunt next Thursday, August 13, and we’d love your support. Here’s the catch. Your upvote only counts if your PH account has some activity first. So this week, go follow us via producthunt.com/products/scrimba, poke around, and upvote a few other products you genuinely like. Then come back Thursday and give us the thumbs up. Click below to add the reminder to your calendar. Thank you for supporting Scrimba! Team Member of the Week
If the last time you touched your resume was the last time you were job hunting, you’re making life harder for future you. Job hunting means stress, stress means you’re not thinking straight, and that’s exactly when your resume needs the most help, not the least. Which brings us to our very own Operations Lead, Leanne, a self-proclaimed resume gardener. A gardener doesn’t force a plant to bloom, they just give it the right conditions and points it toward the light. Leanne's take: most resumes aren’t broken, they’re root bound. Six years of good work crammed into a bullet point that’s pointing the wrong way. She’s now offering personal, written resume reviews, tailored to the region you’re applying in. Learn more and get repotted, here. Coding Challenge
Dev.to’s latest Frontend Challenge wants you to build something inspired by food that feels like home. Two ways in:
Check it out and show us what you’re cooking. Poll of the Week
Last week we asked how you write commit messages, and most of you are firmly in the clear-and-descriptive camp. A few of you admitted to the occasional “fix,” which, honestly, same. Speaking of resumes...
Meme of the Week
Somewhere between a joke… and a genuinely good idea. Wrap UpIt’s time for your weekly dose of cuteness from #scrimba-pets !🐶🐱🐍🐟
This is the face of someone who just found out what “merge conflict” means. Thank you for reading, everyone! Have a lovely week, keep calm and Scrimba on.
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Hello Reader Happy weekend! Nothing in this edition is finished, and that's kind of the point. A launch that's still collecting votes. Docs meant to get updated as things change. A portfolio built by someone actively asking for feedback on it. Even the roadmap comes with a built in disclaimer: dates are estimates, not promises. Turns out "still in progress" isn't a phase you get through, it's just what building actually looks like. TL;DR ◉ Scrimba Explain: We’ve reached #4 on Product Hunt ◉...
We're live. Scrimba Explain is on Product Hunt right now. Hello Reader, And we're off! Scrimba Explain has just launched on Product Hunt. You may have seen us mention it over the past few weeks: Type a question, and you get an AI-narrated Explainer video back in seconds, either on its own or right inside a scrim when a lesson stops making sense. It's free during the beta. Today it goes in front of a much bigger audience, and the first few hours shape where we land. If you have a few minutes,...
Hello Reader, Building something that runs on your computer is the easy part. Turning it into a product other people can actually use, and keep using as you improve it, is called DevOps (short for "development operations"). Here's what you'll learn, explained: 🐳 Containers and Docker: An app that works on your computer might break on someone else's, because of differences in software versions or settings. Docker solves this by packaging your app with everything it needs into one...