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A Convo w/ Fernando Herrera

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Published:November 21, 2023 at 5:07 AM
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Open Tab | A series of stories about the Arc members building the future of the internet where we dive deep into their work and passion projects and share the corners of the internet they love the most.
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Open Tab
A Folder from
Fernando Herrera
Fernando Herrera's Member Card
Arc Member Card
Find yours in the Settings dialog

Welcome back to Open Tab - a series of stories in which we drop by one of our beloved Arc members and ask them for a quick private tour of their favorite corners of the internet or a deep dive into their work and side projects.

Today’s internet tour guide is Fernando Herrera - a full-stack developer and an educator with a deep passion for learning and making his knowledge of Angular, Qwik, React Native, and NextJS accessible to every Spanish speaker with internet access. Our starting point? Fernando’s home office with luminous purple lighting, duck figurines posted up all over his desk, and a YouTube Plaque commemorating 100,000 subscribers to his channel full of helpful tips and tutorials for devs. This vibey space is also where he creates his online courses for hundreds of thousands of students on Udemy and DevTalles - a new exciting project in developer education of his own.

As if all the resources Fernando has produced over the years weren’t enough, he took the time to curate a list of 10 essentials for all the new and forever learning developers in the Arc community:

  1. Tailwind Components is a cool free repository for Tailwind CSS components, like signup pages and user profiles, that you can use to bootstrap your next project.

  2. JSON Data AI is a handy tool If you need quick dummy data - Rick and Morty characters, random Sports News, and whatever else you could use to keep yourself entertained while writing code.

  3. If you are working on an SEO-friendly application and need an Open Graph image, use a generator, like Placid, to create one in seconds.

  4. Looking for a quick refresher on all things JavaScript, CSS, or HTML? There is nothing better than this Mozilla MDN hub.

  5. Quicktype.io (Browser HQ’s favorite) is an excellent tool that reads JSON data, figures out its structure, and types out the code that makes using that data super easy in whatever language you’re using.

  6. Railway is Fernando’s go-to infrastructure platform for deploying apps which makes scaling projects easy as they grow.

  7. Or if you are building a web app, use Netlify to quickly share it with the world.

  8. MongoDB Atlas is a great, quick and reliable database service.

  9. If you need a nice vector image for your project, look no further than unDraw.co. They’ve got a whole collection of tiny people up to all kinds of things from doing a data report to building a snowman.

  10. If you are in the mood for showing off some beautiful code you wrote or get inspired by the work of other developers, Codepen is the best place to do both. One of Codepen’s co-founders Chris Coyier also happens to be a fellow Arc member featured in the Open Tab. Small (online) world!

Keep these essentials in close reach or share all of them with a fellow forever student using this Arc folder. See you next class?