Rocket Inspires #1: Rocket-Powered Inspiration from the World of IT

That is why, towards the end of 2023, we started sharing a new social media format called Rocket Inspire (#inspiration).

In short Stories, we share interesting sources and ideas to inspire one another across the IT community. We are happy to bring you the first batch of Rocket Inspires in this article.

What do we share with our followers in Rocket Inspires?

🚀 Podcasts,

🚀 apps,

🚀 YouTube tutorials.

So far, our Rocket Inspire posts have featured:

1. Lex Fridman’s podcast on Spotify,
2. SVGrepo.com,
3. Windmill.dev,
4. Shadcn/ui,
5. tanstack/query,
6. ZOD.

Let’s take a quick look at all six. 🤟 🤟

1. Lex Fridman podcast, Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia

For most of us, listening to podcasts has become part of everyday life. The same is true of Vojta, co-founder of ProRocketeers, who one day came across Lex Fridman’s podcast on Spotify. Lex invited Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales onto the show, and their fascinating conversation went well beyond information on the internet.

Curious about the original story behind Wikipedia? In his conversation with Jimmy Wales, Lex goes far beyond the platform’s design, creation, and future. They discuss everything from conspiracy theories and working with ChatGPT to social media and the Wikipedia page about Adolf Hitler. Jimmy Wales also shares advice and recommendations for future generations.

2. SVGrepo.com, an open-licensed library of SVG vectors

A great source of legally available icons and vectors: SVGrepo.com.

3. Windmill.dev, a developer platform for APIs, critical jobs, workflows, data pipelines, and UIs

Internally, we use Windmill to check whether customer invoices have been paid. It reports changes to invoice status to Slack.

We also use Windmill to convert foreign currencies into Czech koruna for bank accounts held in other currencies. It sends account balances to our Slack every day at 3 p.m. You can find tutorials for this useful app here.

4. Shadcn/ui, a clean and beautiful UI library

Shadcn/ui has proved to be a useful tool for web application developers, offering a wide range of UI components. It makes it easy to integrate responsive designs into your projects and use templates optimised for efficient development and maintenance.

5. tanstack/query, an async data management library for React, Solid, Svelte, and Vue

The TanStack Query library is used to fetch and manage data in JavaScript applications. Its easy-to-use functions and methods help you write clean, understandable code for working with different kinds of data sources, including arrays, objects, and databases.

6. ZOD, a helping hand with initial schema validation in TypeScript

ZOD makes it easier to validate schemas using static type inference. It offers straightforward methods and functions for defining and validating schemas, helping you manage data flow in TypeScript applications.

The tool helps you create and validate data structure schemas, making applications more robust and secure. With ZOD, you can write clearer code and reduce errors caused by inconsistent data types.

We hope one of these links inspired you!

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*Source of inspiration: Vojtěch Baránek, co-founder of ProRocketeers*