turned 1 year old this month :) Thanks for joining this journey. In our 6th month we surpassed 1 million minutes reading per month, and over the last 6 months, we’ve accumulated 18,801,558 minutes reading! That’s the equivalent of 35 years, 9 months and 12 days reading. Hacker Noon This week — we’re bringing you the stories, mindsets, moves, tools, management, series’ and the-why-it’s-built that makes a hacker a hacker. 4 Hacker Stories by The Sandnigger Programmer from Mississippi Nader Dabit by . The … Donald J. Trump’s $30M Testing Team Michael Babyak GOP tweeted this by I’m Sorry, Surface, But I Just Can’t Anymore. Jennifer Hoelzer by . I used LAMP to make a SaaS with $3700/mo profit. Here’s how. Alex Moskovski 10 Hacker Mindsets by . Very funny. The 9 Types of Programmers and Why Some are Better than Others Dominik T by . Learn To Code In 2017, Get Hired, And Have Fun Along The Way Andrei Neagoie by The best way to learn new technologies is by doing. Here’s some inspiration André Pena by 5 Tips for Shipping Your App Pedro Silva Moreira by The advantages of building your website from scratch Owen Far by Practical scaling techniques for web sites Adam Derewecki by Want to become a Software Developer? Here’s how to get there André Pena … by Documentation is a bit like people dying William Belk by It’s All Fun & Games until AI wins them all Matthew Biggins by If we build it, why would anyone care? Christian Sepulveda 4 Hacker Moves by . AI can help you choose where to live Silver Keskkula by . The Programmer’s Guide to Booking a Plane Zeke Gabrielse by After 6 incredible years at Buffer I’m moving on to something else Leo Widrich by . Is your move to listen to blog posts instead of reading them? We got you covered. No time to read? Just listen! Mahmoud Felfel 10 Hacker Tools by . Launch here! React Studio Public Beta 2 React Studio by Polyfills: everything you ever wanted to know, or maybe a bit less David Gilbertson by Appointment Web Forms Matthew Talebi How do GANs intuitively work? by Chanchana Sornsoontorn by From “What is a Markov Model” to “Here is how Markov Models Work” Alexander Dejeu by Top 11 JavaScript Libraries That Are Worth Your Attention Eugeniya Korotya by Offline First React Native + Meteor Apps Spencer Carli by Straightforward code splitting with React and Webpack Didier FRANC by Exclude files from git without committing changes to .gitignore 🙅 Dave Lunny by Build an Alexa Skill in 7 Minutes Flat with Node.js and StdLib Keith Horwood Contribute to Hacker Noon today ! 4 Hacker Management Tips by 10 Big Software PM Time Wasters John Cutler by Taking the Associate Android Developer Exam Josh Burton by Seniority Krzysztof Zabłocki by Building an app? Do these things. Paul Keck A Couple of Hacker Series’ by The Learn AI If You Suck at Math Series (4 Parts) Daniel Jeffries by How I Hacked Google DayDream Controller (5 Parts) Matteo Pisani And a Why it’s Built The Way It’s Built Story: by . Apple’s Icons Have That Shape for a Very Good Reason Mark Stanton “A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things,” said Steve Wozniak. Until next time — enjoy , the power of your digital sabbatical , . David Smooke Hacker Noon your favorite hacks! P.S. Tweet @HackerNoon Check out what our community is reading, as filtered in , , & . P.P.S. real-time top tweets verified accounts