Here are some resources for tiny ways to +1 your professional development.

need some inspiration to create terrible (read: terrific) book habits?

• Naval Ravikant’s episode on “The Knowledge Project” podcast

need some more info on the psychology behind tiny projects?

• The Psychology of Study, C A Mace
• Jesse’s blog post on the Leitner System
• Steven’s article in the Scientific American on Interleaving

need hack ideas?

• /r/dailyprogrammer
• Joe’s list of WhatToCode
• Twitter #HackIdea
• Public & free APIs
• 100+ Project Ideas
• Randomly select a noun with which to name your project

need a quick start?

Online IDEs

• CodePen, when you javascript
• CodeSandbox, when you want to use more complicated frontendy things like Vue and Angular
• CodeAnywhere, when you don’t want your IDE storing your code and you don’t mind paying $2.50 a mo
• REPL.it, for everything else

Code Generators

• Yeoman, when you need to build any kind of javascript app
• Maven, when you java

Boilerplates

• Jekyll + Github, when you want to build a website
• Melvin’s list of boilerplate repos by language, when you want to build an app