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Your Twilio Developer Digest - December Edition. Developer Digest - December Edition [Developer Digest] [Ahoy Twilio]( Ahoy! is a word [once used to hail ships](, and the formation ahoy-hoy was Alexander Graham Bell's suggested telephone greeting. To our dismay hello! won the day, but perhaps the jury is still out... Why tell this amazing story? As you know: [Ahoy!]( – the incredible new developer-focused property on Twilio – is open for business, showing you the best videos, posts, games, and documentation on how to build with Twilio. As a heads up, over the next few months, we'll be refreshing the look of our newsletter to match. Of course, the Developer Digest will keep delivering the best technical content we've seen over the last month. Here's proof – the December edition. [Holiday Gift Giving and Pranking with Twilio]( Spread joy this holiday season by [gifting the perfect book](. Get a custom recommendation from our book bot by texting (409) 404-0403. Not the sentimental type? [Prank your friends]( with a classic rickroll, courtesy of Twilio. [Creepy and Cute IoT with Christine Sunu and Liz Moy]( Liz Moy interviews Twilio's Christine Sunu, a maker who brought the innovative (and delicious) IoT Sourdough Starter Monitor [sourd.io]( to life. Hear her take on how to [get started and build with IoT](. [Creating Twitch Chat Bots with Node.js]( Do you livestream on Twitch? Twilio Developer Evangelist Sam Agnew serves up a treat and creates a Twitch chatbot in Node.js. Now [build your own](. Our CEO, the Author! Twilio's CEO Jeff Lawson has had quite the career – and software developer is his favorite hat. Jeff recently penned the book Ask Your Developer, which argues software developers are creative, valuable, and extremely underutilized – something we know you know! You can preorder starting now, and sales begin on January 12, 2021. [Learn More About the Book]( [Peering Enhances Performance at 415 Million Emails per Hour]( [Twilio SendGrid]( knows a thing or two about sending emails – and there's no busier time of year for emails than around Black Friday. Learn how things operate at the right end of the curve in Devon Jones's post on how [we processed nearly 6 billion emails on both]( Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2020 – 262 Gbps of sustained throughput! [Build a Collaborative Whiteboard with Python, Flask, and Twilio Sync]( Since COVID-19 changed everything, it's been impossible to get together in a room and hash things out on a whiteboard. Contributor Grey Li fixes the latter problem and teaches us how to [build a virtual whiteboard]( using Twilio's Sync and the web microframework Flask. [Building Single-Page Apps with React and Twilio Functions]( [Twilio Functions]( is a straightforward-to-use serverless environment that lets you quickly whip together apps that need a server-side component without worrying about hosting or setting up a VM. Twilio Developer Evangelist Matthew Gilliard shows a fantastic way to use Functions and demonstrates how to build a [single-page React app using Twilio Functions]( as its backend. Get started with a 5-minute project! We’ll get you up and running with a brand-new Twilio app in 5 minutes or less. Okay, it might take 10 minutes—but that’s it. This week, we’ll help you deploy your own video collaboration app that’s fully functioning and cloud-based. [Give it a try]( or explore our other 5-minute projects on Ahoy! [Explore Five-Minute Projects]( Got a topic you'd love to see in the Dev Digest? Have some feedback? We're listening 🔈! Drop us an email - day or night - at [community@twilio.com](. If you love this Digest, please share it! [Share on Twitter]( [We can't wait to see what you build!] [Twilio]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Don't want to receive emails from Twilio? [Change your email preferences](. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at . If you're having trouble reading this email, try the [web version](. Twilio 375 Beale St, San Francisco, CA 94105