Articles by Dev To from March 2020

How many variable assignment keywords are there in JavaScript?example: varPlease note this includes JavaScript from all of time....

BUGOUT provides a web interface to KataGo, a leading, community-driven AI skilled in the classic board game, Go. BUGOUT also features a multiplayer option for playing against human friends, if you're...

Bottom Line Up FrontI use a slightly modified version of the steps mentioned in this GitHub comment. Modifications were necessary because I use TailwindCSS with Next.js.YouTube recording (18 min...

We are so excited to welcome Arit to the DEV team! She is joining us as an Associate Software Engineer, and will be focusing on the support and moderation tools that keep DEV the constructive communit...

DEV is in the process of launching a podcast and we'd love for you to be involved! We're recording most of the episodes in advance, and this week we'd like to know: Do you have a remote work, or remot...

A dream I didn't even know I had has come true: I'm joining the DEV team as an Associate Software Engineer! DEV has played a special, significant role in my journey breaking into Tech. After my bootca...

This article was written by Joe Morgan.The author selected Creative Commons to receive a donation as part of the Write for DOnations program. IntroductionReact is a popular JavaScript framework f...

Every Monday we round up the previous week's top posts based on traffic, engagement, and a hint of editorial curation. The typical week starts on Monday and ends on Sunday, but don't worry, we take in...

This is a thing I need to google every now and then so here's a simple recipe for closing neglected ports. Mac OS Find the process ID (PID) of the port (replace the 'portNumber' with the num...

Here is a serious of questions for all you awesome developers:What is a project you are really proud of?What was it's tech stack?Was it personal or commercial?Is it still active?This post can help tho...

TL;DR notes from articles I read today. Feedback is not a dirty wordWithout a good feedback system, pockets of disagreement can grow into resentment, distrust and eventually organizational failur...

As you may have gathered from some of my previous posts, I'm someone who really likes to optimize their tools. This includes remapping some of my keys, e.g. with Karabiner-Elements on macOS. Here are ...

We have all been there. You wake up and it is a new day, and you just need to know the answer to the most burning question. Is it the weekend yet? Your week has been so busy with professional and pers...

What do you do to get your work week off to a good start?...

A list of my personal coffee gear a long answer to What type of coffee you like?Being able to brew a decent cuppa joe at home is more essential than ever, in times without access to my company's prof...

When I'm typing a comment on the net that's getting lengthy, I usually copy and paste the WIP somewhere just incase (when I don't decide to write it an external editor) one of those things happens, li...

Inspired by this week's Codepen challenge to create something related to "HELLO WORLD" using Javascript, I decided to mimic an old-school DOS terminal.If you missed the typing animation, click "Rerun"...

As a knowledge worker, chances are that you will be spending a great amount of time sitting in front of the computer. Being a software developer myself, I quickly noticed that whenever I worked for a ...

So I have an XBox 360, which is ten years old. Ive been able to get games via online classifieds and Amazon sometimes, but Im realizing theyre harder to find and starting to become more expensive than...

On my GitHub project AboutRuby, I have divided the documentation for class Hash into two pages:Hash API: API-related documentation only; aspires to completeness, accuracy, and extensive code example...

Everyone, developers and non-technical people alike, has had an idea to create some sort of tech product. Wouldn't it be cool to actually turn your app idea into a real life product? This series is fo...

Everyone, developers and non-technical people alike, has had an idea to create some sort of tech product. Wouldn't it be cool to actually turn your app idea into a real life product? This series is fo...

Recently I've been reading about ways to help your neighbourhood with the COVID-19 crisis, here in Spain. But one of the tips they gave was quite unsecure, because it's based in the fact that everyone...

This is day 2 of my livecode Dev.to CMS. See Day 1 hereSource: https://github.com/sw-yx/dev-to-cmsDemo: https://dev-to-cms.now.sh Things coveredSyntax Highlighted Editors (Monaco, Prism.js, final...

tldr: download it here The AppI recently created an Events Countdown app for iOS.Basically, user can create event like Birthday, Anniversary, ... and the app will show a countdown time until or s...

For those of us with children at home during these interesting times, and for those who are teaching programming at home right now, what are your go to resources?If possible, list the age range for t...

PHP has been one of the most popular languages for web development. But now with lots of better programming language in the market, the PHP seems kind of lost, except for WordPressSo, I want to ask th...

The other day I saw a question from @yadlra posted: Hey guys, what skills do I need to be a data scientist? Do the same skills apply as being a software developer?I posted a lengthy response but felt ...

Hearing about lots of offers rescinded in the last few days.Took some time out to compile this list of tech companies freezing hiring or doing layoffs (and those that are still hiring):https://candor....

This tutorial was originally posted to the Twitter developer blog.Recently we launched a new Developer Policy that has updated rules for the labeling of bots. If you are creating Twitter bots and want...

As someone who uses Dev.to as a headless CMS, I feel a lot of personal pain points with the very simple default editor we get in Dev.to. I figured I would try a personal project with all new tech that...

Some developers spend considerable amounts of much time daily reading and answering emails.How many emails do you get a day?What's your technique to manage emails?...

I live in France so my work were stopped during this Covid-19 crisis. I don't do remote work because you know, the book Remote (by 37signal) were not translated to french (or maybe here big company lo...

Last Friday, I saw a tweet from my manager that made me a bit nervous. I wanted to engage with it, but would it be crossing a line if I did? I wasn't sure, so I tentatively messaged him in Slack to fi...

Vscode autocomplete do not working when i import my private package from git and shows this message error on code line: Unable to import 'elixir_tools' pylint(import-error)my setup.py structure:from s...

Kaggle is a unique team at Google. Unlike the vast majority of Google teams, our team is fully remote-first and distributed in offices (Google and home) across North America and Australia. When the sp...

cover image by By PumpkinSkyI'm looking for my next side project at the moment and I'd like to know what motivates you to go out and start creating your next big project....

Hey friends! I am wondering if it matters on whose account a github repo lives. I oftentimes have some project idea and then usually my collaborator goes ahead and creates a github repo for it. I didn...

How are you preparing for the upcoming economical crisis? Most industries and markets are falling. People are losing their jobs. What your expectations about IT industry and what are you doing to be p...

Hi there, I was wondering if you knew developer tools with a generous affiliate program.Programs you are part of or programs you know are successful amongst the dev community.Thanks in advance...

What technologies are you currently learning?... and what motivates you to learn this new cool technology?Share with community!P.S. Please mention if you are learning this as a way to get into coding ...

How can I set I custom font, currently I know how to set a font,let's say I have a Canvas element (ctx).Now, I to switch the font I do:fontName = "Arial"fontSize = 10ctx.itemconfig(font=(fontName,font...

Today I learned about the CSS border-collapse property: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/border-collapseIt defaults to border-collapse: separate;When you set border-collapse: collapse;...

Continuing on with the trend of exploring esoterically named sorting algorithms, I bring to you a blog post on....smoothsort! I'm gonna be real with you. I was sold on the name the moment I learned ab...

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Disclaimer: This is the second revision of a post I did before about this same topic. I feel that I could improve it, and now really commit to expanding on it in a series.Storing and downloading files...

TL;DR You may have started noticing more updates in the UI recently. And we have just updated the header!We've been working pretty hard on building new awesome features and improvements. Some of them ...

Im no stranger to remote work. Ive been onboarded remotely and have onboarded remote employees before. But I have to say Ive never been a part of onboarding someone fully remote, with my onboarding pa...

As the world tries to make sense of the rapidly evolving COVID-19 outbreak and ensuing social and economic crisis, developers in the Ionic community are leading the charge to inform and help the publi...

It can be tough to keep teams motivated. One thing we know works is making sure everyone understands and appreciates the impact of the teams work, that their working on something that's not just inter...

Building backend services with Rust can be difficult if you have to keep 10 tabs worth of documentation open at all times. I find it helpful to practice and learn how certain libraries work, reducing ...

If you are in web development, you have probably heard about Svelte Js. But you asked, why it is becoming so popular web framework and what benefits it proposes for developers. We will make a quick ov...

Cover image by Caspar Camille RubinLive streaming is becoming more and more popular. Platforms like Twitch and YouTube allow you to stream using tools like OBS directly to your audience in real-time f...

The actual problem in synchronous systems is the waiting time between the client and server where both have to wait for the process to complete. In a system where millions of requests are made per sec...

Hello Dev Stuff,This is an open discussion addressed to Dev.to engineers especially, regarding the deployment architecture. I was amazed a few months ago to see that one of my posts React Dashboards -...

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A tale of spies and (cyber)warIt was the start of 2010, Iran. The Atomic Energy Agency noticed something was wrong in the Natanz uranium enrichment plant. It seemed weird, as centrifuges that we...

Today's episode of BaseCS continues our investigation into graph theory!Well start by learning how to apply the theory of graphs into practice, and see how to define a path through a graph in mathemat...

How do Dev choose which post should be visible to it's user, except the preference based on following?Also does Dev use machine learning?...

In 2020, for many startups, side projects, and companies, using prebuilt authentication systems the likes of Firebase, Authpack, and Auth0 can be more secure and efficient than building out their own ...

Last month, we opened up early bird tickets for the fourth annual CodeLand conference, originally scheduled to be hosted in NYC this July.Due to the Coronavirus crisis, weve decided to shift our effor...

Elixir 1.10 was recently released, and with that release came a little-known, but very interesting featurecompiler tracing. This feature means that as the Elixir compiler is compiling your code, it ca...

Youre reading an excerpt of my upcoming book on clean code, Washing your code: write once, read seven times. Preorder it on Leanpub or read a draft online.Mutations happen when we change a JavaScript ...

When you are getting a project assigned that has a considerable codebase already, what are some good questions to ask to help you hit the ground running?...

Question. Does anyone use an iPad to develop Rails applications?I need to reduce the weight of my work bag and have been thinking about trying out an iPad. That the new iPad magic keyboard might loo...

Hi there you people,How are you all doing?As the positive bee I am, I am doing good :3Since I started learning to code around 18 months ago, I have been dreaming of working from home. I am a shy, intr...

I've been going down a bit of a rabbit hole recently. For a few months I've been thinking about how services like Netlify and Zeit function like "operating systems" over new computing primitives provi...

ChangesImprove cloud storage managementShow syncing status and stop on demandAuto syncManage cloud storage like a remote git repository.Implement storage type converting(local <-> cloud) ...

This article was originally published on Medium on December 13th, 2017.This is an article I thought I'd never write. Not because I have neither of the afflictions mentioned in the title, but rather be...

TL;DR Add dokku/wait as a service, then run wait -c service:portIf you use Docker Compose, you probably have already tried to request a service that isn't ready, despite the container is running.Actua...

As the Javascript module of Flatiron's Software Engineering immersive wraps up, one thing has become quite clear: I really need to understand callbacks and asynchronous functions to understand how to ...

Hey guys!First post here. I'm a little bit unsure of what comes next but thought asking for advice here would do me good!I'm doing some ground-laying research for an upcoming personal project (a portf...

I want to republish the coronavirus analytics platform https://coronavirus.davidb.dev/New features :Live analytics - data updated in every 15 m. It comes from John Hopkins university repo and Worldome...

This post originally appeared as Build your own API client in Node.js on The Bearer Blog. Note: The dev.to API recently saw a big update, so it's a great time to experiment with it.When you interact ...

I'm looking for some website templates for a basic product page, whats the best source of website templates?...

I originally posted this on my blog a little under two years ago. If it's interesting to you, I post new content on daedtech.com roughly weekly.A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post in which I announc...

These days I've been teaching some programming to kids online. As I've mentioned before in this blog, I've already done it many times, I really enjoy designing classes for technology topics. And this ...

"What will it take to get to the next level?"Of course this is a very open ended question, but it can be nice to set some guide rails around what expectations are in a company. As an individual contri...

Understanding algorithms can make our lives as developers easier, so it's been frustrating to personally find most machine learning tutorials to either be too high-level or too low-level to be beginne...

Back in late 2014, after being laid off from a startup that was struggling to prove out a business model, I found myself hunting for my next software development role. Along with cleaning up my resume...

Its been a hot minute since I have written a blog on one of my favorite topics, the job search. On one hand, I know this is because I landed the software engineer coaching position at Flatiron School ...

If youre on the hunt for new music for coding, weve got you covered.We recently launched the beta version of Music Time, our VS Code extension that lets you control your music right from VS Code and p...

I'm really happy with cosmos. But I would would love an open source alternative. ...

How can we use our unique skillset to help our communities?As developers we can easily work from home; in fact many of us already do this everyday. The current lockdowns being enforced around the worl...

Many professional developers have also side projects! Some have a commercial SaaS software, others an open source npm module ... others a blog!There are also multiple reasons to have a side project: t...

The COVID-19 quarantine forced a lot of people to work from home. The quarantine also affects those developers who work remotely on a constant basis, because now we have to spend 100% of our free time...

Hi! Missed me? Good!As I'm working on improving some of my workflow, I noticed that, unlike other dev.to fellows, I haven't written about tracking your things to do here yet. Let me try. PrefaceI...

calling all .NET developers!I'm curious about your data API strategy. When you connect to data from a .NET client (Blazor, WPF, Xamarin, web application etc.), what is your preferred API strategy? I ...

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Tech people love Twitter and so do I! I'm hoping to increase the number of people I follow and am looking for some solid content.Who are your favorite Twitter follows? GO!First one to add, @MKBHD...

Deploying to production can be risky. Despite all the mitigation strategies we put in placeQA specialists, automated test suites, monitoring and alerts, code reviews and static analysissystems are get...

Recently , I am making a social network in react and node ,but after most of the work done, i feel like this project looks like shit, i shouldn't have made thisDoes anyone have this kind of thoughts? ...

I've recently open-sourced a new Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard which shows the dynamics (the curvature of the graph) of oronavirus distribution per country. ReasoningThe reason for creating a...

What is a Linked List?A Linked List is a type of linear data structure, where the elements are not stored at a contiguous location and are linked using pointers. Each element contains data and a...

When I think I have a vague idea for a blog post, my first inclination is to come up with a title. In part, this is because I want a concise way to capture the idea in my notes, that way I can follow ...

On my mailing list, Joe writes:I want you to write about writing and how you've made it a habit.why do you do it?what's the sudden shift in doing it more recently?what's your process? idea -> draft...

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So you've started working from home.There are a multitude of recent articles giving advice on setting up your work environment, making sure you take breaks, and making sure you eat. This isn't one of ...

SummaryI been doing some research on getting a website chat application in with my React/Gatsby App. I am looking for something pretty simple for budget conscious clients.Crisp although it has a...

I had so many ideas for the next post, for the next YouTube video, for the making of my new website, for that side project that I loved so much...The reality is that I have no mental energy for that.I...

In some cases, we can found ourselves doing lots of intensive, CPU hungry tasks while the users are interacting with our end products or applications.Firing pollers, establishing WebSocket connections...

While the coronavirus pandemic continues to send shockwaves throughout almost all industries, including software and startups, there are still a lot of opportunities out there for developers who have ...

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How's your COVID19 work from home desk setup looks like?Mine is here: sarthakSharma @sarthology M...

I,ve created a GraphQL endpoint for getting stats of COVID19.Use it and send a pull on REPO, I'll add it to the showcase.Also I welcome all those who want to make it better. :)LINK OF ENDPOINT: https:...

This weekend I'm participating in the "We vs Virus" hackathon by the German government.WE NEED YOUR LIKESIt's probably the biggest hackathon in Germany ever, with over 40000 participants! Anyway, my t...

State management is a huge and important part of a big application. In libraries like React, Redux has always been popular. However, in past few days I came to know about these tweets. ...

Hi! I'm Helen, one of your friendly mods looking after the #sql, #postgres, #mysql and #database tags. At the end of each month, I'll be showcasing some of the great posts, projects and insights from...

John Gruber's Markdown is almost a perfect content authoring format. Here are 6 things it got wrong (in my opinion, of course).This post is an expanded tweet 1. Lazy List NumberingIn Gruber's ori...

TL;DR version: What are some examples of hacky dev workarounds that you have used to speed up a feature release? Do you prepare your website/app for unexpected features and how?Long version:Like many ...

So it was the second time when we had to turn markdown content to pdf in a project... so I simply extracted the relevant code, then I only had to put it into a shape so that it can be used in many way...

Now, that most of us are working from home, I've started thinking about the different office spaces I've had the opportunity to work in. I've already experienced a couple of different setups, includin...

At what age and in what language did you write your first line of code?...

What was your first computer?Leave your answer in the comments!...

Today is my last day at Netlify. It is a bittersweet moment, but the end of a formative period of my career that I will always be grateful for.Netlify is the first job I ever got through Learning in P...

Hey everyone, long time no blog! What better time to get back at it then between the two week span of being laid off and facing a global pandemic, am I right? So, to stay grounded I offered the follow...

Hi folks--Vivek Saraswat here from Mayfield. I invest in early stage infrastructure and product development tools startups, including partnering at the Series A with the amazing team at DEV (hi @ben @...

Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?All wins count -- big or small Examples of 'wins' include:Getting a promotion!Starting a new projectFixing a tricky bugCleaning your hou...

In a career in operations spent ensuring the reliability of various websites and applications, I've run into a lot of stories. In Ops you tend to collect war stories as ways to reflect on moments tha...

DEV is launching a new podcast (shhhhh ) and we'd love for you to be involved! For one of our inaugural episodes, we want to know:What important issue is being overlooked in the tech community?If you'...

Welcome to my Mechanical Keyboards 101 series! In this series I hope to introduce mechanical keyboards, their components, how to customise them and how to get into the hobby. This article is meant for...

Netlify Build is coming! It is in private beta now, and will go into public beta soon (and you can try it out as part of the RedwoodJS tutorial).There are a number of new capabilities Netlify Build wi...

I recently read the book How to Take Smart Notes by Snke Ahrens. It explores the note-taking method of a famous German sociologist Niklas Luhmann, who published a huge amount of work in his lifetime (...

In times of great adversity and chaos, we need to stay optimistic, adapt to the circumstances, and help others as much as possible.The economy may have been globally affected and the way we have to wo...

image by By freepikSide projects are great ways to grow our knowledge and skill, but where do you start? How do you get your ideas for new side projects? For me, I need someone else's passion to reall...

In this post, I won't go into details why sleep is important because there is a lot of information about it already. What I would like to do instead is to share my personal experience of improving my ...

Just about everyone who can is working from home now. And while we're lucky to work in an industry that already works from home regularly and easily, there are still some aspects of being in an office...

Today, countless engineering teams have leveraged API monitoring to track infrastructure health and report when services are down or unhealthy. There are a variety of API metrics that can be tracked t...

IntroA little tutorial to show how to build and train a classifier to distinguish positive from negative reviews:as an example dataset we download Movie Reviews from Kaggle.This dataset contain...

Today the Coronavirus outbreak has plunged the world's economy into a global recession, which will cause a period of a global economic slowdown.Regarding tech startups, the truth is that 90% of startu...

Twitter has enhanced my Internet experience in 2 similar ways recently - Webmentions and Twitter Links. I think these things point toward something we want as part of the permanent fabric of the socia...

I posted this question on Stack Overflow and thought I would get the dev.to communities perspective as well.When we (egghead.io) release a course, we send an email blast to all of our users that are o...

I need to run a python script from a C# program and i cant figure out how, please help! thanks!...

It's not so fun when you have no choice.My Son decided to turn the WIFI off mid meeting, he is literally clinging to me all day, smashing keys and grunting through slack calls, I am going to go spare....

A request before you start Reading this article. If you can help in building an opensource intelligent system on human health please contact me. A raw doc is here:https://github.com/Manishfoodtechs/OS...

With the COVID-19 pandemic in full swing, many people are looking at a lot of free time stuck indoors. Avoid cabin fever and use that time to make a difference in your community and the fight against ...

Today's episode of BaseCS dives into the origins and basics of graph theory!Well learn a little bit about Leonard Euler, a mathematician who attempted to solve the seven bridge problem. From there, we...

About half of the developers at Glitch are remote. I'm one of them, working from Chicago, so we've gotten a lot of practice trying to make sure everyone feels like they're a part of the team. As more ...

I am an extremely social developer and I am always looking for new ways to meeting new people. I have had coffees with people in Nashville that want to talk or are visiting. These conversations have b...

A common issue that many companies often face, including DEV, is how much data access to give their engineers. Allowing engineers access to production data has many benefits. It can help them make mor...

Some time ago a friend sent me a backup of our code from when we were starting to learn pascal. It was very nice to see some of my first attempts at programming.This one is from November of 2004, it's...

hey guys, so actually today I'm having some troubles, I'm trying to install docker and have a go at it with a full stack app, but installing its not the problem.me problem is when I try to do anything...

In addition to coding-related things you're working on, what are some non-coding skills/fields you want to learn about next? These can be coding-adjacent (like user research or project management) or ...

Bring GitHub collaboration tools to your small screens with GitHub for mobile.GitHub Mobile is officially leaving beta and entering general availability today. Learn more and download: https://github....

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Observability is a hotly debated topic in the backend world, and I accidentally got involved when I tried to match up my knowledge of open source JS tools to the Monitoring pillars of Metrics, Logs an...

Assume "#" is like a backspace in string. This means that string "a#bc#d" would actually be "bd". Implement a function that will process a string with "#" symbols and understand them as backspaces. ...

Hello, I am in the great and interesting time of looking for a job, ideally, it was remotely until these past weeks, but at this point, I am looking locally as well. The options are not that many.Do y...

Are you getting antsy being stuck at home? Over the past week, more people have decided isolate themselves at home to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 aka the Coronovirus. This means that Meetups are b...

Are you getting antsy being stuck at home? Over the past week, more people have decided isolate themselves at home to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 aka the Coronovirus. This means that Meetups are b...

I started using markdown as my primary document format, but the tools I'm using are very rudimentary. I use VS CODE + MD ext + Grammarly. I wrote a few scripts for cleaning up folders and committing t...

In the wake of the Coronavirus crisis, I see new "how to work remote" articles pop up every day, so I thought maybe someone is interested in my two cents.This isn't one of those articles that try to h...

Nat Friedman @natfriedman Excited to announce that @npmjs will be joining GitHub, and honored to...

So guys, let's face it. Covid-19 is a pandemic. We can't change that fact. But how can we as a bunch of smart people be of any help? Can we contribute to a specific project, can we start a new one?Ide...

I made a simple dashboard over the weekend to monitor the Coronavirus situation.It all started last friday and I learned a lot on this journey. First I started to mess with jq to convert the CSV files...

I made a simple dashboard over the weekend to monitor the Coronavirus situation.It all started last friday and I learned a lot on this journey. First I started to mess with jq to convert the CSV files...

We're all hoping our society can weather the storm. And as software developers we're most certainly not the ones most at risk of personal disruption.Anyway, how do you see our global society changing ...

I'll preface this with a quick bit about me: I've been a remote worker for just over 5 years now, typically I'll try to go to the office once a week. This is certainly something I have had to deal wit...

The Folding at Home research project uses crowdsourced CPU power to help model simulations to develop treatments for diseases. You can help them by taking 5 minutes to download their client and donate...

I wasn't planning on saying anything for a while, but the number of people who have reached out to me just to check in and tell me how much they learned from my writing last year has been surprising. ...

Hi guys, I want your help, I am a beginner at front end development so please guys would you suggest the best online course in front end development? and in your opinion what is the best way to beco...

Say, you have initially deploy the website on GitHub Pages, but you want to move to Netlify or Heroku.Perhaps, totally destroy the old website, and create 404.html for GitHub Pages (or redirect rules ...

Recently, I have started working on a project and lots of time I have to deal with strings. Comparing string tokens for equality and then calling the related operation. Sometimes strings do not need t...

The ThesisWhen we focus our efforts on Formats over Functions, we focus less on implementation and more on standardization. This is the key to longer lasting code. Why"Functions" are selfis...

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Keeping figurines, rubber ducks, alarm clocks and other kinds of decoration on ones desk seems to be quite common these days.It's not hard to get that you'd like to pimp out the place where you spend ...

2020 has just started a couple of months ago, yet we are found in the difficult situation of dealing with the coronavirus - leading many companies to enlist remote work policies. While it is manageabl...

Allen Wirfs-Brock (editor of ES6) and Brendan Eich (you know what he did) have published the definitive 20 year history of JavaScript. It is a 190 page treatment for The History of Programming Languag...

This tutorial was originally posted to the Twitter developer blog.Reticulate is a package for R that allows you to run Python code inside of R. Since both Python and R are very popular for common data...

This tutorial was originally posted to the Twitter developer blog.Reticulate is a package for R that allows you to run Python code inside of R. Since both Python and R are very popular for common data...

Here's a Code Line Daily widget: a component that displays a line of code of the day.Here's how I built it.Get data from localStorage:const cldData = localStorage.getItem('cldData');Parse data if avai...

As a backend dev, is there anything you can do to improve accessibility?...

Developer Relations is a fast-growing field with more tech companies adopting this concept as they are coming to a realization of how important having Developer Relations is for the success of their p...

We recently updated the documentation of the DEV API (beta) to add detailed information on the following resources: comments, followers, listings, podcast episodes, tags, users and video articles.The ...

Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?All wins count -- big or small Examples of 'wins' include:Getting a promotion!Starting a new projectFixing a tricky bugCleaning your hou...

I wanted to point to this podcast appearance by my colleague @molly_struve, DEV's Lead SRE. S11:E7 - Why site reliability is so important (Molly Struve) CodeNewbie ...

Hey, newly remote workers! Are you finding yourself on a lot more video calls than usual? Are you missing your favourite selfie filters? Okay, let's fix that. Snap CameraSnap Camera is a Mac and ...

I have been reading Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby aka "POODR" by Sandi Metz. The book is coveted and frequently referenced as a beacon for establishing good software design habits. I just m...

Happy Pi Day one day early awesome community members!It's that time of the week again. So wonderful devs, what did you learn this week? It could be programming tips, career advice etc.Feel free to com...

We are often told that Knowledge is Power. This is mostly true - except for at least two points in your career.Have you thought about how Ignorance can be Power too? I can think of at least two stages...

An object is an unordered data structure where everything is stored in key-value pairs.Let superDog = {Name: Dulce,Breed: Chihuahua,Weight: 2 pounds }Objects are great when storing in order is not a c...

This example is from the mobile version of a personal website I'm building with HTML/CSS and vanilla JavaScript.To overlay an element over another, we first need to understand z-index. Z-Indexz-i...

Your website will be accessible with HTTP. To access it with HTTPS do these three extra steps:Create a certificate with the AWS Certificate Manager for your domainCreate an AWS CloudFront distribution...

If youre looking for a way to write easily maintainable and portable CSS in React, you may be interested in using the styled-components library. Its one of a number of CSS in JS libraries that let you...

Even though I was happy with React and a huge fun of Vue, I still wanted to check out what's Svelte and why it is so awesome. And since the best way to try a tool is by building something with it, I d...

Even though I was happy with React and a huge fun of Vue, I still wanted to check out what's Svelte and why it is so awesome. And since the best way to try a tool is by building something with it, I d...

I am looking for some data for ML models I am working on, whats the best source?...

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Twenty minutes of back and forth on Slack will save you from having a 2-minute in-person conversation.You've probably heard some version of that. It is kinda meant in jest, but it often reflects the r...

Over the past day I've revisited the skeleton application that I use as a bootstrap when creating projects. The last time I wrote one with this tech stack was 14 months ago, which in development years...

Over the past day I've revisited the skeleton application that I use as a bootstrap when creating projects. The last time I wrote one with this tech stack was 14 months ago, which in development years...

I would like to know how many percentages I get of views, likes etc.. on my followers. I've got a lot, but I find that there is a lot of inter-reactions missing. Do ...

I've found the DEV community to be amazing. Lots of empathetic, enthusiastic, and generous people.I have also found it to be quite tailored towards Software Development (duh, read the name), which is ...

There are so many inspiring stories of people getting into the software industry later in life - learning to code in a self-taught way and getting a job as a programmer. There are also many people who...

So I wanted to create a short post here and get some opinions from the community. Since I have gotten back to the web dev game I have been looking into what was a better OS to make my workflow faster....

Dear reader who has not started writing yet, I want to encourage you to start blogging your first post and see where it leads you.In fact I have thought about this for a long time, and procrastinated ...

Today's episode of BaseCS explores the logic behind implementing the depth-first algorithm!We'll start by learning about recursion, the strategy for implementing DFS, and investigate the time complexi...

Super simple to add and play audio files on your site. No more fussing with embedding a Flash file or whatever the old way was Simplify and move forward with HTML5 <audio> tag, yay <audio co...

So many people are having to work from home or work remotely due to COVID-19, what are your tips for them?Here are mine:Get dressed -- doesn't have to be formal, just avoid pajamas or bathrobesset a r...

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A couple of days ago the CEO and founders of Sequoia Capital, one of the biggest VC standing behind such success stories as Dropbox, Linked or Stripe, has openly published a letter they have sent to t...

Hello my friends,Today I am gonna teach you an amazing magic trick. I am gonna teach you how to predict the interview.How do you like that?Okay, I want you to apply for a position you like.Next, I wan...

Hey DEV community! If you work in an engineering or engineering-adjacent role: how did you end up in your role? What has the hardest thing been for you? What do you like about your role? Ive been in t...

This is not a far fetch scenario; this actually happens to many cloud users; Experienced and newcomers. Here are some Pro Tips for you for using the cloud in a more secure and responsible way: Pr...

Hi, folks, I was wondering what kind of physical exercises should be considered as a bare minimum to be fit? I don't want to be a bodybuilder. I just want to be healthy, not to get diabetes, back pain...

Change the base font-size accordingly to the browser viewport using some math via CSS Calc https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/calc...

Hi :)I'm looking for examples of 2D, top-down simulators of robots, vehicles, machines or similar things. Searching on github doesn't bring up many results and searching the internet with a search eng...

The launch of RedwoodJS today marks a first: it is the first time React components are being expressed in a single file format with explicit conventions.I first talked about this in relation to my pos...

Merge requests (or pull requests) are a huge part of a team's development process. It's the main gatekeeper preventing developers from throwing whatever they want into the default branch. It's also a ...

If you go to /settings/ux, you'll see a few nobs for adjusting your DEV experience, such as fonts (I'm sans-serif all the way!)One of the settings is "experience level", a self-assigned number to help...

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So, do you want to style native radio and checkboxes without relying on JavaScript, plugins or dozens of wrappers, is that right? Well, thats possible :)The provider of all that magic is the appearanc...

We're focused on improving the independent web as a whole. We want to craft tools that help people build better sites and create better content.In line with this mission, we sought to create something...

"You thought CSS was going to be easy!"It only took one attempt at pure vanilla CSS to see where things go awry. Deciding on a structure before you begin is complicated, and CSS is already hard! I am ...

A couple of days ago I made a comment in Youtube referring that anyone can become a developer. My thought was tested by another user, who claimed that you also need talent. Otherwise, everyone would b...

TL;DR notes from articles I read today. The paradox of scaleGalls Law: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed ...

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Oh neat, you can. c=a2+b2c = \pm\sqrt{a^2 + b^2}c=a2+b2Here's the code to produce that snippet:{% katex %}c = \pm\sqrt{a^2 + b^2}{% endkatex %}It's new and there will be kinks that need to be worke...

Hi, guys! This is my first post on Dev.to.I come to share with you a thought that intrigues me a little. Maybe, a little strange one at first sight.Well... I have built a REST API for a personal proje...

The term neurodiversity refers to variation in the human brain regarding sociability, learning, attention, mood and other mental functions in a non-pathological sense. More information can be found on...

Originally posted on laurieontech.comAs you've probably seen, a lot of companies are moving towards remote work in the midst of coronavirus. There are many articles out there that give great tips like...

I spotted this tweet asking to "Tag someone you first met on Twitter, that changed your life for the better." Matthew Kobach @mkobach ...

With so many people suddenly working remotely, I thought Id share some tips that Ive learned over the years as Ive worked from home. As many are discovering, its not just a matter of opening up your l...

Specifically, a technical writing project like a blog post, tutorial, documentation, etc.I'm in the middle of writing one and suddenly, don't know how to reach my point or what technical information t...

HelloMy name is Artem Shar, I'm Web/Fron-End developer since 2016. In the end of 2019 I decided it was time to make a new personal website with a blog like as usual... The new site is not ready ...

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Automated testing is a liability. Manual checking functionality is a huge liability. I want to emphasize some concerns I have with the machine learning testing solutions.If you are not familiar with t...

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I have never used Redux, even after using React for 2+ years.What's your unpopular opinion or something you?...

The long awaited GitHub Action feature is finally out of beta and ready to be present in every repositories. GitHub even organized a Hackathon through out March to encourage folks to create more aweso...

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I've been working with Azure Functions for a few months now and I've really been loving how it can integrate with other Azure services. I was trying to figure out how to get Functions to work with Key...

Recently, I realized that I've been floating around the tech world for 6 years now! That's a pretty good chunk of time! In those 6 years, I've been in roles for business analytics, data processing, pr...

Have you ever wanted to know when tagging someone on a GitHub issue or pull request if they might be awake? Clearly, if someone is awake, it does not automatically mean they must respond in real-time ...

One of the parting pieces of advice I give in The Developer's Guide to Content Creation is the recommendation to read a lot of technical content. Reading technical content is every bit as important as...

Dear allies and friends, You're out here and I see you. Thank you for being here and taking the time to offer coding tips and solid career advice that 4 jobs and many years of self study would not hav...

A Neural Network is a machine learning model inspired by the human brain. A neural network learns to perform a task by looking at examples without being explicitly programmed to perform the task. Thes...

The title of what you are doing right now does not determine what you will do in the future. Nowadays you can switch careers, especially to programming. Elon Musk ...

Yo devs ! A quick guide on "How to center things in CSS" Most of the time, you write great CSS code from colors to complex animations.But I know most of us (beginners) still struggle to center e...

Any time a new project is announced, especially in a relatively young language such as Rust, there will be the inevitable responses regarding "fragmentation", "wasted effort", "duplication of work" an...

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Some time ago I need to format my Mac twice times in the same week and it's was very painful to configure all the things.I saw an opportunity to write my own dotfiles that can help me a lot when I nee...

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If you're not familiar with Redux or hooks feel free to check out my other articles explaining the topics and then come back! When I was first learning Redux I found all the moving parts and files inc...

When I first approached Ruby, I basically looked at it like "dynamic C++", because that was the best analogue I had. Of course, that has required some tweaking. This post talks about some Ruby-speci...

You know me DEV, I'm AWS Obsessed. That doesn't mean I never use GCP or Azure. I was refreshing my GCP knowledge today and saw a service I never noticed before called Cloud Talent Solutions APISo I'm ...

I wanted to share this with you guys. What do you love the most about Linux and freedom of the software? ...

Hi Penelope,You're new to this. It certainly feels strange to be writing a letter to yourself on International Women's Day. But you can't help but smile reading that. Yourself, International Women's D...

Happy Saturday folks,Hope you are all chilling So, with all this talk on working remotely because of the virus, and in my case it is more because I may have gotten a full time remote web dev job, I wa...

This is a follow up to my second post in this series:https://dev.to/bytebodger/throw-out-your-react-state-management-tools-4cj0In that post, I began digging into the Context API in earnest for the fir...

Why Scaffolding?Is scaffolding "worth it"?Micro-generator tool: PlopJSHow does Plop work?Plop Set UpPlop Example to Generate JSX PageFormatting OutputConclusionCreate Your Own TemplateAdditional Resou...

As with most of my posts, I'll probably ramble quite a bit, get lost in my own train of thought, and eventually tie it together in an unsatisfactory way.But this, my lovely DEV friends, is the story o...

Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?All wins count -- big or small Examples of 'wins' include:Getting a promotion!Starting a new projectFixing a tricky bugCleaning your hou...

I wrote a previous blog post about JavaScript Set objects so I naturally wanted to follow it up with a post about JavaScript Map objects. Sets and Maps could be considered distant cousins or estranged...

I code and I like to read (preferably fiction).I code and I am learning to improve my drawing.I code and I like to wake up at 6 am.I code and I am learning Blender.I code and I like to take long walks...

What are you doing to celebrate this day?...

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When I participated in this initiative last year, I was feeling the need to share with the world that situations happen, and y'all are not alone. This yearThis year I would like to reflect I bit...

When @danielroygreenfeld and I got married, I took the "Greenfeld" part of his name, and he took the "Roy" part of my name. We thought it was a nice gesture showing the world that he belongs to me and...

I wanted to start a conversation about neurodiversity in tech. One of my good friends found out she had dyslexia after struggling to learn code, for years. Our tools are designed for most people to re...

As a child, my parents fed me the same line most parents do: You can be anything you want when you grow up. While I never distrusted their encouragement, I never truly internalized it, either.In the r...

We asked the egghead community on Twitter for their best tips on how to make sure you get the most of out meetups and conferences. We wanted to share those answers with the DEV community! ...

I code and I competitively ride horses.I code and I go to bed at 9 pm.I code and I am a morning person.I code and I run at least 3 miles every morning. I code and I love to snowboard.I code and I take...

Equality in tech looks like...everyone getting a chance to participate and be recognized for their contributions. It also means recognizing that not everyone starts off on equal footing and work...

Week #7 On My Bootcamp......and I'm making my very own hangman game from scratch with React.The first time I learnt about React was on Wednesday. (Yes, two days ago.) Now I am spending my Friday...

For anyone who doesn't know much about me, I am a career changer who attended and later coached at, Flatiron School. I graduated from their online self-paced software engineering program in February o...

I'm lucky because I have a great team mate !Despite an extremely stressful context and a solid imposter syndrome, she coded. She joined the team 1 year ago, and has made great progress although ...

I'm a self-taught frontend developer...And that journey hasn't been an easy one.I started tinkering with frontend when I was a teenager. I loved message board roleplay games and wanted to style ...

Every year I decide to write a she coded post, it's on a work day where I'm convinced I know very little about some thing and get stuck on it. I even wouldn't be surprised if it was the same thing-- r...

Yesterday I interviewed for a senior developer position at a large corporation. I was confident, in charge, and ready to rock.Thirty minutes into the interview I left shattered and destroyed.What happ...

Before coding... I have a degree in marketing and never thought programming will be interesting for me and had a completely wrong image of IT. How it started... But when I started learning ...

Trigger Warning: graphic sexual content, racism, sexual harassment Nevertheless, Ali coded. And wrote about it online....

(Image by Annett Zobel from Pixabay)Recently, i made a quick OK Http server for feature i was developing in my work, and had to do a little research (just read the help that Github gives when creating...

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Hi dev.to this is my first post, I would like to introduce myself and share some insights from my website and ask for opinion of this amazing communityI am mix of web developer and designer so my web...

I am a Software Developer working across different technology stack, a self-taught coder and a beginner blogger.Altogether till now lots of things has changed.I joined a startup as intern and then con...

It's that time of the year when we get to write this and I am happy to write one. Not because I've got some exciting story to inspire or motivate you but simply to tell you that sometimes it's okay no...

Equality in tech looks like...When everyone has the opportunity to enter the industry, to work, to grow, to share knowledge and to be paid fairly, regardless of gender, race, sexuality or any ot...

In this post, I want to take a moment to dissect a block of code that I found challenging while working on my first Ruby on Rails project.In our Bachelor/Bachelorette web app, a user can update an exi...

I'll make this quick. A lot has changed since my last #SheCoded post -I got a promotion.I switched companies.I took on a strategic role.I moved from an IC to a people manager. (And a manager of manage...

Its hard to believe, but Ive been a front-end developer for three years now! Sometimes I have to pinch myself because I cant believe its my JOB to build cool things and solve puzzles all day. It isnt ...

I'm what a dev looks like. I'm a DevOps practitioner, a self-taught coder, a self-taught admin, and a beginner-safe speaker.I'm also an example of what a developer looks like when they've changed care...

International Womens Day is Sunday, March 8!To celebrate, DEV is highlighting stories from self-identifying women and non-binary people who code. Nevertheless, She Coded amplifies the importance...

One of my podcast listeners asked me why I use the feminine pronouns like "she" and "her" to refer to generic programmers. After all, most techies are dudes. If the trades are to be believed, women ho...

Just stopping in to say .Hello World/.New to coding trying to learn myself, starting out with github and the basics.If anyone has any pointers shoot em my way....

Day 1- Divide webpage into logical sectionsHTML5 offers several elements that will help you organize your layout in appropriate sections:Header <header>Navigation bar <nav>Main Cont...

Photo by twinsfisch on UnsplashIt's that time of the week again. So wonderful devs, what did you learn this week? It could be programming tips, career advice etc.Feel free to comment with what you lea...

Introduction:The newest entry in the race to be the best JavaScript framework in the market today is Svelte. It is a new JavaScript framework just like React, Vue and Angular, but with a twist.W...

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I decided to be a Software Engineer. I had never had a clear vocation for computer systems, and it was not a meditated decision. I remember the look on my parents faces that day. They only said to me ...

Four years ago, I wrote my first line of code ever. This code wasnt very amazing. I was simply trying to get Hello World to appear on the screen. It was a simple task, but this was the beginning of a ...

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In 2017 I wrote I just don't want to be a software developer anymore. The post went viral and continues to get traffic. Some people have asked where I am now. Reader, I'm a software engineer. At the t...

Originally published at rossta.netPhoto by Alice Donovan Rouse on UnsplashI've been getting this question lately from Rails developers in some form or another:Is Webpack and Webpacker worth the hassle...

Today we are going to talk about eslint and webpack. This is not going to teach you how to install eslint in your project, I will assume that you already did.First of all, when you are new to eslint a...

I wanted to share how I got started in tech, despite being the only girl in MOST situations Early BeginningsI think the very first time I coded, I was making a website for my Girl Scout troop. I ...

Today we set out to implement a feature I saw and liked in Kotlin - Extension Methods.You can follow along with working code samples here, or get the code hereExtension methods are a nice piece of syn...

I'm preparing an introductory talk on Why Svelte for the March Svelte Society NYC meetup so here are my talk notes. Why is it called Svelte?Attractively thin, graceful and stylish. What is S...

What is GraphQL. What are its design concepts. How is it different from its alternatives. What are its advantages and disadvantages.I am writing the GraphQL In Action book for Manning and 6 chapters (...

I built this project a while ago, but I wanted to add more levels and clean-up the code before showing it off.The game board can be navigated using arrow keys.If there's anything I can improve on in t...

I got here (Im a developer community event manager) by an odd chain of events which I can trace back step-by-step to the beginning. I ran for the role of part-time volunteering officer at my students ...

For March, all three of our Gold sponsors DigitalOcean, CloudBees, and Twilio have returned. We'd like to extend thanks to each of these companies for being long-term valuable DEV Community partners...

We recently completed our first six week cycle here at DEV, and one change I'm particular excited about is making it easier to test and change the way the home page article feed is generated. First, s...

The common misconception about TypeScript I hear a lot is - TypeScript is more OOP than JavaScript, TypeScript is more like Java, C#, its for OOP programmers, it emphasizes classes and inheritance. On...

Has anyone taking a long hiatus from active coding either due to career changes or whatever reason and then try to get back into it? What's the experience like? What steps did you take to get back on ...

In this presentation, I am going to talk to you about some of the new and exciting features coming to Vue 3. I originally put this presentation together for a conference called CodeMash. I put a lot o...

What program, application, or shortcut have you never been able to get behind, even though most people tout up as the best thing for developing? It could be either because you don't care to learn/use ...

Special guest Sam (https://dev.to/techdebtor) walks us through how to prepare for object oriented design questions and ace the communication and whiteboarding part of the interview.This video is Part ...

About Me: I've been a professional web developer for just over 10 years now. I'm currently the lead web development instructor at Better Coding Academy, and as part of what I do, I post videos on our ...

I've just released Ultra Runner 2.0.0 with lots of new features to run scripts and builds for monorepos. Highlightszero-config: works out of the box with your existing monoreponon-intrusive: no ...

IntroShould have used HTTPS!If you're into Cryptography For Beginners, you're in the right place. Maybe you're just getting into Rails and want to add a user login/logout function. Maybe you're ...

Last week marked the day when I've been mob programming full time for a whole year. In case you don't know what mob programming is, Woody Zuill, who is credited for discovering the method describes it...

These are my notes on Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble and Gene Kim's Accelerate, building and scaling high performing technology organizations. Note that there is an additional chapter on the book website...

I have been using to the term High Performance Team when debating with team-mates and friends about performance, way of working, and so on.After a while, we realized that we were meaning different thi...

I have been using to the term High Performance Performing Team when debating with team-mates and friends about performing, way of working, and so on.After a while, we realized that we were meaning dif...

Working with containers has become a hefty trend in Software Engineering in this past couple of years. Containers can offer several advantages for software development and application deployment, poss...

If you have a Python text string, and want trailing spaces removed you can do that with the method .strip(), .lstrip() and .rstrip().That removes the spaces before and after the string. ExampleYo...

Today's episode of BaseCS explores depth-first tree traversal on trees!We'll learn the basics of the DFS algorithm, and see how to interact with a single node when traversing through a tree. Next, we'...

Hey Dev team and contributors!Question. How often to you find yourselves googling an issue, finding something useful then only realising mid read that you are actually on Dev?Curious ...

Hey ladies and non-binary friends!What do you do when today is just one of those days? If you're the only software engineer around who's not a cis man, you might get times where you feel like you're n...

What are the qualities of readable code, and what helps one create readable code?...

JFrog has released a Unified Platform, putting the entire product suite under one roof. Youll have a comprehensive view of whats going on with your artifacts, more clear permissions control, quicker a...

Last year, when I mobilized my network to put together the first NYC Svelte meetup in one week, I was not even an active Svelte user at the time. I was just a Rich Harris fan and friend.So of course o...

So, I've come across both terms and I don't understand how serialization is different than parsing. They seem to be different as I've never read about both in the same context but they seem to be simi...

Do you ever wish that collaborating with your team when working remotely, would feel more natural? A 4,300-person survey from Digital Ocean shows that 33% of developers primarily work remotely, and 28...

Imagine this: Youve just written some code for a new feature. Youre wrapping up writing some unit tests. As youre writing your tests, you begin to have an existential crisis. Why am I writing these te...

The code for this tutorial is available on GitHub.With the start of the new year, I have had quite a few friends complain how difficult it is to find remote developer job openings. Not only that, but ...

Another piece of great news for the GraphQL community surfaced last week. A San Francisco-based startup Hasura Inc. announced a $9.9M Series A investment!Originally Hasura was a company aiming to help...

Recently, DEV has started the migration from Algolia to Elasticsearch. Since I am often asked what is the best way to get started with Elasticsearch, I figured I would share how we have been making th...

What is your opinion on elixir language, why don't more developers use it?Thanks in advance for all the participants to this discussion...

I've been doing loads of more research on Performance for the past couple of weeks and Performance Budgets have caught my eye. Curious to know how many teams use performance budgets and how you've imp...

I've been watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers on Frontend Masters (this is a paid, recorded workshop that is every bit worth the subscription, but also the course notes are available free online...

I bet you know of someone who had an app or website idea and got screwed over by their developer. That is, the developer agreed to take a job, promised they could actually do the work, started itand t...

I created my very first Ruby gem in 2009. Since then I have released many packages. It's been a long ride. A lot of things have changed in a Ruby gem manifest file. Some configuration options are no l...

For most of us, a local development server proves to be good enough to get our day to day coding done. Even mobile device displays can be tested quite well on Chrome (or other browsers) using built-in...

I really like the Dev.to community. Only been here a few days but people are super nice and it's a great place to brain dump my thoughts.So for both networking and personal satisfaction reasons, I'm t...

As many of you will know, this new COVID-19 (or SARS-CoV-2) epidemic is spreading all over the world and I am one of the lucky ones who found themselves rigth in the middle of it: living in the Italia...

Do you go into an office on work days? Is your company taking precautions? Are you taking personal precautions? Are you planning on attending any conferences soon which are up in the air?...

I make sure to participate in #shecoded every year to share this gif:Gif source Equality in tech looks likeAnything that would be provided is provided to all peoples equally.Care products in one ...

Hello ! The "new" release v0.5.0 of node-secure has been published few hours ago. This release includes new features and a lot of UI improvement.Do not hesitate to check the article on the v0.4.0 (whi...

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"""Coded she did. So much self doubt. So much information to overwhelm even the most educated of person. All you have to do is start.... and oh my did she start. She started, she read, she practiced t...

Hello community, lately ive been wondering the advantages of auto generated schema definitions like graphql-compose-mongoose, in respect to hand written schema definitions, there are many things the t...

It's hard to get very far in development without encountering StackOverflow. It's likely one of the most universal tools among all developers across the world.If you're not familiar with the StackOver...

In a constantly changing world where powerful AI-based applications are day by day more accurate and efficient than any technology, its hard to keep track of such a big transformation. As developers, ...

A really quick step-by-step guide on how to squash Git commits to make your PRs concise, easy to read, and hence easy to review.Steps:Make sure your branch is up to date with the master branch.Run git...

As a society we tend to focus on titles and roles, we tend to forget that behind each title there is a person, a person who has a story to tell and every persons story is unique. In honor of Internati...

In the previous posts of the Building Minicli series, we demonstrated the steps to bootstrap a dependency-free microframework for CLI-only applications in PHP. Minicli was created as an educational ex...

The game development is a great way to cover several programming topics. In this experiment I developed a differente version of the classic Minesweeper game.My main goal was to build an accessible gam...

Is using tag in your UIView to store the state of the UIView a bad practice?...

I've been quietly planning out SheHacksPurple.dev for the past little while, with the intent to announce it while at RSAC last week in San Francisco. My new site provides regular security content for ...

I've been writing web applications for more than a decade. From classic ASP to PHP, ASP.Net web forms and the list goes on and on. However, something that's been common between all those years for me ...

I'm 27 years old and I have just realized that I've been going about this life thing all wrong . Good thing is I'm still alive thank God, so I can start going about it the right way. The HowAfter...

This article assumes you have some basic knowledge of Gatsby and Netlify. How do you do it?Using Netlify's built-in form handling with Gatsby should be simple and intuitive, but sadly it's not th...

Despite being all around us, safety-critical software isn't on the average developer's radar. But recent failures of safety-critical software systems have brought one of these companies and their soft...

Shell is an interface between the user and operating system services. It provides multiple features like background processing, input and output redirection, aliasing, link, and chain commands, etc. w...

In a recent conversation I had with someone I admire, they commented that they really liked my way of explaining things from first principles. I was quite struck by this in 3 ways:I wasn't actually co...

Last December we got for Christmas Ruby 2.7. release and between its many interesting features and improvements, one in specific is pretty much a first for the ruby language.This article is an overvie...

Hey, folks! Today i want to ask you about egghead.io. Do you enjoy it?In December 2019 I purchased 1-year subscription and to be honest, I am disappointed. Quality of videos are good, but content is e...

For quite some time, I had a spare Raspberry Pi lying around in my place. And one weekend I came up with idea to make my apartment "smarter". What I mean by saying "smarter" is tracking some metrics o...

Hey! I have made a chip8 emulator that allows you run chip8 roms on your command line interface and does not require any GUI.If you want to install, see the source code or see more information about ...

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Problem:Most Docker containers and the processes inside run with non-root user, because of better security. If the container process is running with root (uid 0) it will be the same root as on t...

Problem:Most Docker containers and the processes inside run with non-root user, because of better security. If the container process is running with root (uid 0) it will be the same root as on t...

Hello everyone,I want to share with you my first VS Code theme based on Joker's style.Check it out: Code/File Preferences Color Theme Joker Smile.VS Code Marketplace - Joker SmileFeel free to contr...

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is one of the largest and longest-running events targeted at video game developers.Owing to concerns regarding the coronavirus, the past few weeks has seen a numbe...

On February 17th, I gave a talk at the React Vienna Meetup about this topic and I thought writing a blogpost about could benefit some folks that either couldn't make it or are living somewhere else ar...

From developer to consultantIf you are here, you are probably a Thoughtworker or somebody soon to join ThoughtWorks and you are looking for what is this TWU thing. If you are none of the above then is...

Or even, do you hate lit-html?I mean, all you are doing is either HTML-in-JS, or truly JS function syntax anyway. No real separation of concern here, unless you truly visually separate them.I think HT...