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I’m not an Insect, I’m Not a Software Developer

The title is my attempt at clickbait. A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new […]

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Reviewing Dell UltraSharp U4919DW Ultrawide Monitor: Six Months In as a Developer

To save you some time, most of this review only applies to using it with macOS. On Windows, it’s quite different due to the Dell Display Manager app, which doesn’t exist yet for macOS, Dell promises to release it by early 2021. I was hesitant to get such a massive monitor. But when I read […]

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4 Creative Ways to JavaScript Timing in Browsers

This article assumes the availability for Web APIs, therefore, most methods suggested here don’t work in NodeJS. Using an infinite synchronous loop in a Web Worker (not Service Worker) Since Web Workers are essentially web threads, you can infinitely loop inside them without blocking the main thread. This gives you access to sub-millisecond time resolutions. […]

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Do Not Use Your Employer’s Email Account to Negotiate Anything Legal

TL;DR: because they can delete everything. By employer’s email account I mean something like you@youremployersdomain.com. I recently parted ways with my previous employer. It all went super smoothly and my previous employer was nothing but super nice and compassionate. However, after a while, they naturally shut down my email account. And I was so close […]

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Trying out Svelte as a React Developer

I have been so excited to try out Svelte v3 since it came out in late April. But I wasn’t sure what to build. I built TodoMVC app and it didn’t feel enough to test out a framework, took me around 30 mins. Plus, it’s already built by Svelte team and this made it feel […]

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Leveraging HTML5 form validation & validation UI in React — Validate forms in 2 mins

Sorry to say that this might be a waste of your time if you care about IE. If you don’t, first I love you, second let’s do it! Form validation in React is a hot topic. Some people think it’s a pain in the neck. Some people think it’s easy. Some people think it’s indeed […]

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(discontinued) Run a green-badge local HTTPS server with zero configuration

Running a local HTTPS server can be pain in the neck. You have to create your own certificates, add them as trusted etc. You know the deal. Using tunnels, at least the freely-available choices, isn’t the best experience either, they create a different URL everytime, they can get really slow, and 3rd parties will have […]

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How to Setup Your Web App Manifest Dynamically Using Javascript

From a URL or a JSON object

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The True Delight of React’s Error and Warning Messages

An epitome of code kindness Introduction There is this fascinating idea that hasn’t left me for years now, that software developers, with all their prejudices, biases, and humanness in general, shape the world around us. Think about it. Software, just like music, is an intangible good. It’s not wine or chocolate where raw materials can limit […]

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My Thoughts on Working Remotely, One Year in

The social, the efficiency and the health factors A little intro It’s been a little more than a year since I joined Starcounter. Working full-time as a Javascript developer mostly on Palindrom, JSONPatcherProxy, and fast-json-patch. All the team I work with is in the same timezone. We use Github, Slack and Google Hangouts for meetings. Worth mentioning that I […]