Best of daily.dev — May 2024
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DEV·2y
37 Tips from a Senior Frontend Developer
Tips for frontend developers include mastering the fundamentals, understanding how the web works, learning data structures and algorithms, practicing rather than just reading or watching tutorials, asking for help when stuck, not blindly copying code, evaluating online advice, assuming good intent, and focusing on delivering value. It's important to communicate, take breaks, work from strengths, diversify problem-solving, find mentors, commit to a JavaScript framework, prioritize user experience, and continuously invest in skills.
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Community Picks·2y
20 Essential Browser Extensions For Web Developers
Discover 20 essential browser extensions for web developers in 2024, including ColorZilla, WhatFont, Wappalyzer, and more. Explore extensions for getting information from other websites, developing and testing projects, and improving productivity.
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SSL in localhost takes 5 seconds now.
Setting up SSL for localhost traditionally requires tedious manual configurations and repetitive steps. However, Ophiuchi simplifies the process by automatically generating certificates, updating the hosts file, providing an integrated web server, and ensuring instant trust. It saves time and allows developers to focus on building great software.
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Make naked websites look great with matcha.css!
matcha.css is a drop-in semantic styling library in pure CSS that can make naked websites look great without any build steps, JavaScript, configuration, or refactoring. It provides additional modern styles out-of-the-box and is easily customizable and reversible.
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ChatGPT - Prompts for developers
ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that helps developers in various ways such as writing code, refactoring code, code review and debugging, optimizing code, explaining code, creating unit tests, adding code comments, creating boilerplate code, and writing regular expressions.
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daily.dev Changelog·2y
Reading streaks are here!
Reading streaks are a feature that gives readers an extra motivation to maintain their reading habit. Milestones are celebrated and displayed, and readers can opt out of them if desired. The feature includes a widget to track past streaks, including the longest streak and total reading days. Weekends are excluded from the streak, but reading during weekends can still contribute to it.
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Tech World With Milan·2y
What is Clean Architecture?
Clean Architecture promotes the idea of modular, testable, and maintainable code. It emphasizes separating concerns and defining clear boundaries between system components. Clean Architecture is suitable for complex or long-lived applications, projects with a central domain model, and teams that prioritize clean code practices.
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AI in Plain English·2y
Why is GPT-4o Free? OpenAI’s Master Plan
OpenAI has launched GPT-4o for free with the aim of achieving mass adoption, competing with other models, collecting more data for training future models, countering the scorched earth theory, and driving network effects. They may also have even better products coming soon.
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Fireship·2y10 regrets of experienced programmers
Experienced programmers have regrets including writing too much code, not learning to code earlier, not finishing enough projects, not getting a computer science degree, not buying Bitcoin in 2010, not learning lower-level languages like C, using JavaScript on the server, spending too much time on LeetCode, not prioritizing health, and questioning the value of coding itself.
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