JavaScript in Plain English·5y17 Killer Websites for Web Developers
The Unsplash API is a modern JSON API that surfaces all of the info you’ll need to build any experience for your users. Embeddable Widget Apps for Notion is a tool to add 3rd party apps to your Notion Document. Smart Mockup is the fastest web-based mockup tool.
ITNEXT·4y🔥 Frontend Interview Cheatsheet That Helped Me Get Offers From Amazon & LinkedIn
Vitalii Shevchuk: Frontend Interview Cheatsheet That Helped Me Get Offers From Amazon & LinkedIn. If you are preparing for a frontend interview and want to quickly refresh your frontend domain knowledge, this cheatsheet will save you a lot of time. Enjoy reading, and feel free to dive deeper by clicking the topic link.
Hashnode·5y18 Awesome Linux Themes For Your Inspiration 🎨😍
The other day I was browsing Reddit and bookmarked some neat custom-made, one-of-a-kind interfaces from fellow Unix users. I decided to share my findings, so you can get some inspiration, too. To find out the configuration details of each setup, click on the author's username.
JavaScript in Plain English·5yHow to Set Up Your Programming LinkedIn Profile
If you want to get hired as a web-developer, you need a LinkedIn profile. According to research, 87% of recruiters use LinkedIn regularly. LinkedIn uses keywords in various areas of your profile to determine if you’re a relevant result when a potential employer/recruiter is searching.
Hacker News·4yMy Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer
After 12 years in the corporate world, I am ecstatic that I have finally attained my goal. This article is about the nuts and bolts of my journey in case anyone else finds it useful in charting their own course. There are many steps in my journey that would be hard or impossible for others to replicate. But there are others that you would find more useful and applicable in your own life.
TechCrunch·5yFacebook changes its corporate branding to Meta – TechCrunch
After 17 years of being called Facebook, the social networking parent company behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus has a new name. Facebook’s corporate entity is now Meta. Facebook had been laying the groundwork for this change for months, seemingly in an effort to move its core branding further from the negative headlines surrounding its most popular product.
The Next Web·5yFacebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger are all DOWN
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger have all gone down in a huge global outage. The issues appear to have been caused by a Domain Name Server (DNS) failure. Facebook said it was aware of the issues and was “working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible.
TechCrunch·4yMicrosoft launches Google Wave – TechCrunch
Microsoft is bringing back Google Wave, the doomed real-time messaging and collaboration platform Google launched in 2009 and prematurely shuttered in 2010. Microsoft Wave Loop is a new app — and concept — that takes the Fluid framework, which provides developers with flexible components to mix and match.
Quastor Daily·4yWhy LinkedIn changed their tech stack
LinkedIn switched to using open source software and the Hadoop ecosystem. LinkedIn previously used third party proprietary platforms for their data analytics tech stack. This approach led to scaling problems and made it hard to evolve the systems. LinkedIn engineers developed a new data lake (data lakes let you contain raw data without having to structure it) in parallel.
Hashnode·5y10 Fun APIs to Use For Your Next Project
A web API (application programming interface) is a tool which tells a system what you want and gives the response back to you. Think of an API as a messenger. I've curated a list of 10 fun APIs to use for your next project. Let me know if you know of any other APIs which would be cool and fun to use.
Quastor Daily·5yPrinciples for API Design
Slack has a set of 6 design principles that can help you design better APIs. Facebook had their worst outage since 2008. The issue was related to DNS, specifically BGP routing and BGP announcements. Plus, a couple awesome tech snippets on Python 3.10 Best practices for Logging.
Hacker News·4yTwitter’s founder admits that shutting down the API was “Worst thing we did”: it affected users and developers
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and CEO until recently, has been highly active this week on the social network, but not about it, but about the future of the web. Dorsey has criticized the idea that web3 will be decentralized (as opposed to Web 2.0, which was centralized in the hands of large platforms and social networks), claiming that we do not own web3.
Product Hunt·5yToolb.dev - A set of 50+ free interactive CSS, HTML and JS webtools
Toolb.dev provides a set of 50+ and expanding free CSS, HTML and JS webtools for daily usage. Embed Collect is one of the most popular ways to collect data from your web browser. Use this data to help people with reading comprehension and vocabulary. Use the weekly Newsquiz to test your knowledge of stories you saw on this site.
Quastor Daily·4yHow Facebook Encodes Videos
Quastor Daily is published every Thursday. This week we look at how Facebook encodes videos. We also look at the benefits and downsides of Rust for JavaScript tooling. Plus, a couple awesome tech snippets on Unity for Software Engineers and a new question from Facebook.
Hacker News·5yDiscover the best developer blogs on any tech stack
Blogging for Devs Trends is meant to be a fun way to discover the most discussed technical content on Twitter, without doomscrolling your day away. We track 354 of the best technical blogs by developers and industry experts, across over two dozen categories. Points are weighted to reward mentions and replies by individual developers more than likes and retweets.
DEV·4yTop 10 Websites to find Remote Jobs
Remote work means working from anywhere other than the office. We Work Remotely is the largest remote work community in the world. PowerToFly is a mostly tech-focused jobs board site specifically designed for women. Jobspresso is an easy-to-use remote jobs website to find quality remote careers.
Quastor Daily·5yClean Code - Part 3
Facebook built a platform that all backend services can use to automatically shard their applications. Shard Manager manages tens of millions of shards hosted on hundreds of thousands of servers. It is used for hundreds of applications in production. The root cause of the Internet outage was a failure in Akamai’s Edge DNS service.
The Next Web·5yWindows 11 announcement: Everything you need to know
After weeks of teasers and leaks, Windows 11 is official. Microsoft says it has a lot more in store for Windows 11’s official launch later this year. The new Start menu has a completely new design, abandoning the ‘Tiles’ that have been a staple of the OS since Windows 8. Snap Groups and multi-monitor setups make multi-tasking easier.
DEV·4y7 Awesome Ways to Screenshot Your Code
There will probably be a need to capture a screen of code, whether it is yours or someone else's. For example, you may use that for reference in an article, to ask for help on a forum, to display your skills on Twitter, or to save valuable information for later use. I found seven awesome ways to take screenshots of your code.
gitconnected·5yCreate Your App With Flutter In 5 Days
Flutter allows developers to create applications for iOS and Android by using a single code-base. The app development process has never been easy, but Flutter has made it far easier and simpler for developers by providing an advanced level of software development kit complied with all the widgets and plugins.
