Best of Tech NewsDecember 2021

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    🔥 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.

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    GitHub Wrapped - Your year in code

    You coded a lot in 2021 - commits, pull requests, and reviews. Reflect on your year, the projects you contributed to, and the developers you supported. Share on Twitter or add to your personal Readme. Made by the team at Neat. Open source.

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    My 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.

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    Avatar of quastorQuastor Daily·4y

    Why 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.

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    Twitter’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.

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    7 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.

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    How I made $10,000 revenue in one month with my first info product

    Kent Clothier made $10,000 from his first eBook in one month. It took him 8 months of inconsistent tweeting to get to 1,500 followers. He followed his mentor's advice to build a Twitter network on the same day he met his mentor again. He is currently working on his second eBook.

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    Avatar of tcTechCrunch·4y

    WTF is .xyz? – TechCrunch

    .xyz is one of the top five top-level domains (TLDs) in the world by traffic, according to the company’s own DNS data. It was created to “provide users around the world competition and choice when it comes to their domain name,” and is “the first truly generic domain extension with no inherent meaning,’ CEO Daniel Negari said.

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    Avatar of tnwThe Next Web·4y

    Meta’s first ‘metaverse’ app feels like a cheap Minecraft rip-off

    Horizon Worlds is the first chance we have to experience Zuck’s virtual vision. The app is now available for free, but with a few caveats. You must be at least 18 years old and located in the US or Canada. The game won’t be supported on the Oculus Quest 1 after January 13, 2022.

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    Why Move From CRUD to Event Sourcing Architecture?

    CRUD is an acronym for Create, Read, Update, and Delete. This pattern is widely used by businesses across sectors and industries for tracking customer data, employee information, payment records, etc. Event Sourcing is a data storage technique that is seen as an upgrade of CRUD. It is often combined with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Command Segregation (CRS)

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    Is Web Scraping Legal?

    The stance of the internet law on the legality of web scraping remains yet controversial. Most of the past legal face-offs between companies on web scraping ended up leaving traces of mind puzzles. With the court twists involved, a claimant might even end up guilty despite suing others for scraping their website.

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    Can you code on a phone?

    More than half of people worldwide access the internet using mobile devices instead of desktop computers. If you only have a mobile device, you can still learn to code. We just published a tutorial on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel that will teach you how to code on an Android phone.

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    Log4j Developer Response

    A newly discovered zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) in the Apache Log4j library. If exploited, the vulnerability allows attackers to gain full control of affected servers and your application. There are a few key things you can do as a developer to contain the threat.

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    Avatar of tnwThe Next Web·4y

    The 13 most what-the-fuck tweets of Elon Musk in 2021

    I read Twitter every day and I love finding interesting things to read, topical news, stupid memes, and food for thought. Like 66 million other people, I follow Elon Musk. While I dig in for news about Tesla and Space X, I can’t help noticing that Elon posts some really freaking weird, funny, and at times offensive stuff.

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    Ubisoft Deleted Account With Hundreds Of Dollars’ Worth Of Games For Inactivity

    The account in question had been inactive for more than a year when the owner decided to take a break from gaming. When he decided to get back into gaming in summer 2021, he found that he was unable to login to his Ubisoft account. He was able to reset his password but later discovered that the account itself had been closed and permanently deleted along with hundreds of dollars’ worth of games.

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    How To Get Hired Without Applying

    This is just my experience when finding a new job as a front-end engineer. Maybe it seems opinionated, but at least it can be a reference for you. As a developer, you can start by building your own site, developing & publishing your project on Linkedin and Github, and writing some articles or blogs.

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    Avatar of hashnodeHashnode·4y

    Design Privacy Settings At Facebook

    The privacy implementation design can be fairly complex, so we will limit it to a few core features that can be covered in a 45-minute interview round. You can use the following framework to better answer the Design Facebook Privacy Settings question in the interview. It will help you to maintain focus and answer it better.