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Red Team vs Blue Team — I Choose You!
It’s 1999. You slide a Pokémon Red Version cartridge into your Game Boy. Four AA batteries, a...
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Everyday coding, from problems to solutions. Notes on the web stack I work with every day.
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Coursera’s Google UX Design Certificate: What It Covers, How It’s Structured, and Why It Can Actually Work
If you’ve been thinking about switching careers into UX design (or adding UX skills to your toolbox),...
- #ux
- #uxdesign
- #certification
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"Khoor Zruog!", Caesar says.
In the hush of a Roman camp, a messenger waits — and the alphabet learns a secret little step. Follow...
- #python
- #cybersecurity
- #privacy
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Brain.A turns 40 🥳 - A Bedtime Story
In January 1986, the Brain virus spread via floppy disks and became the first widely known IBM PC...
- #cybersecurity
- #programming
- #webdev
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Styling by Language: Using the lang Attribute for Multilingual Design
When East Meets West (on the Same Page) If you’ve ever built a bilingual English –...
- #html
- #webdev
- #css
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This is what I learned organizing an a11y webinar series for a year, now I'm hosting my biggest hybrid event yet
When I started organizing accessibility (a11y) events a year ago, it was just a small webinar series...
- #techtalks
- #mixedreality
- #a11y
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10xA11y Dev with Algolia Search
This is a submission for the Algolia MCP Server Challenge Jump right to 👇🏽 What I Build Demo How I...
- #devchallenge
- #algoliachallenge
- #webdev
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LeetCode 2667. Create Hello World Function (Easy)
Could you solve the last LeetCode problem? 🤓 Here's another one, the simplest of the simplest. But...
- #leetcode
- #javascript
- #computerscience
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LeetCode 2620. Counter (Easy)
Another day, another LeetCode problem 🤓. I hope, you could solve the last problem on your own and...
- #javascript
- #leetcode
- #beginners
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How to create a good README.md file
What is a README file? The readme file is the first thing a user will see when viewing...
- #github
- #beginners
- #productivity
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LeetCode 2634. Filter Elements from Array (Easy)
A few weeks ago, I started solving problems at LeetCode. Even though I've been in tech for three...
- #javascript
- #beginners
- #codenewbie
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How to create cool color contrast widgets design
For my first Google Developer Expert presentation with the topic, Getting Started with Designing for...
- #figma
- #ui
- #a11y
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HTML can do this? Part 2
Text modifications with HTML HTML Using specific tags in HTML, text can directly be...
- #html
- #beginners
- #frontend
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Best of 2023 - Recap of my blog posts
It's time for a recap of my blog post journey of 2023. Writing this kind of article helps tracking...
- #writing
- #motivation
- #webdev
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Responsibilities of a Code of Conduct Responder
Almost every community and open source project has a Code of Conduct (CoC for short). And in case...
- #mentor
- #career
- #community
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How accessible are Google Tools?
For a long time, Microsoft products were considered the most accessible products. When preparing for...
- #a11y
- #microsoft
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Goals and Ambition for 2024 - JAPAN 🇯🇵 & GDE 🤓
I always make an annual plan. I think it's good to have a goal in mind, even if the path to it is the...
- #productivity
- #career
- #devresolutions2024
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🌟 #DEVImpact2023 - My Proudest Moments, Failures and Wins
Proudest Moment - Becoming a GDE I became a Goggle Developer Expert 😇! I never thought...
- #devimpact2023
- #career
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CSS :has() pseudo class
Fortunately, the CSS :has() pseudo class is finally supported by all major browsers. Firefox took a...
- #css
- #webdev
- #frontend
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How to make CSS :has() pseudo-class work on Firefox
Finally, the long-awaited :has() pseudo-class has been added to Firefox. Yeah! I immediately...
- #css
- #firefox
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How to install Flutter on a MacBook
I'm going to use Flutter for the first time and dive into the world of mobile development 📱. (As...
- #flutter
- #tutorial
- #beginners
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Android cmdline-tools component is missing - Flutter installation issue
When I installed Flutter, I worked my way through all the steps that the command line spit out when...
- #flutter
- #beginners
- #android
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HTML can do this? Part 1
Welcome to my HTML can do this series, part 1. In keeping with my GitHub-Can-Do-This series, today I...
- #html
- #webdev
- #frontend
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How to create accessible tournament brackets with only HTML and CSS
As Taylor Swift has a new boyfriend and my Swiftie friends are crazy about it, I'm just curious as I...
- #a11y
- #coding
- #help
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Github: Reference a new issue
During Hacktoberfest, I discovered a lot of great changes on GitHub. Even though I use GitHub...
- #github
- #productivity
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Hacktoberfest Maintainer Experience
This is my second time as a maintainer at Hacktoberfest, and the experience was so much better than...
- #hacktoberfest
- #hacktoberfest23
- #hack23maintainer
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Hacktoberfest contributor on a11y issues
Another year, another participation in Hacktoberfest. I love this time of year. It's getting cozy,...
- #hack23contributor
- #hacktoberfest23
- #hacktoberfest
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How does @support work?
For Hacktoberfest I am currently working on an issue, where I did find the solution itself pretty...
- #help
- #css
- #codepen
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Open Source for Accessibility and Inclusivity - Pledge
Hi 👋🏽 I am Julia and for the second time I am a maintainer at this years Hacktoberfest 2023. My main...
- #hack23maintainer
- #a11y
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The Collab Lab - What It Is and Why You Should Get Involved With Them
What if I told you there was a group of people helping early-career developers gain hands-on...
- #career
- #beginners
- #webdev
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Do you talk about side projects during employee appraisal and target agreement
A few days ago I saw a post on dev to about someone becoming tech lead. Reading all their insights...
- #discuss
- #career
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Wordpress Calendar
I am new to wordpress. I am using the The Event Calendar plugin which works perfectly fine. Now I...
- #wordpress
- #help
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How debugging for accessibility helped me finally understand useRef
Ever since I started programming in 2020, debugging JavaScript was one of the things I had trouble...
- #a11y
- #react
- #testing
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How To Find A Job With Soft Skills When Coding Skills Are Weak VI
On Tuesday December 20th, 2022, I held a talk about How to get a job as a developer with soft skills...
- #architecture
- #discuss
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How To Find A Job With Soft Skills When Coding Skills Are Weak V
On Tuesday December 20th, 2022, I held a talk about How to get a job as a developer with soft skills...
- #javascript
- #sideprojects
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How To Find A Job With Soft Skills When Coding Skills Are Weak IV
On Tuesday December 20th, 2022, I held a talk about How to get a job as a developer with soft skills...
- #mentorship
- #beginners
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How To Find A Job With Soft Skills When Coding Skills Are Weak III
On Tuesday December 20th, 2022, I held a talk about How to get a job as a developer with soft skills...
- #motivation
- #career
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How To Find A Job With Soft Skills When Coding Skills Are Weak II
On Tuesday December 20th, 2022, I held a talk about How to get a job as a developer with soft skills...
- #gratitude
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Did I become a better programmer in 2022?
In January 2022, I wrote a post about how I wanted to become a better programmer by the end of the...
- #github
- #opensource
- #portfolio
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How To Find A Job With Soft Skills When Coding Skills Are Weak I
On Tuesday December 20th, 2022, I held a talk about How to get a job as a developer with soft skills...
- #watercooler
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Getting Into Digital Humanities III - Struggles With A Happy Ending
For my current research in my eye-tracking course on web accessibility, I had to write a abstract. ...
- #css
- #webdev
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Stop being afraid to speak in a foreign language
This week, on Tuesday December 20th, 2022, I held a talk for the second time. It was for the last...
- #career
- #motivation
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Accessibility in Visual Design - Visual Layout
When designing with accessibility in mind, you have to take into account, that not every person who...
- #watercooler
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My Journey To Becoming An A11y Expert: Current Status
More than half a year ago, I announced that I wanted to go from being A11y-minded to being an A11y...
- #a11y
- #career
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Best of 2022 - Recap of my blog posts
The year 2022 is almost over. I wrote a lot of articles and wanted to take a look back at my best...
- #gratitude
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DOM manipulation - using Array method on HTML tags
I was familiar with working with objects in JavaScript and how to manipulate them. But until today I...
- #html
- #beginners
- #challenge
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Getting into Digital Humanities II
This article will focus solely on my Eye Tracking course I mentioned in the previous articles. ...
- #digitalhumanities
- #a11y
- #datascience
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I passed the CPACC exam
More than month ago, on October 12, I did the CPACC exam. A few days ago I got the notification that...
- #a11y
- #career
- #certificate
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Universal Design for Learning
Since I started studying again at the University of Vienna a few weeks ago (Digital Humanities), I've...
- #typescript
- #javascript
- #discuss
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Getting Into Digital Humanities I
In the last article I wrote about the relatively new Master's program Digital Humanities at the...
- #digitalhumanities
- #webdev
- #a11y
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Find The Smallest Positive Integer Not Occurring In An Array - 3 Approaches
TIL: For certain reasons 🥁 I did a coding challenge on Codility for once and now I want to share my...
- #javascript
- #npm
- #node
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Should CFP topics stay the same?
I am starting to send out some CFPs for next year. I'm wondering if I should always apply with the...
- #discuss
- #career
- #speaking
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Why To Focus On Accessibility
When I started programming over a year ago, I became interested in the topic of accessibility very...
- #a11y
- #career
- #beginners
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Tools I Am Using On A Daily Basis
I get ask a lot on what kind of tools I am using on a daily basis, and why. I created a list of all...
- #tooling
- #productivity
- #beginners
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How To Create A Resizing Header With Plain CSS
For my projects I want to use as much CSS and as little JavaScript as possible (for accessibility...
- #css
- #tutorial
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This was Hacktoberfest 2022
Over the course of this year, I've tried a few times to get into open source. I was confused,...
- #hacktoberfest
- #productivity
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Getting into Digital Humanities
Since October 1, 2022 I am back at the University of Vienna, where I started with the Master's...
- #digitalhumanities
- #webdev
- #productivity
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Navigation between pages
Semantic structure is the foundation for accessible markup, as they properly convey information to...
- #a11y
- #html
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How to create a Pull Request
With Hacktober currently running, many developers want to contribute to open source. This seems scary...
- #github
- #tutorial
- #productivity
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How I want to become a better programmer in 2022 - Part 3
At the end of January, I started writing about how I want to be a better programmer in 2022. If you...
- #webdev
- #career
- #motivation
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Importance Of Lists
Semantic structure is the foundation for accessible markup, as they properly convey information to...
- #a11y
- #testing
- #screenreader
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QA Tests for Accessibility
In my article on Integrating Accessibility In The Web Development Process, I talked about the...
- #testing
- #a11y
- #productivity
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Google UX Design Certificate
As I mentioned in my post about How I want to get from a11y minded to a11y expert, I've been taking...
- #certificate
- #ux
- #productivity
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Importance of Headings
Semantic structure is the foundation for accessible markup, as they properly convey information to...
- #a11y
- #testing
- #screenreader
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Importance Of Landmarks
Semantic structure is the foundation for accessible markup, as they properly convey information to...
- #a11y
- #webdev
- #api
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Importance Of The "lang" Attribute
Semantic structure is the foundation for accessible markup, as they properly convey information to...
- #a11y
- #inclusion
- #webdev
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Importance Of The Page Title
Semantic structure is the foundation for accessible markup, as they properly convey information to...
- #a11y
- #testing
- #programming
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What's The Accessibility API
Screen readers gain access to important information about the objects and events available to the...
- #a11y
- #testing
- #webdev
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This was Front-End Foxes Day 2022
On September 13, 2022, 12 amazing women spoke about web development, JavaScript, tech culture, and...
- #community
- #talk
- #career
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Responsive Design for users with low vision
Responsive design was originally invented for small screens and mobile devices. The design adjusts...
- #a11y
- #design
- #ux
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Q&A: Who Is Responsible For Accessibility
Recently, in the position of a frontend developer, I was invited to a Q&A session by a UX design...
- #a11y
- #ux
- #productivity
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Am I Ready To Apply For Jobs?
This article was originally published on Hashnode for the 4 Articles in 4 Weeks - Hashnode Writeathon...
- #beginners
- #productivity
- #career
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"Elderly", a meeting app for older people
This article was originally published on Hashnode for the 4 Articles in 4 Weeks - Hashnode...
- #design
- #webdev
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How Inspiring A Company Can Be
This article was originally published on Hashnode for the 4 Articles in 4 Weeks - Hashnode...
- #writing
- #motivation
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Accessibility Testing Tools
Testing websites and applications for accessibility is a lot of work. Good thing there are some...
- #a11y
- #testing
- #tooling
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How I got my first job as a developer by making simple projects seem big
This article was originally published on Hashnode for the 4 Articles in 4 Weeks - Hashnode...
- #codenewbie
- #career
- #motivation
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Accessibility Check #2
A few days ago, the Dev Community did another #DevDiscuss on Twitter to find out what a good UI/UX...
- #a11y
- #inclusion
- #testing
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Java SE 8 Programmer I 1Z0-808 Certificate
In a few weeks I will be taking the JAVA SE 8 Programmer I 1Z0-808 exam. This is a requirement that...
- #java
- #beginners
- #career
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Figma: Hover Effect by Swapping Overlays
Lately I've had to work with Figma a lot at work. As I get to know the tool and its functionality...
- #design
- #tutorial
- #ux
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Integrating Accessibility In The Web Development Process
Accessibility is not only a technical challenge, but also a challenge for process management. This...
- #a11
- #inclusion
- #webdev
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Accessibility Laws
In this article I would like to present some basic information about national, federal and...
- #a11y
- #inclusion
- #webdev
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Usability & Accessibility: Commonalities and Differences
In this article I would like to explain what are the concepts and differences of usability and...
- #a11y
- #inclusion
- #ux
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Accessibility Check #1
Today I'm starting my very first accessibility check. I'll be auditing websites to see how well they...
- #a11y
- #html
- #javascript
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How To Create A Timer With React
For one of my current projects, I created a timer until the release on New Year's Eve - December 31,...
- #react
- #tutorial
- #beginners
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The 7 Principles of Universal Design
In 1997, the Center for Universal Design at NC State University put together 7 Principles of...
- #a11y
- #inclusion
- #ux
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Challenges and solutions for people with disabilities
People with different disabilities face various challenges when using the web. Therefore, it is...
- #a11y
- #inclusion
- #html
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POUR - The 4 Web accessibility principles
To qualify your website and web application as accessible under the Web Content Accessibility...
- #a11y
- #inclusion
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Benefits of accessible design
In my last article on Myths and Misconceptions about Accessibility, I talked about how people believe...
- #a11y
- #inclusion
- #design
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Myths and Misconceptions About Accessibility
In this article, I will address common myths about and objections to accessibility by presenting...
- #a11y
- #webdev
- #beginners
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Web accessibility for better togetherness
The Vienna district where I live organizes an event called "Miteinander in Mariahilf" (en.: Together...
- #a11y
- #motivation
- #devjournal
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Accessibility: The What, Why & How
In the last few months, accessibility has become more and more important to me, and I hope that...
- #a11y
- #webdev
- #inclusion
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How to be productive and deal with time management
Hi, my name is Julia, and I'm a self-taught Accessibility & Frontend Developer in my 30s who is...
- #productivity
- #career
- #motivation
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Last day at my project: A reflection post
May 31 was my last day on my very first professional project at my company. The project is still...
- #webdev
- #beginners
- #career
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How I want to become a better programmer in 2022 - Part 2
At the end of January, I started writing about how I want to be a better programmer in 2022. If you...
- #webdev
- #career
- #motivation
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How I want to get from a11y minded to a11y expert
From the beginning of my self-taught front-end developer journey, I was interested in how to create...
- #a11y
- #ux
- #motivation
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Communication for devs
Today I would like to write about communication. By communication in a development process I don't...
- #webdev
- #career
- #fundamentals
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Git Commands I'm using in my current project (which make me feel like a Pro 🤓)
I'm learning a lot about Git on the project I'm working on at the company right now. And after only 2...
- #git
- #productivity
- #github
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What's a Git workflow
When I applied for my current project, I was asked what my Git workflow looks like. I was confused...
- #git
- #webdev
- #tooling
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How I want to become a better programmer in 2022
At the beginning of my coding career, it was just about knowing a language perfectly and learning...
- #webdev
- #productivity
- #career
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How I decided which language I should learn
Like many of you, I also thought for a long time about which programming language I should actually...
- #javascript
- #beginners
- #codenewbie
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