​​The road to becoming a software developer is a long and difficult one, especially for individuals like me who come from a completely non-technical background. I am a communication-oriented person. I have a passion for speaking foreign languages, immersing myself in foreign cultures, and trying all sorts of new food.

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#Programming

​​So, you’re looking for a way to spend your Saturday, and you come across the brilliant idea to go spend the entire day at an organized hackathon. Fun! But not necessarily. Like anything else, hackathons are something where you get out what you put in. But at least here, you typically are going to get free 🥯, 🍕 and ☕️ for your trouble (if you have ever found a hackathon with a different menu, god bless your good luck).

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#Hackathon

​​Here, I’ll evaluate the three different methods in Node.js I used to read the files, to determine which is most performant.

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#NodeJS

​​Common scenario: your team maintains dozens of Jenkinsfile/.gitlab-ci.yml/whatever, each one specific to its projects needs. You have tried to reuse these continuous integration scripts from one repo to another. But that is hard because each project has its own tech stack, versions, dependencies to other tools, etc.

There is more, you dream of being able to test your CI pipeline locally, instead of debugging in the CI server.

Am I right? Then, multistage docker builds are meant for you.

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#Docker #ContinuousIntegration

​​Increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence suggests that machines could unlock the secrets of human creativity. But have we been here before?

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#ArtificialIntelligence

​​I recently decided to improve unit test performance on a newly joined project. It felt like it takes too long to test the whole suite (32 tests only) as well as test a separate file in isolation with watch mode. The direct consequences of that are that developers are not enjoying the process and trying to avoid touching unit tests. Product quality suffers in the long run.

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#Testing #Jest

​​In the implementation of the Wolfram Cloud notebook interface, performance is super-critical. We’re essentially writing our own layout engine in JavaScript, to support the rich typesetting constructs that notebooks offer.

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#JavaScript #Performance

​​The Document Object Model (DOM) is an application programming interface (API) for HTML and XML documents. It defines the logical structure of documents and the way a document is accessed and manipulated. In the DOM specification, the term “document” is used in the broad sense — increasingly

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#DOM #Browser #JavaScript

​​If you are reading this you probably know how javascript manages the scope, but let’s refresh our memory. Javascript manages scope through its functions, meaning that any variable declared inside of a function is scoped to that particular function, and cannot be accessed from outside of that function. Now globals, are variables that are declared outside of any function, or variables that are used without being declared.

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#JavaScript

​​When it comes to the JavaScript Language comparing to other programming languages there are lots of worlds that you may hear or see really confusing to understand. One of them would be factory functions and the constructor functions.

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#JavaScript

​​In this series I’ll be looking a bunch of different aspects of Gatsby, a Static Site Generator based on React.js and GraphQL.

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#Gatsby #GraphQL #Serverless #JAMStack

​​For the third time, we are comparing Front-End frameworks by using the Real World example apps.

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#JavaScript #Frameworks

​​This article will explain the difference between the commands and how you can use them effectively in your Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml.

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#Docker

​​we’ll explore four of the most popular templating engines for HTML. We’ll look into why you might choose to use them, and where you’re likely to encounter them in other tech-stacks. I’ll also provide sample CodePens for each one. By the end of the article, you should feel equipped with several options for writing faster, more concise HTML in your projects, whether your go-to programming language is JavaScript, Ruby or something else. Let’s dive in!

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#HTML #Markdown #Pug #HAML

​​JavaScript has many ways to do anything. I’ve written on 10 Ways to Write pipe/compose in JavaScript, and now we’re doing arrays.

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#JavaScript

​​This article’s just to have fun and explore different implementations of compose and pipe.

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#JavaScript

​​Since the beginning of the web, developing APIs has been a difficult task for developers. The way we develop our APIs must evolve with time so that we can always build good, intuitive and well-designed APIs.

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#GraphQL

​​After its initial release on May 29, 2013, React.js has taken over the internet. It’s not a secret that myself and many other developers owe their success to this amazing framework.

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#React

​​Early this year, the React team released a new addition, hooks, to React in version 16.8.0.

If React were a big bowl of candies, then hooks are the latest additions, very chewy candies with great taste!

So, what exactly do hooks mean? And why are they worth your time?

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#React

​​Getting a tech job after a coding bootcamp is very possible, but not necessarily pain-free.

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#Interviews #Job