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Certifications can be quick courses that give you both skills and a nice addition to your certifications collection on LinkedIn. I would keep an eye out for those courses, especially if they are free AND they are for concepts or tools you use frequently—or might be using in the
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The following references should help you work out better typography and, especially, better layouts on mobile or small screens when using translated / localized content. HTML Description Example / Use Case <wbr> Word break opportunity tag. Put this in the middle of long URLs or wherever you want to break
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Social media venues have taken steps a few years ago to mitigate dishonest / misrepresenting images when people share links to other websites. As a result, we no longer control what image pops up unless we have own the website. So...if you do have a website and you've
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This is a VERY watered-down guide for manually renewing the SSL with the following stack: * Server hosted on DigitalOcean * SSL from certbot has been installed previously and is up for renewal (see DigitalOcean's guide to setting up certbot). * Assumes you have a firewall on the droplet First, SSH
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There's a common mantra that you'll hear from developers: DRY! (Don't repeat yourself). While it may not be completely possible to achieve, it's a good rule of thumb to hold yourself to—especially if you're trying to eliminate or reduce
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Probably the most boring part of learning to code in the classroom...but in the wild, it is SUPER helpful for starting your project and also when you come back to it a week later. What is it? Why do I care? Pseudo code is fake code. It's
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Since this gave me a little trouble, I figured I'd share my process of updating a Ghost blog from an older v3 to the latest v4. I had used a DigitalOcean one-click setup initially, so I wasn't super clear on how to dig in and update
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Whether you're a developer or just trying to familiarize yourself with HTML, you may be used to having your developer tools ready-to-go in Chrome or Firefox. What if you need to access them on Safari? You right-click in the Safari browser and you hardly get ANYTHING! To fix
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It’s a fair question. Look, I graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design, and I was so excited to start my career in design. Problem was, I have never been hired for my skills in design. Much to my chagrin, I ended up in the dev space—but that’
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I just witnessed something amazing. I’ve been trying to use the keyboard for navigation in various programs, now that I know that’s an important way people access the computer. While in Slack's desktop app, I noticed the familiar glowing outline that often shows up around buttons
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You hear the telltale sound of a Slack notification, and your eyes seem to take on a life of their own; drawn to the app to see the message that has been sent. It might not even be pertinent to your job or processes, but we love to hear that
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Whether it’s note-taking or tracking my finances or making a whole bunch of changes all at once, spreadsheets are a secret superpower. If you buy / have a subscription for Microsoft Office, then you should have access to Excel, but if you don’t or are looking for a free