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Stay Up-to-Date with DevBytes: Your Ultimate Source for Tech News

Alen Abraham — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 15:04:44 +0000

In the fast-paced world of technology, it can be difficult to keep up with the latest trends and updates. However, with the DevBytes app, staying up to date with the latest tech news and trends has never been easier. The DevBytes app is a fantastic tool for those who want to stay informed and ahead of the curve when it comes to technology news.

For the past week, I have been using DevBytes and I got a feeling that I should share this app with others so that everyone can stay updated with the latest tech news around the world. One of the things that make the DevBytes app so great is its user-friendly interface. The app is easy to navigate, and its design is clean and modern.

A great feature of the DevBytes app is the curated news feed. The app's news feed fetches news from all the major sources around the world and converts the news into small byte format so that users can read the news in a summary format and if they are interested to read more regarding the same, they can navigate to the original article from that byte itself. Additionally, the news feed is updated regularly, so users can always stay up to date with the latest tech trends.

The app is so minimalistic and simple that anyone can use the app. There are two sections on the main screen of the app with all news and my feed. My feed provides based on our interests and all news will have all the news around the world. The share option on the articles helps us to share the news through other social media apps which helps us to share the news with others.

Another exciting feature of the app is that we can watch the crypto market with the feature called crypto watch. Tapping on crypto watch navigates to a list of cryptocurrencies and their current market values which is a cool feature as crypto has been a talk in the current century and is expected to be booming in the future.

I have personal feedback to the DevBytes team, the design can be improved with better UX and UI. The persona option in providing news can be replaced with some filters based on each person's interest so that any particular user can categorize his/her news as per their wish.

Overall, the DevBytes app is a fantastic tool for anyone who wants to stay up to date with the latest tech news and trends. The app's user-friendly interface and curated news feed make it a great choice for tech enthusiasts and professionals alike. With the DevBytes app, you can stay informed and connected in the fast-paced world of technology.

In conclusion, if you're looking for a reliable and comprehensive source of technology news and updates, the DevBytes app is an excellent choice. Whether you're a tech enthusiast or a professional, the app has everything you need to stay informed and connected. With its user-friendly interface, curated news feed, and vibrant community, the DevBytes app is a must-have for anyone who wants to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to technology news and trends.

Link to download the app - DevBytes

Share your tech interview experiences.

Alen Abraham — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 09:46:07 +0000

Let's see who got the coolest one..!

What is Github Actions? How does it simplify CI/CD?

Alen Abraham — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 13:29:22 +0000

Github Actions

Github Actions is a Continuous Integration and Continuous Development(CI/CD) platform that allows you to automate your build, test, and deployment pipeline. You can create workflows that build and test every pull request to your repository, or deploy merged pull requests to production.

GitHub Actions goes beyond just DevOps and lets you run workflows when other events happen in your repository.

For example, you can run a workflow to automatically add the appropriate labels whenever someone creates a new issue in your repository.

GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, with CI/CD.
- Build, test, and deploy your code right from GitHub.
- Make code reviews, branch management, and issue triaging work the way you want.
Workflow is triggered by an event.
- Workflow contains jobs which can have multiple steps - Each step can be associated with an action or a script.
Code - defined workflow -
- A workflow can contain actions created by the community, or you can create your own actions directly with your application's repository.
Support for Python, Java, Node.js, Ruby, PHP, Go, Rust, .NET apps.
Great starting point for smaller projects.
Deploy to cloud.

I have added a github actions workflow in my personal website repository to automate random changes and commits and run the workflow to deploy the changes successfully. You can checkout the repository here.

Thank you for the read.

Big O notation explained: DSA-01

Alen Abraham — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 08:20:40 +0000

What is Big O notation?

Big O notation is used to measure how the running time or space requirements for our program grows as input grows.

Measuring running time growth is time complexity. (In this post we focus on time complexity)
Measuring space growth is space complexity.

Rules to determine time complexity

Keep fastest growing term.
Drop constants.

Big O refers to very large value of 'n' (n = size) where time, t = an^2 + bn + c.

For example, if we have a function like,

t = 5n^2 + 3n + 20

When value of 'n' is very large, bn+c becomes irrelevant.

ie; an^2 is very larger than bn+c.

For example; if n = 1000 then,

t = 5 * 1000^2 + 3*1000+20 = 5000000 + 3020; where 3020, a small value becomes irrelevant.

Different time complexities

Here we discuss about a few of them.

1. O(n)

def foo(arr): size(arr) -> 100 -> 0.22ms

def foo(arr): size(arr) -> 1000 -> 2.30ms

Here time increases as array size increases; time proportional to size(arr).

n = size(arr), b= constant

t = a*n + b

Keep fastest growing term => t = a * n (b is constant)
Drop constants => t = n ( a is constant) Therefore; t = O(n)

Example program for t = O(n): To get square numbers

def get_squared_numbers(numbers):
    squared_numbers = []
    for n in numbers:
        square_numbers.append(n * n)
    return squared_numbers

numbers = [2, 5, 8, 9]
get_squared_numbers(numbers)
# returns [4, 25, 64, 81]

2. O(1)

def foo(arr): size(arr) -> 100 -> 0.22ms

def foo(arr): size(arr) -> 1000 -> 0.23ms

time, t = a * n + b -> t = a * n ( b constant) -> t = n (dropping constants(a))

n = 1 => t = 1

Therefore, t = O(1)

Example program for t = O(1)

def find_first_pe(prices, eps, index):
    pe = prices[index]/eps[index]
    return pe

3. O(n^2)

Example Program for O(n^2): To find duplicates from the list

numbers = [3, 6, 2, 4, 3, 6, 8, 9]

for i in range(len(numbers)):
    for j in range(i + 1, len(numbers)):
        if numbers[i] == numbers[j]:
            print(numbers[i] + " is a duplicate.")
            break

Also there is O(log n), O(2^n) time complexities.

Hugo version error while deploying.

Alen Abraham — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 15:19:40 +0000

I was building my personal website using a static site generator called Hugo and I faced a hugo-extended version issue while deploying it.

I found very less resources while I tried to resolve the issue and so I thought of sharing the way I resolved the deployment issue.

The error I faced -

It was asking for a hugo extended version for the build and a normal hugo installation on your system will not help in resolving the issue.

Check your hugo verion:

hugo version

Then you need to install hugo extended from this [github repository](https://github.com/jakejarvis/hugo-extended or see this docs.

The installation can be done by snap.

snap install hugo --channel=extended

To check hugo extended version

snap refresh hugo --channel=extended

Then do the build and deploy.

Hope someone coming up with this issue find this helpful.

Cloud Native...!

Alen Abraham — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 08:21:07 +0000

Can anyone give an idea on what is Cloud native and what is the basic tech for a cloud native engineer!

My first HacktoberFest

Alen Abraham — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 07:48:03 +0000

HacktoberFest 2021 was my first Hacktoberfest. I was learning programming and practising DSA for the past couple of months so I felt it would be great to contribute some of the best solutions that I was able to find out, so that other learners will also be able to learn from it. After all it's all about learning in public.

HactoberFest has got certain rules to be followed to complete the event successfully. We have to make 4 Pull Requests(PR) within the month of October and all the 4 PR's should get successfully merged by the corresponding repo-maintainers.
Thankfully I was able to make 5 PR's and all 5 of them got merged successfully.

Contributions can be made even without HacktoberFest. The event is just to promote open-source.

So why are you waiting start contributing to open-source, don't wait for next HacktoberFest to arrive. Start today, contribute to open-source.

Happy Coding

How important is your LinkedIn profile?

Alen Abraham — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 10:58:20 +0000

Introduction

What is LinkedIn? Many of them don't know still what is LinkedIn and how much influence the platform can make in turning one's career from downstream to upstream. A common scenario seen these days is that many of them will open an account on LinkedIn just for the sake of the company they work for or due to the compelling from educational institutions. This has become a common scene recently.

This is happening because many of them don't know the importance of LinkedIn. How to use the platform to leverage one's skill-set. So in the below sections, I will provide some tips to maintain a good LinkedIn profile.

What is LinkedIn? Why having a LinkedIn profile is important?

LinkedIn is a social networking site like Facebook to be precise. But LinkedIn is mostly being used for professional purposes. This is a platform that you can utilise to showcase your skills, expertise, education, experience, etc.
Let's take a look at why LinkedIn is important?

Will make good connections.

To know more about job postings.

To appear in Recruiter's search.

Globalisation.

Personal Branding.

Something more about you.

Active job search.

Know more about people, especially people related to your domain.

Your own identity.

Good way to be in touch.

Get started and set up your profile on LinkedIn.

LinkedIn is available in the form of both web and mobile applications. Create an account and get started.
Points to be noted while setting up your profile -

Signup. Setting up the LinkedIn account is pretty straightforward.

Choose a photo. Making a good first impression is important in all professional situations including online.

Add a headline.

Profile summary.

Add details to your profile.

Expand your network.

Engage with content.

Get endorsements.

Request recommendations.

And an added point is that a personalised URL will be good.

How to use LinkedIn as a college student.

LinkedIn is a popular social network for career development, but you don't have to wait until you enter the workforce to start taking advantage of this platform. College students can use LinkedIn to establish a professional online presence, which is important for getting jobs, internships, and volunteer opportunities while still in school.

The key to using LinkedIn effectively is to create a detailed and engaging profile.

College students should use basic etiquette when sending messages and making connections.

To get the most out of LinkedIn, update your status regularly and explore job postings.

Conclusion

So don't be a passive user, just opening an account and leaving it there. Be a consistent user, maintain your profile and connections. Stay updated and fill out all the things which you are not able to present on your resume. Maintain LinkedIn as your digital resume because it's not that long that LinkedIn will be considered as your primary resume by recruiters.

You can connect me on LinkedIn at alenabraham.

Happy to connect.

Web Development Resources series! Part -2

Alen Abraham — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 19:29:33 +0000

Introduction

Hello👋 to all Developers and Designers around the world..! 🌈

My curated list of resources continues...!

In this article I will share some more awesome tools which can help you make your work easier and productive. In the previous one I shared about 10 tools and today I will be sharing a set of tools, so why waiting... Scroll down and grasp them

✊ Resources

*11. Remove Background from Image *

👉 remove.bg

Remove backgrounds 100% automatically in 5 seconds with zero clicks.

12. Responsively

👉 responsively

Develop responsive web apps 5x faster!

13. Metatags

👉 metatags

Meta Tags is a tool to debug and generate meta tag code for any website.
Tags you can edit and experiment with your content then preview how your webpage will look on Google, Facebook, Twitter and more!

14. ReadMe

👉 readme.so

The easiest way to create a README file in minutes visually.

15. Storytale

👉 storytale.io

High-class illustrations for web and mobile projects.
Make your project eye-catching with awesome characters. Use it both for commercial and personal purposes.

16. Profile Pic Maker

👉 pfpmaker.com

Make an awesome profile picture from any photo.

17. SigmaOS

👉 sigmaos.com

Fly through your work. The browser that makes you faster and better at working on the web.

18. Rapid API

👉 rapidapi.com

It's the largest API hub. Discover and connect with thousands of APIs and play with them.

19. 404 Illustrations

👉 error404.fun https://error404.fun/)

It contains royalty free illustrations for 404 pages.

20. HexColorCodes

👉 hexcolorcodes

It leta you get HTML color codes, Hex color codes, RGB and HSL values with our color picker, color chart and HTML color names.

21. CSS.gg

👉 css.gg

Open-source CSS, SVG and Figma UI Icons.

22. UISpace

👉 uispace.net

This website contains 1000+ great UI freebies.

23. Inovatik

👉 inovatik

Free HTML templates for websites and landing pages for you.

24. Button Generator

👉 Button-generator

It contains 100+ button designs for you.

Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed my article about web development and design resources. There are many great resources available to help you learn about web development and design. These resources can help to give you the skills you need to design your own website or work on a web design/development project. Plus, web development and design are always evolving, so it's always a good idea to stay up-to-date with the latest trends. I hope you'll continue to follow my blog for more great content!

This resource series of resource sharing will be continued...Stay tuned for more!

If you found this post helpful just buy me a coffee :)

Wish me luck 🌟
Happy Learning 💻

Get paid by writing

Alen Abraham — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 17:45:44 +0000

The below given link redirects to a post which I think is a very useful post consisting of a list of websites that pays you for writing technical articles.

Just go through article. Thanks to @olanetsoft for curating an awesome list.

Article

Follow me for more good posts 😄

An awesome tool

Alen Abraham — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 17:20:42 +0000

Tired of updating GitHub profle-README with latest features again & again?

If yes, then @rahuldkjain has developed a tool to do the same for you in just 1 click 🤓. This is a must try tool, I tried it out and it was just awesome.

Web Development Resources series! Part -1

Alen Abraham — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 17:08:38 +0000

Hello👋 to all Developers and Designers around the world..! 🌈

Introduction

I am Alen and this is my debut in the blogging world, hope it comes helpful to you all.

I have curated a list of super cool resources, which will save valuable time and make life better for web developers and designers. The list will be published in different parts as you all know the dev and design resources are never-ending.

✊ Resources

1. Random Image via API

👉 source.unsplash.com

The most powerful photo engine in the world.
The Unsplash API is a modern JSON API that surfaces all of the info you’ll need to build any experience for your users.

2. Embeddable Widget Apps for Notion

👉 apption.co

Add 3rd party apps embed or create a custom embed for your Notion Document.

3. Carbon

👉 carbon.now.sh

Create and share beautiful images of your source code.
Start typing or drop a file into the text area to get started.

4. Peppertype

👉 peppertype.ai

Generate better content copies in seconds with the power of Artificial Intelligence.
Expanding your content for writing blogs is easier than ever before.
AI-Generated tweet ideas.

5. Poet. so

👉 poet.so

Capture and share Twitter posts as beautiful images.
You could use this as social proof on your website.

6. Weekly Visitor Report

👉 clearbit.com

Get a weekly report of the companies visiting your website.

7. Smart Mockup

👉 smartmockup

Create stunning product mock-ups easily and online.
The fastest web-based mock-up tool.
No experience or skills needed, super easy-to-use.

8. Small Dev Tools

👉 smalldev.tools

Handy developer tools with a delightful interface.
Provide 20+ tools that help developers with commonly performed tasks like Encoding/Decoding, Minifying, Test Dummy data set, and a lot more.

9. Show beautiful message in the console

👉 npjms.com

FIGlet is a program for making large letters out of the ordinary text.

10. A Visual Type Scale

👉 type-scale.com

Understand and visualize the difference between different font sizes, REM vs. EM Values.
Check the preview in real-time to see how it looks.

Conclusion

This resource series of resource sharing will be continued...Stay tuned for more!

     If you found this post helpful just buy me a coffee :)

Wish me luck 🌟
Happy Learning 💻