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5 Steps to Build a Huge Twitter Audience

Assia — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 22:04:28 +0000

As a developer, having an online presence on Twitter is more important than ever. It can change your life and help you achieve your goals more easily. By having a large following, you can sell your SAAS products and info products, get traffic to your website, get clients if you work as a freelancer, and do affiliate marketing. Here are 5 steps to improve your Twitter audience:

Comment on other's posts: At the beginning of your journey on Twitter, start by commenting on other people's posts, especially those from big accounts. Write good comments that provide value and add meaning to the post. When followers read your comment, they will visit your profile to see your timeline.

Make a clean timeline: Avoid re-posting other people's content because people will follow you if they see that you create and publish original content. Re-posting isn't good at the beginning. on other hand, use images, emojis, and videos in your posts to make your profile more attractive.

Write valuable content: Write content that provides value to people and present it as threads on Twitter. Followers like reading threads a lot because they save them and go back to them when they need them.

Be consistent: Being consistent is the key to building an online presence. Publish useful content every day and don't stop because the Twitter algorithm supports regularly posted content. People also love developers who post useful content every day . Being consistent is hard at first, but after you build this habit, you'll enjoy it.

Be credible: In addition to be consistent, credibility is the most important factor in getting a lot of followers. Provide your audience with content that is valuable, helpful, and useful. Don't spam or publish a lot of ads.

Overall, the more you create valuable and useful content, the more you will grow your online presence, which will help you get more opportunities and achieve your goals more easily.

How to work less than 8 hours with high productivity?

Assia — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 21:07:39 +0000

You don't need to work 8 hours a day. the most productive people don't do that because they prefer to work less than 8 hours with 100 per cent of focus at it without distractions.
While most people who work for 8 hours are not done it at height performance levels because, when they work they mix work with distractions such as social media.
so to work less than 8 hours a day with top productivity follow these steps:

Start working early because The first three hours of your day are the best for high productivity . At this time your brain is most attuned first thing in the morning
Don't check your social media or email before you finish your deep work.
The best work happens in short intensive spurts, for 1 to 3 hours. But this must be “Deep Work,” with no distractions.
Spend 20% of your energy on your work and 80% of your energy on recuperation and self-improvement.
When you are working, be at work. When you are not working, stop working. By taking your mind off work and actually recovering, you’ll get high development in your work.

6 Techniques to manage your time effectively.

Assia — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 21:53:44 +0000

Time management is one of the most skills demanded now. It's essential for everyone from students to bosses. There are many strategies and techniques that keep you master this skill.

1. Create a list.
Create a list, it's important to know all tasks and activities you want to make them. So the first step is making a list which should be collected all your tasks. you can use paper and pen, a calendar, an application or a tool mobile.

2. Prioritize tasks.
Prioritize tasks, when writing your tasks, always prioritize what's important to you. Decide which activities are urgent and which have the most impact on yourself and your work. There will be some taches which are urgent and can be done quickly. While other urgent jobs may be bigger and need a long time to achieve them. Having a list of tasks is useful to keep focused and make sure nothing is missed. Besides, it's a good feeling when you ticked off your taches as completed.

3. Delegate the no-important tasks.
Delegate the no-important tasks, sometimes we can't do all things that are required, because it can be damaging and create stress and anxiety so, you should delegate no-important taches to another person to help you and also support your work development.

4. keep focused and stop distractions.
keep focused and stop distractions, there are many things that distract us every moment such as email alerts, social media notifications, and phone messages. All those things waste our time a lot. Staying focused can be difficult, however, there are a few things we can do to help, for example, put the phone away, and turn off social media notifications.

5. Time Blocking.
Time Blocking, sometimes we want to make several tasks at one time but, we fail to finish any one. the solution to this situation is to keep focused on one task at a time until completed and go to the second task.

6. Take a break.
Take a break, for our health and well-being, it's essential to plan into your daytime for regular breaks. these should be away from your work to recharge and clean your mind. Those breaks should include healthy food and drinks besides, chatting or making contact with other people.

In short, creating a list, prioritising and delegating tasks, keeping focused, time blocking, and taking a break are the essential techniques to manage your time effectively.

Do you have other techniques?

How waking up early help you to became a better developer.

Assia — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 21:08:35 +0000

Wake up early it's a good habit which helps you to boost your personal development fast.
the importance of waking up early is enormous. we can't state all of them in this article. but we will determine how this habit will impact your career as a developer.

- Waking up early will increase your productivity.
when you start your day by waking early your brain is active and creative. your projects or works you will start at this time will be professional and creative.

- waking up early will save your healthy:
when you wake up early, you have enough time to exercise, prepare a healthy breakfast, breathe fresh air, and read your favourite books. by doing these things, you'll save your body and mind.

- waking up early will achieve your goals:
waking up at 5 am is the best time to do the hard things of your goal because you have powerful energy at this time.

- waking up early will increase your confidence.
Confidence is built by small and consistent steps. when starting your day with wake up early and taking small decisions. you lead yourself to make big decisions which increase your self-confidence

wake early is the best habit you should do but isn't easy, it needs a lot of courage, energy and continuity

What's the essential information that must-have in your portfolio to get a job as a developer?

Assia — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 21:22:24 +0000

The portfolio website is the first thing you will ask about it when you pass the job interviews , it's necessary for every developer, for that, you need to build a professional portfolio that displays your important information about yourself and your works.

Home section: include a nice picture for yourself, name, your speciality, button to contact from and your social media accounts links

About section: introduce yourself, what you do, your skills and experiences, then a button to download your resume and also links to LinkedIn and GitHub profiles

Works section: you must have at least two projects, each project must have included a good screenshot, a short description, the technologies you use to build it, and it is essential to add links to the demo and the code.

Blog section: write some articles on web developments to show your writing and communication skills, you must have at least 2 articles

Contact section: add a contact form ,phone, email,adress and your social media accounts links

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6 trendy UI /UX designs that make your website modern

Assia — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 17:38:16 +0000

At the beginning of the new year, we noticed new UI/UX designs raised, In this article, I will show you 6 trends of UX/UI designs , that make your website modern and elegant.

Big and bold typography: The big and bold typography became more trendy in 2022, many designers prefer to make the hero or main section with big bold typography, to capture the attention of their users and to communicate their messages effectively.

Advanced cursor interactions: The user usually looks at the spot the cursor is placed. for that, change the shape and size of cursors, add smart and unique interactive animated effects, that react to this cursor, to make a good user experience

Custom Illustrations The use of custom illustrations has become more popularly. By using them, you can tell a story that influences the user experience and explains products and services. Additionally, they create a friendly and inviting environment that ensures a better user experience.

Dark Mode: the majority of websites and applications have a dark mode because it makes them look modern and elegant, also improves the readability of text ,besides to reduces blue lights

animation is one of the most trendy UI/ UX designs, nowadays because it improves user immersion and experience, for that, add it to websites and mobile applications to make your content more interesting and fun.

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10 Youtube channels that help you to master CSS, HTML and JavaScript.

Assia — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 21:08:39 +0000

To be a web developer you need to have good skills in CSS, HTML and JavaScript. in this post, I will state 10 of the top YouTube channels that aid you to improve your web development skills.

1- Easy Tutorials

2- Online Tutorials

3- Online web ustaad

4- Web dev

5- DarkCode

6- Skillthrive

7- PRAROZ

8-Tutorials Dev

9-Mr. Web Designer

10-CodingNepal

Do you know another youtube channel? Share it with us.

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Top 10 Chrome Extensions that make your work easy as Developer

Assia — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 21:56:22 +0000

Today, I will share with you a list of top 10 must-have Chrome extensions that'll make your life easier as a web developer:

1 - CSSViewer : It allows to show the CSS properties of element on any webpage .

2 - WhatFont : It permets to identify fonts (family, size, weight and colour)used on any web pages.

3 - Window Resizer : It helps to resize any screen to a range of popular screen sizes

4 - GoFullPage : It allows to capture a whole website page in a single go

5 - Page Ruler : It helps to measure the height , width and position of any element on web pages.

6 - Web Developer Checklist: It analyses any web page for violations of best practices .

7 - daily.dev : It’s a news aggregator , that allows to get the latest news and blogs posts in one place .

8 - ColorZilla : It allows to identify the combinations or individual colours on a web page fastly.

9 - Lorem Ipsum Generator: It creates filler text for demo websites .

10 - Clear Cache:It permit to clear cache and browsing data with a single click of a button.

Do you use other Chrome Extension ? share it with us.

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Top 7 soft skills that make you a Great Developer

Assia — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 22:27:15 +0000

To be a great developer you don't need just knowing how to code , and hard tech skills, but also you must have a good soft skills ,so I share with you a list of 7 soft skills that will help you in your work.

1 - Problem-solving: you need to have the ability to know the reason that caused the probleme , then searching on solution and fix it .

2 -Communication: is most important skill for any developer, becuase you need to speak with your colleagues, managers, customers , and also in meeting , for that you need to speak clearly with confidence ,therefor spend mush time listening to others persones and don’t interrupt while somebody is talking,adding to this you need to be patient and focused.

3 - Time management: before start your work should to write your to- do-list and set the the priority goals and period time of any task ,moreover take a balance between a work and personal live.

4 - Creativity: to be a creative developer you need to try and discover
different things you never do it before ,such as writing, art, crafts, cooking,and also practice a lot .

5 - Patience: you need to be able to keep calm When your code isn’t working and you can’t figure it out, Or when a code review is taking a long time, and also when you start to learn something new .

6 - Teamwork: as a developer, you will work with a wide variety of teams and people for that you need to have a good social skills and communication ,rather than a good speaker and listener.

7 - Help other: helping your colleagues and customers is the most thing that make you building a good reputation and relationship in your work .

Do you have other soft skills ? share it with us.

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8 Healthy Habits to become more Productivity for Developers

Assia — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 21:24:43 +0000

In this short post ,i share with you 8 tips help us to be more productivity.

Sleep well for 8 hours a day
Drink 6-8 glasses of water a day
Do exercises or walking for 30 min.
Eat Healthy Food .
Read a book.
Learn new thing everyday.
Sit in the sun For 15 min or take vitamin D.
Enjoy your live.

Do you have another tip? tell us.