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How to stay focused 🔍 as a self taught Frontend Web Developer 💻

How to stay focused 🔍 as a self taught Frontend Web Developer 💻

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Tools Every Developer Should Know and Use

Tools Every Developer Should Know and Use

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The Five Books that Changed my Life as a Software Engineer

The Five Books that Changed my Life as a Software Engineer

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Why you should keep a Code Journal | Code Journaling pt 1 of 4

Why you should keep a Code Journal | Code Journaling pt 1 of 4

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10 Things I Wish I'd Known When Starting My Coding Journey

10 Things I Wish I'd Known When Starting My Coding Journey

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I Created Famous Logos with CSS

I Created Famous Logos with CSS

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Introducing Caligator: A Simple Yet Powerful Open-Source Calculator & Convertor

Introducing Caligator: A Simple Yet Powerful Open-Source Calculator & Convertor

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Getting Cozy With C++

Getting Cozy With C++

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🦀 Rust Reviewed: Is the hype justified? 🦀

🦀 Rust Reviewed: Is the hype justified? 🦀

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Of Chickens and Pigs - The Dilemma of Creator Self Promotion

Of Chickens and Pigs - The Dilemma of Creator Self Promotion

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How to be productive and deal with time management

How to be productive and deal with time management

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Beginner’s Guide into the field of DevOps

Beginner’s Guide into the field of DevOps

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Stencil: I Think I Found My Frontend Home

Stencil: I Think I Found My Frontend Home

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State of JavaScript 2021: Framework Reflections

State of JavaScript 2021: Framework Reflections

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How to Stand Out as Developer?

How to Stand Out as Developer?

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Your GitHub year in review - 10 fun ways to visualize your contributions

Your GitHub year in review - 10 fun ways to visualize your contributions

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My Recurring Existential Crisis as a Software Engineer

My Recurring Existential Crisis as a Software Engineer

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How I Improved My CSS Skills

How I Improved My CSS Skills

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JavaScript Frameworks and Metagaming

JavaScript Frameworks and Metagaming

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15,000 GH stars in a year: how we did it 🤩

15,000 GH stars in a year: how we did it 🤩

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The unfair tech hiring processes (a senior dev perspective)

The unfair tech hiring processes (a senior dev perspective)

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Big O Notation as a Mid-Level Developer Who Has Been Avoiding It Since Bootcamp: Arrays and Time Complexity

Big O Notation as a Mid-Level Developer Who Has Been Avoiding It Since Bootcamp: Arrays and Time Complexity

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How sports made me a better developer

How sports made me a better developer

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I've been a dev for 11 years. 5 things I learned

I've been a dev for 11 years. 5 things I learned

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Why Every Developer Should Write

Why Every Developer Should Write

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I Put Away My Stethoscope and Grabbed My Laptop

I Put Away My Stethoscope and Grabbed My Laptop

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Advices from a Software Engineer with 8 Years of Experience

Advices from a Software Engineer with 8 Years of Experience

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Learning FRONT-END DEVELOPMENT as a beginner!👨🏻‍💻

Learning FRONT-END DEVELOPMENT as a beginner!👨🏻‍💻

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Getting Cozy with Ruby

Getting Cozy with Ruby

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Introducing #devjournal

Introducing #devjournal

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What to write in your Code Journal | Code Journaling pt 3 of 4

What to write in your Code Journal | Code Journaling pt 3 of 4

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Fetching data with React Hooks

Fetching data with React Hooks

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Step up your Regex game

Step up your Regex game

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If You're A Developer, You Need to Know This

If You're A Developer, You Need to Know This

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Why your time estimations don't work and how to get better at estimation

Why your time estimations don't work and how to get better at estimation

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Linux Basics for Beginners

Linux Basics for Beginners

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Preventing burnout 😴

Preventing burnout 😴

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Ways to Improve Developer Onboarding on an existing codebase

Ways to Improve Developer Onboarding on an existing codebase

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3 Best Tools that you can use for Writing Awesome Articles

3 Best Tools that you can use for Writing Awesome Articles

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You should really not work

You should really not work

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It's Official: I'm a Software Engineer!

It's Official: I'm a Software Engineer!

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Roadmap to Blockchain Development

Roadmap to Blockchain Development

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5 Interviews, 7 hours: Lessons From Not Getting A Big Tech Job Offer

5 Interviews, 7 hours: Lessons From Not Getting A Big Tech Job Offer

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The Importance of Slowing (Way!) Down as a Junior Software Engineer

The Importance of Slowing (Way!) Down as a Junior Software Engineer

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No More Tears, No More Knots: Arena-Allocated Trees in Rust

No More Tears, No More Knots: Arena-Allocated Trees in Rust

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What has the Marko Team Been Doing all These Years?

What has the Marko Team Been Doing all These Years?

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I Created More Logos With CSS

I Created More Logos With CSS

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The Full Stack Illusion

The Full Stack Illusion

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Dark Side of Remote Work – Personal Experience

Dark Side of Remote Work – Personal Experience

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It’s Okay to be An Average Developer

It’s Okay to be An Average Developer

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My first finished project in 7 years!!! :)

My first finished project in 7 years!!! :)

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How I Became a Software Engineer Making Multiple Six Figures, Without a College Degree

How I Became a Software Engineer Making Multiple Six Figures, Without a College Degree

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How to mimic componentDidUpdate() with React Hooks

How to mimic componentDidUpdate() with React Hooks

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Brogrammer - Our Contribution Towards A Fitter World

Brogrammer - Our Contribution Towards A Fitter World

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A Gentle Reminder to Take a Vacation

A Gentle Reminder to Take a Vacation

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Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming

Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming

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Optimize Your Career for Growth

Optimize Your Career for Growth

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Two Years of Writing about Designing JavaScript Frameworks (2018-2020)

Two Years of Writing about Designing JavaScript Frameworks (2018-2020)

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Why You Should Keep A Dev Diary

Why You Should Keep A Dev Diary

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How to get organic traffic to your developer blog.

How to get organic traffic to your developer blog.

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