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Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.
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on: 2026-05-06
Why use static closures?
Why use static closures? (Published on March 3, 2026 - Version française)
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on: 2026-03-04
Scripts I wrote that I use all the time
I've written a number of little scripts over the years, many of which I use every day. Here's a little collection.
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on: 2025-10-22
Avoid Common Mistakes while using hooks in React
This is my first story on any frontend stack, as I am currently going through a learning course, so thought of sharing a few concepts as I learn. Today, we are diving into the world of React Hooks —…
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on: 2024-12-10
OussamaMater/Laravel-Tips: Daily Laravel and PHP tips.
Daily Laravel and PHP tips
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on: 2024-11-26
Must-Know Tips for Efficient Laravel Apps (Not just selecting only needed columns, eager loading ins
Forget the usual advice like selecting only needed columns, sub-queries, eager loading, caching queries, using queues, and indexes. This article dives deeper into actionable strategies that can truly…
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on: 2024-09-17
TIL: 8 versions of UUID and when to use them
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on: 2024-08-26
The many faces of undefined in JavaScript
There are too many ways to represent unknown or missing data and this can lead to defects.
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on: 2024-06-26
27 Words You Should Never Use to Describe Yourself
Some are incredibly overused. Others just make you sound full of yourself. Either way, you lose.
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on: 2024-04-08
Tips for optimizing integration tests
While unit tests are known for their speed compared to integration tests, the latter offer heightened confidence in the system’s functionality. Thus, avoiding integration tests is not advisable; instead, it’s crucial to strike a balance by writing tests at an appropriate level to ensure high confidence in the codebase. Achieving this equilibrium between time efficiency and confidence is paramount. Rapid feedback is essential for a smooth workflow, and today, I’ll share concise tips to enhance the efficiency of your integration tests. The effort invested is worthwhile, as swift feedback is indispensable for seamless operations, and each minute of improvement is magnified by the frequency of executions and the number of developers in the company.
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on: 2024-01-26
A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
Some of the hidden norms about Hacker News not otherwise covered in the Guidelines and the FAQ. - minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
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on: 2023-12-27
10 Tips For Building SSR/HDA applications
In this guide, Carson Gross provides ten practical tips to help developers transition from Single Page Applications (SPAs) to Server-Side Rendering and Hypermedia-Driven Applications, focusing on essential mindset shifts and architectural advantages.
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on: 2023-12-22
Deep Cloning Objects in JavaScript, the Modern Way
It’s been a long time coming, but we finally now have the built-in `structuredClone` function to make deep cloning objects in JavaScript a breeze
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on: 2023-12-22
How to Study More Effectively, No Matter What You’re Trying to Learn
The memorization hacks, note-taking skills, and mandatory brain breaks that will help you better retain information.
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on: 2023-10-26
Advanced macOS Command-Line Tools
A comprehensive reference for advanced command-line utilities that provide unique macOS functionality.
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on: 2023-06-28
16 little UI design rules that make a big impact - Adham Dannaway
A step by step UI design case study to quickly fix an example user interface using logic-driven UI design tips.
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on: 2023-06-27
Working with Docker Containers Made Easy with the dexec Bash Script
I wrote a simple dexec script to make running commands through Docker containers less clunky. I'll show you what dexec is and how to use it!
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on: 2023-06-27
Conditional CSS with :has and :nth-last-child
A modern look at how to combine CSS :has, :nth-last-child, and style queries to create dynamic components.
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on: 2023-05-17
Avoiding empty() in PHP - Andreas Möller
The language construct empty() appears rather versatile. Do you really have a scenario where using it makes sense?
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on: 2023-05-10
25 PERFECT AI Prompts for PHP Developers | by Brady Lewis | Mar, 2023 | Med
With prompts ranging from PHP frameworks to database integration, these prompts offer a wealth of actionable insights and guidance to help you optimize your development efforts and deliver…
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on: 2023-03-30
Use Maps more and Objects less
Objects in JavaScript are awesome. They can do anything! Literally…anything. Just because you can do something, doesn’t (necessarily) mean you should.
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on: 2023-02-14
My PHP enum style guide - stitcher.io
A blog about modern PHP, the web, and programming in general. Follow my newsletter and YouTube channel as well.
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on: 2023-01-17
Tree views in CSS
How to create a tree view (collapsible list) using only HTML and CSS
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on: 2022-11-19
Shell Script Best Practices — The Sharat's
This article is about a few quick thumb rules I use when writing shell scripts that I’ve come to appreciate over the years. Very opinionated....
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on: 2022-10-27
Eloquent Relations: how to order topics by newest posts? - Laravel Daily
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on: 2022-06-06
How to Deploy Laravel Projects to Live Server: The Ultimate Guide - Laravel
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on: 2021-12-20
Scopes in JetBrains IDEs - stitcher.io
Scopes can help you find files you're looking for much more easy.
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on: 2020-09-25
What I Learned from Doing 60+ Technical Interviews in 30 Days
By Uduak Obong-Eren
In this article, I’ll share my motivation for doing 60+ technical interviews in 30 days. More importantly, I’ll share lessons learned from my failures and my successes.
I’ve grouped the lessons into three categories to match the p...
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on: 2020-08-01
Samuel Štancl su Twitter: "✨ In this thread I'll list tactics you can use t
✨ In this thread I'll list tactics you can use to write cleaner code in Laravel.
As you use them repeatedly, you'll develop a sense for what's good code and what's bad code.
I'll also sprinkle some general Laravel code advice in between these tactics.
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on: 2020-06-16
A Manager's Step-By-Step Guide To Leading A Remote Team
Hey managers! Set up your remote team for success with these 7 steps, from communication tools and performance reviews to team morale and helping new hires.
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on: 2020-04-23
How to Write a Git Commit Message
Commit messages matter. Here's how to write them well.
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on: 2020-02-19
Decouple Vue.js components from the Vuex Store - Markus Oberlehner
Learn how to decouple Vue.js components from the Vuex store by using a provider abstraction.
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on: 2019-10-10
Accessing localhost on Mac from Windows VM Virtualbox
If editing hosts.conf does not work, try visiting your gateway IP with appropriate port where your web server is running on your Mac. In my case http://10.0.2.2:9080 is equivalent to…
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on: 2019-09-04
Every productivity thought I've ever had, as concisely as possible - Alexey
See discussion on Hacker News (a) (610 points, 156 comments)
I combed through several years of my private notes and through everything I published on productivity before and tried to summarize all of it in this post.
If you’re unproductive right now
Here’s what you should do if you’ve been procrastinating for an entire day:
Accept that you won’t do anything today and try not to get angry at yourself
Set the alarm for the time you will be preparing to go to bed today
No, …
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on: 2019-08-19
Five Key Git Concepts Explained the Hard Way – zwischenzugs
If you’ve ever read a git man page, you’ll know that trying to understand git can be an intimidating experience. There’s even a git man page generator that produces joke git pages…
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on: 2018-03-15
@supports will change your life | Charlotte Jackson, Front-end developer
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on: 2016-11-04
» Autofill: What web devs should know, but don’t Cloud Four Blog
Many people know that you can scan your credit card in Mobile Safari. But how many web developers know how to create a form that supports that feature? Not many I’d bet. Auto-Fill Credit Card Forms Using Your iPhone’s Camera in iOS 8. Used with permission. It doesn’t…
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on: 2016-05-23
The best way to store your dotfiles: A bare Git repository - Atlassian Deve
Unleashing the potential of all teams with tips, tools, and practices
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on: 2016-04-05
Dirty Tricks From The Dark Corners Of Front-End (Slides, PDF) – Smashing Ma
Finding little techniques and tricks to help you get to results faster can immensely improve your productivity, so you don't have to waste time on solutions that will never see the light of day. Vitaly Friedman loves finding those little useful front-end goodies that make our lives easier. Since technologies emerge and evolve permanently, keeping track on what’s going on is often difficult, especially since specifications change and so does the browser support.
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on: 2016-03-22
Lars Moelleken su Twitter: "@jabranr @PhpStormTips debug #PHP via #PhpStorm
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on: 2016-02-12
https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-mind-hacks/answer/Annika-Schauer
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on: 2016-02-05
9 things every React.js beginner should know - Cam Jackson
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on: 2016-01-25
loverajoel/jstips: This is about one JS tip every day!
This is about useful JS tips!
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on: 2016-01-19
5 AWS mistakes you should avoid
Since this year I’m working as an AWS Cloud Consultant where I see a lot of small to medium sized AWS deployments. Most of th...
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on: 2015-12-29
Semantic method naming
Correctly naming things is the most difficult programming task, along with other documentation tasks. However, this is only because we often afford these tasks insufficient consideration. As with most things, the more we do it the easier it becomes. In this article we will discover how to choose correct names
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on: 2015-12-22
AllThingsSmitty/css-protips
⚡️ A collection of tips to help take your CSS skills pro 🦾 - AllThingsSmitty/css-protips
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on: 2015-12-14
Top 10 ES6 Features Every Busy JavaScript Developer Must Know
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on: 2015-11-23
AllThingsSmitty/jquery-tips-everyone-should-know
A collection of tips to help up your jQuery game 🎮 - AllThingsSmitty/jquery-tips-everyone-should-know
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on: 2015-10-27
The Best Regex Trick
Describes a regular expressions technique to match a word or pattern except in certain contexts: excluding tags, ignoring contents, word blacklist.
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on: 2015-09-26
Six Tips for Chrome DevTools | CSS-Tricks
The following is a guest post by Umar Hansa. Umar has a newsletter I'm a fan of and graciously offered to write this guest post in that style. I'll let him
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on: 2015-09-09
better url slugify function (UTF8 support?) : r/PHP
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on: 2015-05-24
After 9 years of PHP development I have finally discovered get_last_error() : r/PHP
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on: 2015-05-24
CSS Equal Height Columns, Three Different Ways - Call Me Nick
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on: 2015-05-12
How to Center in CSS
Centering in CSS is a pain in the ass. This is a code generator
that consolidates them and gives you the code you need for each
situation.
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on: 2015-04-20
How to Target IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9, IE10 and IE11 | RealcomBiz
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on: 2015-04-17
Bootstrap 3: adding a new set of columns - Stack Overflow
I've been using Bootstrap 3 for a while and now I need to make a new set of extra small columns for horizontal mobiles (e.g. 384px screen width) and after this use it as follows:
col-xxs-1, col-xx...
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on: 2015-04-16
Bootstrap 3 Tips and Tricks You Still Might Not Know | DigitalOcean
Learn about Bootstrap 3 features like removing gutter padding, custom container sizes, heading classes, maintaining aspect ratios for videos, displaying cont…
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on: 2015-03-07
twitter bootstrap - Reduce the gutter (default 30px) on smaller devices in
In bootstrap 3 the gutter is defined as 30px (15px on each side of a column). The issue I'm running is that, for example if I shrink my screen down to be tiny, the gutters end up being wider than the
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on: 2015-03-06
6 links that will show you what Google knows about you — Productivity in th
Want to find out all the things Google knows about you? Here are 6 links that will show you some of the data Google has about you. In order to serve relevant ads, Google collects data about you and…
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on: 2014-11-19
http://www.balaphp.com/php-page-load-perfomence-tips/
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on: 2014-09-07
Useful Unix commands for exploring data
While dealing with big genetic data sets I often got stuck with limitation of programming languages in terms of reading big files. Also so...
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on: 2014-08-27
Buggy PHP Code: The 10 Most Common Mistakes PHP Developers Make
Are you guilty of one of these common PHP mistakes? Refer to this list next time you’re debugging PHP code.
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on: 2014-07-02
http://serversforhackers.com/editions/2014/07/01/ssh-tricks/
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on: 2014-07-02