People who code are often encouraged to work on side projects, and for a good reason. Side projects can be described as activities taken outside of one’s main job. For programmers, this is often a task with the purpose of learning something new, tackling a particular challenge, collaborating with other […]
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8 Creative Tips on How to Keep Programming Skills Sharp
One of the biggest challenges that programmers face is how to keep programming skills sharp in the ever-changing, and fast-moving world of software development. While there are a lot of different ways to accomplish this, it can be difficult to find the time and resources to remain vigilant in your […]
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10 Powerful Motivational Quotes for Coders for a Boost of Inspiration ✨
The process of creating software has its ups and downs and is certainly not short of its challenges. As a result, part of a coder’s life involves experiencing a vast range of emotions.
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7 Inevitable Challenges in Software Development and How to Combat Them
The efforts of launching software products can be a complicated process as it usually involves multiple parties working together across several stages whilst trying to solve technical problems. As a result, the process of developing software is usually met with challenges that most engineering teams can relate to. Challenges in […]
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10 Essential Things Software Engineers Do Apart From Coding
Most will imagine things software engineers do as likely sitting in front of a computer typing code all day. While coding is certainly one activity carried out by programmers, it’s not quite an accurate description of what it takes to produce functional software. The art of creating software is a […]
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Gatsby Google Analytics 4.0 | Step-by-Step Guide Using Gtag Plugin
This Gatsby Google Analytics guide will take you through step by step on how to get Analytics 4.0 running on your GatsbyJS website using the Gtag plugin. This Gatsby Google Analytics setup covers all essential steps including: creating your Google Analytics account, obtaining your measurement ID, installing and configuring the […]
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3 Simple options for finding open source projects to maintain
Open source refers to projects publicly accessible that anyone can view, modify and distribute. A key factor of open source projects is that anyone is also able to make contributions to the project. There are many ways of finding open source projects you can contribute to. GitHub is a popular […]
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21 Reflections for 2021 (As a Developer)
With 2021 about to conclude I thought it would be a nice exercise to reflect on how the year has gone from the perspective of a developer. I made a similar post last year that focused on what I learnt over the year: 20 Things I Learned in 2020 (Programmer […]
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Perform powerful automated checks on repository files | Using GitHub Actions ✔️
What are GitHub Actions? GitHub Actions are a powerful feature of the GitHub platform, providing methods to automate workflows and allow better monitoring and management of repositories. From a repository maintainer perspective, GitHub Actions are an essential tool that should be used where possible to ease the process of keeping […]
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Maintainer Reflections on Hacktoberfest 2021 (And what to do better next time!)
Hacktoberfest has concluded for another year! Either as a contributor or as a maintainer, what are your reflections on Hacktoberfest? Hacktoberfest is all about encouraging devs of all levels to contribute to open source projects. Much of Hacktoberfest is focused on the contributor point of view. There are all sorts […]
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