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Obsidian is a note-taking and knowledge management app by the people who created Dynalist, a popular online outliner and one of my favorite tools. They think of it as “an IDE for your notes.” It lets you turn a...

JavaScript in the browser has evolved. Developers who want to take advantage of the latest features have the option of going framework-less with less hassle. Options normally reserved to front-end frameworks, such as a...

What’s the easiest way to get promoted? Work hard, do a great job, add value, right? Wrong. Ask any experienced employer and they’ll tell you. The absolute last thing they want to do is promote a hardworking...

You can easily publish your ideas to sites like Dev.to, Hashnode or Medium, but the ideal is to have full control over your own content. There’s an ever-growing list of tools for building your own website and...

Express has long been the most popular framework for developing web applications with Node.js. Unfortunately, this framework hasn’t seen much active development in recent years. This means that it doesn’t have...

With the Chrome 88 release, we got support for clip-path: path(). That means it now has support in “most” major browsers! With path(), we’re able to use path definitions for a clip-path. (You catch up on what...

This article will briefly explain what object relational mapping (ORM) is, what an ORM library is, and why you should consider using one with your next JavaScript project. We’ll also help you evaluate the best...

Over the last few years, serverless functions (sometimes also referred to as “serverless” or “serverless computing”) have become a popular technology. However, there’s still a lot of confusion around the term....

English is the world’s most widely used language, yet only one in seven people speak it. It’s the first (native) language of 379 million people, but 917 million speak Mandarin Chinese, 460 million speak Spanish, and...

You may have established a pattern of coding that utilizes a few key tools offered by your browser’s console. But have you dug any deeper lately? There are some powerful tools available to you, and they might just...

A genetic algorithm is a procedure that searches for the best solution to a problem using operations that emulate the natural processes involved in evolution, such as “survival of the fittest”, chromosomal...

In this article, we’ll explore Deno, a relatively new tool built as a competitor/replacement for Node.js that offers a more secure environment and comes with TypeScript support out the box. We’ll use Deno to build a...

HTML5 Canvas and SVG are both standards-based HTML5 technologies that you can use to create amazing graphics and visual experiences. The question I’m asking in this article is the following: Should it matter which one...

Web developers love the Sass CSS preprocessor. According to the Sass opinions in the State of CSS Survey, every developer knows what it is, 89% use it regularly, and 88% have high satisfaction. Many web bundlers include...

The best way to learn a tool like React is to build something with it. Next.js is a powerful framework that helps you build for production. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to build a clone of Twitter using Next.js...

In this article, I describe how I developed a JavaScript “Wheel of Fortune” game to make online meetings via Zoom a little more fun during the global pandemic. The current pandemic has forced many social activities...