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    Can you be an expert developer in 10,000 hours?

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    October 25, 2016
    Can you be an expert developer in 10,000 hours?

    Back in 1993, psychologists K. Anders Ericsson, Ralf Th. Krampe, and Clemens Tesch-Romer said that 10,000 hours of deliberate practice of a specific skill will make one an expert. Fast forward 15 years, and Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers made the 10,000 hours rule famous. And in 2012, Macklemore solidified it’s fact…

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    Nova is a color scheme for modern web development

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    Eric L. Barnes

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    September 27, 2016
    Nova is a color scheme for modern web development

    Nova is a unique color scheme designed using flat pastel colors that are easy on the eyes have a nice balance. The team currently supports Vim, Atom, HyperTerm, iTerm, tmux, and npm. It’s 100% free and open source You can grab the theme from the official site or from the…

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    Create Data Maps and Visualizations for FREE with Datamaps

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    September 19, 2016
    Create Data Maps and Visualizations for FREE with Datamaps

    Datamaps.co is a free tool that allows you to create visualizations with data maps. You upload a CSV file with region data, customize your map’s appearance, and then save it as a PNG or SVG. The main app is free to use and if you’d like to run your own…

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    Creating Unique Title Slugs with Laravel

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    June 11, 2016
    Creating Unique Title Slugs with Laravel

    When storing content in the database a typical pattern for retrieving it is to create a unique “slug” based on the title. This gives users and search engines a human-friendly way to access it through the URL. For example, a typical URL might look like, site.com/post/1. The id in the…

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    Medis – A Beautiful Mac App for Redis

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    June 4, 2016
    Medis – A Beautiful Mac App for Redis

    Medis is a Redis management application built on Electron, React, and Redux and designed to be simple and easy to use. It supports: Keys viewing/editing SSH Tunnel for connecting with remote servers Terminal for executing custom commands Config viewing/editing and advanced Redis features like: JSON/MessagePack format viewing/editing and built-in highlighting/validator…

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    Passing by Value vs. by Reference

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    June 2, 2016

    I’ve seen this awesome image shared by many of my friends on social media and it’s such a great way of explaining passing by value vs by reference. Penjee is the source and they go more in-depth in their tutorial if you’d like to learn move about this.

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    Deco — A New React Native IDE

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    May 27, 2016
    Deco — A New React Native IDE

    Deco is a new IDE for React Native and is now available for download. It’s free and open source and built to be an all-in-one solution for writing Reactive Native apps. Two of the features that will be huge time savers are real-time feedback based on changes and it leverages…

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    Black Screen is an IDE for your terminal

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    Eric L. Barnes

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    May 20, 2016
    Black Screen is an IDE for your terminal

    Black Screen, currently OS X only, is both a terminal emulator and an interactive shell based on Electron. It uses HTML and CSS for its UI like the Github Atom editor does. Black Screen supports autocompletion in what feels like a command + p window in Sublime Text. The app…

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    PHP-FIG and PSR-7 Middleware

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    May 20, 2016
    PHP-FIG and PSR-7 Middleware

    The PHP-FIG recently announced an entrance vote for PSR-7 which is all about creating a standard HTTP middleware interface. The community raised some potential issues and the Reddit thread got a little crazy. I’ve been trying to keep up with the discussion but with it mixed between Reddit, the official…

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    AlloyEditor a Medium style WYSIWYG Editor

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    Eric L. Barnes

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    May 16, 2016
    AlloyEditor a Medium style WYSIWYG Editor

    AlloyEditor is an open source WYSIWYG editor that puts a new spin on an old favorite. Leveraging CKEditor it adds a new UI and you can still use any of the existing CKEditor plugins.

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