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code-for-a-living April 6, 2020

A practical guide to writing technical specs

Writing a technical spec increases the chances of having a successful project, service, or feature that all stakeholders involved are satisfied with. It decreases the chances of something going horribly wrong during implementation and even after you’ve launched your product.

Zara Cooper

code-for-a-living March 25, 2020

Tracking down performance pitfalls in Vue.js

When we built the game as a single-page app and queried the domain, it was such a memory hog. The game jam was over, but I couldn’t let it go. It kept bugging me. Was it Vue.js? Was it Netlify? Was it our hacky code? I had to find out.

Daniel Madalitso Phiri

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code-for-a-living March 23, 2020

Defending yourself against coronavirus scams

Like a lot of you, I’m pretty glued to the news these days, trying to balance unease with calm realism. In trying times like these, we look for resources for critical information and ways to help people less fortunate than us. That’s the good news; the better angels of our nature see difficult situations—fires in…

Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living March 18, 2020

How to develop a defensive plan for your open-source software project

Open source software is becoming more and more popular. Here's how you can create a plan to ensure that your open source implementation is secure as well as effective.

Sam Bocetta

code-for-a-living March 16, 2020

How event-driven architecture solves modern web app problems

In this article, we’ll discuss some of the problems driving innovation in modern web development. Then we’ll dive into the basics of event-driven architecture (EDA), which tries to address these problems by thinking about back-end architecture in a novel way.

Bogdan Sucaciu

code-for-a-living March 13, 2020

Scaling your VPN overnight

We're 100% remote, as of Monday. And one of the critical tools that helps us work securely is our VPN. This article covers how we made our decision and best practices to follow.

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living March 12, 2020

Working from home tips from our experienced remote employees

We asked some of our veteran remote workers, folks who have spent years doing this, for tips on how to make remote work effective, enjoyable, and sustainable.

Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living March 5, 2020

A modern ‘Hello, World’ program needs more than just code

The tradition of a "Hello, World" program goes back at least to 1978. But for modern coders, what's an appropriate "Hello, World"?

Charles R. Martin

code-for-a-living March 4, 2020

“You need someone to show you how to teach yourself.”

We spoke to Alexandre Plennevaux, Head of Pedagogy at BeCode, the coding school on a mission to close the skill gap by providing accessible, seven-month inclusive bootcamps across Belgium and recruiting students through illegal streaming sites. You run an intense, seven month-long, full-time bootcamp. Students need to be highly motivated. Why are you advertising on…

Medi Madelen Gwosdz Content Strategist

code-for-a-living March 2, 2020

Best practices for REST API design

In this article, we'll look at how to design REST APIs to be easy to understand for anyone consuming them, future-proof, and secure and fast since they serve data to clients that may be confidential.

John Au-Yeung

code-for-a-living February 27, 2020

The eight factors of happiness for developers

I recently came across this sketchnote by Tanmay Vora, and it really resonated with me. As a developer it got me thinking about how this might translate into the life of a developer and our happiness. Based on this sketchnote here are the eight factors of happiness applied to developer life. 1. Resentment Harboring resentment…

Mark Locklear