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New Jan 3, 2025
trimMiddle() – the missing String trim method
One of the cool features of MacOS’ Finder app is that it does not trim file names that don’t fit the space at the end, but in the middle of the file name. This does make a lot more sense,...
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New Dec 26, 2024
A Twitter eulogy and the complicated relationship with my X…
X isn’t Twitter. X isn’t even driven by human emotions any longer and is run by a management that doesn’t care about people, emotions or the dangers of propaganda. That’s why a...
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New Dec 23, 2024
Stupid interview questions will get you limited developers – is that what the market wants?
In recent times a meme has been making the rounds that allegedly shows a smart way to solve interview puzzles. In these memes developers are asked to create an ASCII pattern like the following:...
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New Dec 4, 2024
A behind the scenes of how I create an edition of the WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest – 3 hours in 1 minute speedrun
I write a newsletter every week at https://wearedevelopers.com/newsletter with 150k subscribers. Today I recorded the 3 hours I spent putting the current edition together. Here it is sped up to one...
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New Nov 16, 2024
What’s your excuse for not using the web share API?
The WebShare API is so easy to use, it is a crime people don’t use it more. Instead, we have tons of dead “share on $thing” buttons on the web. Many of which spy on your users and...