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Why should I care? How many hours have you spent logged on your Vagrant trying to type your query, copying in a text editor, pasting, then raging because the console goes crazy and you have to start all over again?Well, spend…

A Raspberry Pi is a low cost, small single-board computer.It allows you to develop your own projects and let them run all day on this mini computer.Possibilities are endless: home automation, Internet of Things,robotics projects, or run your own router,

When developing a mobile app, it's common to have to build an authentication system. However, requiring the users to provide their username and password every time they launches the app, severely deteriorates the user experience. Lately, I have been working on a side…

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Quick summary of part 1 I’m quite fond of the way Medium displays its images while they’re loading.At first they display a grey placeholder, then displays a small version of the image - something like 27x17 pixels. The trick is that most…

There’s something I want you to learn. I can’t tell you what it is right now. You’ll have to trust me blindly and follow the instructions closely. Part 1 — Be a challenger We’re going to look at some buggy python code. Don’t leave…

How to improve the speed of a React application? React is an incredible framework. You may have already learnt it from another post. However, it is a client-side framework and as such, it has a few drawbacks:search bots do not see…

Today, for the 185th time, I accidentally committed some debugging code on my project. But there won't be a 186th time.How hard can it be to get a warning when I'm about to commit a diff that contains certain forbidden strings?Of course it…

If you've spent any time developing an app for iOS, then you've probably stumbled across the bit of the Developer Console called 'Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles'.This is not a blog post about how to do anything in that section. Instead, it's…

I always feel guilty when I suddenly motivate myself to go to the gym, then have all the painful thoughts like going out in the cold, being sweaty and feeling stiff afterward and decide that I'd rather stay in bed…