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March 31, 2019

Building Real-Time Charts With GraphQL And Postgres

Sunday, March 31, 2019 Teklinks

There is no better way to understand data than by visualizing it with charts and diagrams. The JS community has some great open-source projects that make data visualization easier, however, there has not been a go-to solution for building real-time backends that can back these charts and make them real-time.

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How to create a dark\light mode switch in CSS and Javascript

Sunday, March 31, 2019 Teklinks

To achieve this result, we are going to define all our project colors using CSS custom properties; and then, when a specific data attribute (or you can use a CSS class) is added to the body element, we update all these CSS variables with their new dark-theme values.

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March 28, 2019

How to host your own Git server on Linux

Thursday, March 28, 2019 Teklinks

Hosting a traditional Git server on Linux for your programming code is a great idea, but the standard command-line only approach is very dated and lacking useful, modern features.

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March 27, 2019

Productivity Tips I've Learned Building Scotch.io

Wednesday, March 27, 2019 Teklinks

Productivity is a marathon. The more days and years I put into this coding thing (or anything like fitness for that matter), the more I realize that consistency is far more critical than bursts. Being productive is a marathon.

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