Comparing Static Site Generator Build Times

There are so many static site generators (SSGs). It’s overwhelming trying to decide where to start. While an abundance of helpful articles may help wade through the (popular) options, they don’t magically make the decision easy.

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Making Sense of the JS Framework Benchmark

You've heard about a new library and you've decided you want to look into. Perhaps you need to make a decision on technology you haven't had a chance to use yet. You've read some articles, seen some endorsements on social media, but now you need to quickly get to the core of the matter.

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Code Isn't the Only Solution; and 8 Other Dev Lessons, 7 Years Later

I'm working as a software developer for 7 years. You can read my background and how I got into the industry here. There are a few things I wish I learned earlier. Knowing these in advance would have made my job a lot easier. Some of this might sound pretty obvious, but not for me.

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Introducing: The Async Cookie Store API

TLDR: The Cookie Store API is a new browser API built to expose cookies to service worker and offer an asynchronous alternative to document.cookie. It’s available in Chrome Browser starting from version 87. Are you sick and tired of weird ways to get cookies fromdocument.

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Optimized media loading using Web Workers

It’s 2020, and we have certainly had more than our fair share of problems this year. Yet a consistent problem developers have been facing for decades is how to efficiently load media into a web application.

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15 RxJS *Awesome* Tips from 15 Sentinels

RxJS is by far the hottest library for reactive programming in the web for the past few years. It is built on fascinating concepts and paradigms which are worth digging into that aren’t in scope of this post (what is “reactive”, “declarative”, functional programming concepts and more..).

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Effective Code Reviews: A Primer

Peer code reviews have increasingly been adopted by engineering teams around the world. Here are 6 tips to make the process better for teams. Peer code reviews as a process have increasingly been adopted by engineering teams around the world.

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