Playful Programming
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The perfect place to learn all kinds of programming, from introductory ideas to advanced abstractions. Join our Discord! https://t.co/zSB6pgt8as
Joined September 2019
While reading an article on our site, you may find a new banner indicating a way to donate to us through @opencollect. If you see this, please consider donating - it would help our sustainability immensely. Link down below:
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We need more humanizing elements in engineering. As such, I'm starting a blog post series that outlines personal (and sometimes extremely vulnerable) experiences that I think touch on the interpersonal aspects of our field. To start? Survivorship bias. https://t.co/9B5byoJ5Zl
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A cautionary tale about successes in my career and survivorship bias.
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We're excited to announce our first-ever code bootcamp! It's a FREE 12-week program in person at Sacramento, California & remote in our Discord. In this bootcamp, we'll be teaching the basics of Web Development: HTML, CSS, JS, & React. Sign up today: https://t.co/QG7fSi2Dxa
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Welcome to Playful Programming's first bootcamp!
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Choosing your tech stack can be a challenging decision to make, especially if you've never led a team before. To help, we have a new article on the site where @davinci784 walks us through how he decided what tools to use to build a job search tool: https://t.co/OCl44M5Lel
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Choosing a tech stack isn’t just about picking trendy tools, it’s about aligning architecture with real-world needs.
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Dithering is an important concept to many program's aesthetics... But how does it work under-the-hood?? We're fortunate enough that @damarberlari is willing to join us for tomorrow's book club to answer this question! Join us tomorrow in our Discord: https://t.co/WH4WVN1mSt
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Getting apps to be local-first can be a huge challenge. Luckily for us, TanStack has a new library to help solve that problem: TanStack DB! Join our book club tonight at 4:30PM PST to talk about an interactive article on TanStack DB to learn how it can help your applications.
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Software itself is only part of the picture for many within the engineering space! Join @crutchcorn as we dive into the first of a new series of blog posts. It outlines how they were able to join a company as VP of Engineering and lessons they learned along the way!
I've been doing some reflecting on my past engineering roles and lessons learned from them. This week, I'm both celebrating and acknowledging the danger of my career jump into management: https://t.co/QAYGdyq8uC
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We recently learned that our Discord was not accepting invites due to a bug in Discord! 😱 This issue appears to have been resolved after toggling a switch in our settings. If you've been trying to join us, please try again - we'd love to have you ✨ Link in next post:
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In our latest article, we dive into all the details into CSS specificity, the hierarchy, their usage and, to tie it all together, several exercises so you can train your knowledge and make sure you understand it before moving on. 🥳 https://t.co/Aw4XhRvkIu
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Struggling with stubborn CSS rules? Learn how specificity works so you can write styles that apply the way you want, every time
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Selectors have a weight to them that we can quantify. This defines their hierarchy and allows you know ahead of time which selector can override another and when!
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Selectors come in many varieties, all for different but important purposes. It's important to know which one to use for each case!
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📝New article alert! Specificity in CSS is one of the most misunderstood and important concepts in the web dev space. It refers to the algorithm that browsers run when trying to decide which CSS declarations to apply to HTML elements.
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Our newest article covers all of that and much more. You'll also learn how to: • Configure crawlers • Optimize your images, loading speeds, interactivity and stability Check it out below! https://t.co/dQuNJTMI9p
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A practical guide to optimizing SEO in your Next.js application.
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📝 We have a new article! While Next.js is inherently SEO friendly, making proper use of metadata, sitemaps and structured data can help boost your website’s visibility.
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Read the article in full here! See you then. https://t.co/nZXazY52Cn
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In which we answer every question you've ever had about digital color, and some you haven't.
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📚 Join our book club this Thursday! 📚 In our book club we hang out and talk about an article — this week, we're discussing Dan Hollick's "What is a color space?" article! Join our Discord and meet us on Thursday, September 11th, at 4:30 PST!
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📚 We have a very special book club this Thursday! 📚 For this week's book club — where we hang out and talk about a dev article — we're joined by the author of an awesome interactive blog post about "Big O": @samwhoo. Join our Discord and discuss the article with us all!
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Join our Discord to discuss the article:
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📚 Join our book club this Thursday! 📚 In our book club we hang out and talk about an article — this week, we're discussing Josh Comeau's "An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths" article! Join our Discord and meet us on Thursday, August 28th, at 4:30 PST!
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Check the article below in full:
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Some thoughts after working with React for 10 years.
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