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Absolute imports with Create React App

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#react
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05/19/19

macOS vs Windows: a web developer’s perspective

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#hackernoon-top-story
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05/12/19

The fine art of fast development

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#hackernoon-top-story
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05/05/19

npm package permissions — an idea

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#javascript
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12/03/18

A different way to manage state in React

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#react
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10/28/18

The 100% correct way to split your chunks with Webpack

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#javascript
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09/01/18

Ripple: not a cryptocurrency

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#blockchain
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08/03/18

NEM: decentralisation in moderation

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#blockchain
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07/23/18

Dash, the friendly cryptocurrency

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#bitcoin
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07/19/18

NEO: the Rolls Royce of crypto-tokens (and that’s a bad thing)

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#blockchain
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07/13/18

15 HTML element methods you’ve potentially never heard of

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#javascript
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07/05/18

Cardano (ADA) — better than Bitcoin, but can it be best?

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#bitcoin
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07/04/18

Stakenet coin: the next big thing, probably

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#bitcoin
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06/26/18

Backend-in-the-frontend: a pattern for cleaner code

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#javascript
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06/23/18

A crypto-trader’s diary — week 13; TRON

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#bitcoin
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06/23/18

A crypto-trader’s diary — week 12; Oyster coin

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#bitcoin
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06/12/18

A crypto-trader’s diary — week 11; storage coins

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#ipfs
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06/07/18

A crypto-trader’s diary — week 10; Stellar

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#blockchain
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06/02/18

A crypto-trader’s diary — week 9; Litecoin

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#bitcoin
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05/21/18

A crypto-trader’s diary — week 8; IOTA is awesome (or is it?)

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#blockchain
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05/15/18

A crypto-trader’s diary — week 7; skin in the game

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#bitcoin
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05/11/18

A crypto-trader’s diary — week 6; diving into altcoins

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#bitcoin
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04/30/18

A crypto-trader’s diary — week 5

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#trading
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04/24/18

A crypto-trader’s diary — week 4

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#trading
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04/16/18

A crypto-trader’s diary — week 3

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#trading
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04/09/18

A crypto-trader’s diary — week 2

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#bitcoin
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04/01/18

A crypto-trader’s diary — week 1

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#trading
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03/29/18

Picking the low hanging passwords

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#security
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03/03/18

Part 2: How to stop me harvesting credit card numbers and passwords...

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#javascript
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01/07/18

I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. He...

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#javascript
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01/05/18

Writing an easing function; a slightly interesting story

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#javascript
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12/27/17

O API — an alternative to REST APIs

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#javascript
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12/17/17

How to hire the best developers

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#recruiting
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12/12/17

A user encounters a JavaScript error. You’ll never guess what happe...

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#javascript
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12/03/17

Using a React 16 Portal to do something cool

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#react
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11/05/17

Maybe I missed something, but isn’t your article’s title 100% false?

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09/05/17

The 100% correct way to structure a React app (or why there’s no su...

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#javascript
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09/02/17

12 cool things you can do with GitHub

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#github
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08/29/17

Removing that ugly :focus ring (and keeping it too)

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#accessibility
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07/13/17

It’s OK to not use Yarn

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#javascript
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07/06/17

Measuring web performance; it’s really quite simple

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#web-development
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06/06/17

My approach to using Git, without the headaches

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#git
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06/05/17

Upgrading from Node 6 to Node 8: a real-world performance comparison

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#javascript
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06/02/17

Web fonts: when you need them, when you don’t

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#typography
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05/10/17

My approach to using z-index

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#css
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04/14/17

We have no evidence that people actually change the browser text size.

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04/08/17

Speed up your site with a little machine learning

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#machine-learning
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03/18/17

11 things I learned reading the flexbox spec

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#css
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03/16/17

Routing in React, the uncomplicated way

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#react
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03/03/17

rems and ems, and why you probably don’t need them

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#css
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02/27/17

A guide to cross-browser testing: installing all the things

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#web-development
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02/03/17

Polyfills: everything you ever wanted to know, or maybe a bit less

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#javascript
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01/23/17

You might not need if statements: a better approach to branching logic

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01/20/17

A simple pie chart in SVG

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#svg
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01/13/17

How I converted my React app to VanillaJS (and whether or not it wa...

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#react
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12/27/16

10 things I learned making the fastest site in the world

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#javascript
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12/12/16

10 React mini-patterns

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#react
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12/06/16

Running NodeJS on Linux on Windows (with no VM)

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#nodejs
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11/13/16

19 things I learnt reading the NodeJSdocs

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#javascript
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11/04/16

Master web development with these 9,985 weird tricks

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#web-development
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10/22/16

Cross-site scripting for dummies

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#javascript
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10/07/16

Tidy Fridy — a plan for ongoing code care

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#git
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10/04/16

Code reviews vs. unit tests — fight!

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#testing
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09/25/16

You know a site has its shit together when…

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#css
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09/14/16

How to reduce incorrect email addresses

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#javascript
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09/08/16

Twelve Fancy Chrome DevTools Tips

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#javascript
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09/06/16

The 100% correct way to validate email addresses

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#design
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09/03/16

A Web Audio experiment: detecting piano notes

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#javascript
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08/14/16

What you don’t know about web development

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#javascript
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08/05/16
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