90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 - by Kent Beck
First, I do not have the answer for which skills are in the 90% & which are in the 10%. (I’ll tell you why I concluded that split in a second.) We are back in Explore territory in 3X: Explore/Expand/Extract terms. The only way to find out is to try a little bit of a lot of ideas.
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Staying Organized | Tighten
Andrew Morgan (a Lead Programmer at Tighten) joins us this week to talk all things organization - why it's important for devs (and all of us, really) to stay organized, how he does it, and a lot...
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Legacy to Laravel: How to Modernize an Aging PHP Application | Tighten
Here at Tighten, we love Laravel and get excited about staying up to date with the latest and greatest features our framework of choice has to offer.
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Vercel AI SDK
AI New Try out the new The AI Toolkit for TypeScript From the creators of Next.js, the Vercel AI SDK gives you the tools you need to build AI-powered products.
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An example of LLM prompting for programming
My account of an internal chat with Xu Hao, where he shows how he drives ChatGPT to produce useful self-tested code. His initial prompt primes the LLM with an implementation strategy (chain of thought prompting).
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Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks
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You're not uncool. Making friends as an adult is just hard | Here & Now
This segment was rebroadcast on July 20, 2022. Click here for that audio. Marisa G. Franco's new book on the science of making and keeping friends "Platonic" comes out on Sept. 6.
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HaggardHawks: Ampersand
This: is called an ampersand. It’s derived from a handwritten combination of the letters E and T, as in et, the Latin word for “and”. You might have already known that.
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The 44 Best Pens for 2024: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens
JetPens.com ® Free USA Shipping on Orders over $35! It’s almost impossible to pick a single best pen for everyone, because not everyone wants the same thing from their pens. Plus, different types of pens use different inks, so you can’t exactly compare a gel pen to a highlighter.
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Maximizing the Potential of LLMs: A Guide to Prompt Engineering
Language models have rapidly improved in recent years, with large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3 and GPT-4 taking center stage. These models have become popular due to their ability to perform a great variety of tasks with incredible skill.
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50 Ideas That Changed My Life
Here are the 50 ideas that changed my life. These are my guiding principles and the light of my intellectual life. All of them will help you think better, and I hope they inspire curiosity.
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Insegne
Aperto sempre su appuntamento! Artigianalità vintage, estetica moderna, risultati contemporanei!
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Introducing PHP-CS-Fixer into legacy projects - Andreas Möller
You are working on a legacy PHP project and want to use friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer to enforce a consistent coding standard. But you are unsure how to do that without causing problems.
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Dyson Hair Dryer Becomes Jet Engine | Hackaday
While Dyson makes some good products, they aren’t known for being economical. Case in point: [Integza] spent $500 on a hair dryer. While he does have a fine head of hair, we suspected he wasn’t after it for its intended purpose, and we were right.
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Effective Spaced Repetition
You won’t get smarter by drilling IQ tests or playing the violin. Dual n-back probably won’t improve your working memory. But you can remember anything you choose to with spaced repetition. Spaced repetition is, by far, the most effective cognitive hack I’ve used.
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Sunset
South Pole Station sits at near-exactly 90° South latitude. Down here, the sun does weird things. This leads to strange but accurate sentences, such as “can you believe it – only 4 more days until sunset”. Any location South of the Antarctic Circle (around 66.
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Here’s How Two New Orleans Teenagers Found a New Proof of the Pythagorean T
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Tatjana van Vark
Although many of her projects appear to be simple reproductions, these instruments often include improvements that came as a result of Tatjana’s deep analysis and understanding of the underlying principles of the device.
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How Microsoft sprinted to integrate OpenAI's GPT-4 into '365' suite
Building an AI assistant into every app—from Outlook to Word to Teams—is a big job, but one the tech giant wanted to do quickly. It’s a term that’s been uttered thousands of times within the conference rooms and hallways at Microsoft over the past few months.
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on: 2023-04-06
Exploring Laravel’s Job Queue: Advanced Features for Efficient and Scalable
As web applications become increasingly complex and data-intensive, it’s becoming more and more important to offload time-consuming tasks to background processes. One popular way of doing this in Laravel is through the use of the job queue.
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CSS Masking - Ahmad Shadeed
In the design world, masking is a popular technique to achieve unique design effects. As a designer, I’ve used it many times, but my usage of it on the web is rare.
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How to read MySQL EXPLAINs
Learn how to read the output in MySQL EXPLAIN plans so you can utilize them to improve query performance. In the MySQL world, EXPLAIN is a keyword used to gain information about query execution. This blog post will demonstrate how to utilize MySQL EXPLAIN to remedy problematic queries.
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25 PERFECT AI Prompts for PHP Developers | by Brady Lewis | Mar, 2023 | Med
With prompts ranging from PHP frameworks to database integration, these prompts offer a wealth of actionable insights and guidance to help you optimize your development efforts and deliver outstanding results.
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Gut - Ease your journey with Git
Gut is a user-friendly Git CLI for Windows, Mac, and GNU/Linux. With intuitive commands and streamlined workflows, Gut simplifies the process of using Git's complex system, allowing you to focus on your code. Your code was working two days ago, right? Revert it without modifying history
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Bicycle – Bartosz Ciechanowski
There is something delightful about riding a bicycle. Once mastered, the simple action of pedaling to move forward and turning the handlebars to steer makes bike riding an effortless activity.
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Testing without mocking frameworks.
Over the years, my coding practices have changed a lot. From hacking away until it works to TDD/BDD/DDD and everything in between. One of the biggest changes in my developer career has been when, why, and how I test my code. In particular, my view on mocking frameworks has changed a lot.
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on: 2023-03-28
Superhuman: What can AI do in 30 minutes?
The thing that we have to come to grips with in a world of ubiquitous, powerful AI tools is how much it can do for us. The multiplier on human effort is unprecedented, and potentially disruptive. But this fact can often feel abstract. So I decided to run an experiment.
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on: 2023-03-26
Modelling Busines Processes in Laravel
As developers, we often map business processes to digital processes, from sending an email to something quite complex. Let's look at how to take a more complicated process and write clean and elegant code. It all starts with a workflow.
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on: 2023-03-25
Introducing Bladestan - PHPStan analysis of Blade templates
This Tuesday, I was a guest in 2nd podcast of PHP Portugal folks. It was fun as always, and apart from GPT questions, I got asked about the Laravel open-source packages like Punchcard. I wrote about Twig static analysis a year and a half ago.
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Everything You Can Test In Your Laravel Application
This article is about the How and What to test in Laravel. If you want to learn about the Why you should write tests, check out my 3 Compelling Reasons For Developers To Write Tests article. All test examples focus on testing concepts and can be applied to all testing frameworks.
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Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought
If you are reading this article, you are most likely using a web browser, and you have some expectations or beliefs about online privacy and security. For example, I do not know what you are reading on other tabs on your web browser, and you would like to keep it that way.
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Role And Permission In Laravel 10 using Spatie: The Definitive Guide (2023)
Roles and permissions can make or break your web application. If you’re not careful, your users might end up running amok, wreaking havoc on your carefully crafted code. Roles and permissions are like the bouncers at a club.
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MySQL for Developers — PlanetScale
Welcome! MySQL for Developers is PlanetScale’s free MySQL course that teaches you schema basics, indexing, querying, and beyond. This intermediate MySQL course is appropriate for both developers just getting started with MySQL and those who need a refresher.
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MIT’s Barry Duncan demonstrates the power of writing in reverse
Words have always played a central role in Barry Duncan’s life. He’s worked in bookstores for more than 40 years, reads often, and has tried his hand at writing novels, children’s books, song lyrics, and plays.
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Laying Out a Print Book With CSS
Last year I published my debut technothriller, The Anshar Gambit, as an eBook. Satisfying, yes, but I’ve spent entirely too much of my life peddling bits. I wanted to hold it. Unsurprisingly, in order to get my book printed, I first needed to submit a pixel-perfect PDF of all the pages.
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Download Glaze
We updated our AboutUs page with our values and our mission. New!: Glaze 2.0 has arrived! More info.
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I’ve been employed in tech for years, but I’ve almost never worked – Emmanu
When Twitter fired half of its employees in 2022, and most tech giants followed suit, I wasn’t surprised. In fact, I think little will change for those companies. After being employed in the tech sector for years, I have come to the conclusion that most people in tech don’t work.
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Monitoring PHP Performance and Diagnosing Bottlenecks
As one of the most widely used scripting languages for web development, PHP is known for its flexibility and ease of use. However, with complex applications and increasing traffic, PHP performance can sometimes take a hit.
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Design notes on the 2023 Wikipedia redesign
In the dynamic and bustling landscape of New York, personal injuries can have profound and far-reaching consequences.
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How did Dennis Ritchie produce his PhD thesis? A typographical mystery (202
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Modern Font Stacks
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do.
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Laravel Response Classes
Responding from your Laravel application is what I would call vital, especially when you are building an API. Let's have a look at how we can power up our responses. Many of us typically start with using the helper functions in our applications, as the docs and many tutorials will use them.
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Convert code to your programming language of choice
Convert code to your programming language of choice
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ChatGPT's API is So Good and Cheap, It Makes Most Text Generating AI Obsolete
Everyone knew OpenAI would release an API for ChatGPT at some point. The APIs for GPT-3 alone enable the existence of companies such as Jasper and Copy.ai. The real question was the price of the ChatGPT. For context, when GPT-3 went out of beta in 2021, it cost $0.
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Secret colours of the Commodore 64
In 1991 I was fourteen years old. It would be fair to say I was obsessed with computers. I proudly owned a brown ‘breadbox’ Commodore 64 with an exotic upgrade - an Oceanic 5.25” disk drive: In May that year, I was reading COMMODORE FORMAT and devouring the C64 game reviews.
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Why the floppy disk just won’t die | Ars Technica
When Mark Necaise got down to his last four floppy disks at a rodeo in Mississippi in February, he started to worry.
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Online gradient descent written in SQL • Max Halford
Edit – this post generated a few insightful comments on Hacker News. I’ve also put the code in a notebook for ease of use. Modern MLOps is complex because it involves too many components.
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How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages
In 2017, we wrote a blog post on how we store billions of messages. We shared our journey of how we started out using MongoDB but migrated our data to Cassandra because we were looking for a database that was scalable, fault-tolerant, and relatively low maintenance.
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The Lost Art of Lacing Cable - The Broadcast Bridge - Connecting IT to Broa
Cable lacing is definitely old school but it's been the method of choice for major broadcast facilities, stage rigging, CATV installers, NASA engineers, ships and aircrafts for many years.
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ChatGPT Explained: A Normie's Guide To How It Works
The story so far: Most of the discussion of ChatGPT I’m seeing from even very smart, tech-savvy people is just not good. In articles and podcasts, people are talking about this chatbot in unhelpful ways.
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Reliability: It's Not Great
The last four months have been rough. We’ve had more issues than we’re OK with. I’ve hesitated to share this because, well, I’m fighting a debilitating feeling of failure. Fear, too. If we don’t improve, our company ceases to exist, and I really like working on this company.
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Organizing test code in PHP
You are working on a PHP application or a package. You have decided that you want to use: What are your drivers and options for organizing test code?
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Legacy Software Systems: How to Live with Aging Software Architecture?
What is Legacy Software and where to find it? After 10 years of running and putting thousands of miles on the clock, a car is bound to have some issues. After all, every mechanical part has its limits when it comes to durability.
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RoomGPT
See what our over 2 million users are saying about the product. "You can now see your rooms in different themes before you renovate. How cool is that! 😳"
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Smooth and simple transitions with the View Transitions API - Chrome Develo
The View Transition API gives you the power to create seamless visual transitions between different views on your website.
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Build a ChatGPT clone using the new OpenAI Chat API
OpenAI released a brand new API that allows you to make use of the powerful AI model that also powers ChatGPT. Let's see how we can make use of it and build a ChatGPT clone using Laravel 10. If you want to jump directly to the source code, you can find it on GitHub.
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Why I Migrated This Website From Symfony To Laravel | Tomas Votruba
It's been exactly a week since I migrated this website from Symfony to Laravel. I had never done such a migration before and feared the pitfalls waiting for me. The migration itself was easy and swift.
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Clerk | Authentication and User Management
Need more than just a sign-in box? Clerk is a complete suite of embeddable UIs, flexible APIs, and admin dashboards to authenticate and manage your users.
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What are the steps to containerize a Laravel 10 application with PHP 8.2 an
Docker is a powerful tool for developers that allows them to create containerized applications. Containerization can help to simplify development and deployment processes, as well as make it easier to run applications consistently across multiple environments.
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The Rules of Margin Collapse
In CSS, adjacent margins can sometimes overlap. This is known as “margin collapse”, and it has a reputation for being quite dastardly. Instead of sitting 48px apart, their 24px margins merge together, occupying the same space!
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Rauno Freiberg. Devouring details. Nourishing novelty. Deploying excellence.
Rauno Freiberg. Devouring details. Nourishing novelty. Deploying excellence.
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Query your Laravel database using natural language - Beyond Code
In November 2022 I started experimenting a lot with OpenAI's large language models, such as DaVinci or Codex. One of those experiments was the ability to query your database using natural language.
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Four Ways to Build Web Apps
This is my opinionated list of four approaches to building websites and web applications. Publicly hosted on the internet, serving HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, etc over HTTP. Static websites are boring.
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Floating UI - Create tooltips, popovers, dropdowns, and more
Anchor a floating element next to another element while making sure it stays in view by avoiding collisions. This lets you position tooltips, popovers, or dropdowns optimally. Build your own floating UI components with React.
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Come creare un modello di testo SEO riutilizzabile con ChatGPT
Ben ritrovati su questi lidi. Abbiamo già parlato in più occasioni di come ChatGPT possa rivelarsi un utile strumento per il copywriting SEO quando utilizzato con intelligenza.
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Poor schemas, poor cataloguing: why music tagging sucks - the sporks space
One of the things that frustrates me with having a local music library is the tedium of tagging. While there are tools (like beets or MusicBrainz Picard) to make it easier, I feel there are fundamental issues with the design of tags for music, and the way we apply tags.
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The Firebase Blog
Firebase App Firebase App Firebase App Hosting: July Update Understanding FCM Message Delivery on Android Firebase Just Got Smarter: Meet Your New AI Development Assistant Building an AI-powered crossword puzzle with Genkit and Gemini App Hosting vs.
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How to get Codex to produce the code you want! | Prompt Engineering
Have you seen AI models that can generate code for you? Well, if you haven’t, you’re going to see them a lot more soon thanks to models like OpenAI’s Codex models.
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Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”
Last week, Microsoft announced the new AI-powered Bing: a search interface that incorporates a language model powered chatbot that can run searches for you and summarize the results, plus do all of the other fun things that engines like GPT-3 and ChatGPT have been demonstrating over the past few mon
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How Spotify's podcast bet went wrong | Semafor
Spotify’s podcast push began in earnest in 2016, when Ek invited audio executives including higher ups at Gimlet to the company’s headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden to explain the emerging American podcast market.
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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?—Stephen Wolfram Writings
That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially like human-written text is remarkable, and unexpected.
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André Staltz - Software below the poverty line
Most people believe that open source sustainability is a difficult problem to solve. As an open source developer myself, my own perspective to this problem was more optimistic: I believe in the donation model, for its simplicity and possibility to scale.
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Pranking My Roommate With Eerily Targeted Facebook Ads
Recently I found myself in need of a roommate and, like many others, reached out to the Craigslist universe.
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My favourite 3 lines of CSS | Andy Bell
In Every Layout, we wrote about The Stack. It’s a marriage of Heydon’s Lobotomised Owl selector and my method of managing Flow and Rhythm with CSS Custom Properties. Let’s break the selector down: every direct sibling child element of .stack has margin-block-start added to it.
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Web Rendering Patterns
We find ourselves in an era where a new JavaScript framework was born, bringing exciting possibilities to the web development landscape. However, its complexity can be overwhelming, especially for those new to the field.
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GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy
In this post, we'll implement a GPT from scratch in just 60 lines of numpy. We'll then load the trained GPT-2 model weights released by OpenAI into our implementation and generate some text. EDIT (Feb 9th, 2023): Added a "What's Next" section and updated the intro with some notes.
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What does POSIX conformance/compliance mean in the distributed systems worl
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Value-Oriented Programming
The research Val programming language uses value-oriented programming. Lucian Radu Teodorescu explores this paradigm. Robert C. Martin argues that we’ve probably invented all possible programming languages [Martin11].
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What is a CDN & How do CDNs work ? | Level Up Coding
Few years back, I came across a new e-commerce website while browsing the internet. I noticed that the images on the website didn’t load quickly. I refreshed the page and retried a couple of times. Finally, after ten seconds, I was able to see the rendered webpage with images.
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Visual design rules you can safely follow every time
You do not have to follow these rules every time. If you have a good reason to break any of them, do. But they are safe to follow every time. Pure black often has uncomfortably high contrast with other colours, and pure white is too bright. Use close-to-black and close-to-white instead.
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sdras/awesome-actions
Actions are triggered by GitHub platform events directly in a repo and run on-demand workflows either on Linux, Windows or macOS virtual machines or inside a container in response. With GitHub Actions you can automate your workflow from idea to production. Tool actions for your workflow.
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Build a GPT-3 app with Next.js and Vercel Edge Functions – Vercel
The field of artificial intelligence continues to take the world by storm. Huge strides have been made in text and image generation through tools like ChatGPT, GPT-3, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion. It’s spawned a wave of exciting AI startups, many of which we’re seeing built with Vercel and Next.
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Learn Images
Thanks for tuning in to Google I/O! Watch content on-demand. Stay organized with collections Save and categorize content based on your preferences.
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(20) Any good no framework PHP MYSQL web app in github, I can learn from? :
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PSR-14: Example - Access voting | PeakD
So far in our 5 part series we've dug into the details of Events, Dispatchers, and Providers. An awful lot of flexibility can be had from just three simple methods. But how does it work out in practice?
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15 Prompt di ChtGPT per il SEO Copywriting
Ben ritrovati su questi lidi! Come abbiamo appreso nei precedenti articoli, ChatGPT è uno strumento molto versatile per il SEO copywriting.
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When Screens were Secondary: Mario Bellini's TCV 250 for Olivetti
Here in 2023 we carry small screens in our pocket--and have gigantic ones on our workstations, in our living rooms and even in our cars. So it might be difficult to imagine a time when screens were not as important, and even a desk-sized unit could have a tiny screen.
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The Window Trick of Las Vegas Hotels
When I lived in Hong Kong I often passed by a residential apartment complex commonly known as the "monster building".
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My favourite way of testing validation rules
Validation can be a real pain to test. Forms usually have many different fields, and each field may have many different rules to validate it. Not only that, but certain fields might interact with each other, for example requiring a phone number only if the email address is empty.
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Complete Internal List of Yandex Ranking Factors - Web Marketing School
Moobs, YOLO, slacktivist, clickbait. These words all turned up in the Oxford English Dictionary in 2016, signalling, perhaps, that the
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The 10 Best and Worst Decisions I’ve Ever Made
Today’s post is a little more personal than professional (in fact, this started off as a post for my personal blog), but there’s still plenty of overlap into entrepreneurship and crowdfunding. I turned 42 a few weeks ago.
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An example of setting up xDebug in docker | Viktor Babanov
Once upon a time, I put together a working environment with PHP, xDebug, Docker and PhpStorm. Since then, I have been dragging it from project to project and felt happy. For those who find it difficult to set up a local environment with Docker and xDebug, I am posting this config with explanations.
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Chronological list of Resources to Learn PHP from Complete Beginner to Adva
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Certified 100% AI-Free Organic™ content - by Artur Piszek
AI is going to be big. Anti-AI is going to be big as well. One of my favorite products is “100% Fat-Free Pickled Cucumbers Fit (Gluten Free)”, which I once saw at the grocery store.
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