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How to Fix Flashing FontAwesome Icons on Page Load

If you ever used FontAwesome with a server side rendered framework like nextjs, remix or static site generator like GatsbyJS, you probably noticed it. On each page load, the FontAwesome icons are huge for a split second. After some research, I found out why that happens and how to fix

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Summaries and Recommendations: The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss

If you have enough of working for your boss in your corporate cubicle, this book is for you. I just finished reading Tim Ferriss' 4-Hour Work Week and I am going to share a high level summary, so you can decide if it's for you or not. Just skim through

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Learning React: Custom Notification-System with Context

Displaying a notification to the user is typical for web applications. Let me show you how we can leverage React Context to build a global, customizable Notification-System. To give you a high-level overview of this article, we will: Create a Notification component that can hold and display one single notificationCreate

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MasterCard, Visa & the Payment-Mafia - Why Payment is Messed Up

We've come to a point in time in which technically, everyone can accept payments for their online-shop via Shopify + PayPal. Every developer can integrate Stripe payments with a vast amount of security features and risk-management to protect against fraudulent transactions. Technology is - as always - at it's peak, payments

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How to Find Micro-SaaS Ideas: The EBIG Framework

Once upon a time, I was a slender, thin little software developer with no ideas, just like you. For real though, a few years ago, I was in search of the perfect software idea permanently. I would constantly look at successful websites or apps and thought, "Technically, this is something

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Your users have latency. As a developer, you should too.

I am going to introduce you to an unpopular opinion right now. Bear with me, this will help you craft experiences with better UX. So promise to read on, despite your instincts might tell you otherwise

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How I wrote a scraper to get an RTX 3080 (OSS)

As many are aware, Nvidia didn't at all manage to meet the high number of buying intents for the RTX 3080 generated by gamers, crypto-miners and others. It was the beginning of October when I realized that I am going to need a more powerful GPU for my soon to

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Make Footers Stick to the Bottom of the Page in Bulma

Many websites feature a footer element which should be displayed as the last element on a website. Everyone that created a footer stumbled upon this problem at least once: For shorter pages, the footer is the last element, but it's not at the bottom of the screen. It's somewhere in

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Integrate Google Analytics into Your React Web-App (without npm packages)

Integrating an analytics solution is crucial for any business in order to measure success and where it originates from. Google Analytics is probably the most well known tool, so in this article you will learn how to use it in your React App without any npm packages. In order to