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Code and nerd stuff.

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How to permanently set `$PATH` on a Debian based system

Today I was fighting with a deploy to an Ubuntu EC2 instance: the commands I need to run in the EC2 instance always used the default $PATH value.

To set the default $PATH value you need to use the /etc/environment.

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5 most annoying website features I face as a blind person every single day

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Laws of UX

Laws of UX is a collection of the maxims and principles that designers can consider when building user interfaces. It was created by Jon Yablonski.

Laws of UX is a collection of the maxims and principles that designers can consider when building user interfaces. It was created by Jon Yablonski.

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Marking Required Fields in Forms

Using an asterisk to mark required fields is an easy way to improve the usability of your forms. Only marking optional fields makes it difficult for people to fill out the form.

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Hey, let's create a functional calendar app with the JAMstack

Hey, let's create a functional calendar app with the JAMstack I’ve always wondered how dynamic scheduling worked so I decided to do extensive research,

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_This article is part of a new series about design principles that can serve both as a refresher for seasoned designers and **reference for newcomers to the industry**. Hopefully, the content covered here isn't too obvious and self-explanatory, but it's always great to have a nice quick refresher every now and again, isn't it? — Ed._ In 1910, psychologist [Max Wertheimer had an insight](http://www.leonardo.info/isast/articles/behrens.html) when he observed a series of lights flashing on and off at a railroad crossing. It was similar to how the lights encircling a movie theater marquee flash on and off.

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Different Approaches for Creating a Staggered Animation

Animating elements, at its most basic, is fairly straightforward. Define the keyframes. Name the animation. Call it on an element. But sometimes we need

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Lazy loading images with vanilla JavaScript

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The world needs a tech diet; here is how designers can help

It’s time we bridge the gap between feel-good Design & Ethics panels and the work we do everyday as digital product designers.

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GitHub Actions for PHP Developers

An introduction to GitHub Actions and how PHP developers can use them in their daily lifes.

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Accessible Icon Buttons

Welcome to Sara Soueidan’s Web site.

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Roll your own ngrok in 15 minutes

How to expose your local server over nginx aka reverse proxy over ssh.

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Examining my own programming this week and recognizing five patterns that I like implementing.

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In this article, we reintroduce closures by building a tiny clone of React Hooks. This will serve two purposes - to demonstrate the effective use of closures in building our React Hooks clone itself, and also to implement a naive mental model of how Hooks work under the hood. Finally, we arrive at how Custom Hooks naturally arise.

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7 absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer

A few things I strongly believed when I was a junior developer which turned out to be wrong.