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by umaar 6y ago
Similarly, I've written 28 lessons from working at Shazam as a web developer for 5 years, where I discuss how I made the most of my career there (hackdays, 1:1's, code reviews, drinking culture, deadlines, meetings, open source et
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by umaar 6y ago
I've always struggled to log into Discord. 1. Try to log onto a channel, but get presented with a "We've detected something out of the ordinary going on. To continue using Discord" where my only option is to verify by ph
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by umaar 6y ago
Was making me dizzy looking at it! Yes non web devs, or web devs in a rush because of a poorly managed project + deadline I reckon.
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by umaar 6y ago
Yeah it was stuttering, which is why I was inspecting it. I assumed it was a CSS transition, but without hardware acceleration. Outside agency makes a lot of sense to me. When you say get out of tech, you wouldn't happen to mean on a r
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by umaar 6y ago
Wow that landing page has an animated marquee sort of banner (a bunch of company logos sliding across horizontally), and instead of using CSS transforms, they've done it with a 23mb gif. Really curious as to why.
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by umaar 6y ago
Thanks for the compliment :) A long time ago I would've agreed. But now I think we live in a world where you can land a job with the right sort of Instagram post which goes viral. Side projects can broaden your horizons, increase your
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by umaar 6y ago
I've been putting more and more effort into my side projects recently (all on GitHub). It's kept me sharp, passionate, always gives me something to optionally think about (e.g. when exercising), provides conversation pieces (with
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by umaar 6y ago
Related: WebGL globe showing live Wikipedia edits https://umaar.com/globe/
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by umaar 6y ago
On the subject of Google Interview challenges and keypads, I wrote about a Google keypad challenge here: https://umaar.com/blog/my-code-exercise-submissions-part-1/ - it's all about outputting keypad directio
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by umaar 6y ago
I've been moving most of my projects over to Makefiles, instead of npm scripts [1]. Unless I am missing something obvious, it's nicer to run: make vs. npm start make thing vs. npm run thing But also more importantly, the Makefile
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by umaar 6y ago
Playwright has been growing on me and it'll feature heavily in a video course I'm making for browser automation. I'm keeping the codebase open on GitHub: https://github.com/umaar/learn-browser-testing&#x2
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by umaar 6y ago
I've put an example here, for doing it in Node.js: https://github.com/umaar/learn-browser-testing/tree/master/2...
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by umaar 6y ago
I'm working on a video course for all things browser automation, whether it's testing, scraping, auditing, deploying etc. I'm keeping the codebase open on GitHub: https://github.com/umaar/learn-browser-te
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by umaar 6y ago
Hey this is really helpful thanks, very interesting to know you would've built your own platform. Fortunately I already have my own platform for my first course, so maybe reusing that would be best rather than assuming the grass is gre
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by umaar 6y ago
Sometimes I think it's fascinating the rabbit holes we'll go down, when ultimately, the user just doesn't care. TypeScript vs. plain JS Logic-less templates like Mustache vs. Handlebars Vue vs. React Using async/await, a
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by umaar 6y ago
Honestly, I'd completely avoid sleeps. I think it always comes back to bite you. In the end you need to learn and understand the context of the page to determine when the page has loaded. When you say "wait for some DOM element&qu
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by umaar 6y ago
I'm working on a video course for all things browser automation, whether it's testing, scraping, auditing, deploying etc. I'm keeping the codebase open on GitHub: https://github.com/umaar/learn-browser-te
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by umaar 6y ago
I've been running a mailing list for 5 years now, and one of the most requested features is an RSS feed https://github.com/umaar/dev-tips-tracker/issues/9 I always assumed RSS was dying out, but it'
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by umaar 6y ago
Turns out Google has been doing this for my own site on certain pages. If I search for: devtools capture element screenshot It has listed the exact instructions on the search results page: https://i.imgur.com/NTdDjZY.png Ca
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by umaar 6y ago
Generally, I like the 'rich snippets' feature, but I think they've gotten worse. For example here's a reddit post I made from 6 years ago showcasing a search for 'mac shortcut screenshot' https://www
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MDN Web Docs Glossary: Definitions of Web-Related Terms(developer.mozilla.org)
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by umaar 6y ago
Hey thanks for that appreciate it. Yes not spending time on fancy things/random enhancements let's me actually focus on creating new content.
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by umaar 6y ago
I learnt CSS in a similar way. I'd take Photoshop designs and try to recreate them in vanilla HTML + CSS: https://jsfiddle.net/umaar/YNA5V/ https://jsfiddle.net/umaar/fu4TT/ I'
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Things I learnt after 5 years at Shazam as a web developer(umaar.com)
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I visualised 1B Shazam Music Recognitions(dev.to)
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Data Visualisation with 1B Shazam Music Recognitions(umaar.com)
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The Benefits of Speaking at Tech Conferences(dev.to)
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by umaar 6y ago
I noticed there are a number of popups/stickies/banners on this site. How do folks feel about blocking them with uBlock considering it's a nonprofit, and one of those banners was asking for a donation? The page in incognito:
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by umaar 6y ago
Can you comment on the pricing? Am I understanding correctly that 1 year of your VPN service costs $195 USD?
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The largest collection of animated Chrome DevTools tips(umaar.com)
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