Introduction Hi, I’m Jane. I wrote this guide because I want to help others with non-traditional backgrounds succeed on take-home coding challenges. Please read it, take notes, apply the material, and let me know about your results. You can reach me via email at jane@fullstackinterviewing.com. This guide is intended for […]
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Photo courtesy of Pexels.com A few days ago, I wrote this article for freeCodeCamp which has since gone on to be read more times than I could have ever imagined. The response from the community has been overwhelming, humbling, and inspiring. With the intent of spreading that article as far […]
This is being published with the permission of Facebook under the responsible disclosure policy. The vulnerabilities mentioned in this blog post were plugged quickly by the engineering teams of Facebook and Tinder. This post is about an account takeover vulnerability I discovered in Tinder’s application. By exploiting this, an attacker could […]
Buttons have become an inevitable part of front end development. Thus, it is important to keep in mind a few things before you start styling buttons. I have gathered some of the ways of styling buttons using CSS. You can combine most of the methods in order to create a […]
Your best friend, the code editor. Note: This post is part of a series. The other articles are all available here! Woo hoo! We made some nice progress since the beginning of this series. Our page now has some text, some links, an image, maybe even some GIFs if you experimented […]
I finally finished working through all of freeCodeCamp’s Front End Web Development curriculum. It only took me three years! I first joined freeCodeCamp in November 2015. There were lots of gaps in my learning. Since initially joining freeCodeCamp, I took a JavaScript class at General Assembly in 2016, attended Flatiron School’s […]
https://pixabay.com/en/instrument-music-played-hobby-2505105/ I’ve recently switched to a new computer and did a clean setup. A few days ago I needed to do a tiny update to my home page which is built with Jekyll. Jekyll is a static site generator built with Ruby, so had to install all required dependencies before […]
This is not R — https://www.pexels.com/photo/coffee-writing-computer-blogging-34676/ Web scraping used to be a difficult task requiring expertise in XML Tree parsing and HTTP Requests. But with new-age scraping libraries like beautifulsoup (for Python) and rvest (for R), web scraping has become a toy for any beginner to play with. This post aims to explain […]
What’s trending on Codeburst this week? Highlighted The 2018 Web Developer Roadmap — An illustrated guide to becoming a Frontend or Backend Developer with links to courses. Top Stories Redux-Actions through Example: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 — This series assumes that you are already familiar with both React and Redux; and just maybe have […]
An introduction to CSS Grid and its potential with a practical example. My first contact with CSS Grid was at a talk from Rachel Andrew and I was fascinated by the problems it solves and possibilities it creates. I played around with it a bit and today I want to […]