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    How Plugins Enhance The WYSIWYG Editing Experience

    Image by JK_Studio from PixabayWYSIWYG editors are one of the core components of any content management system (CMS). A well-coded, feature-filled WYSIWYG HTML editor can distinguish between a CMS users love and one they can't stand. While all WYSIWYG editors have a set of...

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    Easy Asset Access with the Cloudinary Media Library Browser Extension

    Readers of my blog will know that I've been banging the Cloudinary drum for years. Their awesome media capabilities allow users to optimally deliver images, video, and audio in any format and to any device. Performance, customization, flexibility, optimized delivery... Cloudinary makes media better for...

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    Amazing Text Editing Experiences with UltraEdit

    There's a common saying that adults spend more time with coworkers than family; for us software engineers, we spend more time with our text editor than our families. And why shouldn't we? They're our main tool to do a variety of things, and as these...

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    Gather Feedback Using the Amazing UserWell

    Most websites and mobile apps collect all sorts of data to try to gain insights into what users are doing, not doing, and to gain insight into what users may want. Those metrics are useful but there's a more valuable way to get information: direct...

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    Land Your Dream Job with Vettery

    Whether you're an experienced pro or someone new to the industry, finding a great job can be a scary, stressful process. Engineers and designers get inundated with Hacker Rank tests, portfolio requests, and a variety of other queries. Vettery improves the experience for free...

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    Easy Google Search Result API with Zenserp

    No matter how much experience I gain in this industry, one task I continue to fail at is building an accurate, flexible, and maintainable scraper for site search. As soon as sites change their HTML structure, my scrape is borked. When looking to build my own...

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    weatherstack: an Amazing Weather API

    One of my first tasks each day is checking the weather; it's a necessity for knowing what my children and I should wear, if I'm going to need to water the lawn or need to shovel snow, and if I can take meetings out on my...

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    Grab a .DEV Domain from Hover!

    I can say that the biggest and best changes in my professional life came from starting this blog — it was the springboard for conference speaking, open source, and joining Mozilla. I’ve always urged ever developer to have a blog to showcase talent, explore new technology...

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    Wix Is Challenging You to an SEO Battle for $25K

    This year Wix launched a series of advanced SEO tools for Wix users to optimize their site pages for search engines and social media platforms. These tools include custom meta tags, canonical URLs, 301 redirects, structured data and rapid loading.So what’s the deal?To put their...

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    Awesome Visual Testing with Percy!

    The more complex the applications I work on, the more I rely on and invest in testing. Whether it's flow typing, jest tests, unit tests, or selenium tests, I rely on all of them to enforce integrity and save me from myself.One type of...