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    Bootstrap/386 - a vintage 1980s DOS inspired Twitter Bootstrap theme

    Posted: 08 Jan 2018 10:10 AM PST

    Permissions on the web suck

    Posted: 08 Jan 2018 07:22 AM PST

    Monitoring unused CSS by unleashing the raw power of the DevTools Protocol

    Posted: 08 Jan 2018 05:40 AM PST

    Picking a language/framework: Should I choose what's useful for the project, or useful for myself?

    Posted: 08 Jan 2018 03:24 PM PST

    Hi all,

    Edit: I'm deciding between Django/Python+JS or fullstack JS.

    Background:

    I'm in a bit of a strange position. My brother is building a startup and he wants me to be the principal web developer (basically, to build his whole website). He knows nothing about web development or software development at all, and he's left it entirely up to me to decide the framework/architecture.

    The Team:

    I'm the principal web developer. There's one other "tech" person on the team: the UI designer, who works in JavaScript. So she's the only person who will need to read my code (for now).

    Who I Am:

    I would say my programming skills have hovered around beginner for a couple years. My largest project ever was a webscraping program in Python which pulled links from search engine results into an Excel sheet. My best expertise is in Python, but I'm also decent in Bash, and I've at least been exposed to HTML/CSS, C# and Perl. I've never done or seen JS.

    The Project:

    • A web application that allows users to find local organizations and events, which are uploaded by the higher-privileged "Member" users

    • 3 types of users: Browsers (you landed on the website, no logins); Users (you have logins; you can follow 1 or more organizations; you can sign up for events; you can sign up for email or Slack notifications; you have a profile page); Members (all of the above; and you are an admin for 0 or 1 organizations)

    • Organizations are the parents of Events

    • Users can donate to organizations

    • A few static pages

    • Sexy and responsive

    How I Want to Pick This Project's Architecture:

    My goal is twofold:

    • Short-term: It must be easy possible for me, a beginner, to develop the full stack in 6-9 months by myself

    • Medium-term: As the project grows, it must be easy for others to jump in as needed (especially the UI designer)

    Everything I've read leads me to believe that the way to go is JavaScript fullstack. I say this because consolidating the frontend and backend to a single language makes it easier for a single developer to do frontend + backend. Plus, JS is pretty sleek and won't be deprecated soon. Plus, there's a lot of JS talent and it will be easier for others to contribute. Easy, done.

    So why not fullstack JavaScript?

    The problem is that I don't want to be a JS developer. I do want to be involved in this project, because as a general programming project, it's a major learning opportunity. Also, I'll help my brother. But the issue is that I don't really see how learning JS webdev modules will help me pursue my actual programming interests. It feels almost like a hindrance to my programming goals.

    My real interest is Python. I say this because I'm interested in Python's specialties such as GIS, data science, academic research, and general server-side scripting.

    I don't care about webdev as much as I do about academic/social science topics. Also, I'm a noob, and Python's lower learning curve is an appeal.

    This has led me to consider using Django. Django, I think, would help me in some sense: I'd continue to develop skills in Python, and I could keep a few interesting projects on the side.

    But then the concern with Django is that my UI designer will have a harder time. And I myself might have a harder time in the project, if I have to get two languages (Python+JS) to communicate with each other.

    OK, So What's the Question?

    I need assurance about some questions:

    1) If I build a website in full JS, are those skills easily transferable to Python?

    2) Building from scratch, can anyone speak to whether Django is an easier framework than, say, Node+React?

    3) Is Django easier to maintain than a full JS website?

    4) Is JavaScript particularly hard for a beginner programmer?

    I hope these aren't dumb questions. I just want to make sure that, before diving into development, I'm being smart and careful.

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    How to handle ecommerce-Cart race condition?

    Posted: 08 Jan 2018 11:24 AM PST

    Lets say there is one product left,and multiple users have added it to their cart. If they all checkout at the same time they will all be charged however only one will get the item. How to handle this particular scenario.

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    Changes to permission prompts in Chrome 63

    Posted: 08 Jan 2018 02:48 PM PST

    Using Firebase to host your Web Application using a custom domain.

    Posted: 08 Jan 2018 03:36 AM PST

    Can I deploy a website using just ngrok?

    Posted: 08 Jan 2018 07:52 AM PST

    Sorry if this is a newbie question -- I'm just getting into webdev. I've been testing out my Flask website with ngrok and now that I feel satisfied with what I made it would be really convenient if there could be a way for me to just pay a fee to ngrok and deploy it so that I do not have to be constantly running on localhost. From searching around their website I don't see that to be an option and they only offer services to "create a tunnel" to your local host. Am I wrong? If there is no way to deploy through ngrok what would you guys recommend be the easiest (and hopefully relatively cheap) way to deploy a pretty simple flask app?

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    Sorry if this has been asked before, but how will "Meltdown" affect web services? Will patches applied slow down web servers?

    Posted: 08 Jan 2018 12:44 PM PST

    I've read a lot about how Intel's patches for Meltdown may slow down CPU's up to 30%. Will this be a large issue for websites and web apps running on patched servers?

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    I wrote an NPM package for adding a blog data structure to your front end app

    Posted: 08 Jan 2018 01:27 PM PST

    I always wanted to have a tech blog on my site, and wanted to build something that would allow me to easily write posts from within my IDE. I wrote ItsABlog to compile markdown files to JSON before my site's deployment, so that I could simply write blog posts where I already write code, and have them ship out painlessly. It also comes with the ability to add in custom meta tags within your blog's content, so that you can add post relevant data by hand easily, like content tags, title information, publication date, or anything else you could think of.

    It's meant to simply spit out JSON data to be consumed however you want, for instance as part of your front end app or static website. I was getting tired of integrating CMS's with tons of features I wouldn't use, at the expense of having a higher learning curve and less control.

    Let me know what you guys think.

    Link to Github Repo

    Link to NPM

    submitted by /u/itsbrianbrennan
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    Help with automating an API script.

    Posted: 08 Jan 2018 04:18 PM PST

    Hi guys, kind of new to all this so forgive me if I'm not asking correctly or there is a better place to post this.

    On a routine basis I use Postman to run a series of GET and POST calls to get data from a marketing automation tool, Marketo.

    I would like to automate this process by having a form of sorts where I enter the parameters, i.e. date between first/last day of query and type of activities I want to query.

    Is it possible to do something like this? If so, where could start?

    Thank you in advanced.

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    What would be a good way of displaying data on a map of the United States?

    Posted: 08 Jan 2018 09:26 AM PST

    I want users to be able to see some data that I have collected on a map. How would I go about displaying this info via a clickable map?

    submitted by /u/OogieBoogie1
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    What Now ? Or How will I face my future from now ?

    Posted: 08 Jan 2018 05:33 AM PST

    Hi everybody,

    Been a lurker since now.

    Today, I really doesn't know where to go. I have been a webdev since I'm 18 (part-time working and studying), mainly on PHP, with ofc HTML/CSS, and native JS. I have work in different domain, from bank, to airline company, web agency, or bedding company.

    Today, I'm unemployed. Maybe mostly because I lack certain skills, and I don't really know which ones. Sometimes, I'm asked to be more devops (not familiar with ops really, but, I'm not against learning it is needed), sometimes to learn JS frameworks (they disappear so fast, which one to choose ?), or sometimes, I'm not just good enough in maths.

    I consider myself to be very meticulous, I love to deliver clean code, and I love programming !

    I have been facing health issues, and I am now disable (I was supposed to be employed since january 2, I folloew a training on Symfony from SensioLabs for 3 months, and at the end, they told me that I was unskilled, and that disability was a inssue. They would have said that it was only the disability, I could have sued them... Everyone from my training session says that I have good skills. Who to believe ?).

    What is, today, necessary to know/do, to find a job in WebDev. Do I have to know everything, and, what is everything ? I'm kinda lost. For reference, I lave in France, can't move for now. Oh, and, I'm over 30 now. Still can't figure out what to do.

    Thanks for your attention.

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    Does "node --inspect index.js" still work? I can't seem to get the debugger to work in Chrome

    Posted: 08 Jan 2018 03:09 PM PST

    I'm following Chapter 1 of the Node Cookbook and I cannot seem to get node --inspect index.js to get me a debugger that works. The bugger seems to want to go through every file that is in the node framework and not the files in project file. I'm very confused about why I cannot get it to work. I'm supposed to have an error in future.js that I am able to debug here, as per the example in Node Cookbook, but I cannot get the --inspect flag to work. Do I need to import a package?

    I am using node version 8.4.0 and npm version 5.5.1

    TL:DR; Here is a video illustrating the issue I have. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APo0fA9uw1s&feature=youtu.be

    submitted by /u/hiphophipp0
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    Debugging TypeScript from VS Code

    Posted: 08 Jan 2018 07:31 AM PST

    I made the multiplayer word game Contact over WebSockets in 400 lines of Haskell

    Posted: 08 Jan 2018 11:06 AM PST

    Link: https://modalduality.org/sibylant-graze/play/lobby

    The rules are a bit confusing - just ask in chat if you're not clear.

    Source: https://git.modalduality.org/sibylant-graze/tree/src/

    A bit about WebSockets dev in Haskell.

    The rendering is almost entirely stateless, the server pushes an update of the entire game state to the clients when needed and the JS re-renders the entire thing. So far it hasn't had any performance issues, but for a game with more complicated rendering a Virtual DOM library may be needed.

    Available if anyone has any questions!

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    Just purchased my first SSL cert for secure checkouts on my site. What (if any) are some other recommended actions I should take to enhance security?

    Posted: 08 Jan 2018 02:49 PM PST

    As the title states, I've just activated my an SSL cert for the first time. I run a small site that's still mostly under construction but I'd like to take advantage of any extra security I can using SSL to keep visitors safe. I'm running WP with WooCommerce. Are there any "obvious" actions or settings this community would recommend taking advantage of?

    submitted by /u/315mm
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    CSS How About Building A Search Engine With CSS

    Posted: 08 Jan 2018 02:22 PM PST

    It is possible to have one way internet and have to way communication!

    Posted: 08 Jan 2018 02:19 PM PST

    Simplest form would be GET request with query parameters.

    I often hear that in emergencies you can get 1 way internet so people can get upto date information about area.

    I don't get how this is a problem. Even without cookies, you can have two way reliable communication, as long as it's SSL encrypted.

    You can tell what user choice is based on which door they knock on.

    ``` example.com/q/do-you-need-help/

    example.com/a/93unis0zut/yes example.com/a/xzz3892iia/no ```

    depending on which url person visits you can tell what their choice is, and can do so reliably as that secret url is only known to that person given connection was encrypted.

    submitted by /u/techsin101
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    best practice for storing employee time stamps and viewing logged hours?

    Posted: 08 Jan 2018 02:10 PM PST

    Hello. I'm just wondering what the best practice for storing and manipulating date and time is. I'll be using a MERN stack, and while I have a decent grasp on storing dates, I've been searching around for some sort of standard or any tips on this sort of deal. Basically just need an employee to be able to login (I have authentication and that stuff already), clock in, and then clock out at the end of the day. And then an admin should be able to see a log of all work done that day/week/month. Thanks in advance, and have a good day.

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    How can I implement socket.io in a VueJS webpack project?

    Posted: 08 Jan 2018 01:56 PM PST

    Sorry if this is not the right subreddit to ask but I've been stuck on this for a while now.

    I'm trying to build a chat system with socket.io in VueJS by using a slightly modified version of this webpack template but I can't seem to figure out how to do so. More specifically, how do I create a server side and a client side? I managed to do this already using simple javascript before (seen here its not great but I'm learning. This is what I currently have, I only added a chat component so far.

    TLDR: The title, pretty much

    Any help is appreciated, thank you

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    How Serverless Computing will Change the World in 2018

    Posted: 08 Jan 2018 06:04 AM PST

    Viztable - A website I made to show football (soccer) league tables visually

    Posted: 08 Jan 2018 01:34 PM PST

    I've been working on this site, VizTables: Fancy Tables, for a week or two now and so far I'm quite pleased.

    You can swap out leagues (your choice is stored in LocalStorage automatically). You can also see detailed stats on mouse over (or touch on mobile).

    It was inspired by something called "[Cann Tables]. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cann_table)". My site is similar to this one though I think much cleaner and better looking.

    I wanted to make a very simple "mini-site", focused on a singular purpose. The site uses SportMonk's API to grab it's data.

    As far as technology it uses only HTML/CSS, Bootstrap4 and JQuery. No fancy frameworks or anything.

    I feel like the site is maybe 80-90% finished now. I haven't yet cleaned-up or optimized my javascript so please be kind if you decide to have a look at it!

    In terms of design I wanted to keep it very simple, but I wanted to try an interesting color combination which I've always liked: purple and yellow/gold.

    Any feedback or comments would be appreciated :)

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    What's the general consensus on bootcamp vs university when the goal is self-employment?

    Posted: 08 Jan 2018 01:22 PM PST

    I've been looking into this for a few years and I've done comparisons of some inexpensive bootcamps and universities, and I'm wondering about which of these is a better track to self-employment.

    I'm just over 30, I've been self-employed via manual labor, homework help, kinda just whatever people need chances are I've done it before, in addition to having a retail job for the past bunch of years since college (BA in something vaguely tech related but no programming, long time ago). I have a basic understanding of website design but many of my projects end up looking like geocities/angelfire circa 1995. I made a few websites over the course of the degree as final projects and was always told they were really cool and way above the skillset of most of the people in the course, but looking back it was mostly simple stuff.

    I've read stories about people bringing in a decent middle class income by becoming freelance web developers and software programmers. In addition I know some guys who went to college for around $45k a year and now work as freelance website designers for local businesses, bringing in $400-900/weekly. I think it would be great to do that kind of thing without the specialized degree because from what I understand, college primarily teaches mathematics and theory rather than the skills you'd actually be using on the job. Most of them tell me they never use the info they learned in college when they're making and deploying websites.

    I currently support myself and my girlfriend on $1300/month in a medium sized American city, not counting the odd job income. It's not easy but it's doable. We aren't having children. Right now I'm in retail but generally help out with any computer issues people have too.

    Are these bootcamps legitimate for this sort of thing? I don't think a 3 month course could get you hired for a real six figure job, but that's not really what I'm aiming for.

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