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    September 29, 2020

    This entire animation is done using JS and CSS (not mine, obv) web developers

    This entire animation is done using JS and CSS (not mine, obv)

    Posted: 28 Sep 2020 07:10 PM PDT

    TIL that most desktop browsers have a built-in date picker that's suprisingly nice and super easy to use too!

    Posted: 29 Sep 2020 03:09 AM PDT

    I think I’m doing this whole job searching thing wrong, I don’t have anyone to teach me how or where to do it.

    Posted: 29 Sep 2020 07:11 AM PDT

    So I just recently started applying to jobs and I've been looking on Indeed and just sending my resume through there. I just read a tweet that was basically a meme about web devs still applying to jobs on Indeed. So... if I'm not supposed to apply there where should I be looking for jobs? I'm not interested in working in my home town since it's rather small and doesn't have many opportunities so I think online is my only resource.

    If anyone has job hunting tips for a 24 yr old with no experience I would deeply appreciate it.

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    Bootstrap 5 Alpha 2 released - some new and improved features, color contrast improvements, improved helpers and utilities, and some documentation design updates

    Posted: 29 Sep 2020 10:13 AM PDT

    What do web developers do besides develop websites?

    Posted: 29 Sep 2020 04:49 AM PDT

    Just curious cause I feel like the majority of what I'm learning is creating websites, but I know there's more to it than that. What do businesses even do after they hire a web developer and they you know finish the website? What more is there to even do besides fix random things? Also how does developing websites yourself have demand when there are services like wix or Wordpress that can get clients to create their own websites?

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    How to stop fraudulent credit card transactoins

    Posted: 29 Sep 2020 04:24 PM PDT

    How do you guys deal with online credit card fraud?

    We are a charity and we are seeing a huge increase of around 40 transactions per day of donations to our foundation. This creates a huge amount of work for us. I am assuming they are testing the credit cards to see which are valid and which aren't as we don't ship out physical goods - we just accept donations.

    ​

    We currently use Braintree but none of the fraud tools are having any real impact.

    They are using legitimate sounding first and last names, real addresses, new IP address each transaction as well as a new device fingerprint (we tried fingerprint.js). Even the device ID that braintree gives them is different.

    The giveaway initially was the email address - it was always {first name}{last name}{3 digits}@outlook.com, but they are now starting to use gmail and lots of other email addresses. It's getting hard to identify these.

    We have a Google v3 reCaptcha on our payment page which is returning a score of 0.9, so we aren't sure if they are manual transactions or automated.

    I don't know how to stop this and Braintree haven't been able to offer much help. I'm guessing their next suggestion is going to be to use Kount, but I can't even see how Kount could stop these, and that is a project in itself.

    Is this something we need to accept as a reality of trading online?

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    Free, Privacy-First Analytics for a Better Web

    Posted: 29 Sep 2020 07:27 AM PDT

    using stored procedures - best practice?

    Posted: 29 Sep 2020 04:06 PM PDT

    Hey. Question about stored procedures (SPs).

    I've been using pyodbc to connect to my database instance within flask. I have been using parameterized queries and defining them in the codebase. It hasn't been a problem for me so far for retrieving data and publishing data for my web-based reports.

    I recently came across a project that mainly uses stored procedures vice defining them in the application code. The only difference I see with the way I do it versus this project is where the SQL statements are stored. I store my SQL queries at the application level while that project stores it at the database level. Regardless, the application still has to call the SPs so I don't really see the point of it.

    Our apps have low traffic and they don't do much complex calculations, so they wouldn't benefit from the performance gains. I see security being touted too as you can manage permissions at the database level - could be a pro or con depending on the complexity is that I imagine.

    Is it just an easier way to manage all the SQL or is it just preference/familiarity? I haven't looked at using an ORM.

    Cheers

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    Emulate vision deficiencies in DevTools

    Posted: 29 Sep 2020 10:03 AM PDT

    Is integration of Spring and Angular an industry standard?

    Posted: 29 Sep 2020 11:07 AM PDT

    I don't like JSPs and Servlets. I can use them but I prefer Angular.

    How common is it to use Spring and Angular together?

    Thanks.

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    @rxjs-stuff/marbles - I created a "natural" feeling integration for Mocha + Chai for RxJS marbles testing

    Posted: 29 Sep 2020 12:22 PM PDT

    a11yresources - A growing list of accessibility tools and resources

    Posted: 29 Sep 2020 07:11 AM PDT

    Optimal way to create a modal setup like Uber Eats

    Posted: 29 Sep 2020 04:56 PM PDT

    This is mostly a design question rather than programming.

    I'm making an online ordering platform similar to something like Uber Eats. I have the menu items stored in the database which are then sent to the front end where I use a templating language to build the menu and create the initial modals (which are all hidden obviously).

    Once you click an item on the menu the respective modal opens up where you select the add-ons, write extra information, and change the quantity. Then, the user can add the item to the cart. The cart is a drop down shown on the menu page.

    So here's where I would like some advice. I want to have the ability such that when the user clicks on an item in the cart, the modal will show up for that item with all the selections made and instead of having just Add written on the bottom, it'll say something like Update and Delete. If you haven't used Uber Eats or anything similar, an example would be like the user adds 2 regular pizzas and also adds extra cheese. Then, when the user clicks on that pizza in their cart, it'll open the modal for the regular pizza with extra cheese already checked and the quantity changed to two. What would be the easiest/most efficient way to do this?

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    Looking for collaborators (feedback welcome)

    Posted: 29 Sep 2020 04:42 PM PDT

    Collab with me!

    Project Name: DonateGifts

    Overview: This project enables users to donate holiday/ birthday gifts to the children in foster care and orphanages --simply by clicking one button-- which will automatically add the child's wish item to the user's Amazon cart & deliver to the child's hidden address.

    Visit my live site at: https://donate-gifts.com

    Tech: Node + Express + Mongo + jQuery + EJS + CSS + Python (for IR)

    How to contact me: Message me or comment on this post

    Disclaimer: This is a non-profit volunteer project to help foster children. Join if you want to give back to the society using your skills. I have reached out to foster care agencies and a lot of them already expressed interest in signing up and using the app.

    I will share more details if you message me!

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    Hobby project - exam/question/learning tool - looking for advice on technologies, best practices and hosting

    Posted: 29 Sep 2020 04:18 PM PDT

    My main job the last few years has been Software Testing (and management), and I'm gonna take several ISTQB certifications the next year or so, as are some of my colleagues. I have a self interest in software/web development though, and I thought it would be fun to make a sort of exam/question/learning tool as a web application to help me (and some colleagues) study for this - and to help myself get better at some of the technologies I find interesting. I already know the basics of HTML, CSS, Javascript, React, SQL, REST services, some PHP, some Python, etc, but I want to get better, and I feel like making a project like this from scratch is the way to go.

    So I want to make a collection of questions with choices and the correct/wrong answer. But each question also need some properties like "learning objective", because an ISTQB exam is built out of x questions on each learning objective. I also kind of want to make this tool more generic, so I could use it for other subjects than ISTQB in the future, so there might be more properties to filter on.

    I obviously need a database, with questions (and their properties) and choices. But I also want to track the progress a logged in user has on each question. The amount of times it's answered, whether it was right/wrong, and the time. This is to create a statistics page on the front end to show which areas of the subject the user need to focus more on studying. So I'll need a table with a questionId, userId, right/wrong, timestamp, and maybe an examid as well.

    In the back end I think will need to:
    - (GET) return a random collection of questions (based on some criteria) that is considered a valid exam.
    - (GET) return every question on a subject, or just all questions.
    - (GET) return a single random question (not sure I need this, could handle in front end)
    - (POST) save question progress on a single or an array of questions for a given user.
    - (GET) return stats for a given user on a given subject, or on a single question, or on all questions.

    So basically a few REST end points that the React app can POST/GET to, and the POST will require some sort of authentication (as will the GET for the statistics I guess). The POST will also need to Create a bunch of records in the database in one call, since I want to save progress on x amount of questions.

    I was toying around with Django/React (because those are two things I want to get better at), and I think I can do all of this with those. But I have some concerns.

    1. First of all I wonder if Django and React is the right call here? Do I even need a web framework like Django? Is there a better back end solution to just creating REST services for all my needs? I kind of like the Authentication and admin that's build in with Django though. I also considered just using WordPress REST API, but I'm not sure it's really suited for something this specific - it looks amazing for just doing CRUD against the typical blog post data model that comes out of the box, but with the specifics I need here, I'm not sure?

    2. I want to host this somewhere so my colleagues can use it as well, so that's part of the equation. There seems to be an abundance of cheap and easy to use WordPress hosts. Not so much with Django. I want to learn more about Web Hosting in general (I'm pretty blank there to be honest), and especially AWS/Google Cloud/Firebase and all those fancy new things, but I'm a bit concerned with the potential cost. I keep reading that if I use for instance AWS and do something wrong I'll end up with a huge bill. Is it really not possible to say "I want you to just shut my site down if I go above this price" on these platforms?

    3. I'm not sure whether I should do the logic of creating an exam in the back end, or just get all questions in the front end and create the exam there? I'm also not sure whether to save the exam result to the back end and have it generate the result, or just let the front end do it. These are kind of connected. Obviously security is not a real issue in this hobby project, but I'd still like to try to adhere to some best practices. And if I return a full set of questions, choices and correct/wrong answer to the Client, it's obviously very easy to cheat. But at the same time I might wanna add some fun game like features, like "remove 2 wrongs", which would require the front end to know the answer. Or I guess I could ask the back end to return 2 choices instead of 4 where 1 is right and 1 is wrong, but that seems a bit excessive.

    This is getting a bit long, so I think I'll end it there. Although I keep thinking of new things (especially when I started looking into hosting), I really should just continue coding in Django/React and see how far I get I suppose.

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    Creating audio stream from playlist of local mp3s / consuming in a webapp

    Posted: 29 Sep 2020 04:08 PM PDT

    Bit of background; junior webdev that uses angular / dotnet for work. Big fan of collecting digital music and wanted to create and host a simple webapp that is essentially just a radio station for me and my friends to listen to just for fun. Probably going to stick to that stack unless of course some technical limitations of it prevent me from being able to pull it off.

    I've poked around online and found some examples of playing audio files with ngx-audio-player, but none of just a livestream of audio. What I'd like to do is play a playlist on shuffle on my server computer (maybe in some media player that can stream audio to some endpoint or something) and then consume it in the webapp. Any ideas on how to pull that off?

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    How Goibibo's PWA improved conversions by 60%

    Posted: 29 Sep 2020 04:01 PM PDT

    Job postings list unrelated technologies

    Posted: 29 Sep 2020 09:55 AM PDT

    I'm looking for a junior front-end dev job, and there are tons of them but they are in two categories:

    1. Make Website ($3000/month)
    2. minimum 3+ years of html, css, js, php, JQuery, SQL, AWS, Node.js, React.js, Angular.js ,........

    I copied the second one form a real posting for junior web dev. It's like they just google web dev technologies and copy paste the whole thing.

    Should I apply to them regardless? Can I count on any of them to land? I really don't wanna lie in my resume.

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    Building interactive maps with statically generated vector tiles

    Posted: 29 Sep 2020 12:06 PM PDT

    Roadmap for CSS

    Posted: 29 Sep 2020 03:43 PM PDT

    Hi Guys, new to this community. I've started learning CSS a while ago and I feel like I'm not going anywhere. I can make some stuff, struggle with grid, media queries, etc. I want to get a job as a front-end web dev. and I want to know what CSS concepts I should know and have a good understanding

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    Help with webpack and Shopify/Draggable

    Posted: 29 Sep 2020 03:22 PM PDT

    I'm pretty new to that advanced JS stuff (for me). I still managed to install node.js/NPM and webpack + related software.

    Long story short, my setup works, but I'm wondering why, in trying to run the basic Draggable example provided on the website, webpack is grabbing the Draggable function from the draggable.bundle.js file, which is the entire library, instead of the smaller draggable.js file?

    I don't know if it's the lib doing funny stuff or just me being inexperienced and missing something.

    This is the example function I'm trying to run:

    import { Draggable } from '@shopify/draggable'; const draggable = new Draggable(document.querySelectorAll('ul'), { draggable: 'li' });
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    What are the business/legal logistics of running a middleman platform shopsite (IE: Etsy)?

    Posted: 29 Sep 2020 11:34 AM PDT

    I had an idea for a local app to act like Craigslist with some features similar to etsy to connect local artisans and artists, but I don't actually know what the logistics are of hosting a sales platform for OTHER creators. Does anyone have any experience with this?

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    Stocks vs Buying a Website vs Buying/Starting a Small Business

    Posted: 29 Sep 2020 03:14 PM PDT

    Which of these options provides the best risk/reward benefit. I often see in the news that 95% of small business owners fail, or even if they succeed the business isn't that profitable and you make about as much as a low end job 30-40k. Does anybody that own a business feel the same way? I'm attracted to owning a small business because I feel like their is more meaning because your working for something that you feel the work matters for instead of a corporation that can lay you off at any second. And you don't have to work for a ruthless boss and deal with fake nice employees that are actually petty and don't care about you. However, you have to deal with the complex tax rules, the competition, and the facts that it's hard to get started and many small businesses don't make it.

    I thought of buying an existing business, but if I did that I would have to get rid of all my retirement and go all in on the business, and who knows why the business is for sale in the first place. It seems like a better option that starting out fresh though.

    My third option I've thought of would be to buy a website off of flippa or something similar. However, some of the websites seem dubious or have really niche markets which is why their cheap. And theres no middle ground either you have really cheap websites or 5 to 10 million dollar websites. If you can roll off 1000 a month profit on a website it seems like this one would be the best option, but how realistic is it, and is it a good idea to even buy a website?

    My last option is the stock market which I have experience mainly doing buy and hold strategy. The only thing is you have to wait so long and during the down phases of the market like coronavirus, trade wars, bad earnings seasons it gets painful to hold stocks and you start second guessing yourself. But, even then you won't lose near as much money as a business or website where if you buy the wrong one you can lose your whole investment. It's also more passive, so you don't have to attend to the business, deal with hiring laws, regulations etc. However, since the avg return is around 5% or so you'll still have to work a regular job.

    How would you rate these options from best to worst, and if anybody has any experience buying a business or website I'd appreciate any thoughts, experiences, or advice you have to give.

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    An inqury about the weblocks API, async functions, and my understanding thereof.

    Posted: 29 Sep 2020 11:20 AM PDT

    From what I've gathered so far: Weblocks are a way of making a queue of functions to be executed, usually across multiple threads.

    What I don't really understand yet (and what brings me here) is the following quote from the MDN docs (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Locks_API):

    The lock is automatically released when the callback returns, so usually the callback is an async function, which causes the lock to be released only when the async function has completely finished.

    I do understand that the callback (like any function) is resolved when it returns (right?). But this phrasing makes it seem like, that is not the case with normal functions, and is only the case with asynchronous ones.

    If you'd be so kind, would you please clarify?
    Thank you for your time.

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    Too many online meetings and you are tired of taking notes? Here is ReChord Ai-Powered Note-taking tool.

    Posted: 29 Sep 2020 09:08 AM PDT

    Hey dev community,

    I want to personally thank you for the support I got for my project. From my earlier post, I got lots of feedback and support. This motivated me to further develop the product and add some new exciting features.

    Here is a quick background of the product - ReChord is an AI-powered tool that connects with your online meeting platforms like Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Zoom Meetings, Webinars etc and at the of the meeting it gives you a summary, highlights, action items, full transcript, speaker information etc.

    Since our 1st BETA campaign on Reddit, we have learned a lot and improved the tool a lot.

    Here are the improvements in the 2nd and final BETA phase.

    1. Introducing Zoom webinar support. So now you can use our AI bot for your Zoom webinars.
    2. Scheduling the BOT for a future date and time. If you don't have Google Calendar, no worries with a click of a button you can schedule our AI bot.
    3. Now the BOT joins the calls in just 10 seconds instead of 4 minutes.
    4. Now the system is more stable.
    5. Improved action items, the system detects the action items much better with improved efficiency.

    What are the best cases for using ReChord ?

    1. If you have too many calls and you need to automate the notes at the end of the meeting, ReChord is there for you.
    2. Organising Zoom webinars and need to get the full transcript along with the speaker information, ReChord can do that for you.
    3. You are in sales or business development, too many calls and need to go back to your meeting recording, ReChord is your best friend.
    4. Students and tired of classroom notes, ReChord is there to take the notes for you.
    5. And much more..... explore it yourself.

    This is the final BETA trial we will do for the next 2 weeks, and I am inviting early adopter and BETA users for the product. We will help you set up the account and also, show you the entire application and how it works.

    Check out the improved feature of ReChord here - www.rechord.ai/beta

    Please book a demo and schedule a call with us, so that we can show you the tool, and onboard you on the spot.

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