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    Trump Administration Announces Overhaul of H-1B Visa Program - Employers will be required to pay the high-skilled foreign workers significantly higher wages web developers


    Trump Administration Announces Overhaul of H-1B Visa Program - Employers will be required to pay the high-skilled foreign workers significantly higher wages

    Posted: 07 Oct 2020 07:13 AM PDT

    How I design logos for for side projects as a non-designer

    Posted: 07 Oct 2020 07:19 AM PDT

    I've never been great at design; the idea of designing a logo I was proud of or my own site from scratch has always seemed daunting.

    Over the last few months, I've been hacking away at a few side projects, all web apps. In doing so, I put together a repeatable process for designing an above-average logo as a non-designer.

    I wanted to share it here to see if others had any suggestions for how to improve it.


    I broke it down into 4 steps:

    Step 1: Choose a color palette

    I stumbled upon this site called Colorhunt on ProductHunt awhile back. I usually start in their "Popular" section.


    Step 2: Choose a Google Font

    Google Fonts has hundreds of free fonts.

    You can browse the page for a font that catches your eye. But as a starting point, I found it easier to do some Googling for articles where authors list their favorites.


    Step 3: Find a logo mark

    I've been using free icons on Flaticon. You need to include an attribution link for your free icons, but I don't mind doing that for side projects (or you can shell out a bit of cash to avoid it).

    I recently discovered that if you download an SVG file, you can import it into a design tool like Figma and edit it.


    Step 4: Combine text and mark in Figma

    Figma has a bit of learning curve, but I found that if you take the time to read up on it and study examples, you can get to the point of dangerous with it pretty quickly.

    First, I add a text box with my company name, formatted with my chosen color and Google Font.

    Next, I import the mark as an SVG, placing it next to the text box. Then I edit individual layers on the SVG to match my color palette.

    Sometimes I'll get fancy with a stroke, shadow, or blur effect. Easy to do, but as a non-designer, I try to keep things simple.

    Next, group the text and mark together and export it. Voilà - you've got a halfway-decent logo!


    I wrote an article with more detailed step-by-step instructions on my blog if you're interested.

    Let me know if you have any suggestions for how to improve my process!

    submitted by /u/AnotherTimJones
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    Becoming A Consultant In 2020: A How-To Guide

    Posted: 07 Oct 2020 07:03 AM PDT

    Adding a "load more" button using only html and/or CSS? Or is it javascript only?

    Posted: 07 Oct 2020 03:56 PM PDT

    On the homepage of my website (www.hansramzan.com), I would like to add more projects. However, I would like to only show 6 projects first, and the rest are hidden unless the user clicks a "load more projects" button. Then it will load another 6 (and so on).

    Any idea how I can do this?

    submitted by /u/storm4077
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    In need some help to protect my work

    Posted: 07 Oct 2020 01:43 PM PDT

    Hi! My name is Diego and I've been in web development for a while. In the past years I've been developing a web admin software for a NGO I'm part. Since It is quite large right now and some changes are coming in NGO's authorities I feel I need to make some kind of contract to protect me. I'm not charging anything for my work and I don't want either (it's a small NGO with no money at all) but I want to make it clear the data belongs to them, but the source code not. Problem is they asked me to open it to a company that wants to "help" but I don't want to. I suspect there must exist some kind of standard agreement. But I don't know where to start Thanks in advance!

    submitted by /u/dmontero-uy
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    Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC

    Posted: 07 Oct 2020 09:41 AM PDT

    For anyone across the pond who'd like to practice The Queen's English in their CSS

    Posted: 07 Oct 2020 09:26 AM PDT

    How the heck some people say that you can build responsive websites without any media queries, just by using grid?

    Posted: 07 Oct 2020 12:21 PM PDT

    I won't lie, I'm just back to web development from a 2 years break and I'm not good at front end at first place so please correct me if I'm wrong or I'm doing it wrong but how the heck you can make a responsive website just by using grid and flex?

    I mean, I use grid and flex and they make the website responsive without the media queries but they look horrible. I mean, how you can change the font size so that it doesn't look horrible without any media queries? How the heck can you change margin of elements when the screen get smaller so that everything doesn't look smashed all together? How are you gonna change direction of flex to column without media queries?

    Are you gonna tell me that grid and flex does all this by default and I don't know about it?

    Am I doing it all wrong?

    submitted by /u/TechProgrammingGuy
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    How to debug any CORS error

    Posted: 07 Oct 2020 08:01 AM PDT

    what challenges do/did you face when writing your resumé, and how are you solving them?

    Posted: 07 Oct 2020 10:12 AM PDT

    Here are a few of mine:

    • Correlating skills which jobs they are used in. Previously, I would write "did a, b, c using x, y, z" and "used x, y, z to do a, b, c". It didn't read well, and the keywords seemed to get lost in the text because hirers would still ask me which technologies/skills I used. Now, I enumerate them in the first bullet point of each job, and hirers don't have that confusion anymore.
    • Career gap caused by education attendance. I started my webdev career during a 1.5 year break away from college. Afterwards, I returned to college to complete my degree. Hirers would usually ask about why the employment gap exists. So now, in addition to a standalone section for education, I list my university attendances in my career chronology, each a one-liner in their respective place.
    • My employment timeline has a mix of part-time freelancing, full-time freelancing, and full-time employment, all with considerable overlap here and there. I've tried different ways of presenting this — incorporating them all into the same chronology vs a having separate freelance section, listing each freelance project as its own position vs having a single freelance position that spans all the years, and mix of the above. Not sure about the best way yet.
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    First website help

    Posted: 07 Oct 2020 03:54 PM PDT

    I am working on a mapping project. The project is to build a map-based resource guide to service providers, community organizations, and spaces for an underserved community in order to connect people with resources. The project is basically to collect the data, input into a map (I'm a GIS analyst so this is no problem), and publish through a website.

    My ideal website:

    I want to have a website to host my map. Additionally, the site would have pages for each feature (resource) on the map, and a few ancillary pages as well.

    Questions:

    • Who do you recommend as a web host?
    • Where do you recommend I buy a domain (esp. places where I can buy a few 5-10)?
    • What platform do you recommend for the website design/structure?

    My situation/needs:

    • Minimal Coding
    • Easy to update data-wise (not so much format/layout)
    • $ lowest budget possible
    • I'd like to purchase things for 2-5+ years if possible (notably the domain)
    • I have no experience with building or having a website

    Any suggestions, feedback, or considerations would be helpful.

    Thanks, y'all!

    submitted by /u/QuillTheQueer
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    Beginner question: I want to host my static portfolio site, but don't understand the process with Wordpress minutiae

    Posted: 07 Oct 2020 03:44 PM PDT

    This is probably a stupid question for many, but I've never done this before. I would appreciate any guidance. I simply don't understand the process to NOT use Wordpress on a hosting site such as Bluehost. I created a simple static site that I want to upload, but how do I remove Wordpress and instate my files?

    I see the use of Wordpress can be controversial, so can someone explain how they insert the content they created onto their server?
    I don't need backend services except maybe email, so if it's preferable to keep Wordpress overall, how do I run my site over Wordpress without completely redesigning my site again through the GUI?

    Thanks in advance

    submitted by /u/Boguskyle
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    What's your favorite Git repo management tool?

    Posted: 07 Oct 2020 11:56 AM PDT

    Trying to figure out which way to go...

    View Poll

    submitted by /u/dafuqjoelarry
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    Need help for DB schema for an app like Tinder...

    Posted: 07 Oct 2020 03:34 PM PDT

    Hello, I am a newer dev. I am making a web application that will be doing simple user matching (think like Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, etc) but within individual groups (such as a university alumni, company affiliation, etc).

    I want a user to be able to have their own profile information, view others' profiles, and then have a matching feature that would pair the two users up and allow them to accept/decline. The match feature and viewing profiles would only be allowed for users in the same group though.

    So I'm thinking of having the following table/models: User (FK to group), Group, Matches (FK to 2 users)... I'm not sure what else I would need. I am also assuming that I will need to implement some type of queue for the matching system, but I don't know if that would affect the DB at all.

    Thank you in advance!

    submitted by /u/billyg0at420
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    Secure form for receiving resumes?

    Posted: 07 Oct 2020 03:19 PM PDT

    I'm working with a small business that has a simple careers page where they want to include a file uploader for resumes. I don't want to reinvent the wheel and was hoping to find a simple secure form submission with file upload. ATS systems like SmartRecruiters, Greenhouse, etc carry too much overhead and are too pricey for their needs. Even simpler offerings like Typeform are $35/month. Does anyone have any recommendations?

    submitted by /u/Gyhser
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    How would I create a module that anybody could download, then install with a CLI, then have other programs install with those CLI commands executed on the user machine?

    Posted: 07 Oct 2020 03:07 PM PDT

    So hypothetically I've been tasked with creating some kind of CLI tool that a user, anybody, could "npm install or yarn or brew" and then be able to have commands through the CLI that will then download another software (which we'll package with our module) that then will act as an accelerator (cron job) that polls user machine data and then sends it up via API to another API we have, which then we process and sanitize with our own business logic.

    How exactly would I go about that with Node OR Python? Conceptually I get what the stages of how the data should be treated, but I've no clue as to what to do other than start up a server.js file and stare blank at the screen.

    Even resources would be helpful if ya'll could link on how I would do that for my company.

    submitted by /u/ibeeliot
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    Dwitter - javascript demos in 140 characters

    Posted: 07 Oct 2020 02:51 PM PDT

    Noob questions about -managed- DigitalOcean hosting?

    Posted: 07 Oct 2020 02:44 PM PDT

    I was told shared hosting will not be enough for my website projects. I know nothing about server management/coding. So I came across Cloud ways. Is this a good alternative for me (with scaling)? What alternatives to Cloud ways would you recommend. I found Temok.com, which offers much better prices but I cant find any info about this company. Is it legit? Sorry if the questions are stupid but I am a noob and need help. Thanks!

    submitted by /u/angercore
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    Any suggestions for capturing/reproducing a rare client misbehavior in production?

    Posted: 07 Oct 2020 02:35 PM PDT

    We have an application used by approximately 2000 customers, and are occasionally running into a situation where the client posts back corrupted data that triggers a server error. All attempts to reproduce the issue have failed, yet evidence suggests it's a real bug, basically we have seen the error from multiple users on different machines and using different browsers (IE11/Chrome). Moreover, although we haven't discovered the exact conditions for reproducing, we know it's not "random", it only occurs on a particular page and always results in the same form of corruption. We log all client exceptions so no errors have bubbled up to tell us what's going on. Roughly, it's an app where users fill out and save a bunch of forms with embedded calculations. We use React with a custom state manager that receives signals from user controls and keeps the model up to date/applies calculations. The model is then directly serialized and posted back to the server on save.

    Of course I have done my best to inspect the code, what's happening seems impossible from that perspective. It's either a weird browser issue that spans both Chrome and IE (unlikely) or some subtle bug in our code (yes). I have captured everything to do with the state of the data from the perspective of the server, so we know the exact data which is being loaded into the client and we know what it looks like when it's posted back. My latest attempt was to log every signal produced by the client controls back on the server, this should cover anything that has an effect on the model state. Then I load the form manually, using the same browser as reported by the user agent string, and fill out the form the same way they did. Basically all they can do on this one is click buttons and enter values into fields before hitting save, so it's very easy to figure out what they're doing.

    Perhaps the answer here is "don't make your own state manager dumbass", but at this point we are quite deeply entrenched, switching it out isn't an option. I'm so frustrated with this boring seeming problem. Thankfully I can do whatever I like to the client code as long as performance isn't impacted too much, but having trouble deciding where to take the investigation next and would be very grateful for any suggestions on an approach, general or specific, or even just moral support!

    submitted by /u/dualmindblade
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    What exactly is async in JavaScript?

    Posted: 07 Oct 2020 06:47 AM PDT

    I've looked really hard but all I can't find what async is exactly.

    EDIT: One site said async allows code after the async function to be executed without waiting. Another site said async allows promise like behavior. When I went to find out what promise was it says promise is an asynchronous operation.

    submitted by /u/akashamba
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    Chrome extension with 100k+ installs makes your Chrome browser like random people facebook/instagram pictures.

    Posted: 07 Oct 2020 10:08 AM PDT

    I Sell Usernames on the Internet

    Posted: 07 Oct 2020 01:53 PM PDT

    Emailing microservice with Apache Kafka and Spring Boot made easy

    Posted: 07 Oct 2020 06:16 AM PDT

    What's a good third party image editor to use for image editing?

    Posted: 07 Oct 2020 05:03 AM PDT

    We own a website and we want people to publish their own poster art there. We don't want to code the editor ourselves. Is there a third party tool that takes care of this? Just pick image and text and it generate image for you.

    submitted by /u/mono1s2
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