Rendering text on a screen seems straightforward at first glance. You just put one character after the next one and 🎉 — you have text! If only it were this simple. Where does the next character actually go? This is easy to answer for monospaced fonts: Each glyph is the same width. But what about … Read more
A casual eli5 tutorial with a $200 merch giveaway challenge. Make 3 files: script.js, index.html, and style.css Copy basic HTML boilerplate: <!DOCTYPE html><html lang=”en”><head><meta charset=”UTF-8″><title>Game</title></head></html> Link stylesheet (in <head>) & JavaScript (in <html>) file by adding: <link rel=”stylesheet” href=”style.css”> & <script src=”script.js”></script> Time to make the actual game! We start by making a body with … Read more
How can a Software Developer keep Updated with new Technical Skills? The fast-moving tech industry demands updated technologies to implement as fast as it can be. The reason is the efficiency and performance of new emerging technologies and technology hacks. This has a higher impact on the quality of work and also, competing with technology … Read more
I gradually became aware of this cluster of anti-patterns when building Web Services. I found solutions and mostly kept them to myself because I was able build software faster, and with fewer errors and lag. That was my secret sauce. I think it’s time to share, because I really want to challenge conventional thinking and … Read more
How can a Software Developer keep Updated with new Technical Skills? The fast-moving tech industry demands updated technologies to implement as fast as it can be. The reason is the efficiency and performance of new emerging technologies and technology hacks. This has a higher impact on the quality of work and also, competing with technology … Read more
At PSPDFKit, we always try to leverage every technology available to us to improve the quality and performance of our products. As an example of this, PSPDFKit for Web introduces new web API features as soon as they’re available in the browsers we support. In the case of object URLs, they’ve been around for a … Read more
A side project can be your hobby, passion, or part-time business. It’s a chance to use your creativity, learn new skills, and even make some money along the way doing something you generally love. The key to making side projects successful is setting clear goals, developing a strategy, and taking action. This guide will walk … Read more
Learn to build your custom stock screener with less than 10 lines of code Photo by Joshua Aragon on Unsplash Stock screeners are a great way to sort and filter thousands of stocks at a time according to your needs but some people might feel difficult to code it from scratch. That’s when EOD Historical … Read more
You finally did it! You have thought about that side project with the potential to become a unicorn, and you believe you have the skills to bring that project to life. Then all of a sudden, while doing your research, you hear about how companies are switching from a monolithic architecture to a microservice architecture. … Read more
If you develop software, there’s a good chance you use a platform like GitHub to collaborate and work together on code with your team. The basic unit of reviewable code in GitHub is the pull request, but the implementation of a feature may require several pull requests. This blog post will give you the necessary … Read more
