Prioritizing KISS Principle, Onboarding, and Speed to Market — Startups have a lot of pressure to succeed quickly, so they can start generating revenue and impressing investors. As a result, many founders focus on creating smart solutions that are optimized for efficiency and scalability. However, this approach can be counterproductive in the long run. Instead, it’s better to write…

Understanding the challenges that mid-level leaders face in the modern workplace — Mid-level leaders are critical to the success of any organization. They are responsible for managing and supervising teams, ensuring that work is delivered on time and to a high standard, and serving as a bridge between senior management and front-line employees. Despite the importance of their role, many mid-level leaders…

A shortlist of the most insightful talks from the conference. — On October 26, 2021, Vercel held its annual Next.js Conference, where they’ve also announced the next version of Next.js: 12. As they’ve stated, this is the biggest release of Next.js ever. Next.js 12 comes with improvements like a brand-new Rust compiler that promises 3x faster Fast Refresh and 5x faster…

Creating a simple to-do app with authentication — Queries and mutations — In the first article of this series, we talked about the proper way to start a Django and Graphene project from scratch. Today, we will focus on creating GraphQL endpoints. This article assumes you have a basic application up and running. …

Creating a simple to-do app with authentication — Basic setup — The first in a series of articles in which we’ll be creating a modern web application, serving a simple to-do app with authentication, complete with a Django back end exposing a GraphQL API endpoint, and a Next.js, React, and Material UI front end with progressive web app capabilities. Today we’re…

A step towards progressive web apps — Google’s Workbox is a set of libraries and Node modules that make it easy to cache assets and take full advantage of features used to build progressive web apps (PWAs). Notably, Workbox provides two webpack plugins: one that generates a complete service worker for you and one that produces a…

I was surprised to realize Next.js does not have an out of the box tool for generating a sitemap.xml. During my research, I’ve stumbled upon a library, but I was not impressed with the interface they provided. So, I’ve decided to take it into my own hands and come up…

A critique — Summary Captchas (an acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) are a widely used security mechanism to identify non-human intruders. The recent captcha attacks are scheme-specific, making them unstable when the captcha security features change. Unlike those previous attempts, in this paper, Ye and her…

Summary As Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) becomes the new normal for The World Wide Web (WWW), Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) of encrypted streams become crucial than ever. Sherry and her colleagues claim to introduce the first system that simultaneously provides the functionality of middleboxes and the privacy of encryption…