These days, many aspire to a developer’s job. But becoming a great programmer is not an easy task! These hacks will help you to find the right path. — I decided to write this article because in my experience of teaching junior developers I noticed that there are common patterns in the way we tackle and overcome challenges. The tips I give them aim, not just to improve their knowledge about some specific programming language or technology, but to…

Here you have a few guidelines on how to understand those weird behaviors and finally get better at CSS! — Unlike many developers, I don’t have a CS degree. I studied Arts instead. I always had a flair for aesthetics. Given my background in visual arts, CSS was the language I got along with the most from the very beginning. The immediate visual response it provides was a strong incentive…

A complete ready-to-use gallery slider, with a lot of possible customizations, based on background images. — What is Gallereact and why use it? 🤷 Gallereact is a lightweight gallery slider that renders the pictures using background images instead of the normal img tag. The advantage is substantially you can control the size and the ratio of the pictures. When using img the default width and height behavior is to adapt to the image pixels…

The short CSS guide that makes you say: “Ahhhhh… that’s why!”. — Everything is a box! Let’s start from the assumption that every HTML element when it is rendered inside the DOM is rendered as a box. Then you can start adding content or some style to make it look fancier. In the beginning, this is how our boxes actually look for the browser: