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Feb 4, 2018

Modern CSS Explained For Dinosaurs

CSS is strangely considered both one of the easiest and one of the hardest languages to learn as a…

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Peter Jang in Actualize

Oct 5, 2017

How To Learn Vim: A Four Week Plan

Vim is a command line text editor that is notorious for being hard to learn (the running joke is to…

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Peter Jang in Actualize

Nov 25, 2017

A minimalist guide to tmux

Let’s say you’re using vim to edit code on a remote computer using ssh, and you want to open a new terminal tab to start a development server. When you open a new tab, it won’t be connected to the remote machine, which means you would have to ssh and navigate to the appropriate…

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May 3, 2017

Web Development On An iPad

Apple has always tried to market the iPad Pro as a laptop replacement. This might work out for college students…

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Peter Jang in Actualize

Nov 14, 2018

Modern HTML Explained For Dinosaurs

Out of the three main frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript), HTML has remained the…

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Peter Jang in Actualize

Dec 28, 2017

Prototyping with Vue.js and Bootstrap

Let’s say you’re in a situation where you want to create a quick prototype frontend for a web…

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Peter Jang in Actualize

Aug 15, 2017

Sending POST requests in Rails 5.1 without jQuery

Since the jQuery library was removed as a hard dependency in Rails 5.1, it’s a little harder to send AJAX requests from JavaScript. jQuery made it easy for a couple of reasons. One, it provided helper functions like $.get, $.post, and the more…

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Peter Jang in Actualize

Sep 25, 2017