/Tools

Difftastic, The Fantastic Diff

- Wilfred Hughes tl;dr: "json-diff already exists, and it’s pretty good. I wanted something similar for programming languages. After a huge amount of experimentation, I have something that works. In this post, I’ll show you how it works. I won’t show the many, many dead ends and failed designs along the way. We can pretend that I got it right first time."

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Digitizing 55,000 Pages Of Civic Meetings

- Philip James tl;dr: Philip introduces us to a tool he's built for his hometown of Alameda, allowing the community to ask questions such as “which meetings in my city have recently talked about rent control?” The tool is a SQL-backed full text search of city meeting minutes, allowing 18,746 pages of city minutes to be fully searchable by anyone.

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Excel Is Pretty Dang Cool

- Hillel Wayne tl;dr: "Also I don’t think most users, or even most “power users”, use many of these features. The same is true for devs, most of whom don’t really use the features of their editors. It’s good to explore these things!" 

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Announcing Docusaurus 2.0

tl;dr: "Docusaurus will help you build the best documentation websites with minimal effort, letting you focus on what really matters: writing the content. After 4 years of work, 75alpha and 22 betas, the next generation of Docusaurus is ready for prime time."

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Improving On The GitHub Code Review Comment Experience

- Dylan Trotter tl;dr: "There are a bunch of limitations with the conversation experience in GitHub that had always bothered us and we felt we could do better. Here are a few of the ways that the plz.review comment and conversation UX is a big improvement over GitHub."

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Data And System Visualization Tools That Will Boost Your Productivity

- Martin Heinz tl;dr: "As files, datasets and configurations grow, it gets increasingly difficult to navigate them. There are however many tools out there, that can help you to be more productive when dealing with large JSON and YAML files, complicated regular expressions, confusing SQL database relationships, complex development environments and many others."

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Career Checkup Template

tl;dr: (1) Fork this template. (2) If there are any sections that don’t resonate with you, remove or edit them. (3) Fill in the sections. Feel free to jump around to answer the parts that you have the most energy for. (4) Revisit a few days later: is there anything you want to change? (5) If possible, find peers to discuss each others checkups together. (6) Review a year from now.

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Devtoys

tl;dr: Swiss Army knife for developers. An offline Windows app that helps developers in daily tasks

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The Developer’s Guide to SSO

tl;dr: Single-sign-on via SAML or oAuth is often one of the first features an engineering team needs to build as a product gains traction among larger customers. We explore how it works, how to add it to your app, and best practices for implementation.

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A Better Resume for Developers

- Ben Northrop tl;dr: It pays to cram all the technologies used in a project onto your resume, since that's what job matching algorithms are designed to parse. Ben has designed an interactive resume to present your work in a different way. 

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