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6 Websites You’ll Love As A Developer

- Mohammed Dakir tl;dr: (1) Ray: quick and easy way to create beautiful code snippets for documentation or sharing purposes. (2) Roadmap: comprehensive technology roadmaps for various career paths in software development. (3) Readme: helps developers create beautiful, interactive, and user-friendly documentation for their software products. And more.

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How Faros AI Makes My Job Easier: A Developer Story

- Natalie Casey tl;dr: As an engineer at an early-stage startup you need to wear a lot of different hats. Some days it's about focusing on coding; on others, it could be about focusing on designing features and defining the work for contractors. Read this post to learn more about how a developer leverages Faros AI to make their job easier.

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The Best Tools For Python SDK Creation

tl;dr: Some of the most popular OSS options available for creating Python SDKs go head to head with Speakeasy's managed pipeline. Find out what the pros and cons of each approach are.

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50+ ChatGPT Prompts For Web Developers

tl;dr: "In this blog post, we'll provide you with over 50 prompts and strategies that will help you speed up your web development workflow using ChatGPT. From learning concepts as a beginner to preparing for interviews."

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ChatGPT Prompt Engineering For Developers

tl;dr: “You will learn how to use a large language model (LLM) to quickly build new and powerful applications. Using the OpenAI API, you’ll be able to quickly build capabilities that learn to innovate and create value in ways that were cost-prohibitive, highly technical, or simply impossible before now.”

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APIs Vs SDKs: Why You Should Always Have Both

tl;dr: This post explains what APIs and SDKs are, exploring the different use cases, examples and best practices for each, and explaining why having both are necessary.

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A List Of Programming Playgrounds

- Julia Evans tl;dr: “I really like using programming playgrounds, and I got thinking the other day about how I didn’t have a great list of playgrounds to refer to.” Julia provides us with a laundry list of playgrounds across multiple categories.

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Introducing Service Weaver: A Framework For Writing Distributed Applications

- Srdjan Petrovic Garv Sawhney tl;dr: From the engineering team at Google, “we are excited to introduce Service Weaver, an open source framework for building and deploying distributed applications. Service Weaver allows you to write your application as a modular monolith and deploy it as a set of microservices.”

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Build Internal Tools, Remarkably Fast

tl;dr: Build business software 10x faster with Retool. Companies like Amazon and DoorDash use Retool to build apps and workflows that help teams work faster. Retool is free for teams of up to 5, and startups can get $25,000 in free credits for paid plans.

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A Beginner’s Guide To Chrome Tracing

- Nolan Lawson tl;dr: Chrome tracing lets you record a performance trace that captures low-level details of what the browser is doing. It’s mostly used by Chromium engineers themselves, but it can also be helpful for web developers when a DevTools trace is not enough. This post is a short guide on how to use this tool, from a web developer’s point of view. I’m not going to cover everything – just the bare minimum to get up and running."

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