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How To Use DuckDuckGo Bangs in Chrome

I hopped on the DuckDuckGo (DDG) hype train some years ago. It lasted for about 5 months. Unfortunately, I can’t help to be constantly reminded how good Google site search is. A story probably for another day. While DDG did not become my default search engine, there’s one

Ubuntu Terminal

How To Manage Dotfiles With Chezmoi

There is a bazillion of tutorials and resources on how to manage dotfiles out there. If you haven’t heard of “dotfiles”, they are basically config files in Unix-like systems that start with a dot, e.g. .bashrc, .zshrc, .vimrc, .gitconfig just to name a few. By default, dotfiles are

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How I Sync Daily Challenge With Leetcode API to Todoist

If you have ever been on a job hunt for a software developer position, you would have come across the so-called LeetCode style interviews. Even though most of us don’t have to invert a Binary Tree at our actual job, that is how most coding/technical interviews are conducted

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3 Best Backend Developer Tools You Should Use

Every developer has a toolset that we will use while coding. These are tools that we live and breathe with at our jobs daily, and chances are, we can’t work effectively without them. For the most part, everyone has their favorite code editor like Vim, Sublime Text, Atom, VSCode,

Insomnia REST Client

A Powerful Postman Alternative for Developing GraphQL API

If you are developing a set of APIs, chances are you already know Postman — an API Client for API development. Generally, one would use an API client to test APIs in terms of functionality, performance, security, reliability, and the correctness of the responses. While Postman is the de facto standard

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