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Incorporating Digital Assets into Your Finances
More and more people are interested in owning some digital asset built with blockchain. Either Non- Fungible Tokens (commonly known as NFT) or Bitcoin, there is no denying that blockchain technology has gained traction over the years. The most conventional digital asset is cryptocurrencies. Although many people see cryptocurrencies as investment assets, it is vital […]
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Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain, and Puerto Rico
Cryptocurrencies and blockchain. Words that currently generate discussions throughout the different communities on social media. Every week there are news about some cryptocurrency’s gaining or losing value or news about a blockchain investment. But, it wasn’t until recently that those words transcended from the technology sector to the financial, media, academia, government, and other sectors. […]
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NodeJs Layered Architecture
Something that was not intuitive to me when I was getting into this software development world was how to build the software’s architecture. Sure, I understood how to write functions, and components but optimally organizing them was not something I learned alone. Some time ago, I was assigned the task to refactor the NodeJS codebase […]
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Night Owl Home Office
A couple of months ago, I published a video pin on Pinterest that has been generating many reactions ever since. Taking that as a signal that there is an interest in my home office setup, I’m sharing the details in this post! You can find a Spanish version of this post here too. Setup Desk: […]
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What is the Rendering Engine?
Recently, I was hearing the Ladybug’s Podcast episode: “Level Up with Javascript” where one of the podcast hosts resumed how the web browser works. She explained it so helpful and straightforward that it picked my curiosity into searching a bit more about the topic. The Ladybugs suggested some resources, so I followed suit. And wow, […]
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A Morning in a Front End Developer’s Mac Terminal
Plays Fresh Prince of Bel-Air intro song: 🎵Now, this is a story all about how this Front End Developer turns her terminal upside down. And I’d like to take a minute, sit right there. I’ll tell you how I use the Mac terminal throughout the day to be clear. 🎵 A Slack message popped up. […]
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Filtering with GraphQL and Prisma: What NOT to Do
In the past months, I have been working with the magic package of React, Apollo, GraphQL, and Prisma. I say the magic package because learning these four layers of programming, provides you with the skills required to create apps from user click (React and Apollo) to handle and save information in the database (Prisma). They […]
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5 Reasons Why Women Should Consider a Career in Web Development
Internet is one of the most important networks that humans have invented until now. The fact that you do not need to be in the same location to be able to write, read, listen, and see information or digital products that come from different parts of the world, and instantly, is fascinating. But there is […]
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HTML: Tag Nesting
Hello, Fellow Readers! 👋 In the article HTML for Beginners (Spanish version here), we learned that the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a language for web documents. Also, HTML has a tag structure that denotes elements on the web document, and we even saw how HTML tags look on the browser. In the article HTML: Tag […]
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What the Heck I Did During My First Year of Writing Code?
Helloooooo !!! I turned one year of writing code full time sometime in the 31 days of August that just recently ended. Honestly, I cannot believe how fast time has gone by. I remember reading different articles from programmers about their first years of writing code, and be thinking: “When I turn my first year […]
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