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Corbin Crutchley

z-index is a CSS property that helps control the z-axis height of an element, but it often doesn't seem to work. Why is that? How does it REALLY work?

Why is z-index not working?! - Explaining CSS Stacking Context

Hi there, I'm Lars 👋

I am a public tech contributor. I write articles and books, I organize communities, and I maintain open source software.

Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen

Sharing code between components in Angular is TOUGH. Here's one way you can do so by utilizing base components that you extend - and why you shouldn't use them.

How to Share Lifecycle Methods Between Components in Angular

JavaScript functions are widely used in web development... but do you KNOW them? Let's explore the fundamentals and how they can be used in unorthodox ways

JavaScript Fundamentals: Functions Are Values

A Guide to Python's Secret Superpower: Magic Methods

A Regular Expression – or regex for short – is a syntax that allows you to match strings with specific patterns. Think of it as a suped-up text search

The Complete Guide to Regular Expressions (Regex)

useEffect is prolific in React apps. Here are four rules associated with the hook and in-depth explanations of why they're important.

Rules of React's useEffect

React 18's internal changes improved a lot, but may have broken your app in the process. Here's why and how you can fix it

Why React 18 Broke Your App

Test Driven Development is often taught to improve a your workflow; I present Documentation Driven Development as an alternative approach.

A Better Way To Code: Documentation Driven Development

React 18 introduces some awesome features that I'm sure you can't wait to try! Here's how you can get started with React 18 today!

How to Upgrade to React 18

Web components have had a long history to get where they are today. Let's look back to see where they came from & their immense growth!

Web Components 101: History

While web components can be used standalone, they're paired best with a framework. With that in mind, which is the best and why?

Web Components 101: Framework Comparison

Google pushed for web components, sure, but they didn't stop there. They also went on to make an amazing framework to help build them: Lit!

Web Components 101: Lit Framework

GitHub Copilot is an amazing tool that I think will drastically improve the way that I code. But it won't replace me. Here's why.

GitHub Copilot is Amazing - It Won't Replace Developers

GitHub Copilot is a huge step forward for tech. Luckily, it improves our lives. Unfortunately, it will break your interviews. Here's why.

GitHub Copilot Breaks Bad Interviews

One of the ways web components differs from a framework is that it works right in the browser. Here's how to build them from scratch.

Web Components 101: Vanilla JS

Accessibility allows as many people to use your product as possible. That, in turn, generates more profit. Here's how to improve it on web.

Introduction to Web Accessibility (A11Y)

Interviewing for frontend engineering positions can be difficult. Let's walk through some things you should focus on while interviewing.

How to Interview Frontend Engineers

Python is a language with broad and powerful APIs. One such API is 'List Comprehensions'. Let's learn to use them to improve your code!

Python List Comprehension - The Comprehensive Guide

Interviewing candidates is tough. It just is. Here are just a few of my tips to make your tech recruiting go smoother.

My Advice to Technical Interviewers

Making sure your app's code is structured well is critical. Mastering React Unidirectionality is a huge part of that. Learn how to here.

Master React Unidirectional Data Flow

Rust allows you to build super-fast and flexible applications. Let's build one leveraging enums, pattern matching, and the Options API.

Rust Enums, Matching, & Options API

You've heard a lot about Node, NPM, and Yarn - but aren't sure what they are. Let's introduce them in-depth and answer questions about them!

WebDev 101: How to use npm and Yarn

React Refs are an immensely powerful, yet often misunderstood API. Let's learn what they're capable of, and how they're usually misused.

React Refs: The Complete Story

Do you use custom fonts that you want to share with multiple apps? Learn how to distribute those fonts on NPM and consume them in Angular!

Package Font Files on NPM for Angular Usage

CocoaPods is a great dependency manager, but some need Carthage still. Let's walk through how to integrate Carthage with React Native!

Adding Cathage Dependencies into React Native

Hello! I'm Kevin Phong Mai, aka Reikaze or RockmanDash12, a Computer Engineering Student and Freelance Writer passionate about Tech, Anime, Visual Novels and much more. I'm the Owner of RockmanDash Reviews Blog, and I write for the AniTAY & FuwaNovel blogs.

Kevin Mai

Have you wondered how programming languages are able to be ran on your hardware? This article explains how your code is processed and ran

How Computers Speak: Assembly to AST

Whether creating changelogs or just keeping track of git tags, releases matter. Learn how to automate your release process with conventional-commits!

Autogenerate Changelogs and Manage Releases using Conventional Commit

Some components make controlling their state easier with 'formControl' and 'ngModel'. Let's see how we can build our own!

Better Angular Form Components with ngModel and formControl Implementation

A fullstack engineer who loves learning new things, playing video games, and his wife.
If you can learn it, you can do it.
If you can do it well, you've learned it.

Robert Mennell

Writing tests is a big skill for any engineer, but we often over-complicate them. Let's simplify our tests for better testing overall!

Write Simpler Tests - 5 Suggestions for Better Tests

While the Android Emulator isn't confined to Intel CPUs anymore, it can be tricky to setup for AMD Ryzen CPUs. Let's explain how to do so.

Setup Android Studio Emulator for AMD Ryzen CPUs

Android allows you to draw content under the navigation bar. It's a neat effect! Let's add that to our React Native apps.

Draw under the Android NavBar Using React Native

React Native contains multiple different ways you can persist data for your application. Let's look at the choices and their pros and cons.

Data Storage Options for React Native

Many developers like MacOS or Linux for development environments, but don't know that Windows has plenty to offer. Become a Windows pro!

The Ultimate Windows Development Environment Guide

If networking is analogous to physical mail, then let's take a look at the letters being sent themselves. Let's dive into UDP and TCP

Networking 101: UDP & TCP

An explanation of what server-side rendering is, what static site generation is, and how you can utilize them in React, Angular, or Vue!

What is Server Side Rendering (SSR) and Static Site Generation (SSG)?

NuxtJS and Gatsby allow you to make SSG-enabled blogs, but Angular doesn't have an equivalent... Until now. Let's build a blog with Scully!

Building an Angular Blog With Scully

You use networking every day - even to read this! Let's dive into explaining how we send data across a network and what the OSI model is.

Networking 101: A Basic Overview of Packets and OSI

I often get asked "How do you pick a tech stack for your projects?". The answer is: outline what questions you should be asking early on.

How to Pick Tech Stacks For New Projects

Join us as we teach you how to create a Slack bot from scratch using their Node SDK and MongoDB for persistence

Making a Slack Bot using NodeJS and MongoDB

Learn how to interactively debug your NodeJS applications using a GUI-based debugger built into Chrome.

Debugging NodeJS Applications Using Chrome

Have you ever wanted to run native Java and Kotlin code from your mobile game written in Unity? Well, you can! Let's see how.

Integrating Native Android Code in Unity

In order to test web applications with Android properly, you may need to edit the Android Emulator network host file. Here's how to do so.

Change the Host File of an Android Emulator

Learn how the browser internally handles HTML and CSS to show the user webpages on-screen

Understanding The DOM: How Browsers Show Content On-Screen

Learn how to convert decimal to binary and hexadecimal, how CSS colors are calculated, and how your computer interprets letters into binary.

How Binary and Hexadecimal Work: An introduction to non-decimal number systems

An introduction and explanation of what TypeScript is, is not, and what it's used for

Introduction to TypeScript — What is TypeScript?

An introduction to the type generic functionality in TypeScript

TypeScript Intermediates - Type Generics

Learn how templates work in Angular. From the basics to being able to read Angular source code and write your own structural directives

Angular Templates — From Start to Source

An introduction to Unicorn Utterances, including a mission statement and general roadmap

Uttering Hello — The Site's First Post

Learn how to use Angular route guards for authenticating & authorizing access to certain child and parent routes.