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Modern Frontend Development: A Tooling Overview for Engineers Revisiting the Field
In the world of frontend development, several of tools and frameworks are available to build efficient, scalable, and interactive web applications. If you've been away from frontend development for a while, you might find the current landscape quite different from what you remember.
Meet verto.sh: Your Gateway to Open-Source Collaboration.
verto.sh simplifies your entry into the open-source world by curating accessible projects. Ideal for beginners making their first contribution, founders building teams, and maintainers seeking new contributors.
Crafting a Clean, Maintainable, and Understandable Makefile for a C Project.
Discover how a well-planned Makefile can make building C projects easier. By using clear variables, wildcards, automatic variables, and phony targets, see how the Makefile for the gnaro project is easy to understand and use, serving as a simple guide for other developers.
barco: Linux Containers From Scratch in C.
A straightforward C implementation of a container runtime, built from the ground up to explore containers and the Linux Kernel.
How to Create a Release With Multiple Artifacts From a GitHub Actions Workflow Using the Matrix Strategy
Find out how I managed to create a release with executables suitable for different operating systems all within a single workflow run.
How Databases Store and Retrieve Data with B-Trees
Learning about data storage and B-Trees from "Database Internals: A Deep Dive Into How Distributed Data Systems Work" by Alex Petrov (O'Reilly Media).