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Christopher Kade
Christopher Kade

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What's one resource most devs don't know that you use regularly?

I use https://coolors.co/ almost every week to find nice color combinations for my projects.

What are some of your go-to resources for anything dev related?

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Dylan Anthony

regex101.com is a life saver for crafting regular expressions.

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Blake Lindsay

Along with debuggex.com for visualizing an expression.

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Dylan Anthony

That’s another good one for sure.

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Ross Henderson

Only reason I use regex in any form is because this site exists.

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Martin Becker • Edited

I'd recommend rubular for ruby style regex.

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protium

It seems to be better than regexr.com/. Thanks!

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Nathan Englert

Absolutely this 👆

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Christopher Kade

This is definitely going in my bookmarks, thanks !

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Florian Rand

Directly to bookmarks too!

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Jarod Peachey

I use that all the time! Love it.

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Valentin D.

ngrok.com/ or serveo.net/ so I can expose my local servers to everyone and share my work without having to push to staging environment !

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Christopher Kade

I LOVE ngrok, it has been super useful over the last few months 😄 thanks for sharing Valentin !

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Mikael

eeeuh yes, that's amazing!

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Prahlad Yeri • Edited

I can't tell unless I could literally mind-read what most other devs think!

Personally, I read reddit (programming sub), quora, HN, FreeCodeCamp, medium, and dev.to, of course. All of them are quite popular so I'm assuming most other devs might be using them too. There are some other quiz, coding contest and pure fun sites too, and some of them are a little less known I believe:

  1. open.kattis.com/
  2. app.codility.com/programmers/chall...
  3. hackerrank.com/dashboard
  4. techgig.com/home
  5. mathsisfun.com/
  6. codechef.com/
  7. pyschools.com/quiz/view_ranking
  8. codingbat.com/
  9. codewars.com/dashboard
  10. mathblog.dk/programming-challenges/
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𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐝𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐝

css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guid... - I always forget justify-content!

whynopadlock.com/ - This is also great for debugging why your padlock isn't green.

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Christopher Kade

I've opened this CSS Tricks guide more times than I can remember 😅

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𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐝𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐝

So glad I'm not the only one! Haha.

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Milan Radojević

Haha same here, and three grid one also!

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Desi • Edited

justify-content will be the death of my last remaining brain cel

I’m not even going to correct that, that’s what CSS has done to me today

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Michel

Oups! I wish I known whynopadlock a month ago...

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cbloss

I have that same CSS Tricks article saved too!! It's been a life saver.

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Florian Rand • Edited

colorbox.io is an amazing tool for working with colors too.

Fontspark.app is also a very nice tool for types discovering.

Coolors.co is amazing for creating color palettes fast.

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Christopher Kade

Love it, I'll use Fontspark a lot from now on 😄

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Florian Rand • Edited

I discovered fontspark.app because I was planning to do something similar, is so good that it changed my mind about going on with the project.

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Akashdeep Singh

OneTab is a great Chrome and Firefox extension for tab-hoarders.

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Julian

that's what i needed just now, thanks!

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Narshim

Awesome tip

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Angad Singh • Edited

This collection of cheatsheets is great if you want to do something with a tool/library but don't know what it's called! Just reading through the cheatsheets whenever you're free for a few minutes is also incredibly helpful.

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David Wickes

man

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Thomas C. Haflich

relatedwords.org/
thesaurus.com/

I... have some trouble naming things.

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David J Eddy

caniuse.com/ is my first stop if I have to touch anything client-side.

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Tim Ryan

This is awesome. Nice one.

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Vinicius Stock

CrontabGuru is great for verifying or building cron expressions.

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Seanmclem

Ms paint

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Kyle Johnson

Windows Snipping Tool

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Julian

CMD+Shift 4! :-)

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Blake Lindsay

wordvis.com for help finding the most concise names.

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Bhupesh Varshney 👾

mind=blown

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Vladyslav Yakovenko

great res

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vadimbz • Edited

pdfsea.com/ and typeanything.info/ (both self-obvious)
Lightshot browser plugin takes screenshots
Build With browser plugin snoops into site tech - very verbose
AWS Quicklinks browser plugin is self-obvious and saves truckloads of time

This be my 1st post here, nice to meet you

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Juan F Gonzalez

Welcome and thanks for sharing!

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