What was your last dev related Google Search?
Lewis Menelaws
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Ah, Google... Imagine a world of being a developer without you. Google and Stack Overflow are like my mom and dad helping me through my silly mistakes as a developer.
I'm not new either. I have been a developer for almost over 5 years now... and I am not afraid to admit that some of my Google searches would look silly.
I know, I am a horrible developer that has no idea what he is doing.
Wrong.
As a developer of 1 year to 20 years of experience. Getting a quick reference to something is arguably what our job is all about.
Devs, what was your last dev related Google Search?
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I don't use Google, I use duckduckgo.com
duckduckgo.com
There are only a few times when the results are less relevant than Google, if which case I use !g in the search: duckduckgo.com/bang
The latest search was about CSS specificity.
duckduckgo is still valid to this question :).
I am always looking up how to center things in CSS
Have you tried flex ?
Google has stacking of results from StackOverflow βΒ the feature I missing in DuckDuckGo.
There are plenty of features missing in DuckDuckGo, the main being "keep user data and sell it to whoever pays for it".
Haha, nice point! Anyways, I've switched to DuckDuckGo a month ago and didn't regret about it.
Start PostgreSQL command line
guilty
Β«sql server pass an array to stored procedureΒ»
"on duplicate index update"
This is something I learned about far too recently, considering how long I've been using MySQL. It turns out that when doing a bulk insert, you can have MySQL automatically update records on a key/index conflict. That way your bulk insert won't fail on duplicate records and you can insert/update in bulk in a single query.
Very cool!
dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/in...
Obligatory duckduckgo plug!
ORM good or bad
Bad.
"it depends"
Trying to figure out how to deploy a typescript cli app to npm. Still haven't figured it out.
but the important thing is that you will eventually figure it out :)
I see up there duckduckgo.com is valid too, then: "Three.js group add"
not ashamed about it btw
Php loop
Differents wordings for "jformattedtexfield getvalue returning integer or long"
if someone can help here i would be pretty happy <3
I've tried the same search in duckduckgo.com and this is my first result: community.oracle.com/thread/1362374
Kind of "I'm going to be lucky" π
As always, searching stuff at 3am doesn't go well for me
"Integrity check failed for yarn"
Dependency issues π π π I feel ya
I use Stackoverflow when I encountered something I can't solve. But google never use that before for solving specific problems
searched for "npm prune" :p
Never knew about this command... but it's super useful.
"php strpos". I should really post-it the order of
haystackandneedleto my screen. Same with, oh, you know, every other PHP function I have to use.I just searched this:
My latest search was for "regex railroad diagram"
If you do anything with regex take a look, you'll thank me later π
SSHFS
I was thinking about developing on an EC2 like I do with Cloud9, but with VSCode instead.
Implement Identity Authorization .Net Core
Found a bug in our code causing duplicate records being returned. It has been a while since I wrote some solid ActiveRecord code so I needed a refresher on the syntax.
golang byte array to string
Wait ... What's that "You Forgot that Fast Huh" button?!
"SQL server check if index exists"
Best way to check multiple Boolean conditions in C#.
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javascript map can't find variable
How to call custom function in U-sql Script. :)
[datetime input html]
Which led me to just use separate inputs.
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Edit: forgot about last night
[WordPress htaccess] because I forgot about adding it when I moved a site.