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Streaming Remote RSS in Elixir

Build a better RSS reader in Elixir: stream feeds efficiently and process episodes your way 📡

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The Best Way to Use FFmpeg

FFmpeg is one of the most powerful tools out there, but it can be daunting to use — until now.

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My Favorite Visual Studio Code Extensions (For Productivity)

Introduction Microsoft Visual Studio Code is an open-source text editor written almost entirely in TypeScript and JavaScript. It is platform-independent, meaning that it is available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. The big three in non Vim/Emacs text editors for developers is typically SublimeText, Atom, and VSCode, with VSCode being

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Making My First React Website (With Firebase)

Motivation After learning the basics of web development (i.e. HTML, CSS, JavaScript) through the creation of my personal website, I knew that I wanted to extend my development capabilites through a front-end framework. This is because I enjoyed the creation of my own website, but I wanted to learn

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Creating My Own Website Using Github Pages

Motivation I have always been interested in web development, both front-end and back-end, but never took the time to truly learn all of the requisite languages needed for web development. It always seemed daunting to try to learn, considering you at least need to learn HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to

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Getting Started with Developing on a Windows Machine

Purpose The purpose of this tutorial is to get you comfortable with your development environment, and to get you started into your actual work as fast as possible. Without a well-established environment and workflow, it is difficult to start working without having hurdles and having to stop often to install