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Tune in to this episode of 1 Luckygirliegirl and be a fly-on-the-wall for my conversation with Amy about lockdown Down Under, awkward socializing, and spending time doing not-work.
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External Link New Breakpoint - Tabs vs. Spaces
So, do developers who use tabs take four or eight steps at a time, or do developers who use spaces care more for accuracy than tabs-based developers?
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External Link Call of the Cursor - Is this a quokka? Ask Quokkabot!
Quokkas are an adorable animal found on Rottnest Island in Australia. Amy Kapernick is a Twilio Champion who has written a bot that can identify whether a picture sent to it contains a quokka or not. It can even send you a picture of a quokka if you're not sure what one looks like. It's all built using Twilio and some machine learning.
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Hacktoberfest 2020
To say this year has been strange is an understatement, and it's terrifying to realise that October is already upon us! To me October is a couple of things, for example October means it's Frocktober, and for the entire month I'll be only wearing dresses to raise money for ovarian cancer, but October also means it's time for Hacktoberfest!
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Setting up a Windows Computer for Dev
In the past, Windows has developed a reputation for being a difficult OS to use as a developer. Things were difficult to install and run, involved complex workarounds and you could forget doing anything involving Ruby. Thankfully in recent years that's improved, even more so with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) so it's now possible to do pretty much everything you can on a unix system.
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Building Quokkabot Part 3: Moving to Azure Static Web Apps
Last week I got the chance to speak at Microsoft Build, and do a first-look demo on their newly announced featured - Azure Static Web Apps. And as I didn't get access to Static Web Apps until they same time everyone else did (the day before my demo), I got to showcase how simple it was the first time you used it (ok, so maybe it was the second time that I'd used it).
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External Link Getting started with front-end testing using Cypress
We all know that testing is important, but this is often limited to unit testing and integration testing, focusing on the back-end of our application, and we tend to forget about testing the front-end. There are so many different types of tests that we need to run on the front-end, it’s hard to know where to start. There’s accessibility testing, performance testing, user testing, HTML validation, visual regression testing and UI testing — not to mention the countless tools available for each type, and the different ways to set them up.
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Building Quokkabot Part 2: Quokka Recognition
Last year, for a demo at Twilio Superclass in Sydney, I built a bot that sent pictures of Quokkas when requested - Quokka on Demand (covered in Part 1 of this blog series, Building Quokka on Demand). After that was done, chatting with Phil and Devin from Twilio, they came up with a new idea - a Quokka recognising bot, something people can send pictures to, and it identifies if there's a Quokka in the photo.
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Generating SSL Certificates
I remember a few years back when I first started using SSL certificates on my websites, I spent several hours trying to get stuff working on the command line, eventually finding an online generator and working out what they needed me to do to verify the site and generate the certificate. And once that was done, I still needed to install it on my hosting, the whole process was complicated and confusing, and even once I'd written it down it still took some concentration to get it done (and needed to be repeated every 90 days to renew the certificate).
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External Link OktaDev - Awesome Login CSS Customization!
Ready to match the sign-in theming to your site? Okta has you covered! In this video, join Heather Downing and special guest Amy Kapers for a walkthrough on what CSS tricks you can use with the Okta Live Widget sandbox.
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CSS Grid Calendar
Last month I started getting overwhelmed at what I had coming up this year (that's right, it was only January). I wanted something where I could see the whole year at a glance, I didn't need many details but wanted to see what trips/conferences I had happening and even where I was applying to (so I could keep in mind how busy I was). But as I'm a developer, rather than ducking down to Officeworks and buying a year-in-view calendar, I decided to build one instead.
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Building Quokkabot Part 1: Quokkas on Demand
Last year I got the chance to give a live demo at the Superclass at Twilio Engage in Sydney. It was a quick demo so I didn't have the chance to do much, but I thought it would be a good opportunity to show how quick it is to get started with the Twilio APIs and maybe I could put a little Perth in it. Then I came up with the idea of Quokkabot 🎉.
