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Styled-Components: CSS-in-JS Library for the Modern Web

This post was written by Jeremy Davis, JavaScript Developer for Toptal.

CSS was designed for documents, what the “old web” was expected to contain. The emergence of preprocessors like Sass or Less shows that the community needs more than what CSS offers. With web apps getting more and more complex over time, CSS’ limitations have become increasingly visible and difficult to mitigate.

Styled-components leverages the power of a complete programming language—JavaScript—and its scoping capabilities to help structure the code into components. This helps to avoid the common pitfalls of writing and maintaining CSS for large projects. A developer can describe a component’s style with no risk of side effects.

Python Class Attributes: An Overly Thorough Guide

This article is originally published at Toptal.

I had a programming interview recently, a phone-screen in which we used a collaborative text editor.

I was asked to implement a certain API, and chose to do so in Python. Abstracting away the problem statement, let’s say I needed a class whose instances stored some 

  <td>
    <div class="text codecolorer">
      data
    </div>
  </td>
</tr>

 and some 

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      other_data
    </div>
  </td>
</tr>

.

Rails Service Objects: A Comprehensive Guide

This post was written by Amin Shah Gilani, Ruby Developer for Toptal.

Ruby on Rails ships with everything you need to prototype your application quickly, but when your codebase starts growing, you’ll run into scenarios where the conventional Fat Model, Skinny Controller mantra breaks. When your business logic can’t fit into either a model or a controller, that’s when service objects come in and let us separate every business action into its own Ruby object.

Quick screen sharing and meeting without any software

Wanted to share this as this seems to be good option:

https://meet.jit.si/

Battery life on laptops

To improve your laptop battery life, just do the following:

sudo dnf install tlp tlp-rdw
systemctl start tlp
systemctl enable tlp

asciinema – video for your terminal session

Info about asciinema:

Name         : asciinema

Version      : 1.4.0

Release      : 1.fc26

Arch         : noarch

Size         : 144 k

Source       : asciinema-1.4.0-1.fc26.src.rpm

Repo         : @System

From repo    : fedora

Summary      : Command line client (terminal recorder) for asciinema.org service

URL          : http://asciinema.org

License      : GPLv3

Description  : Asciinema is a free and open source solution for recording the terminal sessions

and sharing them on the web.

To install, you can do: