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Rafael Camargo 2 months ago

Making code cleaner by replacing multiple conditionals with a strategy dictionary

When you're on a road with no forks, there's zero chance of taking the wrong path. As the road gains forks, your chances of reaching your destination without getting lost decrease. The same thing happens when we program. The more conditionals we add, the greater the chance of the code taking the wrong path and producing unintended effe.

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Rafael Camargo 3 months ago

Principles I keep in mind when starting a side project

Not having a map can lead to wasted time and frustration if you're exploring somewhere new. Starting a side project without a few solid principles can do the same. When you're excited about a new project, it's easy to skip important questions like: what exactly do I want to achieve with this. How much am I willing to spend. And so on. .

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Rafael Camargo 4 months ago

Customizing checkboxes and radio buttons without hacks

For the longest time, I thought it was impossible to style native checkboxes and radio buttons without pulling off some kind of creative stunt — like what the big component libraries do, such as Material UI, Ant Design and VuetifyJS. But guess what. It's totally possible. Checkboxes and Radio Buttons can be customized easily without ha.

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Rafael Camargo 5 months ago

Strategies for naming your side project

In the last post, I wrote about how to push side projects forward with almost no free time. The main idea was that the smaller the task, the more likely you are to get it done. One example was spending just 30 minutes of your day coming up with a name for your project. Someone might say that picking a name isn't exactly a small task, a.

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Rafael Camargo 7 months ago

Pushing side projects forward with almost no free time

If someone asked me to wash a whole pile of dirty dishes, my inner self would try to postpone it as long as possible. But if the task were just washing one single glass. I'd do it right away. The smaller the task, the more likely I am to get it done. Whenever I get ideas for new side projects, usually web apps, they always feel like a .

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Rafael Camargo 7 months ago

How to easily convert HTML to image in NodeJS or in the browser

Ever thought about turning a piece of HTML into an image. Well, it’s totally possible. And even better, you can do it either on the server or right in the browser. To generate an image from HTML on the server, you'll need a library called Puppeteer. Puppeteer is a NodeJS library that lets you control Chrome or Chromium programmatically.

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Rafael Camargo 8 months ago

Conditioning Vercel deployments on successful CircleCI workflows

The way Vercel connects to GitHub is kinda mind-blowing. Getting started is so simple that, before you even google "how to deploy", your app is already live. That first experience is amazing. No doubt, this ease of use is why I keep choosing Vercel for every new API I build. But if you're working solo and committing straight to main, y.

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Rafael Camargo 9 months ago

Validating React forms easily without third-party libraries

Even with the advances regarding form validation in React 19, the sad truth is that validating a form is still a boring and repetitive task. The goal of this post is to share an approach that's versatile enough to work with any form while significantly reducing the effort and monotony of coding it. This approach is based on three steps.

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Rafael Camargo 10 months ago

Using CSS :has to style a parent element when a child element is focused

For a while now, the internet has been flooded with articles about the :has pseudo-class. Most of them, though, come with terrible examples — like the ones in the MDN documentation. These examples are so disconnected from the day-to-day needs of developers that they discourage people from adopting :has, downgrading it to some kind of s.

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Rafael Camargo 11 months ago

Converting mov files to mp4 on macOS

Around 2018, I found a product called Gifox. It was the first time I’d seen a screen capture software that could make high-quality GIFs. Even today, the animation shown in the README. md of Glorious Demo — the open-source library I created that same year — is powered by Gifox. For years after, Gifox became my go-to tool for creating GIF.

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