I recently published an article about social skills that can help Software Developers have better professional lives, and also better lives in general.
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YouTube is now one of the most distracting platform on the internet, due to its large amount of content that is uploaded on a regular basis and also because it is easier to use than, say, read articles on Medium. We can go there to watch something, but there can be many comments, or recommended videos on the side that take up a lot of our attention and our time. We may not even be aware and simply go and open another video in a new tab, which can lead to two or three other related videos opened. This downward spiral wastes our time and energy and as a result, we are not inspired to work and work on our projects, or dedicate our efforts on important things.
One great thing about Github is that you have the issues section, in which you can see recommendations or requests for help related to a particular project. There you can find many comments, where developers may be complaining about a bug, offering a solution, or simply pointing out something they want to see included in the project. If you want to quickly navigate through these comments and jump right into the ones that have had considerable reactions, then you can try to install this Chrome extension.
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JSON is a very popular file format. Sometimes we may have a JSON object inside a browser tab that we need to read and it can be difficult. We may need to go and search for an online tool that turns it into an easy-to-read format, so that we can understand it. Now here is a Chrome and Firefox extension that does the formatting and makes your JSONs instantly pretty inside your browser, without having to go and do many unnecessary steps.
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