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Software Development News and Articles

How to Build a Screenshot API in Node and Puppeteer
Published on: 4/24/2025 - 2 min read
How to Build a Screenshot API in Node and Puppeteer
Let’s be honest, sometimes you just need a quick screenshot of a webpage without having to manually click on 'PRTSC' or paying for a 3rd par...
Understanding the CSS Custom Highlight API
Published on: 4/17/2025 - 7 min read
Understanding the CSS Custom Highlight API
The **CSS Custom Highlight API** is a powerful feature that allows web developers to programmatically highlight text ranges without modifyin...
How to Create CSS-Only Accordions
Published on: 4/14/2025 - 7 min read
How to Create CSS-Only Accordions
Accordions are great space-saving UI components that allow users to show and hide content sections without cluttering the page. While many d...
Understanding localStorage, sessionStorage, and IndexedDB
Published on: 4/8/2025 - 4 min read
Understanding localStorage, sessionStorage, and IndexedDB
Web storage is essential for modern websites and apps, helping you store data on the client side to improve performance, user experience, an...
How to Handle Deadlocks in SQL Server and How to Prevent Them
Published on: 4/4/2025 - 4 min read
How to Handle Deadlocks in SQL Server and How to Prevent Them
Deadlocks in SQL Server can bring your application to a grinding halt, frustrating users and potentially causing data integrity issues. Th...
Playdate Console Review (2025): A Platform for Creative Development
Published on: 3/28/2025 - 9 min read
Playdate Console Review (2025): A Platform for Creative Development
In a world of high-powered gaming consoles and photorealistic graphics, the [Playdate by Panic](https://play.date/) is a breath of fresh air...
How to Check if a JavaScript Object Has No Properties
Published on: 3/25/2025 - 3 min read
How to Check if a JavaScript Object Has No Properties
When working with JavaScript, it's common to encounter situations where you need to verify whether an object is empty—meaning it has no prop...
Top JavaScript PDF Libraries in 2025: A Comprehensive Guide
Published on: 3/24/2025 - 5 min read
Top JavaScript PDF Libraries in 2025: A Comprehensive Guide
In the modern web development landscape, handling PDF documents has become a common requirement for many applications. Whether you need to g...
Using BCrypt in C# to Hash Passwords
Security
Published on: 3/17/2025 - 3 min read
Using BCrypt in C# to Hash Passwords
Password security is a critical aspect of software development. Storing passwords in plaintext is a major security risk, as a data breach co...
Automatically Logging Errors in Express with Pino
Published on: 3/14/2025 - 3 min read
Automatically Logging Errors in Express with Pino
## Introduction Logging errors is crucial for debugging and monitoring your Express.js applications. While Pino is known for its high-perfo...
Building a Simple CSV File Preview with Pure JavaScript
Published on: 3/11/2025 - 16 min read
Building a Simple CSV File Preview with Pure JavaScript
Ever wanted to let users preview CSV files right in their browser without any complex libraries? In this guide, we'll build a simple yet e...
Code, Context, and AI: Why Human Developers Still Matter
Published on: 3/6/2025 - 5 min read
Code, Context, and AI: Why Human Developers Still Matter
This year has been somewhat of a wake up call to the developer community in terms of A.I. It seems like each and every month now a new tool ...
Implementing Argon2id Password Hashing in C#
Security
Published on: 3/5/2025 - 4 min read
Implementing Argon2id Password Hashing in C#
Argon2id is the gold standard for password hashing, combining the best features of Argon2i and Argon2d to provide excellent security against...
Setting Up a Dev Server Proxy in Vite
React
Published on: 3/3/2025 - 5 min read
Setting Up a Dev Server Proxy in Vite
During local development with Vite, you'll often encounter CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) errors when your frontend tries to communica...
Is Argon2 Better Than bcrypt?
Security
Published on: 2/26/2025 - 3 min read
Is Argon2 Better Than bcrypt?
If you've worked on any authentication system in the last decade, you've probably used [bcrypt](https://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/116...
It's Not A.I. - Junior Developers Have Always Struggled to Code
Published on: 2/24/2025 - 4 min read
It's Not A.I. - Junior Developers Have Always Struggled to Code
AI, as of late, is taking the blame for making junior developers “worse” at writing code, but in my 20 years of experience—junior devs have ...
Is SHA-256 Alone Sufficient for Password Security?
Security
Published on: 2/21/2025 - 6 min read
Is SHA-256 Alone Sufficient for Password Security?
You've built a sleek new web application with user accounts, and now you need to store passwords. Like any security-conscious developer, you...
How to Use the ENUM type in Your PostgreSQL Databases
Published on: 2/17/2025 - 5 min read
How to Use the ENUM type in Your PostgreSQL Databases
## Understanding ENUM in Databases: When and How to Use It When building a database schema, you will often encounter situations where a col...
Why I Finally Decided to Upgrade To GitHub Copilot Pro
Published on: 2/13/2025 - 6 min read
Why I Finally Decided to Upgrade To GitHub Copilot Pro
If you had asked me a year whether I thought that AI generated code was decent enough for production, I would have probably said no. The hal...