😎 10 traits that make the best developers
Tags: webdev, beginners, css
Published: 2023-05-15 15:27:29

Here's what we have this week:

😎 10 traits that separate the best devs
🏓 Pure CSS table tennis game
🖥️ Cross-browser testing with remote desktop

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Professional software development is a complex discipline that requires a diverse set of abilities to succeed. We can group them into three main categories.

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Many problems with website layouts, such as unwanted side effects, painful updates, and brittle code, happen when we don’t write CSS with the same care we’d use when writing a JavaScript function.

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