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The Best Text Editors for Beginners
What text editor should I use? What is a text editor, and why does it matter which one I use? Text editors are programs that type simple text without the sort of formatting a word processor will so rudely slip in. No comic sans, no forced margins, no line breaks (I just tested this with a
What is a 404 Page?
Okay, quick lesson. When you go to a link on the web, or visit a site on the web, you’re telling a server somewhere to send you a page. A server is basically the same thing as a site. For example, when you go to twitter.com you’re telling the Twitter server that you want to
Startup NDAs: Why you shouldn’t be afraid of someone stealing your startup idea
This is probably the biggest topic I run into when I talk to would be founders. They ask questions like: • How can I...
The Difference Between == and === In JavaScript
If you aren’t sure what the difference between == and === are in JavaScript, you aren’t alone. Plenty of people struggle with which of these two JavaScript operators
10 Famous Websites Built Using Python
There are tens of thousands of Python websites on the internet. Python is a powerful programming language created by ...
Codecademy vs. Udemy
When starting the journey to learn to code, many people will ask me, “Which do you recommend: Codecademy or Udemy?” B...
How to Learn JavaScript
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Vmifkj3-YJavaScript is a programming language. In order to learn JavaScript, we r...
How to Automate Filling In Web Forms with Python
Python is great and an easy to learn programming language that can help you automate routine tasks and make your life...
I Studied German for 20 Min a Day For a Year and This is what I learned
Last year, I decided I needed to learn German. It started one night while I was at a dinner party in Berlin. During d...
25 Essential Books on Storytelling, Copywriting, and Marketing to Read
How do you teach yourself about storytelling? Why is it that some copywriters seem to nail it, while others flounder?...
HTML vs CSS: What’s the Difference?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BANChTkxYYYHTML and CSS are the two fundamental languages for building any website...
Famous First Landing Pages | Google, Facebook, Amazon…
““If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.” — Reid Hoffman”If your...
Y Combinator and The One Metric that Matters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfpTCFNoa6wIt’s been a little while since I’ve written about growth hacking and I w...
How Bloomberg Exec Susan Kish Learned To Code
It was a normal Tuesday.Susan Kish was sitting on the 29th floor of her building, looking over Manhattan, when she go...
Who invented the internet?
In the autumn of 1969, a small group of people launched the most disruptive revolution of our time — and yet their na...
Hot Wallet vs. Cold Storage
Can you explain the difference between a Hot Wallet and Cold Storage?Hot wallet refers to any cryptocurrency wallet t...
The Hacker Ethic: Understanding Programmer Culture
All hackers (good and evil) share a core belief that information should be free. This was distilled into text for the...
How a Non-technical Solo Founder Got Into Y Combinator
Two years ago I quit my full-time job, and declared myself an entrepreneur (inspired by the 4-Hour Workweek). At the ...
Why are MBAs Learning Python?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0Hgx6NeDo4 Mattan Griffel is an award-winning Python teacher. As an adjunct profess...
20 Website Examples built with Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails is a popular web development framework. It’s used for building websites and applications like Twitter, ...