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Unlimited Scale and Free Web Hosting with GitHub Pages and Cloudflare

Whether you’re a bootstrapped startup that needs a brochureware website or a corporation that needs a high-performing web app, this post is for you. In it, Toptal Software Engineer Amin Shah Gilani teaches you how to setup a static, SSL-secure website for the very low cost of free, using Github Pages and Cloudflare.

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Amin Shah Gilani

Amin Shah Gilani

Amin is a developer and entrepreneur who loves writing clean, test-driven Ruby and ES6 code—crafted for CI/CD.

10 Videos All Designers Should Watch

From the great industrial designer Dieter Rams explaining his principle of design to Adam Grant discussing the habits of original thinkers, we’ve curated a list of our favorite design videos.

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Bree Chapin

Bree Chapin

Bree’s a passionate designer and problem-solver with 10+ years experience in product and UXUI design for web and native mobile applications.

Getting the Most from Equity Research - Lessons from a Former Research Analyst

Equity research provides a very useful function in our current financial markets. Nevertheless, the profession has come under fire in recent years.

In this post, Toptal Management Consultant Ryan Downie details how to utilize research reports more effectively. Additionally, he outlines the equity research’s main value for both sophisticated and retail investors and highlights the pitfalls of this profession, its causes, and how you should evaluate research in order to avoid these issues.

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Ryan Downie

Ryan Downie

Ryan left the hedge fund world to become a startup consultant. He has helped clients raise more than $1.2 million in early-stage capital.

A Step-by-Step Guide to UI Animation With Principle and Sketch

Animated UI elements improve the user experience, but how exactly are they made? These short tutorial videos demonstrate the most effective animation techniques using Principle for Mac.

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Tidjane Tall

Tidjane Tall

Tidjane is a UX/UI design leader who connects users’ needs and goals to deliver strategic solutions for companies like Adobe and Google.

The Advanced Git Guide: Git Stash, Reset, Rebase, and More

Could you be using Git more efficiently?

The answer is probably a resounding “Yes,” which is why Toptal Software Engineer Ursula Clarke wrote today’s post.

In it, she teaches you how to use git stash, git reset, git bisect, git squash, and git rebase for maximum productivity.

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Ursula Clarke

Ursula Clarke

Ursula has over five years of experience in software development and specializes in front-end development, especially intricate UI.

How to Integrate OAuth 2 Into Your Django/DRF Back-end Without Going Insane

So you’ve implemented user authentication. Now, you want to allow your users to log in with Twitter, Facebook, or Google. No problem. You’re only a few lines of code away from doing so.

But while there are hundreds of OAuth 2 packages that pip knows, only a few actually do what they’re supposed to do.

In this article, Toptal Software Engineer Peter Goodspeed-Niklaus explains how to integrate OAuth 2 into your Django or Django Rest Framework using Python Social Auth.

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Peter Goodspeed-Niklaus

Peter Goodspeed-Niklaus

Peter, BSc (with distinction), is a professional Python/Django developer who has also written an exotic processor emulator in Rust.

How to Write Automated Tests for iOS

In this tutorial, you will learn how automated testing works for the iOS platform and how to implement it in your project.

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Josip Petrić

Josip Petrić

Josip has developed a keen sense for building scalable, maintainable, and user-friendly applications. His platform of choice is iOS.

How to be Efficient in PhpStorm: An IDE that Really Matters

It’s every developer’s dream to be more efficient. In this article, you’ll learn how one engineer saved himself from typing more than 20,000 characters over six months and prevented 1,000 bugs in the process.

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Alexey Filatov

Alexey Filatov

Alexey is a certified PHP/MySQL developer with extensive knowledge of OOP and design patterns as well as frameworks like Zend and Symfony.

Ionic 2 vs. Ionic 1: Performance Gains, New Tools, and a Big Step Forward

The Ionic project is rapidly gaining in popularity and is one of the most popular open source projects worldwide. With the recent announcement of the stable version of Ionic 2, this is the perfect time to underscore the Ionic 2 and its predecessor.

In this post, Toptal software engineer Julien Renaux outlines the major changes Ionic 2 brought to the platform and explains how to put these new features to good use.

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Julien Renaux

Julien Renaux

Scrum Master Julien (MCS) is a front-end mobile dev who’s worked for startups and enterprises like eBay, and even the French space agency.

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