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WebAssembly/Rust Tutorial: Pitch-perfect Audio Processing
WebAssembly gives near-native performance to web apps and allows languages other than JavaScript—plus their libraries—to be used on the web. This tutorial leverages Rust and the Web Audio API to make a basic guitar tuner app that runs at 60 FPS, even on mobile.
Peter Suggate
Peter is a full-stack developer with 15 years of experience building apps for the web and desktop.
Apple M1 Processor Overview and Compatibility
The Apple M1 processor represents a significant step forward for Apple, but what does it mean for developers, designers, and other professionals using Apple hardware?
In this article, Toptal Engineering Blog Editor Nermin Hajdarbegovic outlines what makes the M1 different and what professionals need to keep in mind should they choose to upgrade their hardware.
Nermin Hajdarbegović
A veteran tech writer, Nermin helped create online publications covering everything from the semiconductor industry to cryptocurrencies.
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The Definitive Guide to DateTime Manipulation
Time and date manipulation is notoriously difficult. Developers encountering time zone rules, leap seconds, differences in locale-specific formatting are wise to resort to popular time and date manipulation libraries. But without thinking about how exactly they work, it’s still easy to create all sorts of obscure bugs.
Punit Jajodia
Punit is a versatile software engineer and entrepreneur. He has worked on big data and real-time 3D simulations and is a MEAN stack expert.
Enhanced Git Flow Explained
Git provides basic branching operations, but advanced patterns are left up to the user. The popular “Git flow” branching model helps, but can also complicate some common procedures.
Thankfully, a new variation retains the benefits, while streamlining everyday work.
Daniel Ivanov
Daniel has helped startups bring products to market for more than a decade using best-of-breed approaches to HTML/CSS, JS, Python, and C#.
On-demand Reactivity in Vue 3
The release of Vue 3 brought about substantial performance improvements, but they should not overshadow the introduction of new features and paradigms.
In this article, Toptal Full-stack Developer Luka Mikec introduces you to the new Composition API and explains what Vue 3 means for code expressiveness, organization, and reuse.
Luka Mikec
Luka has extensive experience in academia and full-stack software development. He is a cotutelle Ph.D. candidate in mathematics and computer science.
Building a Node.js/TypeScript REST API, Part 1: Express.js
Learn practical TypeScript patterns with interfaces and extended classes. Avoid messy console.log() statements with Winston and the Node.js debug module. Create an Express.js-powered REST API back end from scratch!
Marcos Henrique da Silva
Marcos has 17+ years in IT and development. His passions include REST architecture, Agile development methodology, and JS.
Using the Radical Candor Framework for Effective Engineering Management
One tool that managers can consider adding to their management skill set is a practice called Radical Candor. Radical Candor is the ability to care emotionally about the engineer as an individual and valued contributor, while also expressing honesty concerning their efforts and results achieved by those efforts.
Peter Varhol
Peter is a technologist and editor on staff at Toptal, and speaks on software development, testing, and DevOps at technical conferences worldwide.
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