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A Remote Worker's Guide To Staying Healthy
There are a lot of developers who take good care of themselves and enjoy a healthy, active lifestyle. If you are one of them, you can skip the rest of this post, because I wrote it to help developers like myself, who could benefit from a healthier lifestyle.
Even if you are entirely focused on your career, and think you don’t have enough spare time to lead a healthy lifestyle, bear in mind that good physical health will also boost your productivity.
Victor Abadio
Victor is a front-end developer & wordPress specialist with 7+ years of experience as a freelancer. He has worked with agencies & start-ups.
Sass Style Guide: A Sass Tutorial on How to Write Better CSS Code
When working on big web applications as a team with other developers, code needs to be scalable and readable. This can be a challenging process when it comes to CSS, although preprocessors like Sass are available. But only using preprocessors will only get you so far. In this article, Toptal engineer Matias Hernandez presents a style guide with advice on how to improve the way you write your code.
Matias Hernandez
Matías is a software engineer with more than 7 years of work as a freelancer for companies all around the globe.
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Embracing Sass: Why You Should Stop Using Vanilla CSS
CSS preprocessors have been around for quite a while now. These tools, among many things, promise convenience in writing style sheets for the web. However, not everyone is taking advantage of these utilities, and is still resorting to writing vanilla CSS. In this article, Toptal engineer Marcelo Mazza discusses some of the reasons why he thinks Sass is the way to go and why you should be using it in your projects.
Marcelo Mazza
Marcelo has 10+ years in UX, spanning various fields. He has solid knowledge of mobile platforms, UX, design, and front-end development
Things to Watch Out for While Working Remotely
Remote jobs can be good for you, but depending on your character, they can also have some unpleasant side effects. Burnout affects people in all walks of life and in all industries, so what makes remote workers different?
Recognizing burnout symptoms early is of vital importance, and I cannot stress this enough. The deeper you sink into it, the longer it will take to recover, it’s as simple as that.
Nermin Hajdarbegovic
As a veteran tech writer, Nermin helped create online publications covering everything from the semiconductor industry to cryptocurrency.
Automation in Selenium: Page Object Model and Page Factory
Proper test automation is a challenging yet essential ingredient for quality software applications. Explore maintainable test automation in Selenium, including Page Object model and Page Factory.
Dejan Zivanovic
Dejan is a senior QA engineer with significant experience in web and mobile testing. He has also worked extensively on Android app development.
Software Development Anywhere: My Distributed Remote Workplace
Working as a remote software development freelancer has many benefits, but setting up an effective distributed working environment can be a real challenge. In this article, Toptal Engineer Ivan Voras describes how he leverages SSH and a number of related technologies, along with the Raspberry Pi and ownCloud, to be able to work effectively from anywhere.
Ivan Voras, PhD
Ivan’s 15+ years of back-end and blockchain architecture experience has seen everything from DBA ops to development of OS kernel modules (FreeBSD).
Software Costs Estimation in Agile Project Management
One of the hardest things to do in software development is to determine how long and how much it will take to deliver a new software product. Should it be so hard? The answer is not straightforward.
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