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Jasmine specs that work with DOM elements often leave elements in the DOM after they're done. This will leak...
tl;dr The Chrome DevTools are a neat collection of tools for the daily work as a web developer. If...
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You have uncommited changes (you can always check by using git status), which you want to discard.
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Case studies and experiments demonstrating the impact of web performance optimization (WPO) on user experience and business metrics.
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ruby-warning adds custom processing for warnings, including the ability to ignore specific warning messages, ignore warnings in specific files/directories...
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You want to deploy new features but the latest commits are not ready for production? Then use git merge master...
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Sometimes you need to access a dev server running on localhost from another machine that is not part of the...