Codbix No.2

Welcome to Issue #2 of The Codbix! This week: Improve productivity through incremental automation, The modern web’s underrated powerhouse, and Wallpapers by Smashing Magazine.

Improve productivity through incremental automation

Small enhancements to daily workflows can have an outsized impact on the amount of available space in our day.

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Out of the slums and into open source

Using software development as a path out of poverty, santosh knows a little support goes a long way.

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The modern web’s underrated powerhouse

It’s one of the most important yet under-appreciated building blocks of the internet. Consider this web page you’re reading right now. The links, headers, and paragraph breaks are marked up with HTML. But Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) really define the look and feel of it: the colors, the fonts, the column widths, the placement of all the various boxes and elements. If you’re looking at this page on a mobile device, it’s CSS that makes it look right on a smaller screen.

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Find A Friend, Boost Your Creativity, And Make Your Digital Dream Come True

Every professional has a comfort zone. The first sign you’re in it is when you see no challenge on the horizon. You know pretty much everything you need to perform well, and if anything unfamiliar comes your way it can be solved fairly quickly. It can take a while to realize you’ve stopped moving, and working on freelance projects seems like the only way to keep your brain busy. Do you have a dream project, application, big or small idea? You can do it. You just need to start.

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