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Aug 2024
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80% of professional programmers are unha...

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The latest Stack Overflow Developer Survey has some concerning results, Joeri Sebrechts helps you do plain vanilla web dev, MIT’s “missing semester” course looks pretty amazing, a dive into the fascinating history of CSV & a tool to get request analytics from the nginx access logs.

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