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Stop using Google Fonts, stop fueling the flames

More than 50 million websites use Google Fonts right now. I know that asserting that all of them are wrong could sound a bit arrogant but, in this post, I'll explain why I think they should stop doing it right now and how they (you) can avoid doing it.

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How to implement light and dark modes with a toggle switch on your website

I've recently rebranded and redesigned the look and feel of my website. As a part of that redesign, I've implemented both a light and a dark theme that will automatically be selected based on the user's preferences; it also includes a toggle switch that will allow the user to change that preference for this website. In this post, I will show you how I did it.

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Reinventing the wheel: DIOD (a new Typescript dependency injection library)

Dependency injection is a recurrent pattern in complex applications, and each day it is becoming more common to see it applied with Typescript. But TS has some quirks when comparing with classic languages, like Java or C#, that we need to bear in mind. In this post, I'll talk about them and about how they pushed me to reinvent the wheel by creating a new-brand DI library: DIOD.

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Decoupling SPAs from the framework, a practical example

The javascript framework war that we are seeing today is harder than the one we've seen in the Game of Thrones series. To choose the proper framework is one of the most important decisions we need to take when starting a new project and that's why there are hundreds of posts on the internet comparing frameworks: reactivity, extensibility, adoption... This is not one of those posts.

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Microsoft, you need to take it one step further

The war is over. It seems that 2016 has been the year of the peace deal between Microsoft and the FOSS community, the hostility has ceased, but let us make no mistake, there is still a long way to go.

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