Forem: Adam Aslan

Maximize the Beauty of Your Resume #1 Pro Tip

Adam Aslan — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 17:12:14 +0000

Struggling with formatting your resume using Google Docs? Are the bullets different sizes? Are you using google docs to create your resume?

Here is the #1 Pro Tip to optimizing Bullets in your resume!

1 Pro tip is standout by using big BULLETS.

After reading these three tips you should be able to create two different sized bullets in your resume.

Find the formatting drop down menu for bullets.
If you are like me you usually just press enter to create a bullet or try to copy and paste another bulleted point. This works if you already have smaller bullets, but doesn't work for the larger ALPHA bullets.
Delete the smaller bullet and make sure the cursor is all the way to the left.
When you position the cursor at this point you are setting up the document to insert larger bullets.
*Note: If you have text already it will be left of the other bullets.
Use the drop down menu to choose the format that starts with bullets.

It looks like this:

Just pop one of those bad boys in and you are ready to go.

What's great is that subsequent bullets will be the Alpha Big Big Bullets.

Connect with me via twitter @adamtimuraslan

Weird Things about the Internet and lies about JavaScript

Adam Aslan — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 20:06:01 +0000

Sometimes it's important to take a break from JavaScript and just find out weird things about the internet. Sooo...lettuce dive in a bit. So sure, JavaScript is cool but what does it do? Well, thats a challenging thing to say with the rise of NodeJS and the developments of HTML5. For example, many will say you need JS for validating input values of a form before the data is sent to a web server, but HTML5 is also doing great work with form validation. So it would be a big rotten lie to say JS is the only way to do form validation on the world wide web and people are really leaning into shipping less JS these days so maybe it's time to dive even deeper into html form vaildation.
Anyways, weird internet things. Let's go!

Before internet, there was ARPANET and packet switching.
The word Internet was first used in 1974 and is short for internetwork.
Internet used to be capitalized more, lol.
CERN, creators of the Large Hadron Collider(LHC), is credited with the first highspeed T1 (1.5 Mbit/s) link, which connected CERN to Cornell University.

Remote Repo Troubleshooting: Incorrect Remote Repo Name - Dont Use Remove or Rename

Adam Aslan — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 23:06:55 +0000

Woops you are trying to create a new repo for a new project running locally on your machine and you somehow added the wrong git repo name.

Before you try git rename or git delete, just delete the entire git folder locally and create a new git folder from scratch.

Then go thru the normal processes.

This seems smart to me as most people add a remote repo pretty immediately so version control, commits, and other concerns wont be affected by deleting the git folder.

How to pass a challenging Frontend Interview in 2023 Part 1

Adam Aslan — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 17:38:58 +0000

Sooo theres a lot of tricky parts to passing any coding interview, but there are some hacks and some solid practices. While chat gpt does offer a lot hacks, it can also be a good source to ask about leetcode questions to better understand the problem, the data structure theory behind it, and also to understand the syntax of other people's solutions.

Yes, chat gpt, yes, but also just you and your own journey as a frontend developer. Whether you're focused on react, vuejs, svelte, typescript, or just plain old vanilla javascript, there are a lot of challenges to wrapping your head around what is happening.

My first suggestion is to gain a more overarching understanding of whatever you are learning. This means the general concepts and procedures.

The second suggestion is to use flash cards to better remember the terms and syntax around what you are learning. Hand written and color coordinated spiral ruled index cards are very helpful. You can also add tabs that further breakdown the flash cards.

The other way to do flash cards is using cram.com
Here are some frontend orientated flash cards I am developing:
https://www.cram.com/flashcards/jan-23-22-13350658

I hope these help.
For more helpful thangs follow me on twitter:
www.twitter.com/adamtimuraslan

Podcasts and why I love them for Computer Science

Adam Aslan — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 04:09:43 +0000

Syntax, Whiskey, Web, Whatnot, JS Party, Javascript Jabber, Enjoy the View, the list goes on... when it comes to podcasts that can help a software engineer.

What makes Podcasts so helpful?

The main reason to listen to the above mentioned podcasts is to both learn challenging aspects of computer science, but also to find out about new tools that can later be researched.

Some podcasts can really go on a deep dive where as others might only give a cursory skimming over of topics. A deep dive maybe a bit too much in the moment but can be revisited. A shallow skim can be good to re-orientate one's brain on a subject.

For example, you may know React Redux pretty well, but listening to a podcast about it can help connect the dots a bit more and provide insights on how to explain it to others. The podcast can also explore aspects of Redux like its history or deep dives into certain aspects of Redux that can be explained better.

Lastly, a lot of podcasts, like Syntax, have a lots of great links in their show notes for further deep dives!

3 Tips for Formatting Bullets in Your Resume in Google Docs

Adam Aslan — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 13:53:05 +0000

Struggling with formatting your resume using Google Docs? Are the bullets different sizes? Are you trying to get a specific sized bullet? Are you using google docs to create your resume?

Here are 3 tips to help with Bulleting your resume!

After reading these three tips you should be able to create two different sized bullets in your resume.

1. Find the formatting drop down menu for bulleting.
While this isnt much of a tip, if you are like me you usually just press enter to create a bullet or try to copy and paste another bulleted point. This works if you already have smaller bullets, but doesn't work for the larger bullets.

2. Delete the smaller bullet and make sure the cursor is all the way to the left.
When you position the cursor at this point you are setting up the document to insert larger bullets.
*Note: If you have text already it will be left of the other bullets.

3. Use the drop down menu to choose the format that starts with bullets.

It looks like this:

Just pop one of those bad boys in and you are ready to go.

Connect with me viackout my website: www.code.adamaslan.com

The Easy Way to Verify Domain Ownership with Google

Adam Aslan — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 21:20:52 +0000

Oh domains! The web of developer sadness they can indeed weave. Luckily, whether your building your website with just HTML or in React with Nextjs, there is an easy solution for you.

If you have already found the Google's Publisher Center , then you are half of the way there. Next, comes the challenging part, Domain Verification.

So what is the easy solution already? HTML Tags. Yes, just put the verification tags in your <Head> section on the main page of your site.

This can be a bit tricky with something like Nextjs as their is no index.html. Instead, its just the index.js <Head> section that u must import like so:

import Head from "next/head";

Hope this helps!

For more info check Google's docs

How to Post Your Local Code to a Remote Github Repository the Efficient Way Without the Github CLI

Adam Aslan — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 21:06:00 +0000

Create some code in VScode or some other code editor or IDE? Want to post it to Github? Want to know an efficient way to do it specifically for this use case? Then this is the article for you!

If you're like me, you never create a repository on Github first and then link it to your local project before you even begin said project. Kudos to those that do, but for the rest of us mere mortals here is what I like to think of as the definitive simple way to post your existing local project to Github.

step 1 - git init -b main
step 2 - git add . && git commit -m "initial commit"
step 3 - (create repo on Github + copy url - ie. .git thing)
step 4 - git remote add origin (theurl.git thing)
step 5 - git push origin main

That's it. Hope this helps.
Questions? DM me.
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