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Topic: tech insights

How I Ensure Cross-Browser Compatibility

South Africans browse the web in a range of different ways. I will explain the obstacles to creating an engaging experience and how I overcame them.

by Dieter Buntzen

Topic: tech insights

How I use Jupyter Notebooks as a sandbox for building visualisations

Jupyter Notebooks let me combine live visualisation code with my notes in a single, interactive document. Here's how I got started with it, step by step.

by Shiraaz Moollatjie

Topic: tech insights

Simulating The Right Thing: Property-Based Testing

Property-based testing works great in a small set of situations, such as my tower defence game bot. Here's how I made sure that my bot was simulating valid moves.

by Justin Worthe

Topic: tech insights

What We Learned From Rapid Prototyping

Rapid prototyping is great for growing your skill set and applying your mind to problems. These are our key learnings from prototyping an isiZulu chatbot.

by Mark Jones and Mike Harrison

Topic: tech insights

Why I’m excited about Self-Sovereign Identity

Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) promises to solve a bunch of security problems. Here’s how I’ve made sense of it for myself — and why I’m excited about it.

by Phillip Gibb

Topic: tech insights

How Playing Games Inspires My Software Development

Playing games is directly useful to my job as a software developer. Here's how.

by Jacob Clarkson

Topic: tech career insights

My Strategy to Beat Procrastination

Procrastination can be quite a big problem for software developers facing difficult or new tasks. Here are the techniques that helped me overcome it.

by Johan Heymans

Topic: tech insights

OfferZen Bug Refactoring: How We Implemented A Triage Process

Our old process for handling bugs at OfferZen wasn’t optimised, so we set out to design and implement a new bug-solving process. Here's what we learned.

by Clive Corbishley

Topic: tech insights

Mob Programming Memoirs: Agile Collaboration On Steroids!

How can developers solve problems collaboratively? Mob programming is an interesting way to solve this. Here's what I learned from two years of mobbing.

by Riaan Nel

Topic: tech career insights

How I Got Started With XAML And WPF As A Front-End Developer

As a front-end developer used to HTML, CSS and JS, redesigning a Windows app was out of my comfort zone. I opted to learn XAML and WPF. Here's why — and how I got started.

by Louw Hyman

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