How to Choose the Perfect Niche for Your Blog: A Guide for Success

Choosing the right niche is the key to creating a successful and engaging blog that attracts a loyal audience. While it may be tempting to make your blog all about yourself and your interests, it’s important to remember that your blog is ultimately for your readers. So, how do you go about picking a niche for your blog? Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you make the right choice: Define Your Expertise: Start by identifying your area of expertise or interest....

How to Click a Link with Specific Text Using Puppeteer

In this tutorial, we will explore how to click a link with specific text using Puppeteer, a powerful Node.js library for controlling headless Chrome or Chromium. When working with web automation, it is often necessary to interact with buttons or links on a page. In this specific case, let’s say we want to click an “Accept all” cookie button. To accomplish this task, we can use the following code snippet:...

How to Clone Anything in JavaScript

In the world of JavaScript, cloning objects has always been a common task. Why? The answer lies in references. When it comes to primitive types like strings, numbers, and booleans, cloning is as simple as passing them by value. However, with other types such as objects, arrays, and dates, things get a bit trickier since they are passed by reference. Without proper cloning, you end up with multiple references to the same object under different names....

How to Commit Changes to a Docker Image

When it comes to deploying your app and the need to fix a bug or release an update arises, it’s essential to understand how to commit changes to a Docker image. This process allows you to create a new tag for an existing container. To begin, you can obtain the ID of the running container by using the docker ps command. With the container ID in hand, you can proceed to utilize the docker commit command to create the new image tag....

How to Compile and Run a Go Program

In this tutorial, we will build upon what we learned in our previous tutorial on how to create your first Go program. If you haven’t read it yet, you can find it here. To compile and run a Go program, follow these steps: Open a terminal in the hello folder where your Go program is located. Use the go run command to compile and run the program. Enter the following command in the terminal: go run hello....

How to Concatenate Arrays in JavaScript

Learn how to merge two or more arrays using JavaScript efficiently. Suppose you have two arrays: const first = ['one', 'two']; const second = ['three', 'four']; and you want to combine them into a single array. How do you achieve this? The recommended modern approach is to use the destructuring operator to create a new array: const result = [...first, ...second]; This method is highly recommended. It is essential to note that the destructuring operator was introduced in ES6, which means older browsers (particularly Internet Explorer) may not support it....

How to Concatenate Strings in AppleScript

If you’re familiar with languages like JavaScript, Swift, or Python, you might be used to concatenating strings using the + operator. However, in AppleScript, you need to use the & operator instead. Here’s an example: set example to "hello" "testing " & example As shown in the example, you can concatenate strings in AppleScript by using the & operator. The set keyword is used to assign a string value to a variable, and then you can use the & operator to concatenate the strings together....

How to Conditionally Load Data with SWR

When using SWR, you may encounter a situation where you only want to send a request if you have certain data available. For example, you might need to determine if the user is logged in before making a request to the /api/user endpoint to fetch the user’s data. This can be achieved using the following approach: import fetcher from 'lib/fetcher' ... const { data: userData } = useSWR(session && session.user ?...

How to Confirm SSR is Working in Next.js

Once you have set up your new Next.js application, it’s important to ensure that your application is working as expected, specifically with server side rendering (SSR). Next.js offers server side rendering as one of its main features. When you create a site using Next.js, the pages of the site are rendered on the server and delivered to the browser as HTML. This provides several advantages: Faster site rendering: By rendering the pages on the server, the client does not need to instantiate React, resulting in a faster site for your users....

How to Connect to a Raspberry Pi Using a Mac

Are you a Mac user who wants to connect to a Raspberry Pi? In this step-by-step guide, I will show you how to connect to a Raspberry Pi using Raspbian via VNC. First, let me give you a little background. I recently acquired a Raspberry Pi for testing purposes and to work on some project ideas. I installed Raspbian, a Linux distribution specifically designed for the Raspberry Pi. To get started, I connected the Raspberry Pi to my TV using an HDMI cable....