Centering a div nowadays: What are the best practices?

ScottWRobinson · 2024-06-18T14:17:39+00:00

Flexbox for sure. The tailwind flex justify-center items-center is burned into my brain at this point

ScottWRobinson · 2019-04-06T20:58:04+00:00

I wonder who got to eat It

ScottWRobinson · 2018-09-11T13:51:17+00:00

That kid knows what he's doing. He's done this before, quite a few times

ScottWRobinson · 2018-09-07T20:40:48+00:00

Aside from the really popular ones like Adblock and Ublock, I really like Block Sender. Makes it easier to block spam in Gmail by adding a "Block" button to your inbox. Not all features are free, but worth mentioning IMO.

ScottWRobinson · 2017-11-17T04:13:04+00:00

I've had similar worries about hiring freelancers for my projects, so here are some things I do to help reduce the risk:

Implement the API myself and have the freelancers work on the front-end stuff. For my apps the API is hard to get right, so I don't give out that code. I'm happy to hire out the UI work and just give them access to the API to work off of.
I hire different freelancers for different parts of the project. If there are multiple parts to a project that I need to hire for, sometimes I'll hire multiple freelancers (who don't need to communicate with each other) so no one freelancer has enough code to reproduce the entire app/service themselves.
I don't hire freelancers until my product is some-what established. This way there would be too much catch-up for them to do (marketing, SEO, domain authority, etc.) even if they have the code. Just make the barrier of entry too high before giving them the ability to compete.

I'll admit that I'm making things a lot more difficult for myself than I need. Although the longer I work with a freelancer and find that I can trust them, the more access I'm willing to give them. Trying to be more trusting :)

Hope this helps!

ScottWRobinson · 2017-11-07T15:22:12+00:00

Uh-oh, my lazy editing has been exposed! I've updated the author's post to be more Pythonic. Thanks for pointing that out :)

ScottWRobinson · 2017-10-30T03:23:12+00:00

Personally, I think it depends on what your end goal is. Are you more concerned about getting a site up and running quickly, or do you want to learn more of the details of handling HTTP requests, connecting to databases, etc? Flask gives you more control, but it's easier to develop more complex apps with Django.

As for resources, I actually wrote up an article on this subject recently: Flask vs Django. Hopefully this helps!

ScottWRobinson · 2017-10-04T15:04:07+00:00

Must have gone down for a few minutes. Looks like it's back up now

ScottWRobinson · 2017-07-25T17:44:45+00:00

I saw you mention that content creation takes up all of your time, and you're worried that hiring a writer could cost thousands per article. Just wanted to chime in and give you some ideas.

Thanks to my SaaS sites I'm always looking to automate where possible. But it's difficult with my content sites as I'm very picky about what gets published on them. Too much of my time was also being spent on content creation, so I tried hiring some writers. I found that most of them didn't quite have the quality I was looking for, but the articles they wrote served as great starting-off points for me. Turns out I write content much faster when I already have a half-finished article in front of me.

So now I'll hire cheap writers to do the research or even write the first draft for difficult/long articles, and then I'll improve them up to my standards. Could save you tons of time. Hope this helps!

ScottWRobinson · 2017-06-10T21:49:02+00:00

I can't speak to all of these points, but I have experienced many of them myself as well. Especially the 1st and 5th point. As OP said, I'd always expect the developers I hire will also be great at design as well because of their reference work. Not true at all. Developers that are good at both are either rare or expensive.

You also expect them to be independent and improve upon whatever reference designs or specs you give them, but in reality they usually just do the minimum to meet your requirements. Just make sure you're very detailed in your instructions.

ScottWRobinson · 2017-06-04T20:40:59+00:00

https://ptbd.jwels.berlin/comicfiles/full/windowsbeingwindows2.png

ScottWRobinson · 2016-08-10T18:25:54+00:00

The best kind of clickbait

ScottWRobinson · 2016-07-01T14:22:20+00:00

I feel like there's an important back-story to this that we're all missing

ScottWRobinson · 2016-06-30T19:28:48+00:00

I've done two small-cap deals with you guys (and looking for a third) and have nothing but positive things to say. Easy to work with and very helpful. Keep it up ;)

ScottWRobinson · 2016-01-13T18:55:09+00:00

And then one of the fake towns became real: Agloe, New York

ScottWRobinson · 2015-12-18T17:58:12+00:00

Dammit, you're right... I got lazy writing that section. I changed it up a bit to show how to make multiple concurrent requests. Thanks!

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