🖼 I started to use Figma
Recently one random TG channel posted a random ad which was advertising the intensive course (marathon) about Figma for UI/UX designers. Obviously it's just a selling funnel for one of the modern IT schools. I'm not going to advertise it. But I thought it's an opportunity for me to learn the new instrument, so I participated.
Throughout the "marathon" I was just repeating what tutor did and now I can do Figma. Enough to cover my own needs.
How Figma can help a good dev:
* I will use it to prototype my #1to100 app. I was struggling to create a design, because I was doing it right away in the app. Now I can quickly draft it there, see and feel how all the screens may look like.
* Figma has their own Jam board or just board like Miro and Mural. We can use it to collaborate (boring, and Miro does better) and to draw nice diagrams. For example, with Cloud Icons plugin we have all the ... cloud icons quickly available!
You can also do this marathon at your own pace (1, 2, 3), also I was recommended this channel to learn even more Figma. ⚠️ This message is not an ad, I don't know anything about the school itself.
Does anyone of you use it for some purpose?
🐘PostgreSQL unknown features
Nice article about the less known features of
PostgreSQL. We do know, that PostgreSQL is a great thing. Especially I like it's JSON capabilities, which allow us to store and documents and do complex queries about the content. But there is more, this article covers stuff from the unknown unknown part of our knowledge base. We just did not know that it's there so we would not search for it.🌍 localtunnel — free ngrok alternative
ngrok is a great tool to tunnel internet request to your local server. But it quickly evolved to the paid one. You need to register, they added bazillion features that you don't need, etc. If you are looking for the free alternative — consider trying localtunnel. For example, it shall allow you to route webhooks to your local server.
⬛️ That was it for today.