The Coding Diaries
Front-end dev with no CS degree. My hope is for this blog to be helpful for others starting out too.
Day 9: #100daysofcode
You can search by regex in sublime text!
SASS Guidelines
http://sass-guidelin.es/
is a good resource.
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Hi, I'm Linda! I enjoy going to tech meetups, learning web development, and blogging about the learning path. Follow me
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Thank goodness I save all my bug solutions in e-mails
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Finding text in a particular file using grep
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