Welcome to Hot Web Dev December 2024, featuring the latest technology and web development news. This month I play around with Apple Intelligence to see what all the fuss is about. Highlights include rogue Chrome browser extensions exposing user data, learning and coding resources. December’s tool of the month aims to assist developers when creating new projects. Happy New Year and hope that 2025 brings us more learning resources and tools that you will love.
I have heard productivity is key. Sometimes, computers don’t behave the way we expect or want, so we use handy tools to help us find our way. Things like a clipboard manager, which I can’t live without also need to function the way I want it to. Here is a selection of handy must have software for the Mac. Some may be commercial, at a small cost, but I’ve also added free and open-source software with some being compatible with Windows.
Welcome to Hot Web Dev September 2024, featuring the latest technology and web development news. September has been a bumper month with the release of MacOS Sequoia and iOS 18. Finally, built-in windows snapping. Another cool feature is iPhone mirroring. This month’s edition covers WordPress and the battle with its creator and a company that doesn’t like to give back. The tool of the month is a suite of handy tools that works in the browser and doesn’t require uploading any data to a server.
If you have been following the monthly Hot Web Dev magazine you will find the latest recommended development tool in each edition. The tools over the years vary from Open Source, JavaScript UI frameworks, server tools, AI, CSS, desktop and web apps. Here is the list of the tools chosen for every month during 2023 with updates on new features.
Welcome to Hot Web Dev August 2024, featuring the latest technology and web development news. This month’s edition covers JavaScript and PHP which you may love to hate. Learning resources include React mastery and Laravel goodness and the tool of the month is an algorithm godsend.
Welcome to Hot Web Dev July 2024, featuring the latest technology and web development news. This edition comes a little late as I have been visiting family in England and spent a few days in the Scottish Highlands. This month we focus on the reliance on technology in the modern age. We take a peek at the upcoming React 19 and Svelte 5 and uncover mathematics in the learning resources.
Welcome to Hot Web Dev June 2024, featuring the latest technology and web development news. This month announce the new features in the latest MacOS release and how security as a software developer is important. Free learning resources cover TypeScript, Nest JS and Data structures & Algorithms. The tool of the month goes icon mad.
Welcome to Hot Web Dev May 2024, featuring the latest technology and web development news. This month’s edition comes late due to my hectic work life and university study schedule. May was full of assignments and exams. The academic year is over now and this edition features exposed algorithms and a fresh batch of learning resources. The tool of the month is for developers who have an eye for design.
Welcome to Hot Web Dev April 2024, featuring the latest technology and web development news. This month features the impact of short-form content with short attention spans and tools for visual learners. The tool of the month packs a whole heap of features into a development environment you will want to install.
Image-to-text converters are innovative tools that unlock the text trapped within images, transforming it into editable, searchable digital data. Consider this: you capture a snapshot of a page in your textbook, and within moments, it’s turned into text that you can tweak, sift through, and systematize.
This isn’t a glimpse into a distant future, but rather, a modern reality engineered to ease your university life and make it more efficient.