How to use social media to land your first programming job When applying for a billion coding jobs isn’t getting you anywhere, harness the power of social media. It worked for Will, a community engineer at egghead.io. I started using social media to break into tech The traditional approach wasn’t working, I had to switch it up and think outside the box. No one wanted to take a risk on me, probably because anyone can say they are ‘hard-working’ and ‘passionate’ when it comes to software development — it’s not enough....

Welcome toTNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Telegram rolled out a bunch of new features last night withits latest update, including more payment options and two new web versions. But since Clubhouse and real-time talking has become all the rage, Telegram introduced new additions to its Voice Chat feature. Earlier, the chat app allowed groups and channels to create voice chats for talking to other folks in real-time, but you had to do it spontaneously....

Python 3.10 development has stabilized and we can finally test out all of the new features that will be included in the final release. We’ll cover some of the most interesting additions to Python — structural pattern matching, parenthesized context managers, more typing, and the new and improved error messages. Check out the video version of the article here:  Structural pattern matching Structural pattern matching is an incredible feature to be added to Python — truly awesome....

The advantage to using a tool like Twitter for education is that it’s instant and it’s to the point. There have been countless articles about whether or not social media makes us lazy, or whether it affects our attention spans. If that really is the case, why not use that to our advantage? Twitter, and social media in general, can make a surprisingly useful educational tool, giving students and teachers an easy way to communicate that goes beyond office hours and classrooms....

How to use your mobile keyboard as a text cursor while typing Android You’ll need to use either Google’sGboardorMicrosoft’s SwiftKeyfor this. When you’re typing withGboard, simply swipe along the length of the space bar to move the cursor left or right. If you’re usingSwiftKey, you’ll need to long-press and hold on the space bar, and then swipe along anywhere on the keyboard to move the cursor. Unlike Gboard, you can drag your finger up or down to move between lines of text quickly....