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Puzzle of the day

New puzzle to train your brain and test your coding understanding✨

How well do you know your regular expressions?

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Nobody wants to use these HTML tags 😭

Trust me, you can do MUCH better than <div> <a> and <p>.

Living images, built-in dialogs, a href hacking…

There’s a whole lot of sophisticated tags to discover.

1. progress and meter tag

So first there's progress - your typical drama-free progress bar.

You set a value and max for gradation -- pretty straightforward.

<label for="file"
  >Downloading knowledge into evil AI</label
>
<progress id="file" value="0" max="100">32%</progress>

But then there's meter -- also known as progress on a rampage:

<label for="energy">energy levels after 🍉🍌🍇</label>

<meter
  id="energy"
  min="0"
  max="100"
  low="25"
  high="75"
  optimum="80"
  value="50"
/>

2. dfn tag

dfn -- for anything we're gonna define in the page:

<div>
  <dfn>Mellifluous</dfn> sounds are smooth, musical🎶,
  and pleasant to hear
</div>

And the definition must be inside the dfn‘s parent tag, or else…

Or else nothing — just a semantic rule you can happily disregard.

3. dialog tag

New native HTML dialogs!

<dialog id="dialog">
  ⚡Lighting strikes the earth 44 times every second!
</dialog>

<button>Something interesting</button>

const dialog = document.getElementById('dialog');
const button = document.querySelector('button');
button.addEventListener('click', () => {
  dialog.showModal();
});

Stay open from the get-go:

<!-- btw setting open to "false" won't do anything -->
<dialog id="dialog" open>
  😻 Cats have over 30 different muscles just in their
  ears, allowing them to swivel them in all directions.
</dialog>

Built-in support for closing:

5 overlooked ways to make $5000+ per month online as a programmer

Developers are turning code into cash on the internet every day.

Just look at Pieter Levels, a developer making over $300,000 per month from his laptop with zero employees.

He’s just one of many who combined ingenuity and skill to create tremendous value through the internet.

If you’ve been coding for a while, you can also provide value with your knowledge in several ways.

1. SaaS: Build it once, sell it forever

This is how Pieter makes most of his money.

It’s the holy grail of online income.

Build it once and sell it forever. It’s as passive as it gets.

The hard part is, what are you building? What problem are you solving?

Ideas are not a dime a dozen. Good ideas are rare.

And how do you find good SAAS ideas?

Look into your life.

What are some problems you face regularly online or offline, and can software solve them?

Uber started because the founders found themselves stuck in Paris with no way to find a taxi.

React, Polymer JS, and many other dev tools came about because the existing alternatives just weren’t good enough for the creators’ projects.

Thanks for taking the time to read today’s issue.

Don’t let the bugs byte,
The Coding Beauty team