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Application Development

How to Build a Simple
Full-Screen Slideshow
with Vanilla JavaScript

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a responsive full-screen slideshow with plain JavaScript. To build it, we’ll go through several different front-end tricks. As a bonus, we’ll go a step further and customize the cursor’s appearance as we hover over the slideshow.

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Personal Improvement

Five tricks to finish a full day’s work in a few hours

Most people average just two hours and 48 minutes of productive time a day. The good news is two hours of intense focus can yield more results than a day loaded with meetings, emails, calls, and tasks.

Here’s how to make the most of it.

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Nostalgia

“Here We Go. The Chaos Is Starting:” An Oral History of Y2K

Once upon a time, we all thought the world was going to end on January 1, 2000. Two decades after the panic of the century, it’s time to finally hear from the people who spent years—and billions of dollars—making sure it didn’t.