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While writing technical development articles you will often show some code blocks. You can either take a screenshot of your favorite IDE while it shows the code or you can use the simple Medium code formatting by pressing ```. But instead of using any of those two approaches, I would suggest using any or all of the websites presented within this article.

1. GitHub Gists

The main website to create code blocks is GitHub Gists. You can simply go to https://gist.github.com and add your code into the Gist. Also, you can add multiple files to one single Gist and use them independently in your article.

2. carbon.now.sh

This website is really simple. You can log in with your GitHub profile and start creating snippets. Go to and insert your code. It will be automatically saved into your profile and can be accessed by the URL.

As an example,  https://carbon.now.sh/XHGvwhmthQjAZLJAWNoA

The content will look like this in Medium:

3. JSFiddle

JSFiddle is a famous javascript code playground where you can test your HTML, CSS, and JS in the browser.

Additionally, these code blocks can be imported into Medium as an embed. Within Medium you will have one block with a tab menu that can be switched.

I use this fiddle as an example: https://jsfiddle.net/paulknulst/odLg3qu1/

As you can see you can switch between JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and Result. Within Result, you can see the outcome after the three “files” are combined and run by jsfiddle.net.

4. Codepen.io

Codepen is comparable to JSFiddle. You can also add HTML, CSS, and JS and import them into Medium.

I use this as an example: https://codepen.io/paulknulst/pen/NWaXwdW

As you can see you can switch between JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and Result. It looks different from JSFiddle but contains the same information.

5. Codesandbox.io

With Codesandbox.io you are able to create complete sandboxes for your project that will run within the browser.

If you start with this website you can choose a sample sandbox from a list of predefined sandboxes

After you choose your template all needed files will be created and you can change them in the integrated IDE and see the result in an embedded browser window.

I really hope you find this article helpful and can use any of the websites in your development articles.

Tsuki

Code reviews are necessary as they offer multiple benefits that help improve your code and your team. These benefits include:

• Helping reduce bugs and logic errors
• Providing an opportunity for training
• Spreading knowledge across areas and teams
• Revealing new ideas and techniques

Code reviews help reduce bugs and logic errors

One of the main things a reviewer should be looking for when reviewing code is that the code does the right thing without any errors.

It may seem like it would be hard to find bugs while reading code, but as developers become more experienced reviewing code, issues will start to stand out.

Even with QA and automated testing, finding bugs during a code review is helpful. Reviews help verify the code and tests are both correct. A code review can direct the developer to the exact area of the problem, making it easier to debug and fix. Reviews are just one more step we can use to help avoid stressful after hour bugs.

Reviews offer opportunities for training

We all know how quickly the technology around us changes. there is a new language, tool, or framework every day. We also learn new best practices, standards, and ways to do things as we gain more experience.

How do we keep all the developers on the team up to date with these changes? Of course, there are courses, tutorials, blogs, the team wikis, and guides out there. But do we have time for every developer on our team to always go through a course? Developers should continue to use these resources and learn from them.  However, none of these resources have come close to what we learned by working with the team and having code reviewed. Good code has come from code reviews.

Code reviews spread knowledge across areas and teams

If we had two teams of developers who always worked together and reviewed each other’s code versus two groups of developers who never reviewed the other team’s code, who do you think will have better code in the long run?

It probably will be the teams that review each other’s code. Those two teams will be passing knowledge back and forth about their specific areas and the best way to do things. They will be learning from different experiences and projects.

Code reviews also reveal new ideas and techniques

Reviews will teach the same team new things the same way they will teach multiple teams. But new ideas and techniques often come up in code reviews even among the same team members.

Think about most of the code we write. How often do we research different design patterns, consider different architectures or attempt multiple solutions before deploying code? At most places, we don’t have the time to pair program on everything or always meet about how to code every feature. Once a team implements a review process, these suggestions happen without extra steps.

Tsuki

Obfuscation is making something complex and difficult to understand. Programming codes are often obfuscated to decrease the security risks such as preventing an attacker from reverse engineering a software program and protect intellectual properties.

Code obfuscation is not about changing the program’s original code contents, but rather about making the presentation of that code more confusing. Obfuscation does not change how the program works or outputs.

The following are some techniques we should know about obfuscation.

Renaming

The obfuscator alters the methods and names of variables. The new names may include unprintable or invisible characters.

Packing

This compresses the entire program to make the code unreadable.

String encryption

This method uses encryption to hide the strings in the executable and only restores the values when they are needed to run the program. This makes it difficult to go through a program and search for particular strings.

Control flow

The decompiled code is made to look like spaghetti logic, which is unstructured and hard to maintain code where the line of thought is obscured. Results from this code are not clear, and it’s hard to tell what the point of the code is by looking at it.

Instruction pattern transformation

This approach takes common instructions created by the compiler and swaps them for more complex, less common instructions that effectively do the same thing.

Dummy code insertion

Dummy code can be added to a program to make it harder to read and reverse engineer, but it does not affect the program’s logic or outcome.

Metadata or unused code removal

Unused code and metadata give the reader extra information about the program, much like annotations on a Word document, that can help them read and debug it. Removing metadata and unused code leaves the reader with less information about the program and its code.

Summary

Obfuscation techniques are used in various cases. For example, these can be used to stop someone from copying your client-side code. And enterprises also need to make sure that websites are protected against malicious code injection and it difficult to discover useful information such as trade secrets (IP), credentials, or security vulnerabilities from an application.

Hope you enjoy that.

By Asahi

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