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Dont waste time using powerpoint or google slides to make simple presentations

present github repo: github.com/sayan01/present youtube video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ns4rMnR5A4 I was frustrated with the likes of microsoft powerpoint and google slides for making simple presentations. Presentations are always supposed to be simple and easy to follow, with no unnecesary decorations.  Reference:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY  [How To Speak - MIT] For this reason I dislike apps like slides and powerpoint which spoil the user with too many choices. This forces them to take bad design decisions, as well as waste their time. creating slides should take 5 minutes. preparing for presenting those slides should take the rest of your time. If you spend all your time making the slides (which are just tools to aid your presentation) then you are wasting your time and not practising your presentation itself. For this I made a presentation software that is very simple and fast to use. You dont need to work on proprietary project files l...

Web Development - and why simple sites are better

Web Development has been a vital part of any company's job description for a long time now. Any product, service, or business needs to have a website to 'make it big' in this world of technology. But do we really need over-engineered, slow, and messy websites? Usually messy code is a result of people copying templates or other websites blindly without properly separating parts of the code to other files. Just because that one XYZ site uses stupid nesting of divs and a thousand class names, doesn't make it cool or easy to work with. Code like these are pretty easy to find nowadays, when no one learns to develop websites from scratch and blindly copies templates into their own project. In this picture below, the information given is 7-10 words, but the crazy nesting takes up rest of the page. Not only is this incredibly hard to maintain and modify...