A few years back, I wrote an article called My Experience Running Development At A Startup and one neat thing I mentioned that got a good deal of comments has been the concept of “Tracers over Prototypes”. I discussed some problems with prototypes and spikes and how “tracers” are a better alternative. Three years later, […]
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This question pops up on every form of media out there. “What books should I read to be a better developer?”. I’ve answered this a ton of times. On Twitter, on Dev.To, Reddit, and everywhere else. I figured it might be a good idea to put the list in a single post I can always […]
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It’s that time of the year again! What part you ask? It’s time for a end-of-the-year retrospective, a check-in wherein I look back at what I’ve done, how I’m doing with my goals that I set out at the beginning of the year, and most importantly, add a new post to my blog so that […]
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I’ve been writing production TypeScript for a little over year and as a hobby for a couple of years longer than that. If you’ve never used TypeScript before, the quick way to describe it is that it’s ES2015+ and types thrown together. Ie. modern JavaScript with real typing. TypeScript is awesome and I love writing […]
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Windows has been my main dev environment for about 4 years with some linux interspersed in there. Before that, I used OSX and Windows interchangeably. When I made the switch, I wrote an article on my Windows Dev environment and today, I want to write a sort-of update, and sort-of introduction on how to make […]
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Very recently, I started working on an HTML/CSS side project and I found myself in a state of panic. I haven’t worked on plain HTML/CSS in a while. JavaScript has been part of my workflow for years and the output of that JavaScript was always a single page app. In fact, I haven’t worked on […]
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I wanted to write a quick blog post on why it’s important for developers on a team to use different setups to develop. Why it’s important to have Linux and windows users in a field (web dev specifically) that’s been dominated by macOS. And why it’s important to stay away from Chrome-only development. I think […]
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PowerShell is awesome if you haven’t used it but it’s absolutely foreign if you’re used to Unix-like Bash-like shells. For instance, there’s no grep, and ls -al won’t work (but ls will and it’ll display all files with details!). If you switch from Linux to Windows, you might be tempted to either install Cygwin or […]
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Loads of people have been asking me how I write my JavaScript — okay, that’s a lie, no one asks me that but if they did, I’d like to point them to this article. I adopted my code style over the years, after reading Clean Code (and other books), after using years of PHP. Yes, […]
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Reflecting on my past accomplishments in development helps me keep up pace in my life and appreciate my own efforts. It doesn’t matter if those were efforts were great or not, just that they were there. I wrote my 2017 and 3/4 overview just a few months back and not much has changed since then. […]
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