React Hooks is the new hotness in the React world. I’m writing steadily more and more of them and I thought it would be useful to have a cheatsheet to refer back to which encompasses the basic hooks as well as the intricacies of useEffect. Check out the official Hooks API Reference for more in-depth […]
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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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