02.18.2023

There Are No Truths, Just Tradeffs

Systems design can be simple if we follow a certain process.

05.07.2021

Biggest AWS Takeaways After First Week

After my first week diving into AWS study, here's the biggest takeaways.

04.15.2021

Staged Changes With Lodash

Detecting staged changes to enable action buttons is a common practice in most applications. Learn a simple trick for managing this state with lodash, effects, and component state.

03.29.2021

How Click Away Listeners Work

Most popular component libraries have a built in click away listener to handle closing a dropdown, dialog, or drawer. In this post, I look at how they work under the hood.

03.15.2021

A Short Guide to Cookies

In this post, we go over how cookies work, their purpose, and common cookie attributes.

02.08.2021

A Visualizer for React Effects

The complete visual guide to react effects.

01.07.2021

The Art Of Learning - Software Engineering

The Art Of Learning by Josh Waitzkin has huge implications for software engineers. Here's my main takeaways.

12.29.2020

Not All Code Should Be Dry

In an attempt to write DRY code, we often expose ourselves to unnecessary complications. learn how to avoid those complications in this article.

12.14.2020

Chrome on iOS

With our initial product release, Chrome wasn't working on iOS devices. Turns out there's this weird thing called crios we needed to account for.

12.07.2020

Why Does React Need To Be In Scope?

I've always wondered why I get the "React must be in scope when using JSX" error. Now I know.

11.24.2020

Reflecting on our Defects First Experiment

In 2020, my team tried a somewhat radical process change - we would always fix defects before implementing new features. Here I reveal what we've learned over through that experiment.

04.22.2020

Three Rules to be INSANELY productive working from home

Struggling to be productive while working remote? Use these three rules to double your productivity while finding increased satisfaction in your work.

04.08.2020

Switching From Enzyme to React Testing Library

Looking to simplify your React unit tests? Then it's time to switch to React Testing Library.

04.08.2020

React Testing Library - Custom Hooks

Tired of creating one time components to test your custom hook? Take a look at this intro to React Testing Library's renderHook utility.

04.08.2020

React Testing Library - Advanced Cases

Mocking out custom hooks to test the component in isolation.

04.08.2020

React Testing Library - A Starters Guide

Getting started with React Testing Library - Rendering, Queries, and Events.

04.07.2020

Evergreen Software

Not all software is doomed to become legacy code. Learn the simple hack for creating software that always feels brand new.

08.06.2019

Dynamic Programming

Understand how to use dynamic programming to dramatically increase the speed of repetitive operations like the fibonacci sequence.

07.22.2019

SVG and Raster Image

In this guide, we explore the differences between svg and raster images and when to avoid one or the other.

07.13.2019

Understanding the React Ecosystem

A quick overview of how React's architecture has created the best frontend ecosystem in the world.

07.11.2019

How to do that Angular Thing in React

Transition quickly from angular to react with this quick and practical comparison guide.

07.08.2019

Post Bootcamp Advice

A no nonsense schedule after graduating from a development bootcamp. Land your dream job (and never work more than 40 hours in a week).

07.03.2019

Benefits of React Hooks

Struggling to understand react hooks and why they're so powerful? Start here.

06.24.2019

React Native Architecture 101

A brief walk through of React Native's architecture.

08.01.2018

Learn Cloud Functions In Six Minutes

Get up and running with Firebase Cloud Functions in under six minutes.

07.20.2018

Useful Angular Patterns For React

Learn how to apply the best principles in Angular to your React application.

07.17.2018

The Zombie Feature Survival Guide

How to finally finish (through refinement) that never ending feature.

07.07.2018

Lessons Building A Blog From Scratch

A summary of my biggest takeaways building a blog from scratch.