A Guide To Undoing Mistakes With Git

No matter how experienced you are, mistakes are an inevitable part of software development. But we can learn to repair them! And this is what we’ll be looking at in this two-part series: how to undo mistakes using Git.

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The Architecture Behind A One-Person Tech Startup

This is a long-form post breaking down the setup I use to run a SaaS. From load balancing to cron job monitoring to payments and subscriptions. There's a lot of ground to cover, so buckle up!

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Useful Tools for Parsing and Annotating PDFs in Node

Our team recently finished designing an explainer to help users understand certain PDF documents they may view. To connect the notes to the PDF, we needed to annotate the PDFs themselves. Generally, PDF-JS (or pdfjs-dist) is a great library to use for manipulating PDFs.

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How I Built My Blog

If you've been thinking about creating a dev blog for yourself, you've probably been a bit overwhelmed by the number of tools and technologies. We live in an era of abundance, and there are a lot of options.

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Understanding Amazon’s Front-End Engineering Interview

I spent a lot of years thinking big tech companies were evil and claimed to love the hectic startup life, but the truth is I had convinced myself I could never get a job at a big tech company because of my non-traditional background.

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Why React Hooks?

The first thing you should do whenever you’re about to learn something new is ask yourself two questions - Why does this thing exist? What problems does this thing solve? If you never develop a convincing answer for both of those questions, you won’t have a solid enough foundation to build upon

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What Is Google’s FLoC, and How Will It Track You Online?

Third-party cookies are going extinct, but that doesn’t mean tracking is going away. Google is introducing a new tracking method called Federated Learning of Cohorts, or FLoC, as part of the “privacy sandbox” initiative it announced in 2019. Google claims its replacement for cookies will better protect user data, but many people remain unconvinced.

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The Evolution Of Jamstack

It’s been five years since I first presented the idea of the Jamstack architecture at SmashingConf in San Francisco 2016, a talk inspired by many conversations with colleagues and friends in the industry. At that point, the idea of fundamentally decoupling the front-end web layer from the back-end business logic layer was only an early trend, and not yet a named architectural approach.

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Understand Dom Rendering With Angular

Change detection and DOM rendering are functionalities handled by Angular framework. When we build applications, most time, we don’t really need to pay attention in how things gets rendered as we trust Angular to do its job.

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What Engineering Teams Need From Leaders Right Now

Reinhard: I want to share with you key lessons that I've learned from building and leading organizations through times of change, uncertainty, and fast growth, and talk about what engineering teams need from leaders right now. Let's talk about right now.

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