Growing as Makers Junior Devs: Avoid These Pitfalls with LLMs Junior developers need to use LLMs differently than senior ones. Here's why and what I have been trying instead.
Development Practices A Developer’s Debate: Copy/Paste vs. Typing a New Pattern When should a developer copy and paste vs. type out a new function, class, or component when they must apply a pattern? Let's explore this!
GitHub Actions GitHub Actions: Map Key-Value Pairs in a Matrix In GitHub Actions, a matrix is a great tool to use with multiple variables. Map 1:1 key-value pairs in a matrix with GitHub Actions.
Developer Tools Vim Users: Replace Your Caps_lock with Esc Vim users: Here are two alternatives to modify your Caps Lock with Escape that don't involve installing Karabiner-Elements.
Azure Use These Credentials to Deploy from GitHub Actions to Azure Error handling to pass credentials for Azure/functions-action@v1. This action allows you to deploy an Azure Function App from GitHub Actions.
React / Redux Don’t Always Depend on useEffect When you use React, don't always depend on useEffect. Instead, try useMemo or useCallback to avoid infinite re-rendering.
Development Practices Keep Work and Home Separate with Multiple SSH Keys Learn how you can manage multiple SSH keys to keep your work accounts and personal projects safely separate.
Growing as Makers Are You Incompetent or Just New? It's normal to feel uncertain, but take steps to clear the uncertainty. Here's an approach to overcoming imposter syndrome.
