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Is GitHub Actions Putting Your Software at Risk?

A compromised npm package usually impacts an application runtime. Compromised GitHub Actions can have much larger blast radius.

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The Value of In-Person Backlog Management Tools

Most junior devs have never done software design without virtual backlog management. Let's talk about in-person backlog management tools.

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How to Auto-Sort Your Angular Imports

Learn how to set up automatic import sorting in your Angular project using the simple-import-sort ESLint plugin — no more manual sorting.

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I Almost Built Another Internal Web App

If you've got an internal web app idea, don’t ask, "Should I build it?" Instead, ask, "Am I reaching for the right tool for the job?"

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Graph-Style Queries vs. Joins: When Your REST API Hits a Wall

I had a breaking point with a list page that needed to filter by data three relationships away from the root entity. The join got ugly fast.

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From Unity Prototypes to Production Pipelines: Growing Into C#

Learning C# on a large database migration taught me how LINQ, pattern matching, snapshot testing, and domain knowledge compound over time.

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How My Software Development Team Upgraded Expo in a Monorepo

Recently, my software development team needed to upgrade our Expo version (it was at 52). Doing so in a monorepo containing multiple web and mobile apps was a big job

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How I Created a Security Advisory with GitHub

I created a vulnerability in a project. When I discovered it, I used fixing it as an opportunity to try the security advisory process.

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Help! I Inherited a Frankenstein Codebase (And I’m All Out of Coffee)

A codebase could end up in a Frankenstein state for many reasons, and improving a poorly-built codebase is a marathon, not a sprint.

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K3s: A Better Way to Deploy a Docker App to a Linux Server

K3s is easy to deploy. It has a great installer, and it's fully compatible with the entire Kubernetes ecosystem of tooling.

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Git Commands For Single Commits

Dealing with single commits? Get comfortable with a handful of Git commands: git commit, git rebase, and git reset --soft.

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What the PATH Is (and Why Your Terminal Keeps Saying “Command Not Found”)

Learn what the PATH environment variable does, how terminals find commands, and how to debug common “command not found” errors.

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