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Git Good: Improve Your Version Control Skills

Git is a powerful tool with many features and areas for personal optimization. It just makes sense to spend the time mastering it.

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Exporting Application Data for Business Users? Use XLSX, Not CSV

When you analyze the tradeoffs, there really isn’t any category that CSV actually wins in. CSVs simply have several inherent problems.

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Five Chrome DevTools Tips for Troubleshooting Web Apps

This post discusses 5 tools/tips for using Chrome's DevTools to troubleshoot JavaScript and DOM issues while developing a web app.

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Table Relationship Diagrams with Graphviz

I recently found myself looking for a modern tool to diagram relationships between tables of data. When I came up short, I used a very old tool instead.

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Seven JetBrains Shortcuts & One Plugin You’ll Wonder How You Coded Without

As a JetBrains user my entire career, I have definitely benefited from these shortcut and plugins efficiencies over time.

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Improving Command Line Productivity with GNU Readline

My favorite Readline features for improving my workflow on the command line—keyboard shortcuts, long commands, reverse search, and persisting options.

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Comparing the New Atom-IDE to Visual Studio Code for Web Development

A comparison of Atom-IDE's new features with Visual Studio Code for web dev. Would I recommend Atom-IDE? At this point, only for the brave and curious.

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Simple Database Dump/Restore with Postgres on Heroku

This fetches the database URL using the Heroku CLI, and then uses Postgres's pg_dump command to dump the contents of the database into a local file.

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Local HTTPS During Development with Docker

I found myself pushing code to a test server every time I wanted to run it, which worked, but was annoying. So I went in search of a solution.

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Painless Shipping with GitHub Releases

Github's Releases feature makes managing multiple releases relatively easy. Here are a few reasons I love it and use it consistently.

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There’s More Than One Way to Edit Text

I wanted to discover different ways to quickly edit my file, each faster than making all of the necessary changes manually. Here are a few I discovered.

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My Favorite Commands from a Year of Vim

I’ve been using vim as my primary text editor for a little over a year now. I’m going to share some of my favorite vim commands that I’ve discovered.

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