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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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Release Notes Are Only Useful If People Actually Read Them: The Digest Fix

Transform your release notes strategy with a streamlined digest format that increases clarity and reduces user confusion.

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3 Reasons PdfSharpCore Fields Won’t Show Up in Chrome

Getting PDF fields to render correctly in Chrome involved three things working together. None of this was obvious from the PdfSharpCore docs.

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Survive Android Process Death With SavedStateHandle

Understanding how memory works by leveraging savedStateHandle in Android applications make your app have a seamless user experience

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Make HIPAA Compliance Easier & More Accurate with Automation

Retroactively building security into health tech is a huge pain. But, setting up automation for compliance from the beginning isn’t so bad.

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How Aviator Eliminates the Pain of Stacked PRs

With stacked PRs, multiple reviewers can work on different parts of your feature simultaneously, and you can keep PRs small and focused.

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Why I Use HTML for Planning and Spec-Driven Development

I keep my agent planning and spec-driven development work in HTML. That started as a small experiment and turned into a default.

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