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Improve Your Autocomplete Timing with Debouncing

Deboucing minimizes the number of rapid requests a UI autocomplete element makes by waiting a few hundred milliseconds to see if more calls come through.

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Mob Programming: How We Stumbled Upon and Learned to Love It

We gathered our team around a whiteboard and sketched out some architectural ideas. Then, instead of splitting into pairs, we spent an entire day working together on some of the in

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Mocking React/Apollo Data Tables for UI Development

This method helped me quickly determine the minimum data required to drive the front-end. That has directly driven the back-end code, reducing refactoring time and preventing unnec

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Three Common Misconceptions Junior Developers Have About Refactoring

It's almost always the right choice to refactor code when you get the chance. It usually doesn’t pay off immediately, it will in the future when someone else has to understand your

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The Case for Succinct Build Logs

Build logs should run efficiently instead of drowning you in data, and they should still be useful once the app is running in a production environment. "Verbose mode" should not be

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Seven Ways We’ve Learned to Work Smarter, Not Harder

Great programmers are definitely as lazy as possible. From our high-level process to our low-level improvements, these practices help make us all as efficient as we can be.

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Best Practices for Solo Development

I've spent a portion of my current project as the only developer, and have found a few practices that help make solo development easier.

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Four Keys to Effective Pair Programming

I've learned that there are a few things we can all do to become better pairs when we're asked to work on a pair programming team.

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Exploding Breadcrumbs Make Life Easier for Your Future Self

Your future self will be thrilled when they encounter exploding breadcrumbs instead of a unworkable project.

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Incrementally Building My Own Code Health Tool

It's simple to build a basic (and upgradable) tool that can help keep your code in good shape. Ours shows areas of the codebase that could be cleaned up, and it discourages committ

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How to Back Up Your Development Environment

Creating a globally-accessible git repository to back up files, without needing to resort to symlinks or other messy methods.

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Preparing to Launch a Rewrite for a Public-Facing Website

Having existing users and an existing infrastructure can make website relaunches very complex. You need to guard the user experience every step of the way.

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