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Building a Fake API for Testing & Development

A discussion of a few different options for dealing with an external integration, and why I think a custom, fake API implementation is the way to go.

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Special Cases Ruin Everything! (Here Are 3 Ways to Avoid Them)

An average person can keep about 7 units of information in short-term memory, and every special case takes up at least one of those spots.

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Reducing Null Errors with the Maybe Monad

The Maybe Monad is nice when working with deeply-nested objects where null values are likely. I’ve gotten the most mileage out of the Maybe Monad when storing it in Redux state for

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Surviving an Infrastructure Upgrade

Major infrastructure upgrades are often deprioritized until some business makes them urgent, which can make jumping this hurdle seem insurmountable.

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Want to Write Clearer Code? Follow the Cooperative Principle

Could you easily put into words what each part of your code is doing, and what it's for? If not, it could probably benefit from some refactoring.

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Seven Practices for Growing Your Code Review Skills

Gone are the days of cowboy coders working alone with no collaboration or oversight. We've realized the value of building things with others who can point out hazards in our blind

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Debugging Strategies You Can Use on Every Project

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Three Keys to Success with Remote Pair Programming

When I joined a cross-office team, I wasn't prepared for the challenge of remote pairing. I had to find the tools and habits that worked for me.

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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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