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Save Your Backend: Separating Business Logic and Data Access in Your API

This design pattern can save you some ibuprofen: maintaining the separation of concerns between business logic and data access functions.

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Articles providing tips to pair program are ubiquitous. Instead, let's talk about pair exploring, including why and/or when to pair program.

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A good bug-fix story has a lot of value. I want to explain why I think developers should spend more time writing about bugs.

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The tool patch-package gives you a super easy way to create and apply your own small patch to an npm library.

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Recently, I worked on a web application with a micro frontend architecture. I was excited to see what this new codebase had in store.

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Learn how you can manage multiple SSH keys to keep your work accounts and personal projects safely separate.

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Over time I've become better at making the pairing experience better for me and my pair. Here are some tips to pair program more effectively.

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Sometimes, the team isn't all on the same page. On a recent project, we implemented a strategy to alleviate this: team refactoring goals.

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I recently learned about "Conventional Commits" after noticing how clean and easy to understand a new teammate's commit messages were.

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There are many ways to implement real-time updates to a web browser. Server-Sent Events (SSE) is a simple way to push updates to the browser.

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Planning Poker provides an engaging way for the team to discuss implementation approaches and build consensus around the effort involved.

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Here's why you should stop using dotenv for node property management and start using dotenv-defaults instead.