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How to Write Good “Bad” Code

Sometimes, writing bad code is actually the right solution. Being a perfectionist can get in the way of progress on your project.

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So you have a bunch of Git repositories for individual projects and you want to organize them together into a monorepo. What can you do?

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As developers, we spend a lot of time discussing the finer points of "clean code." I'd argue that recognizable is better than readable.

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In an early internship project, I was confused by the purpose of controllers, services, and repositories. Here's a simple explanation.

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Here are the steps you can follow to use Webflow’s custom code sections to direct form submissions to your own backend server.

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Git tagging is creating a named marker on a specific commit of a repository. Let’s talk about what tagging in Git is and how to go about it.

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Having a linter makes collaboration across teams effective, since everyone can understand one another's changes to the code.

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Software platform development deserves special strategies. Here are 5 tips to help teams succeed in design, testing, and quality assurance.

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Here's what I learned on a recent project to speed up our GitLab CI pipelines. Use these tips as starter ideas you can adjust to your needs.

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Event-based architecture is great for decoupling services, but it can be tricky when you need to make changes to existing event definitions.

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Today, I'll cover five different types of documentation in software development, with tips on how to use them as effectively as possible.

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A README is the welcoming committee to new developers, a trailhead for the existing team, and an archive that will exist a long time.