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8 articles from November 2020 · show all
How *do* you standout as a developer?
Course creators are always telling you to learn this or that but how does any of it help *your* goals? That's the missing piece 🤔
SSR, SSRwR, SSG, CSR, WTFBBQ???
These abbreviations are getting out of hand. It's like a bad interviewer's wet dream.
You're not asking for a job, you're selling a service
You're not asking for a job, you're selling a service. The true question behind every interview is "How can you help us?"
Gatsby to NextJS pt1, server-side-render or server-side-generate?
Gatsby and NextJS do similar things differently. One is better for websites, the other for webapps. In episode 17 of CodeWithSwiz we explore the biggest difference.
Use private libraries to cleanup your codebase
You're using the many-small-repositories approach to work faster as a team. But where do you put shared code? How do you make it nice to use? How to publish and install private packages?
React context without context, using XState – CodeWithSwiz 14, 15
useAuth works without React Context! 🎉 here's how
What's your code for?
Perfect code that doesn't solve the problem is useless. Perfect metrics that don't serve the user are a distraction.
Reader question: How do you learn programming topics?
Nader writes in worried that he started coding too late and his progress is too slow. Here's my response.