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Software engineering lessons from production, raw and honest from the heart — almost 20 years of them. Jump to a year in the sidebar, or browse categories.

February 2019

React, D3, and hooks 👉special livecode tonight 9:30pm

Why you don't have time to advance your career

January 2019

Why CSS-in-JS is winning, an example

Tooltips and state across various d3 charts in a React dashboard!

This kid is amazing

How to set up Gatsby and Auth0 for easy authentication on your next project

When you don't think you're good enough

Delightful state management with hooks and Constate

A bunch of cool things and neat little tips

Focus on the process, not the goal

How to build a Remark plugin to supercharge your static site

DRY is a footgun, remember to YAGNI

When you code, write down everything

How to use React Context effectively

December 2018

How I sidehustled $180k and why it almost killed my business

Logging 1,721,410 events per day with Postgres, Rails, Heroku, and a bit of JavaScript

Never give up

Tooltips ... tooltips are not so easy 🧐

Building a React dataviz with React hooks

Why you should write [code] every day

November 2018

React for Dataviz Turkey 🦃 sale report for the curious

Oh the things you can learn with a fun weekend hack project 🏗

Waiting for Godot with callbacks, promises, and async

To experience true flow, try baking 👩‍🍳

Some life advice I learned from computer science

Announcing D3blackbox and useD3

Easy D3 blackbox components with React hooks

October 2018

React hooks in a nut shell 🥐

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Why you aren’t drowning in recruiters, too