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93 articles from 2020 · show all

May 2020

What you do while waiting

The 3 types of scalability

April 2020

Why you should build a form generator

Lemme guess, every project involves 1 or 2 forms and they're all the friggen same. You got forms coming out the wazoo. Render fields. Connect to state. Add field validation. Detect submit. Add form validation. Send fetch request. Repeat.

Don't just wait around

Your dumb ideas often work best

Announcing: Find Your Idea

You don't *have* ideas, you develop them

"I just need an idea"

How tests uncover hidden complexity in simple code

The surprising performance boost from changing gif embeds

March 2020

My favorite lessons from Pragmatic Programmer

Configuring your JAMStack app for prod vs. dev

Stuck at home? Advance your career

How you can start using GraphQL today without changing the backend

GraphQL for new projects looks great ... buuuut how do you use it with that old backend cobbled together in Rails over the last bazillion years?

HOW great engineers hack The Process

Why great engineers hack The Process

February 2020

Mocking and testing fetch requests with Jest

Connecting Gumroad to Auth0 for paywalled JAMStack apps

Why you should talk about engineering salaries

Why and how I built my own course platform

Why the heck did I build a course platform for ServerlessReact.Dev when services like Teachable, Podia, Thinkific, and such already exist? Because of friction my friend.

Imagine you could chat with the core of your industry for 5min

January 2020

Ready to build your future?

5 apps with the modern web stack

How serverless beats servers

Announcing ServerlessReact.Dev – my new course on building apps from scratch

How GraphQL blows REST out of the water

Let's have a look at hyow GraphQL makes queries so much easier and more pleasant than REST

It's never been this easy to build a webapp

We live in exciting times my friend. It's never been this easy to build a webapp and make your first $1,000/month.

Most professional engineers can't build an app from scratch

5 crazy ideas that make $1,000/month

How can you make an extra $1,000 🤔