If you’re a JavaScript developer, then you have used the popular package manger npm at some point in your career.
NPM makes installing, updating and managing libraries and dependencies super easy with just a few basic commands that pretty much anyone can remember.
I personally use it all the time…
If you’ve ever worked for a startup, then you are probably aware of the term known as technical debt. Essentially, it’s the amount of work that you and your team will inevitably have to do in the future, due to choosing a quicker and less scalable solution today. This is…
The majority of my almost 2 decade career has revolved around C#, ASP.NET and SQL Server for the most part, and I’d like to think that I’ve gotten pretty good at it.
3 years ago though, I began to teach front-end coding for an online bootcamp that revolved around the…
Over 7 years ago I started work on a technology blog for no other reason than to compete with a friend who had at the time done the same. So when I got home that day from work I finally started the journey and wrote my first article and hit…
We all come to those points in our lives where we can’t quite figure out where to head to next on our great big adventure. Often times this happens when we get too comfortable with our current situations and surroundings. Why head anywhere when here is pretty okay?
Well. Because…
You often hear stories of tech billionaires sitting down to code their first video games at the age of 3 only to launch their first big business venture sometime in middle school. They eventually go to the upper echelon of universities only to drop out from boredom and shortly after…
The last server shuts down and the final email newsletter is sent to your entire mailing list letting them know that they’ve been great but that things aren’t going to work out. That it isn’t them, that it’s you. You’re just not ready for that kind of commitment and so…
This story has to begin with the people that came before me. My parents. Both of my parents were born in the tiny country of El Salvador in the early 1960’s during a time of relative societal calm. At least, in the parts of the country where they lived it…
Everyone at some point will become dissatisfied with their current jobs and careers, no matter how amazing those jobs were initially. The novelty of landing the job of your dreams begins to trickle away as soon as you sign on the dotted line. …
The typical answer to the question of “how do I become better at ‘x’?” is more often than not a blank statement that sounds good, but that doesn’t really give you any direct instructions.
For example, you want to become a senior programmer? Well then, buckle down and show up…
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