Optimize for the new engineer
My thoughts on how to help engineering teams write more maintainable software. Instead of just focussing on tools, we should also think about how code we write today affects engineers who look at it in the future.
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Principles of Engineering Management
After completing my second year of being a manager, I thought I would write up some of the things I’ve learned about Management. Consider this to be my personal guiding principles for management.
Using Environment Variables on the Front-end with NextJS
A common usecase you may have in your web app is sharing some environment variables between your server-side and client-side code. This post explains how to do it in Next.js.
How to have effective 1-on-1 meetings
I have found that having good 1-1s is important to build a good relationship between a manager and their team. However, it is very easy to get sucked into having 1-1s where you only focus on the immediate priorities. The steps listed below are useful for putting priorities in perspective and taking a step back to look at overall goals and expectations of both people.
Visual Studio Code Settings and Extensions for Faster JavaScript Development
In this post, I talk about how I use VS Code everyday and introduce the extensions that make me productive.
10 questions to ask before adopting new technology
I use this handy mental guide to figure out whether or not it makes sense to jump onto the new hot JavaScript framework.
Launching Remote Job Lists
I’ve been building a new pet project that lets engineers find remote jobs. I share a little bit more about it in this post.
Building Server-rendered React Apps with NextJS
In this post, I’ll explain what NextJS is, and how you can use it to build a server-rendered React web application and deploy it to production.
How do JavaScript Page Lifecycle Events work?
Let’s talk about the different JavaScript events that fire when loading and unloading a page.
How to format JavaScript automatically with Prettier and Git
How to integrate Prettier and Git to have your JavaScript automatically formatted before every commit.
Getting started with NodeJS and Kafka
In this tutorial, I’ll talk about how I set up Kafka to provide website analytics and event tracking for a web application. For my use case, I wanted to store and process raw event data in real-time. With Google Analytics, you can’t do that. Enter Kafka.
How do Express.js Sessions work?
Every web application in the world that maintains user data has to deal with sessions. As developers, we need to know what they are and how to use them. This post explains how sessions work in Express.
3 Dangerous Factors Fueling Toronto’s Crazy Hot Real Estate Market
Home prices in Toronto have tripled in the last 15 years. I looked into some data and try to explain what I think is happening in the Toronto housing market.
Six best practices when building REST APIs
Six quick tips which will help you build more maintainable CRUD-based APIs.
How to build and deploy static websites using Metalsmith
How to use Metalsmith.io to build simple static websites in NodeJS