Making sense of the crowded analytics space from a developer’s perspective — When you launch a product, very quickly you’ll want to understand how it’s being used. In order to improve, you need to at least understand what’s going well and what’s going poorly. What features do your users love? What features do they hate? …

Spoiler alert: mostly for fun — Originally published on my personal blog. The backstory My personal blog was built using a static site generator called Teeny. Until the day before the blog launched, Teeny wasn’t even an idea. It didn’t exist at all, not even in my mind. You see, for a long time I’ve been wanting to…

Even if you don’t use them all at work — Like most programmers, I’ve been exposed to a variety of programming languages through my career, my studies, and my personal projects. However, I’ve mostly stuck to a few, as that’s arguably a pretty good career move — an employer whose backend is written in Go isn’t particularly interested in the…

I built a tool to generate a whole blog from your Medium posts with one command — ➡️ You can also read this article on GitHub. TL;DR I built a tool to convert all your Medium posts into a Gatsby blog in five minutes. You can use it like this: Demo Copy-Paste Is Never the Answer… Last weekend, I found myself wanting to start a personal blog in order to post more…

A step-by-step tutorial on setting up a modern React app with no boilerplate — ➡️ You can access this entire article and all the related code on GitHub. Motivation The main objective of this tutorial was to get myself to better understand the multiple moving parts that make a React app work rather than just accepting the “magic” of the many templates/boilerplates out there (e.g…

And How You Can Implement It On Your React Website — I love me some dark mode. Hence, when I build websites for my projects these days, I make sure to include it. It’s generally been quite simple, until I had to do it for my company’s website. Turns out flipping some colors can be quite a task after all. …

Practical answers to day-to-day problems — I use Git every single day. So do most software developers. Honestly, Linus Torvalds’ little side project almost feels like a miracle. However, the tool is so powerful and extensive that it’s easy to get lost in all the possible commands it has. Hence, based on my own experience, here’s…

What’s the alternative to the algorithms we love to hate on? — It feels like every day I open Medium there’s a new post about why the hiring process for software developers sucks. So, as someone who has just been through a hiring process, I thought I should share my thoughts on how it went. I’m not here to criticize interviews or…

Pick Your Weapon of Choice and I’ll Show You How to Fight — ⚠️ Important Note I am not qualified to offer investment, legal, or any other advice, nor am I trying to do so. This is a programming tutorial aimed at teaching you how to build a trading bot for learning purposes. …