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Writing Resilient Components(opens in new tab)
Four principles to set you on the right path.
A Complete Guide to useEffect(opens in new tab)
Effects are a part of your data flow.
Cache-Control for Civilians(opens in new tab)
What does Cache-Control really do? In basic terms? Let’s find out!
How Are Function Components Different from Classes?(opens in new tab)
They’re a whole different Pokémon.
Coping with Feedback(opens in new tab)
Sometimes I can’t fall asleep.
Fix Like No One’s Watching(opens in new tab)
The other kind of technical debt.
Fixing errors installing the charlock_holmes ruby gem(opens in new tab)
The charlock_holmes gem can be a PITA to install on a mac, this is what worked for me. If you get this error: gem install charlock_holmes -v '0.7.7' Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing charlock_holmes: ...
Making setInterval Declarative with React Hooks(opens in new tab)
How I learned to stop worrying and love refs.
React as a UI Runtime(opens in new tab)
An in-depth description of the React programming model.
Bandwidth or Latency: When to Optimise for Which(opens in new tab)
How can you tell when bandwidth or latency are your bottlenecks?
Why Isn’t X a Hook?(opens in new tab)
Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should.
The “Bug-O” Notation(opens in new tab)
What is the 🐞(n) of your API?
Preparing for a Tech Talk, Part 2: What, Why, and How(opens in new tab)
We need to go deeper.
The Elements of UI Engineering(opens in new tab)
What makes UI engineering difficult?
Things I Don’t Know as of 2018(opens in new tab)
We can admit our knowledge gaps without devaluing our expertise.
Python Application Dependency Management(opens in new tab)
We have more ways to manage dependencies in Python applications than ever. But how do they fare in production? Unfortunately this topic turned out to be quite polarizing and was at the center of a lot of heated debates. This ...
ITCSS × Skillshare(opens in new tab)
The official introduction to ITCSS on Skillshare
What If?(opens in new tab)
How do we so often forget to ask the simple question: what if?
CSS and Network Performance(opens in new tab)
How can CSS impact network and resource-loading performance? Can things be that serious?
Assign missing tag to VM(opens in new tab)
We run our backup job schedules based on the tags assigned to the VM. This keeps it relatively simple and to add a system to a backup job you only need to tag it, not go into another software and ...
Creating a Laravel Preset Package, Part Two(opens in new tab)
We'll add some custom functionality to the composer package we created in part one to create a Laravel boilerplate with things set up just how we prefer.
Creating A Laravel Preset Package(opens in new tab)
Laravel provides frontend scaffolding, but you may want a more customized boilerplate to start projects from. Learn to create your own package to do just that!
Setting Up a Mac for Web Development(opens in new tab)
Follow along as I set up a macOS desktop from scratch. Development environments, apps, code editors, all the settings, and some useful shortcuts!
How to Write Deployment-friendly Applications(opens in new tab)
The DevOps movement gave us many ways to put Python applications into production. But how can you practically structure and configure your applications to make them indifferent to the environment they run in? How do secrets fit into the picture? ...
Python Hashes and Equality(opens in new tab)
Most Python programmers don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how equality and hashing works. It usually just works. However there’s quite a bit of gotchas and edge cases that can lead to subtle and frustrating bugs once one ...
Why Your Dockerized Application Isn’t Receiving Signals(opens in new tab)
Proper cleanup when terminating your application isn’t less important when it’s running inside of a Docker container. Although it only comes down to making sure signals reach your application and handling them, there’s a bunch of things that can go ...
On Conference Speaking(opens in new tab)
I’ve seen quite a bit of the world thanks to being invited to speak at conferences. Since some people are under the impression that serial conference speakers possess some special talents, I’d like to demystify my process by walking you ...
Solid Snakes or: How to Take 5 Weeks of Vacation(opens in new tab)
No matter whether you run a web app, search for gravitational waves, or maintain a backup script: reliability of your systems make the difference between sweet dreams and production nightmares at 4am.
Basic pasta sauce(opens in new tab)
Someone asked on Twitter how I made my pasta sauce, so here is the recipe! The base of my Pasta sauce is largely this recipe, except I mostly don’t add mozzarella: At it’s simplest I can make the whole thing ...
Shortcut to Open Laravel Docs from Your Editor(opens in new tab)
Wouldn't it be great if we could quickly access the exact Laravel documentation page you need right from your code editor? Now you can!
Better Python Object Serialization(opens in new tab)
The Python standard library is full of underappreciated gems. One of them allows for simple and elegant function dispatching based on argument types. This makes it perfect for serialization of arbitrary objects – for example to JSON in web APIs ...
Please Fix Your Decorators(opens in new tab)
If your Python decorator unintentionally changes the signatures of my callables or doesn’t work with class methods, it’s broken and should be fixed. Sadly most decorators are broken because the web is full of bad advice.
Bad ux in everyday life: kitchen nightmares(opens in new tab)
This article was originally posted on the Universal Mind blog in June 2016. It’s come to my attention lately that my kitchen is absolutely riddled with poor experiences. Most of the appliances and apparatus one uses on a day-to-day basis ...
Get Instrumented: How Prometheus Can Unify Your Metrics(opens in new tab)
To get real time insight into running applications you need to instrument them and collect metrics: count events, measure times, expose numbers. That used to be a clusterfuck of technologies and approaches. Prometheus changes that.
Conditional Python Dependencies(opens in new tab)
Since the inception of wheels that install Python packages without executing arbitrary code, we need a static way to encode conditional dependencies for our packages. Thanks to PEP 508 we do have a blessed way but sadly the prevalence of ...
The security of a system is as strong as it's weakest component(opens in new tab)
The padlock that had seized shut on my back gate was proving hard to remove, the hardened steel U was not yielding to my hacksaw. I noticed some rivets underneath that turned out to be soft steel. 10 minutes of ...
Python 3 in 2016(opens in new tab)
My completely anecdotal view on the state of Python 3 in 2016. Based on my own recent experience, observations, and exchanges with other members of the Python community.
hasattr() – A Dangerous Misnomer(opens in new tab)
Don’t use Python’s hasattr() unless you’re writing Python 3-only code and understand how it works.
Storing Passwords in a Highly Parallelized World(opens in new tab)
Why “Use bcrypt.” is not the best recommendation (anymore).
Testing & Packaging(opens in new tab)
How to ensure that your tests run code that you think they are running, and how to measure your coverage over multiple tox runs (in parallel!).
Neovim(opens in new tab)
