I left high school not really knowing where I wanted to go next. My entire teenage years had been devoted to becoming an NBA basketball player, yet when I hit 17 I knew that goal wasn’t going to be…
Growing pains It’s really hard to start a development career, or any career for that matter. You know absolutely nothing when it comes to development when you start.
Clean code as two words means very little, how can code be clean? We all know that code can be very messy in fact, we can look at some code, and it becomes the nightmare fuel for our future selves.
One of the best things I did early in my career was to set up a website. I didn’t go and make a custom one from the ground up. In fact I just created one on Squarespace, you can use any hosting…
SST is a framework that can be described as a wrapper around CDK for AWS. It focuses on taking the power of CDK and adding local development magic such as live lambdas (actual AWS infrastructure in…
I will be the first to say that I am very hesitant when it comes to micro anything. Microservices are traditionally done very poorly.
Martin Fowler writes about the quality of software in the article "Is quality worth the cost". I tend to believe this notion from personal experience.
I recently had the pleasure in building a Vue ecommerce website for a large company in Australia. I was pretty appraensive about using it, mainly because all my frontend experience is in React and…
It isn’t often that I’m wrong, it only happens a couple of times a day. For years I despised Javascript as a whole but more specifically as a backend technology. I had the pleasure or the misfortune…
I once worked for a company that threw away their frontend, React Native application before even releasing it to the public. Well, part of it was because the idea was flawed, user testing highlighted…