If you’re just starting your programming journey, you’ve probably seen endless tutorials on YouTube and other places on the web that teach you how to build simple apps. Typically, these are basic todo-style web apps with a basic UI. Some may or may not include hooking up a database and…

With a new JavaScript framework dropping every week and tech evangelists on Twitter constantly promoting a new acronym constantly, picking a tech stack for a new project has become a source of stress for new developers. For experienced developers, the advice I’m about to give in this post will probably…

Everyone understands that downtime for a website or online service is not a good thing. A simple example can be an online shop going down and is cannot process new customer orders. The cost of downtime in this example is the potential lost revenue during the time of the outage. …

If search for “web development tutorial” in January 2022, one of the first results is a front-end learning roadmap from W3 Schools. It lists HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as the basics of web development. TypeScript is only mentioned once as a step up from JavaScript. …

Coming up with a good side project is hard. You have to balance scope and difficulty to ensure that it is challenging enough that you will learn but not so challenging that you want to quit. I wrote about this balance and other tips in a previous article. For this…

Yes, computer science is not the same as software engineering. The difference is like theory vs. practice. However, for many people, it the closest discipline to software engineering offered at their school. A computer science course will be filled with people with a variety of interests and goals — ranging…

Podcasts are great for learning and planting the seeds for new ideas for software developers. Unlike reading documentation, podcasts are more informal, does not require you to be focused on a screen, and allow you to passively become aware about new trends in the industry. Here is a non-exhaustive list…

AWS Lambda is great for running jobs that do not require a server running 24/7. A Lambda function can be invoked by events, other AWS services, the AWS CLI, and much more, making it incredibly versatile and easy to integrate with. A common use case for Lambda is needing to…

Introduction + Prerequisites Gatsby is a great frontend framework for quickly developing and deploying static websites. There is a rich ecosystem of beautiful templates and plugins for a variety of use cases such as blogs and portfolio sites. There’s several services out there where you can easily deploy static websites for cheap, however…