Yesterday I discovered a Github comment from Dan Abramov that laid out the potential future for Create React App (CRA), which has been the officially recommended way to spin up a new React app quickly for a long time. But now there are lighter, faster, and arguably better tools to…

Code review is the most effective teaching tool for onboarding team members, upskilling newer developers, and becoming an expert on the product and technology. But it isn’t effective if you breeze through it. Code Review should take a good amount of time, longer than you’re probably comfortable with. The reviewer…

Colorado just launched their “Exposure Notifications” COVID contact-tracing program. It’s a setting you turn on on your phone. Other states are rolling out similar programs, either using the same setting or a separate app. In this post I’m referring only to Colorado’s, and it should be noted that these are…

I’ll bet you think you’re fast. I’m going to give you some tips that will make you faster, and you’ll like your computer a whole lot more. TL;DR — If you read nothing else in this article, the takeaway is to reduce your reliance on your point-and-click mouse/trackpad, because its…

Keep a clean git source tree and squash your branches before merging! This script squashes all commits on your branch. When you look at your main branch’s git history, in most development environments it is more useful to just see commits for major changes, not all the little steps and…

I’m always building web application products that need to be optimized for mobile. Viewing my project on a phone before deploying is a must. I often use the mobile device emulator in Chrome Devtools for little style adjustments, but there’s nothing that will perfectly emulate an actual mobile browser better…

You want to optimize your web application for users. You want quick load time. You want to use the latest new thing. You hear about preloading modules. Its the practice of front-loading all of the modules in an application so that interacting and routing the application itself is as fast…

Github has a functionality called “Saved Replies”, which injects prewritten text into comments, Pull Requests, basically anything formatted with a text box. This is extremely useful when we’re trying to be consistent with formatting. Lets add a “Saved Reply” for a consistent Pull Request format. Creating a “Saved Reply” On any PR, comment, or…

Git’s been a bear for our dev team to use, mostly because its got lots of little caveats, confusing vocabulary, and its not really visual at all. So I created this little walkthrough. Lets build a house, and use the git workflow to do it. The Basics Lets call this gray box…