AI Will Take Your Job (And That's The Economic Reality)
AI-assisted coding, even in its crude form, is already more cost-effective than mediocre junior engineers. Here's the honest economic truth about AI replacing engineers in most tasks.
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My Open Source Journey: Eight Years of Curiosity, Craft, and Community
From contributor to lead maintainer, my open source journey, the lessons that shaped it, and how anyone can start.
I have found MY perfect React dosage
Removing all the bells and whistles of “modern” web development complexities and pairing React with Inertia.js - the tiny routing library that makes The Boring Stack possible - truly makes React shine for me, and I love it.
Implementing Module Federation in The Boring JavaScript Stack
By the end of this tutorial, you'll be able to transform your monolithic applications into flexible, distributed micro-frontends without sacrificing the simplicity and reliability of The Boring JavaScript Stack.
It's client-server not client/server
The web was designed in a client-server architecture. Being a Client-Server Pragmatist is not a new concept; it simply means you are mature enough to distribute work in alignment with the original architecture of the web.
Mentor not required
As a newbie to web development, you don't require a mentor.
How I started my professional web development career
For the next couple of months, I secretly doubted the decision I made to quit school. However, I decided to get some education while I wait for the job by taking a lot of tutorials
Build a polls API with Platformatic DB
Platformatic provides a set of open source tools to improve the DX of building backend applications. In this article I document how I built a polls API with one of the Platformatic tools - Platformatic DB
Testing NPM packages locally
Harminder Virk the creator of AdonisJS showed me this super easy way to test NPM packages locally.
How I became a JavaScript engineer and DevRel at Treblle
After 65 days of being unemployed as a DevRel, I’m pleased and excited to let you all know that I’m now a JavaScript engineer and DevRel at Treblle
Productivity tools I use and why
These tools make my life a little bit easier.
6 lessons on technical writing you can learn from J.K. Rowling
Whether you are a Harry Potter fan or not, we can all agree it is a masterpiece with over 500 million copies sold worldwide. Here are 6 lessons you can learn from the author about technical writing.
Understanding Astro components
Astro components improve the DX of writing MPAs as we have been so used to doing in SPA frameworks like Vue, React or Svelte.
What I learnt from rewriting my website with Astro
I'm not quick to try out a new technology but when my buddy James Q Quick mentioned he rewrote his website with Astro, I decided to try Astro for myself
Launching guppy: the needed Tinker tool for backend JavaScript
guppy allows you to run JavaScript code all within the context of a Sails application.
The purpose of osquery
In this article we zoom in at the problem osquery was created to solve and some of the use case osquery can be applied to.
A glossary of osquery related terms
Found these terms popping up more and more in my research into osquery. Thought it wise to document them.
How osquery works
osquery makes it simple to ask question about your machine using SQL, but how does osquery work?
Getting started with osquery
osquery is an interesting tool that allows you query your operating system as if it was a big relational database.
Finishing the first course of Sailscasts
Sailscasts.com finally have a completed course. Here are my learnings about the process.
2020: I still can't believe what's happening
2020 came in pack with a lot of giant steps, lessons learnt and overall massive decisions
Announcing The Sailscasts Company
Sailscasts is only the beginning
The magic of Future.wait() in Dart
Future.wait let me satisfy a fearture request in a Flutter codebase I was working on. I show how I used it.
On learning React
I have been looking at React these days and here is my thought.
Announcing the Sailscasts community
Join the Sailscasts community and let's collaborate on your journey with Sails.js and Server-side JavaScript
Launching Sailscasts in 6 months challenge
Launch Sailscasts on March 17th, 2021 with a recurring revenue of 5,000 USD/month
Introducing Sailscasts
The definitive source for Sails.js and modern backend JavaScript mastery.
14 Mistakes Beginning Software Developers Make
These mistakes could be keeping you from reaching the next level in your software development career
How I test Sails API applications
In this article, I show a realistic way of testing APIs built using the Node.js MVC framework Sails
Write The Code You Need Today
Postpone writing the code you don't need today.
Don't sacrifice expressiveness for ease
Use tech that doesn't need you to sacrifice expressiveness for ease
Hola Mundo
My very first article on my personal blog