Software Development

The 4 core concepts of Vuex

I recently revisited Vuex as I needed to pass data between components on an application. Vuex is the official state management library and is the only option available at the

Software Development

5 takeaways from Designing a rate limiter from System Design Interview: an Insider's Guide

I started reading System Design Interview: an Insider's Guide after reading a post by Gergely Orosz recommending it. I have always wanted to learn more about system design and have

Software Development

How to switch between npm registries quickly

In the past, I manually typed in npm set registry=<registry url here> in terminal every time I needed to switch between registries. Sometimes I do not remember

Software Development

When I accidentally checked a secret into a repository

That moment when you forget to add your env files into .gitignore...Just the other day, I was wrapping up a remote pair-programming session with a colleague and I had

Software Development

Extracting SVGs using Figma API

Figma is an amazing collaborative tool that has been around for a while. One of the most interesting feature of Figma is being able to retrieve information of a file

Software Development

Writing better Pull Requests

Code review is an essential part of software development. It is also difficult and time-consuming as it requires your team members to read, understand, evaluate, and then respond to implementing that pull request. How can we make pull requests easier for reviewers to understand?

Software Development

Deploying from Gitlab to Digitalocean

A couple of months back I wrote an article on Deploying the right way?; It was a thought piece which covered if there were a correct way to deploy your

Software Development

Deploying the right way?

When I first started doing web development, the only way I knew how to get code from a local computer to a web server was to drag and drop it via FTP. I didn't know how to use git, or any form of version control system to handle my project. I only knew that it allowed me to get my code online.

User Stories

Celebrating Small Wins; The importance of user stories

In software development, one of the hardest things to do well is knowing how to keep track of features that you need to ship, and when to…

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