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Published in Level Up Coding

·1 day ago

Hacking the Hackathon

Pro tips and reflections on past hackathons — Developers love to hack, but software engineering as a profession can actually be quite mundane. We attend hours of meetings, give status reports, fix bugs, maintain legacy software, and work on less-than-exciting projects. Not all of us are out there changing the world and building the next hottest new technology. …

Software Development

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Hacking the Hackathon
Hacking the Hackathon
Software Development

6 min read


Published in Level Up Coding

·Jan 24

A Beginner’s Guide to ESLint

Configuration, best practices, and more — Most frontend developers use ESLint for linting their JavaScript. ESLint is a static analysis checker that analyzes your source code and looks for errors and violations of best practices. It helps you quickly find problems, even before running your app locally. ESLint is configured with an .eslintrc.json file. You can…

Java Script

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A Beginner’s Guide to ESLint
A Beginner’s Guide to ESLint
Java Script

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Published in Level Up Coding

·Dec 5, 2022

Create Dynamic Code Review Checklists with CodeSee Code Automation

I’ve been a longtime advocate of pull request templates. These templates allow you to provide instructions to developers creating pull requests in your repos so that they will be reminded to include all the relevant information you need to properly review their code. Pull request templates are a great place…

Code Review

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Create Dynamic Code Review Checklists with CodeSee Code Automation
Create Dynamic Code Review Checklists with CodeSee Code Automation
Code Review

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Published in Geek Culture

·Dec 5, 2022

How ChatGPT Will Help Content Creators Write Opinion Pieces More Easily

As a content creator, you know that writing opinion pieces can be a challenging but rewarding task. It requires not only a strong understanding of the topic at hand, but also the ability to articulate your thoughts and ideas clearly and persuasively. But what if you could have a tool…

Writing

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How ChatGPT Will Help Content Creators Write Opinion Pieces More Easily
How ChatGPT Will Help Content Creators Write Opinion Pieces More Easily
Writing

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Published in Better Programming

·Oct 27, 2022

Three Ways to Scale Your Apps With Render

Using blueprint specification, Render API, and dashboard — When your app is experiencing high traffic or utilization, you need to scale your service to handle that load. Scaling can be done either vertically or horizontally — or both! Vertical scaling means making a single resource bigger or more powerful. For example, you might add more CPU or RAM…

Programming

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Three Ways to Scale Your Apps With Render
Three Ways to Scale Your Apps With Render
Programming

4 min read


Published in Level Up Coding

·Oct 10, 2022

Getting Rid of QA Engineers is a Mistake

When everyone owns quality, no one does — I’ve noticed a growing trend in software companies over the last few years in which upper management declares that quality assurance roles will no longer exist at the company. Then, the entire QA department is either let go or transitioned into traditional software development roles. Everyone is now just a…

Programming

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Getting Rid of QA Engineers is a Mistake
Getting Rid of QA Engineers is a Mistake
Programming

3 min read


Published in Better Programming

·Aug 24, 2022

Recursion vs. Loops in JavaScript

Recursion doesn’t have to be scary — Recursion is the nemesis of every developer, only matched in power by its friend, regular expressions. Recursion can be hard to wrap your head around for a couple of reasons. First, you have to grasp the concept of a function calling itself. Second, you have to understand the difference between…

Programming

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Recursion vs. Loops in JavaScript
Recursion vs. Loops in JavaScript
Programming

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Published in Better Programming

·Aug 8, 2022

Tools and Integrations To Significantly Improve Code Review in GitHub

Travis CI, CircleCI, Codecov, SonarQube, CodeSee, GitHub Actions, and more — As software engineers, we love to automate. Yet code review is often a fairly manual process that takes up a large percentage of our time. How do we improve this? There are plenty of tips and tricks for doing code reviews effectively so we won’t go into those here. Instead…

Programming

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Tools and Integrations To Significantly Improve Code Review in GitHub
Tools and Integrations To Significantly Improve Code Review in GitHub
Programming

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Published in Better Programming

·Aug 2, 2022

The Essential Web3 Tools and Technologies Developers Must Know

Smart contracts, blockchains, crypto wallets, and more — Web3 is the next iteration of the web. As opposed to Web1, which consisted of static web pages, and Web2, which brought us web apps and the web as a platform, Web3 consists of decentralized networks built on blockchains. There is a high demand for Web3 developers, as relatively few…

Software Development

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The Essential Web3 Tools and Technologies Developers Must Know
The Essential Web3 Tools and Technologies Developers Must Know
Software Development

6 min read


Published in Better Programming

·Jul 18, 2022

How to Build a Crowdfunding Web3 Dapp

Let’s buy Twitter! — For the last several months, the tech world has been abuzz with the news that Elon Musk is buying Twitter. Whether or not the acquisition will actually happen remains to be seen, but many Twitter employees and Twitter users are concerned about what this may mean for the company culture…

Programming

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How to Build a Crowdfunding Web3 Dapp
How to Build a Crowdfunding Web3 Dapp
Programming

6 min read

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Tyler Hawkins

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Senior software engineer. Continuous learner. Educator. http://tylerhawkins.info

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