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…

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…

Let’s buy Twitter! — For the last several months, the tech world has been abuzz with the news that Elon Musk is buying Twitter. …

ESLint offers three settings for any given rule: error, warn, and off. …

Code reviews can be painful, but they don’t have to be — Code reviews can be painful. Software engineers often complain that the review process is slow, delays downstream tasks, and leads to context switching as you navigate back and forth between an open pull request (PR) and your next task. …

So you don’t have to rush at the last minute — Always keep your dependencies up to date. When you don’t upgrade, you miss out on bug fixes, security patches, and new features. You may even be up against an “end of life” deadline if the version of a package you use will soon no longer be supported. If upgrading dependencies…

How to nail your next system design interview — System design interviews are typically part of the interview process for senior-level software engineers and above. These interviews are open-ended discussions in which the candidate is asked to architect something, usually a popular product or service. For example, you may be asked to design Twitter, YouTube, or Google Docs. Of…

With just a few lines of code! — Insomnia is an open source API client that helps you test and debug GraphQL, gRPC, and REST API endpoints. As powerful as Insomnia is, sometimes you want to extend its functionality even further, which you can do with plugins. There are many great plugins available on the Insomnia Plugin Hub…

Job hopping, internal promotions, and stretch assignments — Hot take: Software engineers should job hop as much as they can during the first five years of their career. Now I don’t mean that you should change jobs every three months, but I do mean that you will learn a lot more working at a few different companies over…