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Components are the core building block in which all applications written with React, Angular, and Vue are built. Let's explore what they are and how to build them.

When I started learning Git, I found many references covering two ways to undo commits with git reset:

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Thoughts on making our documentation as reusable as our code.

CSS can be a great HTML testing tool, especially in 2024

In the realm of decision-making under uncertainty, Thompson Sampling has emerged as a popular and effective algorithm, particularly for…

Why do we keep building visual programming environments? Why do we never use them? What should we do instead?

Open source Next.js serverless adapter

Practical Programmatic is a complete course that teaches you everything you need to get started building programmatic SEO projects - with code, no-code, or AI content.

Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) A component should have only one reason to change,...

I really liked @abbeyperini post and decided to share my tips after 5+ years as a software...

useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the performance of our applications in certain contexts. I recently used it to solve a gnarly performance problem on this blog, and in this tutorial, I'll show you how! ⚡

While much attention has been focused on high-level software architectural patterns, what is, in effect, the de-facto standard software architecture is seldom discussed. This paper examines the most frequently deployed architecture: the BIG BALL OF MUD

If a program element is hard to test, move as much logic as possible out into testable collaborators.

“Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C.

Shared from my personal experience as a software developer at Volvo Cars.

Learn about our journey with caching in Next.js App Router.

An API definition is more than just a technical document; it's a comprehensive blueprint that outlines an API's structure, functionality, and behavior.

Since the beginning, GitHub.com has been a Ruby on Rails monolith. Today, the application is nearly two million lines of code and more than 1,000 engineers collaborate on it daily.…

When we talk about computers and programming, we often encounter algorithms. Algorithms are like instructions that help computers perform…

It is ok to experiment. Usually good codebases need standards and rules to speed up collaboration and more in general to facilitate expansion. Some of those are enforced at the language or community level via formatter, linters. Others got introduced step by step from previous contributors.

This week we’re talking to Mike McQuaid, project leader and longest tenured maintainer of Homebrew, a...

I've been thinking about the consequences of the "wrong abstraction."  My RailsConf 2014 "all the little things" talk included a section where I asserted: duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction And in the summary, I went on to advise:

Hello~ today I will to share a post about different ways of passing functions in Ruby. There are many ways to pass code around in Ruby, so today I’m going to make a comparison between the 4 different ways. In this post, I will show the syntax of ...

K2 is a new verification approach and framework that enables developers to build hardware security modules (HSMs) with high assurance through formal verification.