Free your mind. 🧠 I can’t do it. I’m not good at this. It’s too hard. They are better at it than I am. I don’t know how. I don’t like challenges. I can’t make this any better. I give up. Everyone (yes, everyone) has said either aloud or to…

Your friendly neighborhood JavaScript study guide. If you are actively seeking your first front-end engineering role, the odds of being asked multiple questions about JavaScript are pretty high. Memorizing these questions and answers will not get you your first front-end job. …

Take a swim in the deep end, the water is fine. Impostor syndrome is the belief that you’re unskilled, inferior to others, or bad at your job, despite your successes. We’ve all felt impostor syndrome at some point in our lives. If you’re feeling impostor syndrome, you’re certainly not alone!

Every vow you break. Every smile you fake. Every claim you stake. Technical debt is a metaphor and a storytelling device that can help explain the long-term consequences, costs, and risk introduced by prioritizing short-term cost avoidance over functionality, reliability, availability, and serviceability. It’s a concept originally advanced by pioneers…

You are the disease and I’m the cure. This article assumes a basic knowledge of REST APIs with Node/Express. Web application programming interfaces (APIs) are an essential pillar of our connected world. …

You’re gonna need a bigger boat. Designing a system that supports millions of users is challenging, and it is a journey that requires continuous refinement and endless improvement A distributed system is a system with many components that are located on different machines. These machines communicate with one another to…

King Kong ain’t got sh*t on me This article assumes you have a basic knowledge of Node. Databases let us work with large amounts of data efficiently. They make updating data easy and reliable, and they help to ensure accuracy. …