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I liked to cover a range of topics on my website. I think there is more to being a software developer than just the technical skills.
Here you can find a complete collection of all my writing. I write all of my YouTube videos out as blog posts as well, so you don’t need to watch the video if you don’t want to.
If you are new here you might like to look at my most popular reads:
- Git Flow vs GitHub Flow
- Stack vs Heap Memory - What are the differences?
- Domain-Driven Design: Simple Explanation
- Software Engineering Promotions: Increase Your Chances of Getting to the Next Level 🚀
- Hexagonal Architecture: What Is It and Why Do You Need It?
- What is Event Driven Architecture?
- Why software developers quit after 2 years
- How I Take (and Organise) My Notes As a Software Engineer
- SOLID Principles: Do You Really Understand Them?
- Monolithic vs Microservice Architecture - Which Should You Use?
- 5 Design Patterns That Are ACTUALLY Used By Developers
- Traefik vs Nginx for Reverse Proxy with Docker on a Raspberry Pi
- Hosting a Secure Static Website on AWS S3 using Terraform (Step By Step Guide)
- Using GitHub Actions to Deploy to S3
- I Posted on YouTube Consistently for 1 Month. This is What Happened!
- 15 Best Books for Programmers You Should Read
- 10 Best YouTube Channels for Software Developers
- 1000 Subscribers in 5 Months: My Strategy
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This is a complete list of articles I have written. Enjoy!
- The Good and Bad of Remote Work
- I Think I Found The Secret to Consistency
- Open Source: An Antidote to Closed Source Vulnerability
- Combining Digital and Analog for Better Note-Taking
- The Art of Abstractions
- Protecting Privacy: Can Software Developers Make a Difference?
- Navigating Docker like a Wizard
- Decentralisation, Our Past and Our Future
- What should a Junior .Net Developer know?
- How to do Performance Testing with k6
- Good Engineers Perform Root Cause Analysis
- Why software developers quit after 2 years
- Idempotency - What it is and How to Implement it
- Your privacy is optional
- EU VAT & Moving Paid Plans to Patreon
- 5 Design Patterns That Are ACTUALLY Used By Developers
- Decluttering my digital life
- The Interface Segregation Situation
- 5 Hard Skills That Will Pay Off Forever
- Should software engineers learn DevOps? 🛠️
- What happened to the remote working dream?
- Every great developer has this one trait 🧠
- Lessons Learned from My First Year as a Developer Turned Creator ✏️
- CI/CD Pipeline Using GitHub Actions: Automate Software Delivery
- Why is the market so tough for junior engineers right now? 😭
- Startup vs Corporate - Which is best for you? 🏢
- What’s Inside My Digital Toolbox 🧰
- How to Manage Technical Debt 📉
- How to Build a Project That Will ACTUALLY Get You a Job
- Happiness is ... 🙂
- SOLID Principles: Do You Really Understand Them?
- How to Manage Your Time as a Software Developer ⌛️
- Specialist vs Generalist ⚒️
- Knowledge Management for Software Developers
- Engineering Manager vs Tech Lead 🧑🏻💻
- Should you be blogging as a software developer?
- When is the Right Time to Quit Your Job? 🚪
- Taking Care of Your Mental Health as a Software Developer 🧠
- Recursion explained with the help from Inception
- How to Break a Monolith into Microservices
- 5 Hard Truths No-One Is Telling You About Software Engineering
- Software Engineering Promotions: Increase Your Chances of Getting to the Next Level 🚀
- Domain-Driven Design: Simple Explanation
- Don’t Build Your House on Someone Else’s Land
- 10 Questions You Should Be Asking at your Technical Interview
- Life Lessons Learned from the Stoics
- What is Event Driven Architecture?
- You Can’t Believe Your Eyes
- AI Can’t Do This - SECRET to being a SUCCESSFUL Software Engineer
- Does software development have an age limit?
- Backend Developer Roadmap 2023
- The Feynman Technique: Learn Quickly
- Best Coding Habits to Start Now
- Can we replace junior developers with ChatGPT?
- Monolithic vs Microservice Architecture - Which Should You Use?
- Stop caring what other people think
- Top 5 Programming Languages to Learn in 2023 (to Get a Job)
- 1000 Subscribers in 5 Months: My Strategy
- Is there such a thing as job security?
- Types of Software Testing Explained
- 10 Best YouTube Channels for Software Developers
- Focus on Creating Instead of Consuming
- Python List Comprehension: With Examples
- Content Creator Path 5-Month Update
- Hexagonal Architecture: What Is It and Why Do You Need It?
- Software Testing Methodologies - Guide
- Software developers shouldn’t start software companies
- The biggest regret in my software engineering career
- What motivates us?
- Snake Case vs Camel Case vs Pascal Case vs Kebab Case
- Stop listening to your parents advice
- Unit Testing vs Integration Testing - Key Differences
- What is CRUD? CRUD Operations in APIs
- Hosting n8n for Free with Railway
- The Tale of the Mexican Fisherman
- Automate Twitter with Notion and n8n
- The Comfort Zone is Ruining Your Life
- Warren Buffett’s 5/25 Rule is a Fake
- Will technology ever make our lives easier?
- Why You Struggle to Learn to Code
- 15 Best Books for Programmers You Should Read
- How I Use Morning Pages in My Daily Routine
- 10 Essential Apps Every Developer Needs
- How to Succeed as an Introvert Engineer
- How to Find Work That You Will Love Doing
- Overcoming Fear By Doing What is Obvious
- 5 Books That Changed My Life
- YouTube Analytics: How I Grew My Channel in the First 3 Months
- 12 Habits of Successful Senior Software Developers
- Finally Understand Regular Expressions: Regex isn't as hard as it looks
- Why Developers Should Embrace No-Code Solutions
- Does GPT-3 threaten your engineering job?
- Why Buying More Stuff is Never Going to Make You Happy
- How I would learn to code (if I could start over)
- How I Take (and Organise) My Notes As a Software Engineer
- Applying the Pareto Principle for Exponential Results
- Understanding Big-O Notation
- How To Set Goals That You Can Actually Keep
- The Formula for Success is Scarily Simple But No One Does It
- Finding Balance: Taking a Break From Work Without Feeling Guilty
- Stack vs Heap Memory - What are the differences?
- Is Working In Tech Still Worth It?
- Code Katas: Can They Make You A Better Developer?
- Hedonistic Adaption for Software Developers
- Git Flow vs GitHub Flow
- I Posted on YouTube Consistently for 1 Month. This is What Happened!
- All Developers seem to suffer from this...
- Bitwise Operators and WHY we use them
- 8 Data Structures you NEED to Know
- Sharing your knowledge as a developer
- Binary Numbers Explained for Programmers
- The Secret to Becoming a High Paid Software Developer
- Beginners Guide to Programming
- Programming = Problem Solving
- How to Know if Programming is the Right Career for You?
- Programming = Creativity 🎨
- Taking a Creative Sabbatical as a Software Engineer
- Adding Inline Javascript to a React App
- Privacy Focused Blog Services
- What is DeFi? Understanding Decentralized Finance
- Using Hashnode as a Source for Gatsby
- What is Web3? The Decentralised Internet Explained
- Ditch the Ads: The Future of Website Monetization
- Dealing with Imposter Syndrome as a Software Developer
- Using WireMock.net for Integration Testing
- Mocking API calls using WireMock
- Using ngrok to test local websites and APIs
- Using GitHub Actions to Deploy to S3
- Getting Started with AWS Step Functions
- Useful Docker Commands Worth Saving
- Grafana Monitoring on a Raspberry Pi
- How to set up Drone CI on Raspberry Pi (and why you shouldn't)
- Traefik vs Nginx for Reverse Proxy with Docker on a Raspberry Pi
- Hosting a Secure Static Website on AWS S3 using Terraform (Step By Step Guide)
- How to Create a Link in Bio Page for Instagram
- Styling Components in React
- Different Ways to Create Components in React
- 9 Lessons Learned From My Failed Bootstrapped Startup
- Creating a contact form with AWS Lambda and .Net Core
- Application Emails with Amazon Simple Email Service
- Application Logging in .Net Core with Seq 5 and Serilog
- Building A Blog With Gatsby.js
- How to Survive a Software Developer Interview
- How to Save Money When Hosting on AWS
- What you get for £20 when you Boost a Facebook Post
- Running Scheduled Console Apps with .Net Core, Cron and Docker
- 6 Steps to Speed Up WordPress and Improve Google Rankings
- 14 SQL Query Performance Tuning Tips
- Why I switched from Windows to a Mac, and won’t go back
- Creating a mandatory Anti-Forgery token
- Why can’t all programming books look like this?
- Problems with VirtualBox + Vagrant on Windows 10
- “The local security authority cannot be contacted” – Remote Desktop
- Best Practices for a RESTful API
- The Big List of Free Pluralsight Courses for Developers
- Analysing Google Play to find a profitable app idea – Part 5: PlayDrone
- Analysing Google Play to find a profitable app idea – Part 4: Paid apps
- Analysing Google Play to find a profitable app idea – Part 3: Paid games
- Analysing Google Play to find a profitable app idea – Part 2: Freemium games
- Analysing Google Play to find a profitable app idea – Part 1