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This is a complete list of articles I have written. Enjoy!
- 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