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Introduction This is a guide on how to run a NextJS application in a Docker...

Last week I released a game called Doodle:ai. In the game you’re shown AI generated images and you...

Here is how I optimise all pngs and jpgs in a folder for publishing to the web. To get the tools...

DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) metrics are an excellent way for engineering organisations to...

NDC Sydney is a developer conference in Sydney. This was my first in-person conference in 3 years...

GitHub is a great place to store code. But it’s also a great place to store any data that you need...

Obsidian is a free personal data management system based on markdown notes. Because it’s based on...

If you want to add comments to your blog quickly there is a nice tool called utterances that uses a...

I needed to run git natively in windows (no wsl) for a recent project. I use ssh certificates with...

I've recently crossed over 2 years in a software consultancy. Previously I spent around 10 years...

With most web applications you can drastically increase performance by using caching for data that’s...

I left my home country right after university and I worked and lived in a few countries since then....

Introduction Google Analytics (GA) has been a force in web site metrics since 2005. The...

Introduction Open Telemetry is good enough to use in production projects now and most...

Lesson goal To understand what a transaction does for us and how to choose when one is...

Lesson goal To learn some tips and tricks to solve very common issues with typeorm and...

Lesson goal In this lesson you’ll learn about relational data with typeorm and...

Lesson goal You will learn about some things that you might come across when discussing...

Lesson goal After this lesson you will be able to recognise and use the most common...

Lesson goal In this lesson you’ll learn how to store, retrieve and update data in a single...

Lesson goal Set up a local instance of postgres for learning Learn where to get a...

Introduction This course is designed to help you get into the world of persistence with...

I regularly code on both MacOS and Windows machines and I was always annoyed how different the...

Your most impactful engineering is done before you write any code. It's important to have some...

I’m writing this at the start of 2022 and it’s never been tougher to hire engineers. There is a very...

No one wants to waste time working for an organisation that’s a bad fit. But how do you know a good...

Delivery managers and team leads have the responsibility to deliver a software system via an...

I have some side projects that don’t see much traffic so I run them on a 5$ digital ocean droplet...

I recently had an interesting discussion around the value of doing code reviews and the value of...

I recently had to estimate 6 months of work for a new product after just 2 hours of discovery. This...