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From my writing desk

I primarily write about software engineering and soft skills but am branching out to write about non software related topics as well. Regardless of the topic you’ll hopefully see my humor (I’m told its bad) shine through because who likes dry blog posts?

React 19 and Server Driven UIs a Perfect Match

Building a server driven UI with React is perfect as Reacts dynamic nature makes it easy to render and update UIs based on API responses but it still requires many round trips over the network. React 19 and RSCs are a perfect solution to this problem! By leveraging the new features in React 19 we can now build an even more performant server driven UI.

Build a Mock Backend with a Service Worker

Developing web front ends while running a complex infrastructure can be annoying. We can alleviate some of that pain by building a simple mock API with service workers.

Confidence in Your Career

Being confident in your development cabability is something most Software Engineers (SE) don't talk about and I've seen firsthand what can happen if a SE doesn't believe in their cabability.

I'm Back

Wow its been a long time since I last published a post.

Detect if a React Component is Out of Viewport Bounds

So I recently found myself asking, "How do I detect if a component is out of viewport bounds?", the reason I was asking myself this question was because I wanted to know how to detect and move components if they were not in view, such as tooltips, dropdowns, menu items etc...

Publish Posts to Dev.to and Your Site Automatically in One Go

So for a while now I've wanted to start publishing posts to dev.to but haven't because I wanted to publish my posts to my personal site as well and was just too darn lazy to duplicate the content onto dev.to manually

Note to New Software Engineers

So you're a new software engineer ay? Well, let me bestow upon you some of the knowledge I gained over my 8-year career as a software engineer.

Pre-Loading External Images in Gatsby JS

Gatsby is a great tool that lets you build awesome applications! In fact I use Gatsby for my own site (hopefully you're reading this on there 😃), but I ran into an issue with loading externally hosted images.

Just Start

How can you overcome your fear of starting a project? Let me share my experience

Set Up an Integration + Deployment Pipeline Using Jenkins + Portainer + Traefik + Docker

Lets set up an integration and deployment pipeline using Jenkins, Portainer, and Docker!

TypeScript and Why You Should Use It

That’s right, another blog post about why you should use TypeScript 🙃

React + Webpack + TypeScript Project Setup

Let's get React and TypeScript setup, its a lot easier than you think!