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No other profession has so many candidates who are good at interviews and bad at the job they are interviewing for

There are two things you need to know about in order to write queries

Use HTML anchor tags to add accessible semantic footnotes to your article or webpage

If your ticket is actually ready to pick up, it'll be completed in half the time. And if the definition of done is clear, development will double in speed again. This is what's needed to get twice the work done in half the time. This is the reason Scrum exists.

Use
tags and media queries to break text into smaller paragraphs on smaller screens

Add the file to the "include" array in your tsconfig.json

A guide explaining different patterns for centering elements in CSS

A series of statecharts representing a contact form

Defeat thermal throttling and speed up your Mac by running the fans sooner

Running custom ESLint rules locally is really easy, so there's lots of room to explore automating rules and guidelines that are important to your project but maybe not anyone else.

Guide to designing a login flow for an app

This is a common question that came up

I often think that if we knew why interviewers continue to ask about hoisting, we'd know a lot more about how to conduct better interviews

As long as you know which cases you want to test up-front (for example, you're not trying to generate them after a network request) you can use Jest to batch out multiple cases at once.

The number of states in a system can grow rapidly as features are added. XState allows us to model these easily with parallel state management.

Many-to-many transitions between sibling states can often be 'lifted up' into one-to-one transitions from parent to child

Modelling a set of radio buttons with an null state

Testing your code is essential but get started can be a tough hurdle to overcome

This is a helper script to allow an embedded iframe to communicate with its parent page.

An overview of functions and callbacks

An overview of promises, async functions, and await

An explanation of HTML/CSS positioning concepts followed by a series of example layouts with code

There are four ways to write for-loops and here's how to choose

A post mortem of a load bearing feature request and where the counter-intuitive solution became the correct one

A guide explaining the use-cases and differences between a few of React's Hooks

A guide explaining the use-cases and differences between a few of React's Hooks

A guide explaining the use-cases and differences between a few of React's Hooks

A glossary of words I learn as I teach myself Spanish

In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to bootstrap a React project from scratch using NPM and Webpack, integrate Google Login, grab data from the Youtube API, and deploy your code to Netlify

Examples of test cases around text boxes with Jest and Testing Library

A list of things I use day to day

File Utils makes it much easier to move, rename, create, or duplicate files

Paste Image makes adding images to code documents a breeze