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It’s been a minute since I actually wrote a post for this blog; let alone something of substance. So here we go! 
 The Reconstruction 
 For the past 4-5 years of this blog’s existence, it’s been hosted on Hashnode. I originally started using that platform because it was super easy to write content and manage assets using their WYSIWYG editor. 
 To understand why I…
Recently, I finished putting together my first NAS. A lot of the inspiration for this build came from Serve The Home , Jeff Geerling , & Hardware Haven . As the title says, I managed to get everything I need for less than $200 (pricing breakdown at the end). Here, I’ll be digging into the how I found my parts, specs of my system, and benefits of this approach. 
 Disclaimer: If you are…
What is xRC? 
 You’re probably familiar with what it is if you’re here, but for those who are unaware: xRC is a simulator for FIRST Robotics Competition , FIRST Tech Challenge, and Vex Robotics Competition games. 
 To play multiplayer remotely, you must use one of the servers set up by others (of which there are not many) or you have to set up your own server, which is what…
NextAuth is a great way to authenticate users for your Next.js app. However, Next.js API Routes are not a good substitute for a full backend framework. In this article, we’ll address all the setup required to use NextAuth’s cookies to authenticate against a separate backend. While I am using NestJS as my backend framework, the general logic/flow is portable to almost any backend…
Do you use Prisma? Do you want to engage in proper practices? Well here’s a post for you! In this post, we will discuss how to automatically deploy Prisma migrations with Github Actions. 
 Why would this be necessary? 
 Generally speaking, it’s not a great idea to use a single database in production and development. However, with relational databases, this becomes tricky: How…
Like millions of other developers, I use VSCode. It’s not particularly remarkable, but I decided to make a personal list of my favorite extensions. Many of these are plenty well known in the community, but when I started, it look me some time to find out about some of my current favorites. I figured I’d create a central list for beginners to find and that I can send to beginners. This…
At this point, we’ve established that I have paired React and Next.js with TypeScript to make my website. The next challenge is: How am I going to style it? 
I knew from the beginning that I didn’t want raw dog the whole thing with plain old CSS. This also meant that I wouldn’t be taking advantage of Next.js’ built in support for CSS Modules. These days, I think there…

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 First off: Why not just use HTML & Vanilla JS? 
 Yes, I know that there is an inherent speed benefit to using HTML. There are a couple reasons why I chose to go with a JS framework. The main reason is Reusable…