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Using Type Definition Files in a TypeScript Package
Use TypeScript, they said. It will be easy, they said. It will "just work", they said.
Picking a Node.js Backend Framework in 2023
Deciding between express.js, fastify, nest.js, tRPC, GraphQL/Apollo for a modern, fully type-safe, extensible node.js backend
In-Page Navigation Using Search Params
Complex frontend applications, managing querystring/search params, persisting application state into the URL, and navigating between trees of components within a page
The Impact of Automated Versioning Tools on the Development Process
How the choice of tooling can affect how you and your team develop, and how they can be used to adopt trunk development
My Email Setup
When you overcomplicate the f out of fEmail
On Scaling (Meta-)Software for Value
A value-focused analysis of software (and, "what am I doing at Bloomberg that warrants a 3000 word blog post?")
The Great Migration (from Apple) - Part 0: Introduction
An Apple a day keeps the doctor away - but when you get a rotten Apple, how do you keep it away?
On the Bus Factor and the Node.js Ecosystem
Weekend projects gone wild
Hacking 10FastFingers
Gotta go fast.
Integrating access control/authorization to your express apps
Integrating access control/authorization policies to your app can be difficult, from defining it to actually checking it on every route. Here are some tips to make it easier!
Analyzing the The Computer Language Benchmarks Game
Taking data from the Benchmarks Game archive and analyzing it with SQL to figure out which languages are fast and which ones are slow!