This blog post has been on my to-do list ever since I saw Daniel Stenberg’s blog post “This is how I git” (November 2020). I thought, “I should do one of those posts, too!” This post focuses on my basic muscle-memory git commands. There are at least two other major Git subtopics this post doesn’t mention at all: “branching discipline” (what is a release branch? what’s the difference between rebase and merge?) and “hygiene” (how big should a commit be? what does a good commit message look like?). That is — as usual for this blog — we’re talking tactics, not strategy.

I spent some time at work looking into speeding up TypeScript type checking via tsc. One of the biggest wins I found was also one of the simplest to implement.

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A story of trying (and failing) to self-host the internet.

This is another post in our Code Health series. A version of this post originally appeared in Google bathrooms worldwide as a Google Testin...

I finally decided to learn shaders. If you're curious about what shaders are and how they work, this article is for you. We'll start with the basics and build a simple blob from scratch.

The latest React docs include recommendations on how to write React code. Here are nine points that come up most about React code style to help you avoid difficult-to-diagnose bugs.

A compendium of absurd open-source licenses. Contribute to ErikMcClure/bad-licenses development by creating an account on GitHub.

If we're building things that we want to work in five or ten or even 20 years, we need to avoid dependencies and use the web with no layers in between.

It's time to move from Buffer to Uint8Array.

A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.

How a 14+ month project was scoped and completed with only a single developer and two designers.

Use codemods to upgrade your Next.js codebase when new features are released.

Node is all there is, right? It is the beginning and the end of all of web development. We use it to install our tools, even the ones not made in node.

Software isn’t hardware. While it takes time to build, assemble and ship a hardware product, software can literally be built, assembled and…

The attr() CSS function is used to retrieve the value of an attribute of the selected element and use it in the stylesheet. It can also be used on pseudo-elements, in which case the value of the attribute on the pseudo-element's originating element is returned.

The MediaSession interface of the Media Session API allows a web page to provide custom behaviors for standard media playback interactions, and to report metadata that can be sent by the user agent to the device or operating system for presentation in standardized user interface elements.

I’ve been working with React since 2016 and still there isn’t a single best practice when it comes to application structure and design. While there are best…

As with any ageing blog, _some_ of my outbound links are hitting either 404s or domains that are no longer active. It's understandable given that my blog is ar…

About a month ago I recreated the TechCrunch website in 30 minutes in one of my rapid recreation videos on YouTube.

Learn how expanded select element capabilities enable visual horizontal breaks for better grouping.

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Which is better for code reviews, a unified diff or a split diff?

Manu Cornet created some of the most referenced Big Tech comics. Today, he shares how he drew his "famous" comic on tech org structures, and an excerpt from his book on Twitter.

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Thrilled (and frankly, exhausted in that great-bone-deep-I-made-something way) that I can now share this with you: the Developer Success Lab's latest empirical research bringing social science to developers, The New Developer, a co-authored project from me, Dr. Carol Lee, and Kristen Foster-Marks -- a true dream team that brought the social science of achievement and learning, the clinical science on wellbeing, behavior change, and anxiety, and practical engineering best practices expertise toge