Introduction If you’re like me, mobile development can seem intimidating. I was used to this world where JavaScript was the hammer that solved all problems when it came to web development. There are solutions to mobile development in the JavaScript ecosystem (like React Native) that helped bridge that gap a bit…

Note: This post is part of the Data Structures and Algorithm series. To see more posts from this series, click here. The illustrations below are inspired by the Algorithms, Part I course on Coursera. All code examples from this series can be found here. A disjoint-set (also referred to as…

If you find this post helpful, head over to my blog and check out some of my other posts! There are quite a few ways to resolve conflicts in git, whether it’s through the command-line or a GUI. In this post, I’m going to offer an opinionated solution using the…

If you find this post helpful, head over to my blog and check out some of my other posts! I want to preface this post with the notice that I am by no means a professional financial planner and this post should be taken as a guideline, not a hard…

If you find this post helpful, head over to my blog and check out some of my other posts! Redis is an open-source, in-memory data store. Although there are many use cases, including acting as a message broker, Redis is commonly used as a caching mechanism. I’ve recently been looking…

Quick note: Since writing this article, I’ve actually gone the route of using strictly Gatsby for my blog, but the content below still applies if you’re thinking of using Ghost as your headless CMS. Also, if you find this post helpful, head over to my blog and check out some…

If you find this post helpful, head over to my blog and check out some of my other posts! Google’s Firebase is a “platform that helps you quickly develop high-quality apps and grow your business”. One of its capabilities includes user authentication. Google makes setting this auth up within your…

If you find this post helpful, head over to my blog and check out some of my other posts! I recently began playing around with Docker in my spare time. I’ve heard a lot about the benefits of containerizing applications but, being an avid practitioner of pain driven development, I…