Published in Better Programming·PinnedMember-onlyThe One Mantra That Will Make You a Better ManagerOnce you’ve mastered this technique and found your own rhythm, whoever works with you will appreciate how well things are flowing around you — Whether you’re managing people, processes, or tasks: The question of prioritization is definitely one that comes up quite often. As your horizon gets bigger, the number of e-mails, chores, and distractions will grow steadily. How often have you sat in front of your…Management3 min read
Jan 24Cardinal Rules Developers Break on Pull RequestsThis is why teams don’t move as fast as they could — Writing code is a collaborative team effort. Good code may be written by a single developer, great code is reviewed by many. Therefore, the way a team approaches the code review process tells a lot about its culture. Strangely enough, code reviews are often viewed as a slowdown or an…Software Development4 min read
Oct 12, 2021Member-onlyFour Instant Improvements for Your Team RetrospectivesAnd yes, those work for remote retros too! — Keeping retrospectives relevant and valuable can be challenging. They belong to that strange category of meetings that demand to deliver on two completely different ends of the scale. On one hand, you want the structure to be rigid and predictable enough so that it doesn’t impose an additional cognitive load…Agile5 min read
Published in CodeX·Sep 8, 2021Member-onlyFaster JavaScript Development With Monorepos & WorkspacesEasy to start out on, supported by all package managers — Keeping code organised always becomes more intricate as the complexity of your ecosystem grows. If you find yourself having to deal with multiple codebases in order to release a feature, a monorepo might be worth looking into. *Note: Although Yarn 2 (or Modern or Berry or 3) is being used…Nodejs6 min read
Published in Better Programming·Aug 4, 2021Member-onlyHello Yarn 2, Goodbye Node_modules.What’s new (and the least painful farewell in the history of JS) — Over three years ago, in 2017, Yarn 1.0 was officially announced in the Facebook Engineering Blog. Already by that time, only 11 months after its first release, more than 175,000 repositories had started using the new package manager. Even though Yarn’s success story has continued steadily ever since, the tool…Nodejs4 min read
Published in JavaScript in Plain English·Jul 13, 2021Member-onlyPublish a TypeScript Package with GitHub ActionsYes. There is no reason not to automate this. — Separating functionality out into an npm package is a great way of modularising your application. Plus, if you decide to make it publicly available, you will earn extra karma points for giving back to the open-source scene. If your code lives inside a Github repository, publishing to the npm registry…Typescript5 min read
Published in Geek Culture·May 27, 2021Member-onlyHuman-Friendly Test Output With GoLess headaches. More structure. — If there is that one attribute I had to pick which makes Go a great language to work with, it would be its notion of self-containment. Go gives you everything you need to get started while maintaining a striking level of simplicity. However, that simplicity often comes with a degree…Golang4 min read
Published in CodeX·Apr 7, 2021Member-onlyUp and Running with Deno for Node.js DevelopersDeveloping applications with Node.js can be an emotional rollercoaster. On one hand you have a flexible runtime with a huge eco-system which makes prototyping applications incredibly easy. On the other, however, Node has accumulated a long list of debt that it keeps carrying around with it. Ever since initially announced…Deno5 min read
Published in Product People·Apr 5, 2021Member-onlyThe 5 Best Free Online Retrospective Tools for Your TeamWhether the pandemic has moved your entire team to home office or you are working with remote colleagues: You were very likely on the hunt for an online retrospective tool at some point or are looking for one right now. The good news is: Since the start of the pandemic…Retrospectives6 min read
Published in Level Up Coding·Mar 2, 2021Member-onlyMaster Forms in React with Formik 2 and TypescriptI have spent a good amount of time lately refactoring a project based on Formik. Besides upgrading all that old React functionality, I also got to enjoy all the good stuff that comes with Formik 2. If you are dealing with forms (big or small) and value your own precious…React4 min read
