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Using state machines in serverless when Step Functions won't help

Dynamic state machines with AWS Lambda, SST and XState

Calling a windows web service from a WSL2 based application

Recursively rename or change the suffix on MacOS

Cheat sheet for Typescript and Mongoose with Mongo

Using a custom environment in vitest for database connections

Custom Request and Response objects in Express with TypeScript

Zod parse with custom error in Express

Content Security Policy with Google Maps and Helmet

Vite: How to create separate bundles for large libraries

A cheat sheet for Redux Toolkit with Typescript

A good starting config for Renovate with Nodejs

Creating gif on mac by converting mov screen recording)

How to add canonical meta tag in NextJs

Open Telemetry in NextJs and NestJs

Comparing next start and next standalone with docker

Force RSA key support for Azure DevOps Git SSH

Npm package provenance with Github Actions

Cheatsheet: Environment variables and precedence in Docker Compose

Running NextJS in a Docker Container

Building an AI generated game with Stable Diffusion and data from Wikipedia

Easiest way to optimise images for web

Start tracking DORA metrics for your team in just 15 minutes with Apache Dev Lake

A summary of NDC Sydney 2022 Developer Conference

4 Surprising uses for GitHub as a cloud datastore

Obsidian - A free personal data management system on windows, mac and mobile

How add comments to your Gatsby site with utterances

How to use SSH with Git and ssh-agent on Windows

How to fix custom type definitions not being type checked

Should you work for a consultancy or a product company?

PostgreSQL and typeorm - Caching

How to run Monica personal CRM on Dokku

Flexible work is here to stay but you should choose an emphasis

Find 20% of missing site traffic with plausible analytics and some proxying

Open Telemetry in NestJs (and React)

PostgreSQL and typeorm - Relational data

PostgreSQL and typeorm - Practical transactions

PostgreSQL and typeorm - Tips, tricks and common issues

PostgreSQL and typeorm - A glossary for database administration

PostgreSQL and typeorm - Advanced Querying - (Aggregations, AND, OR, BETWEEN for Dates)

PostgreSQL and typeorm - Storing single table data

PostgreSQL and typeorm - Getting a local Postgres instance

PostgreSQL and typeorm - Intro to persistence

Consistent modern shell tooling on MacOS and Windows WSL for developers

Hiring engineers in a candidate-driven marketplace

How engineers can help deliver software effectively

Engineering systems for consistency and impact

How to identify a great tech organisation before you join

How software engineers can avoid commoditisation

Running a NodeJS app with Postgres in Dokku

20 questions for a valuable code review

What are domain names, nameservers and IPs when setting up a Squarespace site

10 Useful product-thinking lessons for engineers

Minimum viable discovery and software estimation for engineering work

How to write an ESLint plugin in TypeScript

A Nest JS Pipeline Cheatsheet

Using a dynamic DTO property in a NestJS API

Automatically setting empty arrays instead of undefined on typeorm entities

npmrc authentication for a private scoped organisation package

Fixing validation error in NestJS when using forbidUnknwonValues

Semantic versioning javascript projects but skipping NPM publish

How to validate configuration per module in NestJs

Set vscode as the default editor for text files on mac

Convert a Microsoft Word document to markdown

Extract user profile attributes from an Azure ADB2C tenant using the Microsoft Graph API

Are tools like GitHub and Jira artificially restricting improvements to your practices?

Avoid these issues when using new ECMAScript modules in your Node.js application

3 markdown editing tips I wish I knew when I started blogging

8 ESlint plugins for your NodeJs app

Force restart your Azure App service site and host

How to parse the raw body of a request in a nest js controller

I wrote an eslint module for checking NestJS modules and Open Api/swagger decorators

Fixing "env: node\r: No such file or directory" on mac for an npm package

Migrating a Create React App (CRA) application to Vite

Configuring different work and personal github accounts on your local repositories with ssh authentication

Scheduling a feature toggle using no-code with Azure Logic Apps

Fix React Router navlink-exact when activeClass is not working

Create an only ever true boolean type in typescript

Use regex replace in vscode find

How to use Git rebase to change commit history

How to list files changed in current branch (and run prettier on them)

Avoid rebuild of React App in every CI stage

How to save an exit code to a variable in bash script

Automate Jira releases from Azure DevOps pipelines and save 1 hour per day

Transitioning from startup development-mode to iterating a software product

How to change the type of output for a property filter in typescript

How to log a Node.js object with circular references to the console

Copying missing files during a typescript build on deploy

Anonymous vs direct feedback

Improving engagement in your org that uses the Spotify model

for of .. vs for in .. vs for ..

Creating a guid in mac OSX command line

Ensure Node.js version is consistent on Azure services and devops pipelines

Setting and debugging Azure Devops yaml env vars

Adding Visual Studio Code debugging to Node.js JS projects

Password protect zip file on mac OSX command line

A snippet for exporting an Azure App Service ssl certificate for use with Azure front door

Using Gource to visualize activity on a git repository

Performance measurement decorator for Azure Application Insights on a Node.js app

Notes on testing some notebooks - Rhodia, Leuchtturm and Moleskein

Five quick jest and typescript tips

Using no-code airtable and Netlify to quickly build a machine log application

How to use a private NPM repo in Azure Pipelines Deploy

Semantic versioning a Node.js app on Azure DevOps CI

Azure App Service reuse Node.js modules on host for speed

Which http status code to use for no search results found?

Add AWS OpenApi extensions to your Swagger specification on NestJS

@Decorator caching in NestJS with type-cacheable

TSLint is deprecated: how to upgrade to ESlint

How to setup TSLint and Prettier for TypeScript projects

10 RFP response signals to watch out for

How writing more allows you to have fewer, more effective meetings

Should I apply for a team lead role if I'm not 'technical'?

4 hacks for lazy team leads

How I enhance pull request quality on GitHub and Azure DevOps

How to prioritize too many feature requests

Some errors to avoid in JavaScript

Refactoring conditionals to strategies (in .Net/C#)

Deliver 30% more PRs to production by having developers own their own testing

Debugging specific mouse clicks in JavaScript

How to send a slack webhook message for an Azure DevOps pipeline task

Dynamically setting IP to deploy assets to an Azure storage account behind a firewall from DevOps agents

Npm timeout when deploying Node.js app to azure app service using yarn

How I configure jest on a typescript Node.js application

How to also update the package.json version when using yarn update

Adding a junit formatter to jest test results for a Node.js app on Azure Pipelines

How to configure a pipeline on Azure Devops to build and deploy serverless graphql and react client

How to fix "Incorrect integrity when fetching from the cache" error when using yarn

How to fix "Something went wrong installing the "sharp" module The specified procedure could not be found." in Gatsby

Returning null from a GraphQL mutation in type-graphql

Typescript error "does not satisfy the constraint new" when using InstanceType in typegoose