How to trust self-signed certificates on macOS

A quick walkthrough on getting macOS to trust certificates that you or someone else you trust has created

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Cache busting vs cache invalidation

What are the technical differences and pros and cons when comparing cache busting and cache invalidation from a CDN?

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What do dev, staging, and prod mean?

When you write code, it has to make it out to your customer somehow, often with a few stages in between your editor and the customer's computer. In this post we'll walk through common ones and why they exist.

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What is Webpack Externals?

Webpack externals is a way of loading in dependencies that are not installed in the node_modules folder. There are a few key points to grasp about this concept to use it properly.

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Setting up Create React App, VS Code, ESLint, and Prettier

A brief guide to configuring VS Code to automatically format code in your CRA app using ESLint and Prettier

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Working with a Recruiting Agency: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

I had never worked with a third party recruiting agency before but figured it couldn't hurt. I quickly learned how it could both hurt me and help me.

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What is Snowpack? How does it work?

Snowpack is a new bundler, similar to Webpack, Parcel, and Rollup, but with some important differences.

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How to Ace a Take Home Coding Project

There are a couple of keys to take care of when working on a take home project from a company you're interviewing with. These tips will help you get to the next round of the interview.

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Use Links to Quickly Ruin a Blog Post

Links can be helpful in a blog post but they do come at a cost and they may not always be the right tool.

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Low Level Should Be Low Priority

An appeal to computer science educators to engage students, not to weed them out. Giving students something they can be passionate about may help fix the diversity issues within the software development field.

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Function Declarations vs Function Expressions

A brief explanation of the difference between a function declaration and a function expression in JavaScript.

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