Tutorial

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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Career

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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Tutorials

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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Tutorials

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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Interviewing

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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