Optimize your site for search engines, or something like that. — Your personal web site may not show up on the first page of Google’s search results. In fact, Google may not have it stored at all! Eventually, however, you may want your site to appear within a Google search. This is called Search Engine Optimization, or SEO. Although “search engine”…

useEffect is for side effects. Although the new hooks are considered “functional React,” they still follow Object-Oriented Programming methodologies. For example, useState maps to the pre-existing this.state of the older class components. State was a pretty easy concept to understand. Much like a class instance has its own variables (commonly…

Any JSON API that holds a large list of data will give it to you through pagination. Returning ten million items at once will take a very long time. Instead there will be multiple pages, and you must iterate through each page to get it all. If you need to…

You may have heard of Redis.

Many guides exist for the basics of interviewing. I want to take it one step further. Much like the way I write programming guides that are one step above beginner, this will be an interview guide for being one step above beginner. We will take some introductory concepts, and extend…

LinkedIn has a nice feature of “unfurling” links. When you add a URL in a post or your “featured” profile section, LinkedIn will show a small preview of the site you are linking to. This includes a title, description, and image. …

Hooks are an amazingly useful feature of git. Once your repository gets to a medium size, you may want to make a few quick checks whenever you commit. For example, you could run a linter, check for TODOs, or even auto-send emails! A “hook” is just a simple script that…

A Dive Into Some Odd Aspects of Medium’s Platform I always enjoy reading about large and complex problems, but sometimes it is interesting to dive into a tiny incongruity. I write my blogs in markdown, then post them to my personal site, then import them to Medium. I try to be as lazy as possible, so I have been…

As a follow-up for my previous post, I thought I would look at VSCode from a more intermediate level. Specifically, getting into a larger codebase. Once you get a job, or join an open-source project, you will be thrown head-first into a large codebase. Whether or not you get an…