The Power of Content: Elevate Your Web Development with Substance and Style
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{ A subtlety of web development is the importance of content. Trying to create an amazing website without substantive content is a...
Robbie Cook's Blog
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Figma Tips and Plugins for Developers
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It's quite easy as a developer to get caught up in writing code and writing tests and communicating with QA....
Why it's never been a better time to be a developer
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While the development industry may have its ups and downs, there's never been as much strive to make it as...
Use your favourite games to enhance your users' experience
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One of the biggest challenges in front-end development is UI decisions. When you go through business flows, especially if you...
Typescript to Rust
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These days, Rust is an extremely popular alternative to traditional js/ts packages. Next.js, the most popular react framework, recently bought...
Fullstack of all trades, master of none
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Fullstack engineers are expected to be able to architect backend solutions, as well as be a gun on the frontend....
What the heck is `aws-cdk`?
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A few weeks ago, I had no idea what the aws-cdk was. "Is it like aws-sdk ?", "Is it a...
Using highlight.js in React
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TL;DR: Here's a quick example If you're making a post or blog, it's important to make sure your code examples are...
Unit testing tools in React applications
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In JS applications, many types of testing provide business value and security for businesses. These include: Unit tests, which test business...
Remix.run and web performance
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Recently, I rebuilt my main website, in Remix.run. The site was originally made in Gatsby, then remade in Next.js (see...
New React
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Professional changes recently have exposed me to new thinkers in the React space, which I appreciate. There is so much...
Small-town code
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As you may or may not know, I am based in a small town at the bottom of the world:...
Top Tools
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My top tools Are you a node dev? Do you like tools? Here my top tools. More coming soon. Next Js and Vercel Gahd...
Next JS
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Next JS I recently converted my website and blog to Next JS, and brought my lighthouse performance up from 60% to...
Blog Update - Filters
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Now there are filters up the top to differentiate between the different topics of the posts! Yay! Other updates (for nerds) I...
Construction of A Blog
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NOTE: Blog has now been migrated to Next.js Introduction Welcome to my blog\! It's created in Gatsby, and it uses Markdown with...