React has been around for just under 10 years now. It has come a long way in that time but I want to talk about a major update to react a bit under 2 years ago, and that is hooks. There are two types of components in React — functional…

If you're a programmer then you have probably had a lot of experience trying to figure out why you're program isn't working. …

I recently had a technical interview which was a simple project to be built over the weekend. The project was to build a “poker hand checker”. I felt very comfortable with the project because I enjoy playing and watching poker. I knew already what the ranking of hands are and…

Admittedly I had very little knowledge of linters until very recently. I knew of their existence and a basic idea of what they did but assumed they were hard to use and offered minimal results, but now I have seen the light and I must share. So to start, what…

Continuous integration or development, known commonly as CI/CD is really just a high level plan for how you will be developing and maintaining code in your project/company/etc. …

Git is amazing software. For those of you who stumbled across this post without knowing what git is — how did you manage that? But to catch you up to speed it is an open-source version control software that almost all developers use. …

Even though the title of this article looks a bit like clickbait, and you might be asking yourself what ‘this’ is referring to, it is actually quite literal. …

In 2020 my career as a chef took a big pause as Covid-19 shut down basically every restaurant in the country. The restaurant I was working at during that time ended up closing permanently in October that same year. I decided to finally take action and do something I had…

In the past few months, I have had a growing interest in the game of sudoku. A big part of that is from a youtube channel called cracking the cryptic and if you are interested in puzzles I would recommend checking them out. But as I have become more interested…