Just Some Dev

Stop Shipping Broken Env Config

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:28:56 GMT

I first hung out with the Varlock team back in late August 2025, so this is not brand new to me. But...

Clawspace: A Browser-Based File Explorer for OpenClaw

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:09:36 GMT

I've been working with OpenClaw for a while now. If you're not familiar, it's a self-hosted personal...

Let Dependabot Merge Its Own PRs

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:16:29 GMT

Update March 2026: Given the Axios supply chain attack, revising this. It's still convenient to let...

Stop using cat

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 02:08:25 GMT

If you use cat in your daily workflow, this is a tiny upgrade with lots of upsides and honestly, no...

All Things MCP

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:00:00 GMT

Rachel Lee Nabors joins Nick Taylor to discuss all things MCP, from MCP servers and MCP apps to the new WebMCP, which aims to provide a standard way for exposing structured tools so AI agents can perform actions on your site with increased speed, reliability, and precision.

Pomerium MCP Support Updates

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:00:00 GMT

Nick Taylor and Denis Mishin from Pomerium discuss and demo the latest updates to MCP support in Pomerium.

Five Git Config Settings Every Dev Needs

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:19:13 GMT

You've probably added some settings to your Git Configuration, but here are some you might not have...

ChatGPT apps & MCP apps with Skybridge

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:30:00 GMT

Frédéric Barthelet, CTO & Co-founder Alpic, joins Nick Taylor to discuss the Skybridge framework that enables developers to build ChatGPT apps & MCP apps.

Creating Music with AI

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:30:00 GMT

Anthony Campolo joins Nick Taylor to discuss the latest improvements to the AutoShow application and CLI around new music and lyric video generation capabilities.

BenQ RD280UG Review: 28-Inch 4K Programming Monitor for Developers

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:48:00 GMT

This is a sponsored post, but it's an honest review. BenQ sent me their new RD280UG monitor to...

From Fresh Mac to Productive in 30 Minutes

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 16:20:20 GMT

I've been hearing developers talk about their dotfiles for years. "Oh yeah, I just clone my dotfiles...

My 2025 Year in Review

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 18:21:13 GMT

2025 was wild. I wrapped up 2024 with OpenSauced getting acquired by the Linux Foundation, which...

What Makes Goose Different From Other AI Coding Agents

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 05:43:03 GMT

I just finished Goose’s Advent of AI. Everything from CI automation to hand-gesture controlled apps...

Advent of AI 2025 - Day 17: Building a Wishlist App with Goose and MCP-UI

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 15:33:49 GMT

I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....

Advent of AI 2025 - Day 16: Planning With .goosehints

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:52:23 GMT

I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....

Advent of AI 2025 - Day 15: Goose Sub-Recipes

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:44:42 GMT

I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....

Advent of AI 2025 - Day 14: Agent Skills

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:49:52 GMT

I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....

Advent of AI - Day 13: Goose Terminal Integration

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:56:22 GMT

I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts for the Advent of AI. If I'm...

Advent of AI - Day 12: MCP Sampling

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 06:01:21 GMT

I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts for the Advent of AI. If I'm...

Advent of AI - Day 11: Goose Subagents

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 05:15:32 GMT

I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts for the Advent of AI. If I'm...

Using Chrome DevTools MCP with Polypane

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:00:00 GMT

Kilian Valkhof, Founder at Polypane, joins Nick Taylor to discuss how to use the Chrome Dev Tools MCP server with Polypane, a desktop browser purpose-built for modern web development.

ChatGPT Original Games

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:15:00 GMT

Ruben Casas explores the new frontier of ChatGPT Original Games and the evolving app ecosystem that launched in October for ChatGPT.

My Newsletter: Growth, Fun, Slow & Steady

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 01:56:04 GMT

Beehiiv just dropped their 2025 rewind stats for my newsletter, One Tip a Week, and honestly, I’m...

Advent of AI - Day 10: Understanding Arguments in Goose Recipes

Sun, 14 Dec 2025 05:56:41 GMT

I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....

What are AI Evals?

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 14:03:29 GMT

I did a livestream with Jim Bennett (@jimbobbennett) from Galileo recently where we talked about...

Advent of AI 2025 - Day 9: Building a Gift Tag Generator with Goose Recipes

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:24:21 GMT

Advent of AI 2025 - Day 9: Building a Gift Tag Generator with Goose Recipes I've edited...

Real-Time Guardrails for AI Agents

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:15:00 GMT

Jim Bennett, principal developer advocate at Galileo, joins Nick Taylor to discuss real-time guardrails for AI to provide more boundary layers.

Advent of AI 2025 - Day 8: Messy Data to Structured Output

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 03:45:27 GMT

I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....

Advent of AI 2025 - Day 7: Goose Recipes

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 03:39:24 GMT

I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....

Advent of AI 2025 - Day 6: Automating GitHub Issue Triage with Goose

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 04:32:06 GMT

I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....

Advent of AI 2025 - Day 5: I Built a Touchless Flight Tracker You Control With Hand Gestures

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:45:57 GMT

I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....

Advent of AI 2025 - Day 4: Building a Winter Festival Website with Goose

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:30:02 GMT

I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....

I Switched Shell History Tools. Here's Why

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 13:19:35 GMT

Your shell's history search is probably slowing you down more than you realize. Whether you're...

Advent of AI 2025 - Day 3: Building Data Visualizations with Goose

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 02:36:01 GMT

I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....

Advent of AI 2025 - Day 2: Building a Winter Festival Game

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 05:26:22 GMT

I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....

Advent of AI 2025 - Day 1: Getting Goose to Generate Daily Fortunes in CI

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 06:52:43 GMT

I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....

How I Automated My GitHub Profile (And You Can Too)

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 04:48:34 GMT

Keeping a GitHub profile updated is tedious. New blog post? Update the profile. New newsletter issue?...

How I Used Claude Code to Speed Up My Shell Startup by 95%

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 21:22:59 GMT

My terminal was sluggish. Every time I opened a new tab, there was this annoying delay before I could...

Anyone Can Commit Code as You on GitHub (Here's How to Stop Them)

Sun, 26 Oct 2025 12:31:59 GMT

I've been signing my Git commits since 2020, and it's one of those security practices that seems...

Really Cool Reliable Agents

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:15:00 GMT

Erin Mikail Staples, Senior DX Engineer, joins Nick Taylor to discuss Agent frameworks and making them reliable.

Build Your First (or Next) MCP Server with the TypeScript MCP Template

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 04:30:00 GMT

Build Your First (or Next) MCP Server with the TypeScript MCP Template If you've been...

Productivity Tips for AI Tools

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:30:00 GMT

Matt McInnis, founder at Typist, joins Nick Taylor to discuss and showcase productivity tips for Ai tools (Claude Code, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot etc.)

Content Creation

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:30:00 GMT

Shruti Kapoor, a full-time content creator, joins Nick Taylor to discuss content creation.

Quick Fix: My MCP Tools Were Showing as Write Tools in ChatGPT Dev Mode

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 02:17:14 GMT

I recently enabled ChatGPT developer mode and noticed something weird: all my dev.to MCP server tools...

Valibot, Standard Schema and why I created Formisch

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:30:00 GMT

Fabian Hiller, creator of Valibot, joins Nick Taylor to discuss Valibot, Standard Schema and why he created yet another form library.

AI Profits for All

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 13:30:00 GMT

Lucas E. Wall joins Nick Taylor to discus the status of open source generative AI, marketplaces, and AlmmaGPT as a multi-LLM platform.

Netlify Primitives and Local DX

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:30:00 GMT

Eduardo Bouças, Distinguished Engineer at Netlify, joins Nick Taylor to discuss Netlify primitives & the local development experience (DX).

Twilio Voice Al & LangChain

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:15:00 GMT

Rishab Kumar, Staff Developer Evangelist at Twilio, joins Nick Taylor to discuss Twilio Voice Al & LangChain.

Al Buffet: MCPs, Vibe Prompting & Goose

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 17:00:00 GMT

AI’s on the menu! W. Ian Douglas, Staff Developer Relations Engineer at Block, joins Nick Taylor dig into MCPs, Goose, LLM routing & vibe prompting. Pull up a chair at the AI Buffet.

What Modern PHP Actually Looks Like

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:30:00 GMT

Josh Cirre, DevRel at Laravel, joins Nick Taylor do discuss and live code what modern PHP looks like and how can we use types in a Laravel application to have better control across the full stack.

Levelling up Astro env with Varlock

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:30:00 GMT

Theo Ephraim and Phil Miller, cofounders at varlock.dev/dmno.dev, join Nick Taylor to help him integrate Varlock into his Astro site.

Introducing the dev.to MCP server

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 03:55:35 GMT

If you've been wondering how to get your AI tools talking to dev.to's content without building yet...

Building Safer Config with Varlock

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:30:00 GMT

Theo Ephraim and Phil Miller, cofounders at varlock.dev/dmno.dev, join Nick Taylor to discuss and showcase Varlock, a safer way to build config.

MCP Security & Authorization

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 13:20:00 GMT

Den Delimarsky, Model Context Protocol (MCP) Steering Committee Member - Security, joins Nick Taylor to discuss MCP security and authorization.

Travel & Dev Life

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:00:00 GMT

Alex Appleget, software engineer, joins Nick Taylor to discuss origins into software development, dev life and travel.

Git Worktrees: Git Done Right

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:17:54 GMT

I recently discovered Git worktrees, and they've completely changed how I work with Git. I'd heard...

Event-Driven Architecture for AI Agents

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:00:00 GMT

Abhimanyu Selvan, Head of Developer Advocacy (EMEA/APAC) at DigitalOcean, joins Nick Taylor to discuss event-driven architecture for AI Agents.

New Things Coming to Astro

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 14:30:00 GMT

Matt Kane, Astro framework lead, joins Nick Taylor to discuss the some new things coming to Astro.

Let's Explore Langflow

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 15:00:00 GMT

AI Engineer Tejas Kumar joins Nick Taylor to talk about the Langflow project, a new, visual framework for building multi-agent and RAG applications. It is open-source, Python-powered, fully customizable, and LLM and vector store agnostic.

Don't Get Rate-Limited: Use Let's Encrypt Staging

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 05:00:00 GMT

While getting Pomerium Core set up this week for a demo, I ran into Let's Encrypt rate limits. Here’s...

Web, Design & Indie Life

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:30:00 GMT

Andy Bell joins Nick Taylor to chat about web dev, design, and indie life in 2025. From CSS and Tailwind to TypeScript, Set Studio, and community-backed course funding.

Lets Code Daggerfall Using GenAI

Wed, 28 May 2025 18:00:00 GMT

Andrew Brown, CEO at ExamPro, joins Nick Taylor to discuss generative AI. They'll also live code the game Daggerfall using GenAI!

Getting McFly Working on Ubuntu Server

Mon, 26 May 2025 10:00:00 GMT

McFly is a slick, Rust-powered shell history tool that supercharges your reverse search (Ctrl+R) with...

Astro Server Islands: How They Work and When to Use Them

Mon, 19 May 2025 04:01:00 GMT

Astro introduced a powerful new pattern called Server Islands last year. If you're building with...

Self-Host Your AI Coding Assistant

Thu, 15 May 2025 17:15:00 GMT

Brian Douglas, Head of Ecosystem at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), joins Nick Taylor to chat about using continue.dev to help build CNCF/insights. They’ll also dive into contributor.info and how it’s helping support and highlight open source contributors.

Funding in Open Source: A Conversation with Chad Whitacre

Tue, 13 May 2025 09:25:00 GMT

“Open source isn’t a market economy. It’s a gift economy.” — Chad Whitacre, Head of Open Source at...

Go's singleflight package and why it's awesome for concurrent requests

Mon, 05 May 2025 12:40:01 GMT

Concurrency in Go is fun… until duplicate work starts hammering your backend. I’m still pretty new...

Just the Hardest 5%

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:30:00 GMT

Nick Taylor is joined by Ray Deck, Founder at StateChange.ai, to explore mental models for building software—especially with AI and low-code tools in the mix. A great convo for folks new to the field!

Funding in Open Source

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 17:15:00 GMT

Chad Whitacre, Head of Open Source at Sentry joins Nick Taylor to discuss funding in open source.

An Introduction to TanStack Form

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:30:00 GMT

TanStack Form is a headless, performant, and type-safe form state management for TS/JS, React, Vue, Angular, Solid, and Lit. Corbin Crutchley, a maintainer on the project, offers a comprehensive introduction to the project.

Running the Cloud on Your Own Laptop

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 18:00:00 GMT

Brian Rinaldi, Developer Relations Lead at LocalStack, joins Nick Taylor to discuss LocalStack, an open-core tool that lets developers run a complete AWS cloud environment on their laptop for faster, cost-effective development and testing.

BenQ RD280U Review: A 28" 4K Monitor Built for Developers

Sun, 13 Apr 2025 18:02:52 GMT

BenQ sent me this monitor for review, but these are my honest thoughts after a few weeks of...

London Adventures: KubeCon EU 2025, SREday and More!

Sun, 06 Apr 2025 23:35:48 GMT

Not gonna lie, my recent trip to London was packed with stuff! It was mainly work related for...

Beyond the Buzz: Practical GenAI

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 14:30:00 GMT

Raymond Camden joins Nick Taylor to discuss and showcase practical GenAI.

Goose: An Open Source Al Agent

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:30:00 GMT

Ebony Louis, Developer Advocate at Block, joins Nick Taylor to discuss Goose, an open source AI agent.

Introducing agent-api: A powerful Al agent framework for Go

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:00:00 GMT

John McBride, VP of Infrastructure and AI Engineering at The Linux Foundation, joins Nick Taylor to discuss his project, agent-api, a powerful AI agent framework for Go.

AI Life in Y Combinator

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:30:00 GMT

Abhi Aiyer, CTO at Mastra.ai, joins Nick Taylor to discuss being an AI startup in Y Combinator.

The RayCast Port Manager Extension

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 22:08:30 GMT

If you aren’t a Raycast user, definitely check it out. I was a fan of Alfred for years, but moved to...

Yeoman

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:30:00 GMT

Yeoman is a robust and opinionated set of tools, libraries, and a workflow to manage templates ("generators") for web projects. The project has new maintainers, including Josh, and we'll dive into open source in general as well as Yeoman.

I’m joining Pomerium!

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 05:01:00 GMT

New year, new role! Today is my first day at Pomerium. I'm joining the team as their Developer...

From Individual Contributor to CTO

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 18:00:00 GMT

Mike Chen, CTO at Motivo, joins Nick Taylor to discuss their path from individual contributor (IC), to engineering manager, to CTO.

Building an Ollama-Powered GitHub Copilot Extension

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 06:00:00 GMT

A few months ago, I wrote about creating your first GitHub Copilot extension, and later discussed...

My 2024 Year in Review

Fri, 27 Dec 2024 15:32:49 GMT

Not gonna lie, 2024 was a wild ride. OpenSauced Starting 2024 was my fourth month at...

Waku, the Minimal React Framework

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:00:00 GMT

Daishi Kato, a React library author and the creator of Waku, a minimal React framework, joins Nick Taylor to discuss the Waku project. Daishi and Nick will live code something with Waku.

Creating Music with AI

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 15:30:00 GMT

Anthony Campolo joins Nick Taylor to discuss the latest improvements to the AutoShow application and CLI around new music and lyric video generation capabilities.

Full-stack JavaScript with The Boring Javascript Stack

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 15:30:00 GMT

Kelvin Omereshone , Lead maintainer, Sails.js, joins Nick Taylor to discuss full-stack JavaScript with the Boring JavaScript Stack.

Autoshow: Automated Content Repurposing Tool

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 20:00:00 GMT

Anthony Campolo joins Nick Taylor to discuss the latest improvements to Autoshow, a tool for repurposing content. Autoshow automates the processing of audio and video content from various sources, including YouTube videos, playlists, podcast RSS feeds, and local media files. It performs transcription, summarization, and chapter generation using different language models (LLMs) and transcription services.

Code Reviews for a11y Pull Requests

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:30:00 GMT

Nick and Fatuma reviews some accessibility fixes up for the OpenSauced app repository.

Building a GitHub Copilot Extension from A-Z

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 16:30:00 GMT

Nick builds out a GitHub Copilot extension from A-Z based off his recent blog post, Creating a GitHub Copilot Extension: A Step-by-Step Guide.

A Deep Dive into Astro's Content Layer

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 14:30:00 GMT

Matt Kane, a core maintainer for Astro, joins Nick Taylor, to dig into Astro's new content layer. They'll build some fun stuff with loaders, build loaders and more!

Creating a GitHub Copilot Extension: A Step-by-Step Guide

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 05:00:00 GMT

GitHub Copilot, the AI-powered coding assistant, has recently introduced Copilot Extensions to...

What is GenAIScript?

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 04:01:00 GMT

I recently got to hang with Peli de Halleux (@pelikhan) to discuss the GenAIScript project. ...

Open Source: From Design to Dev

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:30:00 GMT

Drew Powers, co-creator of the Astro framework joins Nick Taylor to discuss open source, design and development.

Introducing the OpenSauced Pizza GitHub Action: Automate Your Repository Management

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:53:00 GMT

Are you looking for an easy way to streamline your repository management tasks? Look no further!...

Let's build a Copilot extension!

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 18:00:00 GMT

Gregor Martynus and Francis Batac from GitHub join Nick Taylor to build out a proof of concept Copilot Extension for OpenSauced.

GenAIScript

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 14:30:00 GMT

Peli de halleux, a software engineer at Microsoft that works on the GenAIScript project, will give us an introduction to the project.

API Monitoring and Observability

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 14:30:00 GMT

Anthony Alaribe, co-founder at APItoolkit, joins Nick Taylor to discuss API monitoring and observability.

Spicy Cybersecurity Showdown

Mon, 26 Aug 2024 17:30:00 GMT

Nick and Diana face off in this Spicy Cybersecurity Showdown!

Supercharge Your GitHub Profile: Showcase Your Open Source Contributions

Mon, 19 Aug 2024 15:01:09 GMT

Last week, we launched our brand new Dev Cards with the OSCR (Open Source Contributor Rating)...

Open Graph Images with Cloudinary

Mon, 12 Aug 2024 17:00:00 GMT

Colby Fayock, Director of Developer Experience Engineering at Cloudinary, joins Nick Taylor to discuss and build Open Graph (OG) images with Cloudinary.

Freaky Fast Full Stack with Expo Router + API Routes

Mon, 05 Aug 2024 17:00:00 GMT

Keith Kurak, from Expo, joins Nick Taylor to build out a full stack app with Expo Router and API routes.

React Server Components with Go

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 17:00:00 GMT

Yaroslav Lapin joins Nick Taylor to discuss React Server Components usage in go.

Musician to Developer

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 13:30:00 GMT

Ryan Furrer, UX Engineer @ Gridiron Survivor, joins Nick Taylor to discuss his journey from musician to developer.

Multitenant Database Schemas

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 05:14:00 GMT

I recently got to hang with Jamie Barton (@notrab) from the Turso team. We discussed Multitenant...

The Functional Programming Buffet

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 17:30:00 GMT

Dillon Mulroy, Software Engineer at Vercel, joins Nick Taylor to dig into the functional programming buffet. OCaml, Gleam, EffectTS and functional programming in general!

All Things Rails

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 17:00:00 GMT

Ridhwana Khan joins Nick Taylor to discuss all things Ruby on Rails. From Rails World all the way to writing the guides for the Rails Foundation.

A maintainer's story: Managing to code is rare

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 16:00:00 GMT

Bjoern 'Idrinth' Buettner joins Nick Taylor to discuss life as a maintainer in open source. Bjoern will also introduce us to api-bench, a performance measuring solution for APIs.

Swift on the Server with Vapor

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:00:00 GMT

Tim Condon, a core team member of the Vapor project, joins. Nick Taylor to discuss server-side Swift with Vapor as well as do some live coding.

AI for Developers and Open Source Models

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:00:00 GMT

Sam Julien, Director of Developer Relations at Writer, joins Nick Taylor to discuss AI for developers, and open source models. They'll build out something fun using Writer's framework and SDKs.

My Path to DevRel

Mon, 15 Jul 2024 17:00:00 GMT

Eleftheria Batsou, Community Manager at CrabNebula, joins Nick Taylor to discuss their path from frontend to developer relations. They’ll discuss what Eleftheria is doing at CrabNebula to help with the community initiative, go over content creation, public speaking, all the things!

Review: Fifine Ampligame AM6 Condenser Mic

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 03:43:26 GMT

Before we get started, please note that Fifine sent me a microphone for this review. ...

An Intro to Elixir

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 17:00:00 GMT

Brian Meeker, Senior Software Engineer at GetThru, will walk us through what makes Elixir so awesome.

Leadership and Lifting

Wed, 10 Jul 2024 17:00:00 GMT

Nick Taylor sits down with Netlify engineering leader Claire Knight, who isn't just passionate about lifting her team to success, but also enjoys lifting heavy things. (Spoiler alert: Nick's a big fan of both too!) They’ll dive deep into what it takes to be a great leader in the engineering world.

Co-working/Working on OpenSauced 🍕

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 14:45:00 GMT

Nick works on OpenSauced in the open on his live stream.

The React useRef Hook: Not Just for DOM Elements

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 04:38:17 GMT

In this post, we'll cover what the useRef hook is, some examples of how it can be used, and when it...

Multitenant database schemas

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 17:00:00 GMT

Multitenant database (DB) schemas allow you to create and share a single schema across multiple databases. Jamie Barton, a full stack engineer at Turso, will show us how Turso allows you to create a single schema and share it across multiple databases.

Co-working/Working on OpenSauced 🍕

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 13:30:00 GMT

Nick works on OpenSauced in the open on his live stream.

Co-working/Working on OpenSauced 🍕

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 16:30:00 GMT

Nick works on OpenSauced in the open on his live stream.

Co-working/Working on OpenSauced 🍕

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 17:30:00 GMT

Nick works on OpenSauced in the open on his live stream.

Big Data and Smart Gadgets

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:00:00 GMT

Travis Nyhoff joins Nick Taylor to discuss IoT projects they’ve worked on to monitor equipment and the data transfer/storage/cleaning that is done to facilitate automated reporting around it.

Valibot: A New Approach to Data Validation in JavaScript

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:54:14 GMT

I recently got to hang with the creator of Valibot, Fabian Hiller on a live stream. We discussed its...

A look into Valibot, a 1 kb Zod alternative

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 17:00:00 GMT

Fabian Hiller, creator of Valibot, joins Nick Taylor to discuss schema libraries, bundle-size, modularity and performance.

Netlify's New Primitives

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:50:00 GMT

Eduardo Bouças, Principal Software Engineer at Netlify, joins Nick Taylor to discuss all the new Netlify Primitives that have been added to the platform. They'll also do some live coding to showcase the new primitives.

I AM DEFINITELY NOT A ROBOT

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:00:00 GMT

Gant Laborde joins Nick Taylor for a super fun stream. AI in apps, conferences, all the things!

What's the deal with Laravel?

Fri, 31 May 2024 17:00:00 GMT

Josh Cirre, DevRel at Laravel, joins Nick Taylor to discuss the project. There will be live coding as well where Josh teaches Nick some modern Laravel (Livewire, Single file components, etc.)

Autogenerate Shownotes with Whisper.cpp and yt-dlp

Wed, 29 May 2024 17:00:00 GMT

Anthony Campolo, Developer Advocate, joins Nick Taylor to discuss and live code autogenerating shownotes with Whisper.cpp and yt-dlp.

An Introduction to Effect

Mon, 27 May 2024 17:00:00 GMT

Effect is a powerful TypeScript library designed to help developers easily create complex, synchronous, and asynchronous programs. Michael Arnaldi, Creator of Effect, joins Nick Taylor to discuss the project.

The State of .NET Tooling in 2024

Tue, 14 May 2024 18:44:54 GMT

This is a transcript from a great conversation I had with Brandon Minnick recently. We discuss the...

Mobile + Serverless with .NET MAUI and AWS Lambda

Mon, 13 May 2024 17:00:00 GMT

Brandon Minnick, .NET Developer Advocate @ AWS, joins Nick Taylor to discuss mobile & serverless .NET MAUI and AWS Lambda.

All Things Clerk!

Fri, 10 May 2024 17:00:00 GMT

Jacob M-G Evans, Senior DevX Engineer at Clerk, joins Nick Taylor to discuss the Clerk Elements, a new set of unstyled UI primitives that make it easy to build completely custom user interfaces on top of Clerk's API. They'll also dig into all the awesome things Clerk can do as a user management platform

Community & DevRel

Mon, 06 May 2024 17:00:00 GMT

Chris DeMars, Senior Developer Advocate II at DigitalOcean, joins Nick Taylor to discuss community and developer relations.

Tools that keep me productive

Mon, 06 May 2024 05:00:00 GMT

This page details mostly all I use as a developer. I use a Mac, so a bunch of tools are...

Creating an OG image using React and Netlify Edge Functions

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 07:00:00 GMT

Open Graph (OG) images are a must if you're sharing content on the Internet. From sites like...

AI Frontends

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 17:00:00 GMT

Anthony Campolo joins Nick Taylor to discuss AI Frontends with React, Next.js, LangChain, LlamaIndex, and Mistral.

TanStack Table

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 16:30:00 GMT

Software engineer Kevin Thomas Van Cott and Nick Taylor live code the integration of TanStack Table into a new OpenSauced feature.

The Open Source Hour

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 17:00:00 GMT

Tobiloba Adedeji, Community Engineer at Million.js, and Nick Taylor discuss open source.

Form and Function: How I Lost My Submit Button & Got It Back

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 11:43:34 GMT

As web developers, we know that most of the create, read update, and delete (CRUD) actions we perform...

Content creation and networking for developers

Fri, 29 Mar 2024 17:00:00 GMT

Brian Morrison, Sr Developer Educator at Clerk, and Nick Taylor discuss content creation and networking for developers.

Building Reliable Systems Using Temporal

Mon, 25 Mar 2024 17:00:00 GMT

Peter Mbanugo joins Nick Taylor to discuss building reliable systems using Temporal as a Durable Execution framework.

React Native’s most popular stack: Ignite (maybe?)

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:00:00 GMT

Jamon Holmgren, CTO at Infinite Red, joins Nick Taylor to discuss the Ignite project, a battle-tested React Native boilerplate.

Applying Compassion to Our Technical Work

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:00:00 GMT

April Wensel, Founder of Compassionate Coding, dives into how we can apply compassion to our technical work.

Stuck in the Middle with You: An intro to Middleware

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 15:41:05 GMT

Middleware exists in several frameworks like Next.js, Express, Hono and Fresh, and not just in...

Supercharge Frontend Development with Polypane

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 19:00:00 GMT

Kilian Valkhof, the creator of Polyplane, joins Nick to discuss the product and all that it can do to supercharge frontend development.

You Probably Don't Need eslint-config-prettier or eslint-plugin-prettier

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 18:00:00 GMT

Josh Goldberg, an open source developer, joins Nick to discuss his latest blog post, You Probably Don't Need eslint-config-prettier or eslint-plugin-prettier. OpenSauced, where Nick works, uses prettier and eslint/typescript-eslint. They'll work on removing the prettier plugin and config for eslint.

Challenging the Skeptics: Unveiling the Undeniable Goodness of Tailwind CSS

Tue, 06 Feb 2024 05:00:00 GMT

People definitely have opinions about Tailwind. There are staunch supporters and staunch haters, but...

Free SDK generation for open source software

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:00:00 GMT

Jim Bennett, Principal Developer Advocate at liblab, joins Nick to discuss liblab , a product that provides SDK development tools that integrate with an API for authentication, error handling, security and more.

Review: Logitech Litra Glow Premium LED Streaming Light with TrueSoft

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 11:32:28 GMT

So I live stream on Twitch mainly, although I have started to stream to my YouTube channel as...

Tauri 🤝 SolidJS

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 18:00:00 GMT

Atila, DevRel Engineer at CrabNebula, joins Nick to discuss the Tauri and SolidJS projects. They'll also have some fun building out an app!

Unlocking the Power of HTML's Native Browser Dialog Element

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:32:20 GMT

All the major browsers now support the <dialog /> element. Why add this HTML element? User land...

Sentry in Action

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 18:00:00 GMT

Salma Alam-Naylor, DevRel @ Sentry, joins Nick to discuss the Sentry product. They'll also have some fun seeing if they can find some bugs in an app Nick is working on.

Web accessibility is coming and we need better tooling

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 18:00:00 GMT

Andrew Hedges, Co-founder of Assistiv Labs, joins Nick to discuss trends in accessibility, where the industry is moving, what inefficiencies we're trying to fix.

My 2023 Year in Review

Sun, 07 Jan 2024 00:21:09 GMT

Another year, another year in review. Let's get to it! Work 2022 ended with layoffs at...

CodeNewbie, notadesigner.io, fundraising, all the things!

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 18:00:00 GMT

Saron Yitbarek founded CodeNewbie, Disco, and now notadesigner.io. Come hang with Saron and Nick as Saron shows us the ropes on how to be awesome.

Migrating from Jest to Vitest for your React Application

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 08:00:00 GMT

Are you looking to migrate from Jest to Vitest for your React application? Look no further. I...

Low Code & AI Equals Opportunity

Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:50:00 GMT

Come hang with Ray Deck, Founder at statechange.ai and Nick as they explore the world of low code and AI and the opportunities they create for people getting into tech.

Discussion de Open Source

Fri, 08 Dec 2023 14:00:00 GMT

Thomas Bonnet, a web developer, joins Nick to discuss open source. This live stream will be a little different as it will be in French. Come join us for a lively discussion en Français!

Style Dictionary vs Cobalt for Design Tokens

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 18:00:00 GMT

Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent, Engineer @ Netlify, and Drew Powers, Designer & Developer, will discuss the merits of Amazon's Style Dictionary and Cobalt, two design token translation tools in the context of Netlify's design token library. We'll also discuss what are design tokens. Bring your questions no matter you level of expertise!

HTML Data Attributes: One of the Original State Management Libraries

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 04:43:12 GMT

I was streaming recently and discussed how I implemented part of a graph I was building out. The...

End to End Testing a Browser Extension

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 17:50:00 GMT

Come hang with Abdurrahman and Nick as they write out some end to end tests for the OpenSauced browser extension.

TypeScript: Infer Types to Avoid Explicit Types

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 04:59:47 GMT

The idea for this post came about while I was reviewing this pull request (PR) for OpenSauced. ...

Boost productivity with the GitHub CLI

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 15:00:00 GMT

The GitHub CLI is an indispensable tool as a project maintainer or contributor on GitHub. It can...

An AI Thanksgiving

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 18:00:00 GMT

Lizzie Siegle, Developer Evangelist at Twilio, joins Nick to have some fun with AI, Streamlit, LangChain, and they tie it all into Thanksgiving. AI Turkey anyone? 🦃 🤣

TypeScript and React: Enforcing Props for Accessibility

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 10:32:57 GMT

Recently, I added a small accessibility win to our code base. fix:...

GitHub Actions: A Maintainer's Best Friend

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 14:06:46 GMT

As developers, it’s in our best interest to automate things. The less we have to do in a manual way,...

Hunting Accessibility Bugs

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 17:00:00 GMT

Todd Libby, Senior Accessibility Engineer, joins Nick to go hunting for accessibility bugs in the OpenSauced codebase.

Biz & Bytes

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 17:00:00 GMT

Scott Steinlage joins Nick Taylor to discuss growth, marketing, DevRel, community, all the things!

RedwoodJS, Dev & Design

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:00:00 GMT

Amy Dutton, from the RedwoodJS core team, joins Nick Taylor to discuss the RedwoodJS project, and they discuss how Amy built out the wonderful animation from the RedwoodJS ticket site for this year's RedwoodJS conference. They'll dig into RedwoodJS's implementation of React Server Components (RSCs) and chat about Amy's background as a designer and developer.

DeviceScript - TypeScript for Microelectronics

Wed, 04 Oct 2023 17:00:00 GMT

Peli de halleux, a software engineer at Microsoft that works on the DeviceScript project, will give us an introduction to the project.

Building Appwrite Functions

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 17:00:00 GMT

Aditya Oberai, Developer Advocate at Appwrite joins Nick to discuss Appwrite's new Function Templates and they'll build out something fun with them.

Getting Saucy: I Joined OpenSauced!

Sat, 23 Sep 2023 18:17:40 GMT

It's fall and the leaves are starting to change here in Montreal, which allows me to use that analogy...

Supercharge your Repository with Code Owners

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 15:51:24 GMT

As a maintainer of a repository, it’s in your best interest to automate processes as much as...

Clerk, Authentication, Web Dev, All the Things!

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:00:00 GMT

Dev Agrawal, Developer Advocate at Clerk.com, joins Nick to discuss Clerk and authn/authz. They’ll also discuss web development, backend and serverless… all the things! Expect some live coding as well!

Virtual DOM: Back in Block

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 17:00:00 GMT

Million.js is a Virtual DOM Replacement for React where you can gain big performance wins for UI and data heavy React apps. Aiden Bai, the creator of Million.js, joins Nick to discuss the project.

Pizza Bake Off

Wed, 23 Aug 2023 17:00:00 GMT

Brian Douglas, Chief Sauce Officer at OpenSauced and John McBride, Senior Software Engineer at OpenSauced join Nick Taylor to discuss the pizza project, a Go micro-service that sources git commits from any arbitrary git repo and indexes them into a postgres database.

How to debug a Firefox add-on (extension)

Thu, 17 Aug 2023 00:31:41 GMT

Before we get started Firefox supports browser extensions like Chromium-based browsers...

Kettlebells and Code

Wed, 09 Aug 2023 17:00:00 GMT

Anna Nettles, a Software Engineer & Certified Personal Trainer, joins Nick to discuss her journey in tech, put Nick through a grinder of a workout 😅 and dig into some code.

Kettlebells & Code: Dev Health

Wed, 09 Aug 2023 03:51:14 GMT

As tech workers, we sit down quite a bit during the day. I have a standing desk that helps me stretch...

Intro to Wasp: Full stack development with React & Node.js

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:00:00 GMT

Matija Sosic, founder at Wasp-lang.dev, joins us to discuss Wasp and its core philosophies. We’ll also play with the GPT Web App Generator created using Wasp.

An Intro to React Native and Expo

Wed, 19 Jul 2023 17:00:00 GMT

Ramón Huidobro, Developer Relations Consultant joins Nick to give Nick and the audience and intro to Expo and React Native. They'll also live code a small app using Expo.

Accessbility and an Audit

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 17:00:00 GMT

Graham Ritchie joins Nick Taylor to discuss accessiblity, a11y tools, and then they perform an audit of a web site.

Making and Learning

Wed, 28 Jun 2023 17:00:00 GMT

Andy Piper joins Nick Taylor to discuss making, IoT messaging (MQTT), MicroPython and Mastodon.

Write Code faster with ChatGPT

Wed, 21 Jun 2023 17:00:00 GMT

Discover the secrets to accelerated coding with ChatGPT as Matt McInnis, developer at Typist, guides us through prompting techniques and demonstrates how to effectively provide context to ChatGPT.

Full-Spectrum File Uploads

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 17:00:00 GMT

Austin Gil joins Nick Taylor to discuss how file uploads work across frontend, backend, and discuss architecture around them.

Leverage Data at the Edge with Turso

Thu, 08 Jun 2023 17:30:00 GMT

Glauber Costa, Founder/CEO at Turso shows us how to leverage data at the edge with Turso.

Open Source Data Labeling and Why it's Important

Thu, 25 May 2023 17:30:00 GMT

Erin Mikail Staples, Senior Community Developer Advocate at Label Studio, will teach us all about open source data labeling and why it's important.

Let's build with Cloudinary!

Wed, 24 May 2023 17:00:00 GMT

Colby Fayock, Director of DX Engineering at Cloudinary, will teach us all about Cloudinary while Nick and Colby build out something fun.

Optimizing your open source contributions

Thu, 18 May 2023 17:30:00 GMT

We'll discuss optimizing OSS contributions and also tackle an issue from the OpenSauced organization where Bekah works.

Coaching and Why It's Helpful for Engineers

Thu, 04 May 2023 17:30:00 GMT

Kevin Ball, a.k.a. kball discusses coaching and why it's helpful for engineers.

Building with Ionic

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 17:00:00 GMT

Mike Hartington, Director of DevRel at Ionic, walks us through building apps with Ionic.

HTML Videos on Canvas!

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 17:00:00 GMT

Shruti Kapoor, Software Engineer at Slack, teaches us all about HTML videos on canvas.

Getting Started with Storyblok

Wed, 05 Apr 2023 17:00:00 GMT

Cat Ballar, Developer Relations Engineer at Storyblok, joins the live stream to show us how to get up and running with Storyblok.

Have questions about ESLint?

Sun, 02 Apr 2023 23:42:34 GMT

I'm going to be hanging with @joshuakgoldberg on their stream this Tuesday. We're going to be...

Astro & Education

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 16:30:00 GMT

Dan Jutan joins Nick Taylor on the stream to discuss Astro and developer education (docs, learning etc.). They also take a peek at the migration to Astro for Nick's blog.

Community & Core Skills

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:00:00 GMT

Bekah joins Nick Taylor to talk how important community and core skills are to your growth as a developer.

Why’s it so damn hard to break into tech?

Wed, 15 Mar 2023 17:00:00 GMT

Andrew Hedges, founder at Collab Lab, joins Nick Taylor to discuss why it's so hard to break into tech.

Transform Your Portfolio Website with These Expert Tips

Sun, 12 Mar 2023 14:12:11 GMT

Yes that title sounds a bit clickbaity, but I assure you this post is not all fluff. Buckle up! I...

Where do you find community?

Sun, 19 Feb 2023 14:52:22 GMT

When I think of community, I think of safe spaces for everyone with diverse folks who I can learn...

BenQ ScreenBar Halo Monitor Light Review

Sun, 12 Feb 2023 19:57:34 GMT

Before I give my review here, I want to mention that this is a sponsored post. BenQ sent me the...

Twitter charging for API usage starting Feb. 9th

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 13:59:09 GMT

Twitter as of February 9th will start charging developers to use their API. ...

Non-tech Reading Recommendations?

Mon, 26 Dec 2022 06:07:49 GMT

Like the Tweet and toots say, I'm looking for some reading recommendations. What's a great book...

My 2022 Year in Review

Sat, 24 Dec 2022 05:21:37 GMT

Well, it's been a year! And you know what that means. Time for my year in review. Work ...

Have you moved from Twitter to Mastodon for social media?

Sun, 20 Nov 2022 06:20:37 GMT

I created a Mastodon account on toot.cafe back in 2017, but I only did a little with it. I...

App to grab your Revue newsletters

Sun, 13 Nov 2022 14:44:58 GMT

So I wrote about how Twitter is scrapping Revue. Revue being...

Revue being phased out by Twitter

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 13:40:01 GMT

If you're like me, you may have jumped on the let me integrate Revue with my Twitter to better...

Automate and Auto-Merge Pull Requests using GitHub Actions and the GitHub CLI

Sun, 06 Nov 2022 01:32:09 GMT

So I've written about how I automated content updates for my blog before. I even gave a talk on...

What is The Collab Lab?

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 01:17:00 GMT

Curious about what The Collab Lab is? Here's the TL;DR The Collab Lab increases access to web...

Build framework-agnostic components with Mitosis

Tue, 18 Oct 2022 00:35:07 GMT

Sami Jaber, Software Engineer @ Builder.io joined me recently to discuss Mitosis, a tool for building...

Repurposing Content for Content Creation

Sun, 16 Oct 2022 15:27:00 GMT

So I've been streaming on Twitch since July 2020, blogging, and given some talks. To keep on with the...

Funding in open source

Sun, 09 Oct 2022 01:57:00 GMT

Recently, @joshuakgoldberg joined me on my stream to discuss TypeScript, TypeScript ESLint, open...

Hacktoberfest 2022: Preptember!

Sun, 25 Sep 2022 04:17:09 GMT

Hacktoberfest 2022 is almost upon us! Whether you are new to Hacktoberfest or a seasoned veteran,...

More engagement through series on dev.to

Sun, 11 Sep 2022 03:41:38 GMT

I’ve tweeted about this before, but one way I’ve been able to get engagement on old posts is to...

Live reloading in Rust

Sat, 03 Sep 2022 04:13:20 GMT

I've been learning Rust on and off since last fall. I'm still not proficient in the language as I...

Contributing to Open Source and how Open Sauced can help

Tue, 02 Aug 2022 19:41:00 GMT

Last week I got to hang with Brian Douglas on my Twitch stream. We discussed contributing to open...

What is Deno?

Thu, 14 Jul 2022 03:41:00 GMT

I got to hang with Deno core team member Luca Casonato a couple of weeks ago to discuss a framework...

Learning Resources for TypeScript

Sun, 10 Jul 2022 04:16:00 GMT

I've had folks ask me for Typescript resources a few times over the past couple of months, so I might...

a11y-twitter: a browser extension for making Tweets more accessible

Sat, 02 Jul 2022 12:58:14 GMT

Just over a year ago, I made a post on Twitter, and I realized that I had forgotten to add alternate...

Speech-to-text with Deepgram

Wed, 22 Jun 2022 22:00:16 GMT

Bekah Hawrot Weigel (@bekahhw) joined me on my stream today to show how you can transcribe text using...

Automate syndication of your content with Eleventy, dev.to, and GitHub Actions

Thu, 26 May 2022 17:12:32 GMT

This started off as a test post for my talk I gave this past week at the Eleventy Meetup. Here’s...

Ecosystem and Frameworks: My Role at Netlify

Thu, 12 May 2022 03:29:20 GMT

I'm curious what frontend frameworks you're all interested in these days? Powerful meta frameworks...

Review: Logitech ERGO K860 Wireless Keyboard

Fri, 06 May 2022 03:55:58 GMT

I started a new role at the beginning of April, and they ship you equipment, including a new keyboard...

Enabling keyboard navigation on your Mac

Sat, 02 Apr 2022 21:29:36 GMT

I'm starting a new role soon, and they shipped me a brand new Macbook Pro. I got everything set up...

Strongly Typed JSON in TypeScript

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 03:36:19 GMT

Someone in one of the Slack communities I'm a part of asked today how to type JSON in TypeScript,...

Productivity Tools I Use

Tue, 29 Mar 2022 20:47:12 GMT

Here is a short list of some great tools I've discovered over the past year. macOS Only ...

How to Use a React Hook in a Class Component

Mon, 28 Mar 2022 19:03:10 GMT

Did you know that you can use hooks in class components? OK, I'm lying, kind of. You can't use a...

npx gitignore

Sat, 26 Mar 2022 01:04:06 GMT

I've done this a few times on a live stream and there is always someone unaware of this so I wanted...

My Impact at Forem

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 03:47:23 GMT

This is my first post about impact. What do I mean by impact? How did you influence the place where...

My 2021 Year in Review

Fri, 31 Dec 2021 04:32:21 GMT

Like last year, 2021 has been quite the year. Despite the pandemic, I stayed healthy and managed to...

Frontend Developer Resources 2022

Tue, 28 Dec 2021 04:16:00 GMT

I don't know if I'll keep doing this every year, but I did one of these in 2020, and that post got...

How I Do Code Reviews

Thu, 09 Dec 2021 00:57:44 GMT

Someone in my Virtual Coffee community asked about getting better at reviewing pull requests (PR)...

An NFT based game

Thu, 28 Oct 2021 02:29:29 GMT

The project So this past week I built out my second dApp with the current cohort in the...

I built my first dApp!

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 20:00:48 GMT

This past weekend I completed a web3 project from the awesome folks at buildspace. The project was...

First impressions of Polywork as a software engineer

Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:58:35 GMT

This post was sponsored by Polywork, but it is my own authentic review Polywork is a new...

Getting Started with Streaming on Twitch

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 03:22:00 GMT

Last Friday, I gave a brownbag talk for my Virtual Coffee community on getting started with streaming...

Getting Started with Regular Expressions

Sun, 18 Jul 2021 04:17:00 GMT

Regular expressions (regex) are one of those things that folks seem to make fun of most of the time...

I started a newsletter!

Sat, 12 Jun 2021 05:03:32 GMT

I've decided to start a newsletter! Yes, I know. Many folks do newsletters already, but I post a...

Pairing with Meg Gutshall

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 05:26:35 GMT

On May 26th, DEV Community member Meg Gutshall joined @coffeecraftcode and me on the pairing stream...

I Started a JavaScript Stream on Twitch!

Sun, 30 May 2021 03:58:33 GMT

The title says it all. I started a JavaScript (JS) Twitch stream! As some of you know, I co-host the...

Pairing with Jhey Tompkins

Wed, 12 May 2021 18:38:25 GMT

On April 28th, DEV Community member Jhey Tompkins joined @coffeecraftcode and I on the pairing stream...

Jamstack and Serverless with Jason Lengstorf

Fri, 07 May 2021 03:21:25 GMT

On April 21st, Jason Lengstorf (VP of Developer Experience at Netlify and DEV Community member)...

Pairing with Community Manager Christina Gorton

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:34:31 GMT

On March 14th, DEV Community manager Christina joined me on the pairing stream to talk about Cypress...

Learning Rust

Sun, 18 Apr 2021 19:47:05 GMT

My awesome coworker @citizen428 dropped a new resource for learning the Rust language care of...

My Twitch Stream Setup

Sat, 17 Apr 2021 19:27:33 GMT

So I started streaming on Twitch last year. I've Started to...

Pairing with Community Member Seth Hall

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 17:32:01 GMT

On March 17th, DEV Community member Seth Hall joined Christina and I on the pairing stream to work on...

Storybook Talk / Live Coding

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 03:43:46 GMT

Last week, I gave a talk on Storybook at a The Collab Lab meetup. ...

Pairing with Community Member Jono Yeong

Fri, 19 Feb 2021 19:38:48 GMT

On February 17th, DEV Community member Jono Yeong joined Christina and I on the pairing stream to...

Pairing with Community Member Dan Ott

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 22:50:55 GMT

On February 3rd, DEV Community member Dan Ott joined Christina and I on the pairing stream to work on...

Pairing with Community Member Rafi

Fri, 22 Jan 2021 21:36:29 GMT

On January 21st, DEV Community member Rafi joined Christina and I on the pairing stream to work on...

My 2020 Year in Review

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 13:50:55 GMT

2020, it’s been a year. It’s been tough on a lot of folks. I’m a pretty upbeat person, but even I...

Testing Preact/React Portals with Testing Library

Mon, 30 Nov 2020 20:30:08 GMT

This post was going to be about troubles I ran into testing Portals, but in the end after writing...

Pairing with Community Member Marie Antons

Mon, 02 Nov 2020 14:11:10 GMT

On October 22nd, DEV Community member Marie Antons joined Christina and I on the pairing stream to...

Pairing with Community Member Rachael Wright-Munn

Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:46:39 GMT

On October 15th, DEV Community member Rachael Wright-Munn joined Christina and I on the pairing...

Pairing with Community Member Eliot Sanford

Mon, 19 Oct 2020 20:40:03 GMT

On October 8th, DEV Community member Eliot Sanford joined Christina and I on the pairing stream to...

Set up a git precommit hook with husky, lint-staged, prettier, and stylelint

Sun, 18 Oct 2020 04:20:19 GMT

There's a few things I always set up when working on a frontend project: ESLint, Prettier, husky and...

Pairing with Taniyah Jackson on Pinning Comments to Articles

Mon, 21 Sep 2020 21:44:45 GMT

I had a lot of fun with Taniyah Jackson on the pairing today. She's brand new to Ruby and Ruby on...

Building out the Go Playground Liquid Tag for DEV with Chuck Smith

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 21:40:01 GMT

At then end of July, I had a chance to pair with awesome community member Chuck Smith. They...

See the big picture

Sun, 30 Aug 2020 03:55:25 GMT

Depending on where you are at in your career, you may have heard of the term get the big picture or...

Not Captain Obvious

Mon, 03 Aug 2020 03:37:54 GMT

I've been reading @swyx's book "The Career Coding Handbook". It launched on July 1st. Although I am...

Converting a Preact Component to use hooks with Sophia Li

Mon, 27 Jul 2020 04:01:08 GMT

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post asking DEV community members if they wanted to potentially pair...

Let's Pair during a Live Coding Session!

Tue, 14 Jul 2020 14:10:13 GMT

I started live streaming a couple of months ago. I've Started...

Changelog: Frontend Edition

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 19:09:12 GMT

I Tweeted this out last week that we moved to Preact X and Testing Library. Let’s dig in to...

Changelog: DEV has Some Stories for You

Fri, 22 May 2020 13:46:37 GMT

My first PR to the DEV repository was when I added Storybook to the project. In fact, this was in...

Changelog: Subscribe to a Post’s Threads v2

Wed, 06 May 2020 09:45:02 GMT

You could already subscribe to a post's comments on DEV, but the problem was many community members...

DEV as a Headless CMS for your Gatsby Site

Wed, 15 Apr 2020 13:09:54 GMT

Near the end of September 2019, @ben posted this article. Yo...

I've Started to Live Code on Twitch for DEV

Wed, 01 Apr 2020 12:54:42 GMT

Yesterday, I did my first official live coding on Twitch. If you're interested in following me on Twi...

Changelog: DEV upgraded to Webpacker 4/Babel 7

Fri, 20 Mar 2020 11:51:52 GMT

This week brought a major upgrade to the frontend infrastructure for DEV. We've been on webpacker 3.x...

A New Year, a New Start: I'm Joining the DEV Team!

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 18:09:58 GMT

I can't believe I'm saying this. I'M JOINING THE DEV TEAM!!! For those of you that don't know me,...

Pock an awesome utility for the Mac Touchbar

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 02:51:30 GMT

I'm on a Mac and I honestly have no use for the Dock. I actually hide it for an eternity so it never...

Frontend Developer Resources 2020

Mon, 06 Jan 2020 05:00:06 GMT

It’s 2020, post year in review, so let’s start off with some 2020 content. ...

My 2019 Year in Review

Thu, 02 Jan 2020 03:50:01 GMT

The Intro 2019 was great. Lot’s of interesting stuff happened. Let’s dig in. But first, I...

Cool Rust and WebAssembly Resource

Sat, 07 Dec 2019 12:56:29 GMT

I still haven’t really dug into Rust and WebAssembly (WASM) yet, but this project looks really...

Evaluating the new Microsoft Edge

Sat, 23 Nov 2019 02:25:44 GMT

About a month ago I Tweeted that I was going to take the new MS Edge browser for a...

Need Help Picking a Tabletop Colour

Mon, 28 Oct 2019 01:02:36 GMT

Hey peeps, I'm gonna buy a motorized standing desk with some award points I got from work. Which...

Toast Messages

Thu, 24 Oct 2019 03:45:40 GMT

So I made a little toast message demo tonight. It also works with the keyboard if you tab. It will...

You do not need to use the classnames package

Wed, 23 Oct 2019 18:27:07 GMT

Do not get me wrong, the classnames package is really handy. It is also quite popular with just over...

My Hacktoberfest 2019

Tue, 15 Oct 2019 01:00:22 GMT

Originally published at iamdeveloper.com Like many of you, I am participating in Hacktoberfest as we...

My Shell Aliases

Fri, 11 Oct 2019 01:45:17 GMT

Everyone has their favourite aliases for git and the shell. I have written about my git aliases...

Update Dependencies with Dependabot, Cypress and Netlify

Fri, 16 Aug 2019 02:11:34 GMT

To preface things, this post is in the context of a JavaScript project, specifically, my blog...

dev.to’s Frontend: a brain dump in one act

Tue, 23 Apr 2019 04:27:39 GMT

An explanation to the best of my knowledge on all things front-end in the dev.to codebase

dev.to with a TypeScript or Flow frontend codebase?

Sun, 07 Apr 2019 03:37:54 GMT

Consider moving dev.to frontend codebase to TypeScript or Flow?

An a11y extension coming to a browser near you

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 01:02:21 GMT

Last year when I was looking to take on a new role somewhere, one of the places I interviewed at was...

HTML Forms: Back to Basics

Thu, 28 Mar 2019 04:48:20 GMT

Let's forget frameworks and libraries for a moment. Today we’re just going to talk about the <form...

Ink: React for CLIs

Sat, 09 Mar 2019 21:34:54 GMT

This one is short and sweet. Are you familiar with React? Then you know Ink. I haven't tried this...

Showcase your Gatsby Site

Thu, 28 Feb 2019 22:02:28 GMT

Have you created a Gatsby site that you're proud of? It could be for a client or just your personal s...

An Enhanced TypeScript Playground

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 03:58:04 GMT

The TypeScript playground with enhancements

git-history

Wed, 13 Feb 2019 05:05:26 GMT

Quickly browse the history of a git repository

TypeScript Tips Part II: Declaration Merging

Tue, 12 Feb 2019 02:45:09 GMT

Declaration merging has been around for a while now in TypeScript. In a nutshell it lets you merge...

dom-chef - Build DOM Elements with JSX

Sat, 02 Feb 2019 23:45:45 GMT

dom-chef- Build DOM Elements with JSX

TypeScript Tips Part I

Fri, 25 Jan 2019 02:13:23 GMT

We'll start off with the usual shameless plug of another blog post. If you haven't read it yet, check...

Any contribution to Open Source is valuable

Tue, 22 Jan 2019 03:24:42 GMT

We hear people say it all the time, but I would like to reiterate it. Any contribution you make to...

The CSS mask property

Wed, 09 Jan 2019 16:44:39 GMT

Say you have a background that you want a certain colour, but you only want to show parts of the...

Take chances and stand out

Sat, 05 Jan 2019 18:40:00 GMT

This is my first time writing a post about career advice. This kind of advice is definitely not a one...

📦 webpack secrets

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 14:05:58 GMT

Things you can do 🔨 with webpack 📦 that you might not be aware of.

scoped-style

Sun, 30 Dec 2018 23:12:39 GMT

a tiny CSS in JS library

My 2018 Year in Review

Sat, 29 Dec 2018 10:00:00 GMT

So here’s my 2018 Resolutions. 2018 Resolutions Nick...

Can you create the great Redux store?

Sat, 08 Sep 2018 03:46:46 GMT

Photo courtesy of Flickr user Sarah Gilbert There's a great free video course on Redux from Dan...

Setting up Storybook for Preact

Sun, 02 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Update 2019/06/30: Storybook now has an option via the CLI to install for Preact. For more info see...

My Git Aliases

Sun, 26 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT

I’m going to provide my list of git aliases and explain what each alias does

Getting Started with Storybook for React

Mon, 26 Mar 2018 05:00:00 GMT

UPDATE: A lot has changed in Storybook land since this was written. If you are adding Storybook to...

Probably another Battleship board on Code Pen

Fri, 09 Feb 2018 05:01:39 GMT

A basic Battleship board with some random hits and misses.

A 💩 Notification Code Pen

Sat, 27 Jan 2018 07:33:25 GMT

A fun notification component.

Have a Handy JS Snippet You Want to Share?

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 01:07:14 GMT

Quick ES5/ES6 snippets for doing awesome things in Javascript.

A Simple ⭐ Rating Code Pen

Fri, 19 Jan 2018 04:12:02 GMT

Cover image care of Flickr user sparkyloe. Continuing along with my 2018 Resolutions to make Code...

Quick Hulk Code Pen

Sat, 13 Jan 2018 04:37:21 GMT

I give you "Hulk table rage"

My Mac Setup

Fri, 12 Jan 2018 10:00:00 GMT

Maybe I should start a series called “Not just a Gist”, as I’m slowly converting gists of mine to...

2018 Resolutions

Wed, 03 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT

So like many, I too will make resolutions for 2018. I made myself accountable b...

My Visual Studio Code Setup

Sat, 23 Dec 2017 14:11:11 GMT

A small write up on my Visual Studio Code setup

Consider Using TypeScript

Sun, 08 Oct 2017 14:35:45 GMT

A small write up on the benefits of using TypeScript.

My Talk on React Storybook at the js-montreal Meetup

Tue, 27 Jun 2017 03:00:00 GMT

My talk at the June 13th, 2017 js-montreal meetup slides are available at...

Hi, I'm Nick Taylor

Sun, 12 Mar 2017 20:22:41 GMT

My introduction post