Welcome to Nick Taylor's personal website.https://www.nickyt.co/en-ushttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/let-dependabot-merge-its-own-prs-27pc/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/let-dependabot-merge-its-own-prs-27pc/Dependabot opens PRs automatically. That part most people have set up. But then those PRs just sit...Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:16:29 GMTgithubcicdgithubactionsdevopshttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/stop-using-cat-35gd/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/stop-using-cat-35gd/If you use cat in your daily workflow, this is a tiny upgrade with lots of upsides and honestly, no...Mon, 02 Mar 2026 02:08:25 GMTterminalshellhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/five-git-config-settings-every-dev-needs-3e55/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/five-git-config-settings-every-dev-needs-3e55/You've probably added some settings to your Git Configuration, but here are some you might not have...Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:19:13 GMTgithttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/benq-rd280ug-review-28-inch-4k-programming-monitor-for-developers-2iko/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/benq-rd280ug-review-28-inch-4k-programming-monitor-for-developers-2iko/This is a sponsored post, but it's an honest review. BenQ sent me their new RD280UG monitor to...Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:48:00 GMTofficesetupbenqprogrammingmonitorbenqmonitorhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/from-fresh-mac-to-productive-in-30-minutes-21db/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/from-fresh-mac-to-productive-in-30-minutes-21db/I've been hearing developers talk about their dotfiles for years. "Oh yeah, I just clone my dotfiles...Sat, 03 Jan 2026 16:20:20 GMTmacosproductivityautomationdevtoolshttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-2025-year-in-review-3nom/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-2025-year-in-review-3nom/2025 was wild. I wrapped up 2024 with OpenSauced getting acquired by the Linux Foundation, which...Tue, 30 Dec 2025 18:21:13 GMTyearinreviewmcpcareerdevwrappedhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/what-makes-goose-different-from-other-ai-coding-agents-2edc/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/what-makes-goose-different-from-other-ai-coding-agents-2edc/I just finished Goose’s Advent of AI. Everything from CI automation to hand-gesture controlled apps...Mon, 29 Dec 2025 05:43:03 GMTgooseaiagentsclihttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-2025-day-17-building-a-wishlist-app-with-goose-and-mcp-ui-330l/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-2025-day-17-building-a-wishlist-app-with-goose-and-mcp-ui-330l/I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....Sat, 27 Dec 2025 15:33:49 GMTaiagentsgoosehttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-2025-day-16-planning-with-goosehints-875/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-2025-day-16-planning-with-goosehints-875/I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:52:23 GMTadventofaigooseaihttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-2025-day-15-goose-sub-recipes-3mnd/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-2025-day-15-goose-sub-recipes-3mnd/I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:44:42 GMTadventofaigooseaiautomationhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-2025-day-14-agent-skills-4d48/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-2025-day-14-agent-skills-4d48/I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:49:52 GMTadventofaiaiopensourcegoosehttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-day-13-goose-terminal-integration-145p/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-day-13-goose-terminal-integration-145p/I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts for the Advent of AI. If I'm...Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:56:22 GMTadventofaigoosecliaihttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-day-12-mcp-sampling-29b4/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-day-12-mcp-sampling-29b4/I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts for the Advent of AI. If I'm...Wed, 17 Dec 2025 06:01:21 GMTadventofaigoosemcphttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-day-11-goose-subagents-2n2/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-day-11-goose-subagents-2n2/I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts for the Advent of AI. If I'm...Wed, 17 Dec 2025 05:15:32 GMTadventofaigoosesubagentshttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-newsletter-growth-fun-slow-steady-4fpd/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-newsletter-growth-fun-slow-steady-4fpd/Beehiiv just dropped their 2025 rewind stats for my newsletter, One Tip a Week, and honestly, I’m...Mon, 15 Dec 2025 01:56:04 GMTcontentcreationdevtipswebdevhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-day-10-understanding-arguments-in-goose-recipes-2obg/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-day-10-understanding-arguments-in-goose-recipes-2obg/I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....Sun, 14 Dec 2025 05:56:41 GMTautomationaigoosehttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/what-are-ai-evals-1kk9/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/what-are-ai-evals-1kk9/I did a livestream with Jim Bennett (@jimbobbennett) from Galileo recently where we talked about...Sat, 13 Dec 2025 14:03:29 GMTaitestingmachinelearninghttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-2025-day-9-building-a-gift-tag-generator-with-goose-recipes-3i73/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-2025-day-9-building-a-gift-tag-generator-with-goose-recipes-3i73/Advent of AI 2025 - Day 9: Building a Gift Tag Generator with Goose Recipes I've edited...Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:24:21 GMTadventofaiaigooseautomationhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-2025-day-8-messy-data-to-structured-output-25i2/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-2025-day-8-messy-data-to-structured-output-25i2/I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....Thu, 11 Dec 2025 03:45:27 GMTadventofainetlifymcpaihttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-2025-day-7-goose-recipes-5d1c/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-2025-day-7-goose-recipes-5d1c/I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....Wed, 10 Dec 2025 03:39:24 GMTadventofaigooseautomationaihttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-2025-day-6-automating-github-issue-triage-with-goose-1pn5/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-2025-day-6-automating-github-issue-triage-with-goose-1pn5/I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....Tue, 09 Dec 2025 04:32:06 GMTadventofaigoosegithubactionsaihttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-2025-day-5-i-built-a-touchless-flight-tracker-you-control-with-hand-gestures-1jn8/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-2025-day-5-i-built-a-touchless-flight-tracker-you-control-with-hand-gestures-1jn8/I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:45:57 GMTcomputervisionaiadventofaigoosehttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-2025-day-4-building-a-winter-festival-website-with-goose-3oac/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-2025-day-4-building-a-winter-festival-website-with-goose-3oac/I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:30:02 GMTadventofaigooseaihttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/i-switched-shell-history-tools-heres-why-m6h/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/i-switched-shell-history-tools-heres-why-m6h/Your shell's history search is probably slowing you down more than you realize. Whether you're...Thu, 04 Dec 2025 13:19:35 GMTcliproductivitytoolinghttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-2025-day-1-building-data-visualizations-with-goose-g7f/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-2025-day-1-building-data-visualizations-with-goose-g7f/I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....Thu, 04 Dec 2025 02:36:01 GMTgooseadventofaidatavizaihttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-2025-day-2-building-a-winter-festival-game-41eg/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-2025-day-2-building-a-winter-festival-game-41eg/I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....Wed, 03 Dec 2025 05:26:22 GMTgooseaiadventofaihttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-2025-day-1-getting-goose-to-generate-daily-fortunes-in-ci-3alp/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/advent-of-ai-2025-day-1-getting-goose-to-generate-daily-fortunes-in-ci-3alp/I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....Tue, 02 Dec 2025 06:52:43 GMTgoosecligithubactionsadventofaihttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/how-i-automated-my-github-profile-and-you-can-too-399e/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/how-i-automated-my-github-profile-and-you-can-too-399e/Keeping a GitHub profile updated is tedious. New blog post? Update the profile. New newsletter issue?...Sun, 30 Nov 2025 04:48:34 GMTgithubcareercontentwritingdevrelhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/how-i-used-claude-code-to-speed-up-my-shell-startup-by-95-m0f/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/how-i-used-claude-code-to-speed-up-my-shell-startup-by-95-m0f/My terminal was sluggish. Every time I opened a new tab, there was this annoying delay before I could...Thu, 27 Nov 2025 21:22:59 GMTaizshbashproductivityhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/anyone-can-commit-code-as-you-on-github-heres-how-to-stop-them-2in7/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/anyone-can-commit-code-as-you-on-github-heres-how-to-stop-them-2in7/I've been signing my Git commits since 2020, and it's one of those security practices that seems...Sun, 26 Oct 2025 12:31:59 GMTsecuritygitgithubgpghttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/build-your-first-or-next-mcp-server-with-the-typescript-mcp-template-3k3f/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/build-your-first-or-next-mcp-server-with-the-typescript-mcp-template-3k3f/Build Your First (or Next) MCP Server with the TypeScript MCP Template If you've been...Tue, 07 Oct 2025 04:30:00 GMTtypescriptmcpaihttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/quick-fix-my-mcp-tools-were-showing-as-write-tools-in-chatgpt-dev-mode-3id9/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/quick-fix-my-mcp-tools-were-showing-as-write-tools-in-chatgpt-dev-mode-3id9/I recently enabled ChatGPT developer mode and noticed something weird: all my dev.to MCP server tools...Thu, 11 Sep 2025 02:17:14 GMTchatgptmcptypescriptaihttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/introducing-the-devto-mcp-server-42jg/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/introducing-the-devto-mcp-server-42jg/If you've been wondering how to get your AI tools talking to dev.to's content without building yet...Tue, 29 Jul 2025 03:55:35 GMTmcpagenticaidevtoaihttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/git-worktrees-git-done-right-2p7f/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/git-worktrees-git-done-right-2p7f/I recently discovered Git worktrees, and they've completely changed how I work with Git. I'd heard...Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:17:54 GMTgitproductivitygithubhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/dont-get-rate-limited-use-lets-encrypt-staging-4kk2/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/dont-get-rate-limited-use-lets-encrypt-staging-4kk2/While getting Pomerium Core set up this week for a demo, I ran into Let's Encrypt rate limits. Here’s...Mon, 16 Jun 2025 05:00:00 GMTletsencryptsecuritytlsdevopshttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/getting-mcfly-working-on-ubuntu-server-without-losing-your-mind-2k5e/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/getting-mcfly-working-on-ubuntu-server-without-losing-your-mind-2k5e/McFly is a slick, Rust-powered shell history tool that supercharges your reverse search (Ctrl+R) with...Mon, 26 May 2025 10:00:00 GMTlinuxubuntuproductivitytoolinghttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/set-sail-for-server-islands-how-they-work-and-when-to-use-them-1p76/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/set-sail-for-server-islands-how-they-work-and-when-to-use-them-1p76/Astro introduced a powerful new pattern called Server Islands last year. If you're building with...Mon, 19 May 2025 04:01:00 GMTastrowebdevjavascripthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/funding-in-open-source-a-conversation-with-chad-whitacre-4264/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/funding-in-open-source-a-conversation-with-chad-whitacre-4264/“Open source isn’t a market economy. It’s a gift economy.” — Chad Whitacre, Head of Open Source at...Tue, 13 May 2025 09:25:00 GMTopensourceopensourcefundingdevcommunityhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/gos-singleflight-package-and-why-its-awesome-for-concurrent-requests-4122/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/gos-singleflight-package-and-why-its-awesome-for-concurrent-requests-4122/Concurrency in Go is fun… until duplicate work starts hammering your backend. I’m still pretty new...Mon, 05 May 2025 12:40:01 GMTgoidentityzerotrusthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/benq-rd280u-review-a-28-4k-monitor-built-for-developers-20d2/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/benq-rd280u-review-a-28-4k-monitor-built-for-developers-20d2/BenQ sent me this monitor for review, but these are my honest thoughts after a few weeks of...Sun, 13 Apr 2025 18:02:52 GMTreviewbenqprogrammingmonitorofficesetuphttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/london-adventures-kubecon-eu-2025-sreday-and-more-3igl/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/london-adventures-kubecon-eu-2025-sreday-and-more-3igl/Not gonna lie, my recent trip to London was packed with stuff! It was mainly work related for...Sun, 06 Apr 2025 23:35:48 GMTkubeconkuberneteszerotrustreacthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/the-raycast-port-manager-extension-lca/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/the-raycast-port-manager-extension-lca/If you aren’t a Raycast user, definitely check it out. I was a fan of Alfred for years, but moved to...Thu, 06 Feb 2025 22:08:30 GMTraycastproductivitytoolinghttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/im-joining-pomerium-225j/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/im-joining-pomerium-225j/New year, new role! Today is my first day at Pomerium. I'm joining the team as their Developer...Mon, 13 Jan 2025 05:01:00 GMTcareerzerotrustdevrelhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/building-an-ollama-powered-github-copilot-extension-2l4n/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/building-an-ollama-powered-github-copilot-extension-2l4n/A few months ago, I wrote about creating your first GitHub Copilot extension, and later discussed...Mon, 06 Jan 2025 06:00:00 GMTgithubgithubcopilotaiollamahttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/2024-year-in-review-1p7p/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/2024-year-in-review-1p7p/Not gonna lie, 2024 was a wild ride. OpenSauced Starting 2024 was my fourth month at...Fri, 27 Dec 2024 15:32:49 GMTyearinreviewcareerdevimpact2024https://www.nickyt.co/blog/creating-your-first-github-copilot-extension-a-step-by-step-guide-28g0/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/creating-your-first-github-copilot-extension-a-step-by-step-guide-28g0/GitHub Copilot, the AI-powered coding assistant, has recently introduced Copilot Extensions to...Mon, 30 Sep 2024 05:00:00 GMTgithubgithubcopilotgenaitypescripthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/what-is-genaiscript-1mf2/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/what-is-genaiscript-1mf2/I recently got to hang with Peli de Halleux (@pelikhan) to discuss the GenAIScript project. ...Fri, 27 Sep 2024 04:01:00 GMTgenaitypescriptjavascriptproductivityhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/introducing-the-opensauced-pizza-github-action-automate-your-repository-management-44aj/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/introducing-the-opensauced-pizza-github-action-automate-your-repository-management-44aj/Are you looking for an easy way to streamline your repository management tasks? Look no further!...Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:53:00 GMTgithubgithubactionautomationopensourcehttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/showcase-your-open-source-contributions-with-opensauced-dev-cards-2j0k/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/showcase-your-open-source-contributions-with-opensauced-dev-cards-2j0k/Last week, we launched our brand new Dev Cards with the OSCR (Open Source Contributor Rating)...Mon, 19 Aug 2024 15:01:09 GMTopensourcecareergithubactionsgithubhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/multitenant-database-schemas-4ofc/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/multitenant-database-schemas-4ofc/I recently got to hang with Jamie Barton (@notrab) from the Turso team. We discussed Multitenant...Mon, 29 Jul 2024 05:14:00 GMTsqlitedatabasetursohttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/review-fifine-ampligame-am6-condenser-mic-714/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/review-fifine-ampligame-am6-condenser-mic-714/Before we get started, please note that Fifine sent me a microphone for this review. ...Fri, 12 Jul 2024 03:43:26 GMTproductreviewmicrophonelivestreamingcontentcreationhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/the-react-useref-hook-not-just-for-html-elements-3cf3/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/the-react-useref-hook-not-just-for-html-elements-3cf3/In this post, we'll cover what the useRef hook is, some examples of how it can be used, and when it...Mon, 08 Jul 2024 04:38:17 GMTreactjavascriptwebdevhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/valibot-a-new-approach-to-data-validation-in-javascript-1mgb/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/valibot-a-new-approach-to-data-validation-in-javascript-1mgb/I recently got to hang with the creator of Valibot, Fabian Hiller on a live stream. We discussed its...Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:54:14 GMTjavascripttypescriptwebdevopensourcehttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/the-state-of-net-tooling-2024-169g/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/the-state-of-net-tooling-2024-169g/This is a transcript from a great conversation I had with Brandon Minnick recently. We discuss the...Tue, 14 May 2024 18:44:54 GMTdotnetdotnetmauidotnetcoredotnetframeworkhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/tools-that-keep-me-productive-1no5/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/tools-that-keep-me-productive-1no5/This page details mostly all I use as a developer. I use a Mac, so a bunch of tools are...Mon, 06 May 2024 05:00:00 GMTproductivitywebdevvscodetoolinghttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/creating-an-og-image-using-react-and-netlify-edge-functions-563a/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/creating-an-og-image-using-react-and-netlify-edge-functions-563a/Open Graph (OG) images are a must if you're sharing content on the Internet. From sites like...Tue, 16 Apr 2024 07:00:00 GMTnetlifytypescriptreacthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/form-and-function-how-i-lost-my-submit-button-got-it-back-5b91/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/form-and-function-how-i-lost-my-submit-button-got-it-back-5b91/As web developers, we know that most of the create, read update, and delete (CRUD) actions we perform...Tue, 02 Apr 2024 11:43:34 GMThtmlwebdevbeginnershttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/stuck-in-the-middle-with-you-an-intro-to-middleware-1gjo/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/stuck-in-the-middle-with-you-an-intro-to-middleware-1gjo/Middleware exists in several frameworks like Next.js, Express, Hono and Fresh, and not just in...Thu, 14 Mar 2024 15:41:05 GMTwebdevbeginnersframeworksjavascripthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/challenging-the-skeptics-unveiling-the-undeniable-goodness-of-tailwind-css-4doc/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/challenging-the-skeptics-unveiling-the-undeniable-goodness-of-tailwind-css-4doc/People definitely have opinions about Tailwind. There are staunch supporters and staunch haters, but...Tue, 06 Feb 2024 05:00:00 GMTcsstailwindcsswebdevhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/review-logitech-litra-glow-premium-led-streaming-light-with-truesoft-2p60/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/review-logitech-litra-glow-premium-led-streaming-light-with-truesoft-2p60/So I live stream on Twitch mainly, although I have started to stream to my YouTube channel as...Thu, 01 Feb 2024 11:32:28 GMTproductreviewstreaminglightinghttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/the-native-browser-dialog-element-1nhn/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/the-native-browser-dialog-element-1nhn/All the major browsers now support the <dialog /> element. Why add this HTML element? User land...Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:32:20 GMThtmljavascripta11ycsshttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-2023-year-in-review-33ep/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-2023-year-in-review-33ep/Another year, another year in review. Let's get to it! Work 2022 ended with layoffs at...Sun, 07 Jan 2024 00:21:09 GMTdevimpact2023careeryearinreviewhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/migrating-from-jest-to-vitest-for-your-react-application-1b75/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/migrating-from-jest-to-vitest-for-your-react-application-1b75/Are you looking to migrate from Jest to Vitest for your React application? Look no further. I...Thu, 14 Dec 2023 08:00:00 GMTtestingreactvitesttypescripthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/html-data-attributes-one-of-the-original-state-management-libraries-8bf/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/html-data-attributes-one-of-the-original-state-management-libraries-8bf/I was streaming recently and discussed how I implemented part of a graph I was building out. The...Thu, 30 Nov 2023 04:43:12 GMThtmljavascriptwebdevhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/infer-types-to-avoid-explicit-types-1pnn/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/infer-types-to-avoid-explicit-types-1pnn/The idea for this post came about while I was reviewing this pull request (PR) for OpenSauced. ...Tue, 21 Nov 2023 04:59:47 GMTtypescriptbeginnersreacthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/boost-productivity-with-the-github-cli-2mne/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/boost-productivity-with-the-github-cli-2mne/The GitHub CLI is an indispensable tool as a project maintainer or contributor on GitHub. It can...Tue, 14 Nov 2023 15:00:00 GMTgithubcligitproductivityhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/typescript-and-react-enforcing-props-for-accessibility-2h49/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/typescript-and-react-enforcing-props-for-accessibility-2h49/Recently, I added a small accessibility win to our code base. fix:...Mon, 06 Nov 2023 10:32:57 GMTa11ytypescriptreactwebdevhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/github-actions-a-maintainers-best-friend-488n/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/github-actions-a-maintainers-best-friend-488n/As developers, it’s in our best interest to automate things. The less we have to do in a manual way,...Tue, 31 Oct 2023 14:06:46 GMTgithubactionsautomationopensourceproductivityhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/getting-saucy-i-joined-opensauced-2ici/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/getting-saucy-i-joined-opensauced-2ici/It's fall and the leaves are starting to change here in Montreal, which allows me to use that analogy...Sat, 23 Sep 2023 18:17:40 GMTcareeropensourcehttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/supercharge-your-repository-with-code-owners-4clg/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/supercharge-your-repository-with-code-owners-4clg/As a maintainer of a repository, it’s in your best interest to automate processes as much as...Thu, 21 Sep 2023 15:51:24 GMTgithubopensourceproductivitysecurityhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/how-to-debug-a-firefox-add-on-extension-489f/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/how-to-debug-a-firefox-add-on-extension-489f/Before we get started Firefox supports browser extensions like Chromium-based browsers...Thu, 17 Aug 2023 00:31:41 GMTwebdevextensionsbrowserjavascripthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/kettlebells-code-dev-health-3eim/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/kettlebells-code-dev-health-3eim/As tech workers, we sit down quite a bit during the day. I have a standing desk that helps me stretch...Wed, 09 Aug 2023 03:51:14 GMThealthydebatedevhealthcareerhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/have-questions-about-eslint-2ahp/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/have-questions-about-eslint-2ahp/I'm going to be hanging with @joshuakgoldberg on their stream this Tuesday. We're going to be...Sun, 02 Apr 2023 23:42:34 GMTdiscussjavascripttypescriptwebdevhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/transform-your-portfolio-website-with-these-expert-tips-334e/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/transform-your-portfolio-website-with-these-expert-tips-334e/Yes that title sounds a bit clickbaity, but I assure you this post is not all fluff. Buckle up! I...Sun, 12 Mar 2023 14:12:11 GMTbeginnerswebdevportfoliofrontendhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/where-do-you-find-community-458p/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/where-do-you-find-community-458p/When I think of community, I think of safe spaces for everyone with diverse folks who I can learn...Sun, 19 Feb 2023 14:52:22 GMTcommunityhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/benq-screenbar-halo-monitor-light-review-54ej/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/benq-screenbar-halo-monitor-light-review-54ej/Before I give my review here, I want to mention that this is a sponsored post. BenQ sent me the...Sun, 12 Feb 2023 19:57:34 GMTbenqproductreviewproductivityofficesetuphttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/twitter-charging-for-api-usage-starting-feb-9th-713/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/twitter-charging-for-api-usage-starting-feb-9th-713/Twitter as of February 9th will start charging developers to use their API. ...Thu, 02 Feb 2023 13:59:09 GMTblockchaincryptocurrencyoffersweb3https://www.nickyt.co/blog/non-tech-reading-recommendations-55pm/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/non-tech-reading-recommendations-55pm/Like the Tweet and toots say, I'm looking for some reading recommendations. What's a great book...Mon, 26 Dec 2022 06:07:49 GMTterraformazurehttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-2022-year-in-review-a72/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-2022-year-in-review-a72/Well, it's been a year! And you know what that means. Time for my year in review. Work ...Sat, 24 Dec 2022 05:21:37 GMTyearinreviewhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/have-you-moved-from-twitter-to-mastodon-for-social-media-4a37/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/have-you-moved-from-twitter-to-mastodon-for-social-media-4a37/I created a Mastodon account on toot.cafe back in 2017, but I only did a little with it. I...Sun, 20 Nov 2022 06:20:37 GMTsocialmediamastodonhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/app-to-grab-your-revue-newsletters-1gci/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/app-to-grab-your-revue-newsletters-1gci/So I wrote about how Twitter is scrapping Revue. Revue being...Sun, 13 Nov 2022 14:44:58 GMTwebdevserverlesshtmltypescripthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/revue-being-phased-out-by-twitter-4kle/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/revue-being-phased-out-by-twitter-4kle/If you're like me, you may have jumped on the let me integrate Revue with my Twitter to better...Thu, 10 Nov 2022 13:40:01 GMTnewsdiscusshttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/automate-and-merge-pull-requests-using-github-actions-and-the-github-cli-4lo6/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/automate-and-merge-pull-requests-using-github-actions-and-the-github-cli-4lo6/So I've written about how I automated content updates for my blog before. I even gave a talk on...Sun, 06 Nov 2022 01:32:09 GMTgithubgithubcligithubactionsgithttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/what-is-the-collab-lab-427f/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/what-is-the-collab-lab-427f/Curious about what The Collab Lab is? Here's the TL;DR The Collab Lab increases access to web...Wed, 26 Oct 2022 01:17:00 GMTcareerbeginnerswebdevreacthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/build-framework-agnostic-components-with-mitosis-4c4k/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/build-framework-agnostic-components-with-mitosis-4c4k/Sami Jaber, Software Engineer @ Builder.io joined me recently to discuss Mitosis, a tool for building...Tue, 18 Oct 2022 00:35:07 GMTreactjavascriptsveltevuehttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/repurposing-content-for-content-creation-3l4d/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/repurposing-content-for-content-creation-3l4d/So I've been streaming on Twitch since July 2020, blogging, and given some talks. To keep on with the...Sun, 16 Oct 2022 15:27:00 GMTlearninpublicpodcastcontentcreationhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/funding-in-open-source-4i6k/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/funding-in-open-source-4i6k/Recently, @joshuakgoldberg joined me on my stream to discuss TypeScript, TypeScript ESLint, open...Sun, 09 Oct 2022 01:57:00 GMTopensourcecareerdiscusshttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/hacktoberfest-preptember-3p7/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/hacktoberfest-preptember-3p7/Hacktoberfest 2022 is almost upon us! Whether you are new to Hacktoberfest or a seasoned veteran,...Sun, 25 Sep 2022 04:17:09 GMThacktoberfestopensourcebeginnershttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/more-engagement-through-series-on-devto-6hb/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/more-engagement-through-series-on-devto-6hb/I’ve tweeted about this before, but one way I’ve been able to get engagement on old posts is to...Sun, 11 Sep 2022 03:41:38 GMTmetawritinghttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/hot-reloading-in-rust-4i1c/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/hot-reloading-in-rust-4i1c/I've been learning Rust on and off since last fall. I'm still not proficient in the language as I...Sat, 03 Sep 2022 04:13:20 GMTrustbeginnershttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/contributing-to-open-source-and-how-open-sauced-can-help-5d97/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/contributing-to-open-source-and-how-open-sauced-can-help-5d97/Last week I got to hang with Brian Douglas on my Twitch stream. We discussed contributing to open...Tue, 02 Aug 2022 19:41:00 GMTopensourcebeginnershttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/what-is-deno-13he/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/what-is-deno-13he/I got to hang with Deno core team member Luca Casonato a couple of weeks ago to discuss a framework...Thu, 14 Jul 2022 03:41:00 GMTdenotypescriptrustjavascripthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/learning-resources-for-typescript-4g1n/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/learning-resources-for-typescript-4g1n/I've had folks ask me for Typescript resources a few times over the past couple of months, so I might...Sun, 10 Jul 2022 04:16:00 GMTtypescripthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/a11y-twitter-a-browser-extension-for-making-twitter-more-accessible-17kg/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/a11y-twitter-a-browser-extension-for-making-twitter-more-accessible-17kg/Just over a year ago, I made a post on Twitter, and I realized that I had forgotten to add alternate...Sat, 02 Jul 2022 12:58:14 GMTa11yjavascripttwitterextensionshttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/speech-to-text-with-deepgram-2b6i/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/speech-to-text-with-deepgram-2b6i/Bekah Hawrot Weigel (@bekahhw) joined me on my stream today to show how you can transcribe text using...Wed, 22 Jun 2022 22:00:16 GMTnodespeechtotextjavascripthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-eleventy-meetup-talk-3b2p/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-eleventy-meetup-talk-3b2p/This started off as a test post for my talk I gave this past week at the Eleventy Meetup. Here’s...Thu, 26 May 2022 17:12:32 GMTeleventygithubactionsnodewebdevhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/ecosystem-and-frameworks-my-role-at-netlify-306b/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/ecosystem-and-frameworks-my-role-at-netlify-306b/I'm curious what frontend frameworks you're all interested in these days? Powerful meta frameworks...Thu, 12 May 2022 03:29:20 GMTfrontendjavascriptcareeropensourcehttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/logitech-ergo-k860-wireless-keyboard-nef/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/logitech-ergo-k860-wireless-keyboard-nef/I started a new role at the beginning of April, and they ship you equipment, including a new keyboard...Fri, 06 May 2022 03:55:58 GMTkeyboardsreviewsergonomicshttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/enabling-keyboard-navigation-on-your-mac-1hjb/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/enabling-keyboard-navigation-on-your-mac-1hjb/I'm starting a new role soon, and they shipped me a brand new Macbook Pro. I got everything set up...Sat, 02 Apr 2022 21:29:36 GMTa11yproductivitymacoshttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/strongly-typed-json-in-typescript-5gb2/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/strongly-typed-json-in-typescript-5gb2/Someone in one of the Slack communities I'm a part of asked today how to type JSON in TypeScript,...Fri, 01 Apr 2022 03:36:19 GMTtypescripthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/productivity-tools-i-use-4gm3/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/productivity-tools-i-use-4gm3/Here is a short list of some great tools I've discovered over the past year. macOS Only ...Tue, 29 Mar 2022 20:47:12 GMTtoolingproductivityhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/using-a-hook-in-a-class-component-3eh2/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/using-a-hook-in-a-class-component-3eh2/Did you know that you can use hooks in class components? OK, I'm lying, kind of. You can't use a...Mon, 28 Mar 2022 19:03:10 GMTreactjavascripthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/npx-gitignore-5087/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/npx-gitignore-5087/I've done this a few times on a live stream and there is always someone unaware of this so I wanted...Sat, 26 Mar 2022 01:04:06 GMTtoolingnpmgithttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-impact-at-forem-23mj/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-impact-at-forem-23mj/This is my first post about impact. What do I mean by impact? How did you influence the place where...Thu, 24 Mar 2022 03:47:23 GMTcareerhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-2021-year-in-review-3n83/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-2021-year-in-review-3n83/Like last year, 2021 has been quite the year. Despite the pandemic, I stayed healthy and managed to...Fri, 31 Dec 2021 04:32:21 GMTyearinreviewhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/frontend-developer-resources-2022-4cp2/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/frontend-developer-resources-2022-4cp2/I don't know if I'll keep doing this every year, but I did one of these in 2020, and that post got...Tue, 28 Dec 2021 04:16:00 GMTjavascripthtmlcsstypescripthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/how-i-review-pull-requests-44nl/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/how-i-review-pull-requests-44nl/Someone in my Virtual Coffee community asked about getting better at reviewing pull requests (PR)...Thu, 09 Dec 2021 00:57:44 GMTcareerprogramminggithubgithttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/an-nft-based-game-1jfk/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/an-nft-based-game-1jfk/The project So this past week I built out my second dApp with the current cohort in the...Thu, 28 Oct 2021 02:29:29 GMTweb3dappreacthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/i-built-my-first-dapp-3pbm/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/i-built-my-first-dapp-3pbm/This past weekend I completed a web3 project from the awesome folks at buildspace. The project was...Tue, 19 Oct 2021 20:00:48 GMTdappweb3reacthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/impressions-of-polywork-3pbp/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/impressions-of-polywork-3pbp/This post was sponsored by Polywork, but it is my own authentic review Polywork is a new...Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:58:35 GMTreviewcareerpolyworkhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/getting-started-with-streaming-on-twitch-4im7/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/getting-started-with-streaming-on-twitch-4im7/Last Friday, I gave a brownbag talk for my Virtual Coffee community on getting started with streaming...Wed, 28 Jul 2021 03:22:00 GMTtwitchbeginnersstreaminghttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/getting-started-with-regular-expressions-11dg/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/getting-started-with-regular-expressions-11dg/Regular expressions (regex) are one of those things that folks seem to make fun of most of the time...Sun, 18 Jul 2021 04:17:00 GMTregexbeginnersjavascripthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/i-started-a-newsletter-3g8d/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/i-started-a-newsletter-3g8d/I've decided to start a newsletter! Yes, I know. Many folks do newsletters already, but I post a...Sat, 12 Jun 2021 05:03:32 GMTnewswebdevhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/pairing-with-meg-gutshall-28o7/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/pairing-with-meg-gutshall-28o7/On May 26th, DEV Community member Meg Gutshall joined @coffeecraftcode and me on the pairing stream...Thu, 10 Jun 2021 05:26:35 GMTdevstreampairprogrammingrailsrubyhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/i-started-a-javascript-stream-on-twitch-4f3g/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/i-started-a-javascript-stream-on-twitch-4f3g/The title says it all. I started a JavaScript (JS) Twitch stream! As some of you know, I co-host the...Sun, 30 May 2021 03:58:33 GMTjavascriptlearninpublictwitchhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/pairing-with-jhey-tompkins-2k85/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/pairing-with-jhey-tompkins-2k85/On April 28th, DEV Community member Jhey Tompkins joined @coffeecraftcode and I on the pairing stream...Wed, 12 May 2021 18:38:25 GMTdevstreampairprogramminggreensockjavascripthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/jamstack-and-serverless-with-jason-lengstorf-3jdl/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/jamstack-and-serverless-with-jason-lengstorf-3jdl/On April 21st, Jason Lengstorf (VP of Developer Experience at Netlify and DEV Community member)...Fri, 07 May 2021 03:21:25 GMTdevstreampairprogrammingserverlessjamstackhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/pairing-with-community-manager-christina-gorton-4537/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/pairing-with-community-manager-christina-gorton-4537/On March 14th, DEV Community manager Christina joined me on the pairing stream to talk about Cypress...Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:34:31 GMTdevstreampairprogrammingtestingjavascripthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/learning-rust-1h2n/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/learning-rust-1h2n/My awesome coworker @citizen428 dropped a new resource for learning the Rust language care of...Sun, 18 Apr 2021 19:47:05 GMTrustlearninpubliclivecodinghttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-twitch-stream-setup-2m0c/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-twitch-stream-setup-2m0c/So I started streaming on Twitch last year. I've Started to...Sat, 17 Apr 2021 19:27:33 GMTtwitchstreaminglearninpublichttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/pairing-with-community-member-seth-hall-1889/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/pairing-with-community-member-seth-hall-1889/On March 17th, DEV Community member Seth Hall joined Christina and I on the pairing stream to work on...Thu, 18 Mar 2021 17:32:01 GMTdevstreampairprogrammingjavascriptpreacthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/storybook-talk-live-coding-klp/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/storybook-talk-live-coding-klp/Last week, I gave a talk on Storybook at a The Collab Lab meetup. ...Tue, 16 Mar 2021 03:43:46 GMTjavascriptreactstorybookuxhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/pairing-with-community-member-jono-yeong-3knk/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/pairing-with-community-member-jono-yeong-3knk/On February 17th, DEV Community member Jono Yeong joined Christina and I on the pairing stream to...Fri, 19 Feb 2021 19:38:48 GMTdevstreampairprogrammingjavascripthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/pairing-with-community-member-dan-ott-2ge/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/pairing-with-community-member-dan-ott-2ge/On February 3rd, DEV Community member Dan Ott joined Christina and I on the pairing stream to work on...Wed, 03 Feb 2021 22:50:55 GMTdevstreampairprogrammingcsshtmlhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/pairing-with-community-member-rafi-5169/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/pairing-with-community-member-rafi-5169/On January 21st, DEV Community member Rafi joined Christina and I on the pairing stream to work on...Fri, 22 Jan 2021 21:36:29 GMTdevstreampairprogrammingcsshtmlhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-2020-year-in-review-1p17/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-2020-year-in-review-1p17/2020, it’s been a year. It’s been tough on a lot of folks. I’m a pretty upbeat person, but even I...Thu, 31 Dec 2020 13:50:55 GMTyearinreviewhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/testing-preact-react-portals-with-testing-library-52ja/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/testing-preact-react-portals-with-testing-library-52ja/This post was going to be about troubles I ran into testing Portals, but in the end after writing...Mon, 30 Nov 2020 20:30:08 GMTpreactreacttestingwebdevhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/pairing-with-community-member-marie-antons-3doi/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/pairing-with-community-member-marie-antons-3doi/On October 22nd, DEV Community member Marie Antons joined Christina and I on the pairing stream to...Mon, 02 Nov 2020 14:11:10 GMTlivecodingdevstreampairprogrammingrubyhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/pairing-with-community-member-rachael-wright-munn-5bol/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/pairing-with-community-member-rachael-wright-munn-5bol/On October 15th, DEV Community member Rachael Wright-Munn joined Christina and I on the pairing...Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:46:39 GMTdevstreampairprogrammingrubyhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/pairing-with-community-member-eliot-sanford-f7a/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/pairing-with-community-member-eliot-sanford-f7a/On October 8th, DEV Community member Eliot Sanford joined Christina and I on the pairing stream to...Mon, 19 Oct 2020 20:40:03 GMTdevstreampairprogrammingjavascripthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/stuff-i-always-set-up-for-frontend-work-56h2/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/stuff-i-always-set-up-for-frontend-work-56h2/There's a few things I always set up when working on a frontend project: ESLint, Prettier, husky and...Sun, 18 Oct 2020 04:20:19 GMTgitwebdevhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/pairing-with-taniyah-jackson-on-a-forem-dev-issue-28fh/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/pairing-with-taniyah-jackson-on-a-forem-dev-issue-28fh/I had a lot of fun with Taniyah Jackson on the pairing today. She's brand new to Ruby and Ruby on...Mon, 21 Sep 2020 21:44:45 GMTdevstreampairprogrammingrubyhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/building-out-the-go-playground-liquid-tag-for-dev-with-chuck-smith-32he/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/building-out-the-go-playground-liquid-tag-for-dev-with-chuck-smith-32he/At then end of July, I had a chance to pair with awesome community member Chuck Smith. They...Tue, 15 Sep 2020 21:40:01 GMTdevstreampairprogrammingrubyhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/see-the-big-picture-22bg/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/see-the-big-picture-22bg/Depending on where you are at in your career, you may have heard of the term get the big picture or...Sun, 30 Aug 2020 03:55:25 GMTcareerbeginnershttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/not-captain-obvious-1boj/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/not-captain-obvious-1boj/I've been reading @swyx's book "The Career Coding Handbook". It launched on July 1st. Although I am...Mon, 03 Aug 2020 03:37:54 GMTcareerwritinglearninpublichttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/live-coding-pairing-converting-a-preact-component-to-use-hooks-75e/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/live-coding-pairing-converting-a-preact-component-to-use-hooks-75e/A few weeks ago, I wrote a post asking DEV community members if they wanted to potentially pair...Mon, 27 Jul 2020 04:01:08 GMTlearninpublicpairprogrammingjavascriptreacthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/let-s-pair-during-a-live-coding-session-8he/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/let-s-pair-during-a-live-coding-session-8he/I started live streaming a couple of months ago. I've Started...Tue, 14 Jul 2020 14:10:13 GMTwebdevpairprogrammingdevstreamhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/changelog-frontend-edition-30l7/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/changelog-frontend-edition-30l7/I Tweeted this out last week that we moved to Preact X and Testing Library. Let’s dig in to...Wed, 24 Jun 2020 19:09:12 GMTchangelogjavascripttestinghttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/changelog-dev-has-some-stories-for-you-15kn/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/changelog-dev-has-some-stories-for-you-15kn/My first PR to the DEV repository was when I added Storybook to the project. In fact, this was in...Fri, 22 May 2020 13:46:37 GMThtmlcssjavascriptstorybookhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/changelog-subscribe-to-a-post-s-threads-v2-5fn0/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/changelog-subscribe-to-a-post-s-threads-v2-5fn0/You could already subscribe to a post's comments on DEV, but the problem was many community members...Wed, 06 May 2020 09:45:02 GMTchangeloghttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/dev-as-a-headless-cms-for-your-gatsby-site-4mj2/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/dev-as-a-headless-cms-for-your-gatsby-site-4mj2/Near the end of September 2019, @ben posted this article. Yo...Wed, 15 Apr 2020 13:09:54 GMTstackbitheadlesscmsgatsbyhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/i-ve-started-to-live-code-on-twitch-for-dev-13cn/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/i-ve-started-to-live-code-on-twitch-for-dev-13cn/Yesterday, I did my first official live coding on Twitch. If you're interested in following me on Twi...Wed, 01 Apr 2020 12:54:42 GMTtwitchstreaminglivecodinghttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/changelog-dev-upgraded-to-webpacker-4-babel-7-1mm4/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/changelog-dev-upgraded-to-webpacker-4-babel-7-1mm4/This week brought a major upgrade to the frontend infrastructure for DEV. We've been on webpacker 3.x...Fri, 20 Mar 2020 11:51:52 GMTrailswebpackjavascriptchangeloghttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/a-new-year-a-new-start-i-m-joining-the-dev-team-3ap0/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/a-new-year-a-new-start-i-m-joining-the-dev-team-3ap0/I can't believe I'm saying this. I'M JOINING THE DEV TEAM!!! For those of you that don't know me,...Tue, 21 Jan 2020 18:09:58 GMTcareerhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/pock-an-awesome-utility-for-the-mac-touchbar-11ia/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/pock-an-awesome-utility-for-the-mac-touchbar-11ia/I'm on a Mac and I honestly have no use for the Dock. I actually hide it for an eternity so it never...Tue, 21 Jan 2020 02:51:30 GMTproductivitymacoshttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/frontend-developer-resources-246j/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/frontend-developer-resources-246j/It’s 2020, post year in review, so let’s start off with some 2020 content. ...Mon, 06 Jan 2020 05:00:06 GMTjavascriptcsshtmla11yhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-2019-year-in-review-23i1/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-2019-year-in-review-23i1/The Intro 2019 was great. Lot’s of interesting stuff happened. Let’s dig in. But first, I...Thu, 02 Jan 2020 03:50:01 GMTyearinreviewhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/cool-rust-and-webassembly-resource-33j6/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/cool-rust-and-webassembly-resource-33j6/I still haven’t really dug into Rust and WebAssembly (WASM) yet, but this project looks really...Sat, 07 Dec 2019 12:56:29 GMTrustwebassemblyhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/evaluating-the-new-microsoft-edge-4m1j/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/evaluating-the-new-microsoft-edge-4m1j/About a month ago I Tweeted that I was going to take the new MS Edge browser for a...Sat, 23 Nov 2019 02:25:44 GMTbrowsershttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/need-help-picking-a-tabletop-colour-2mki/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/need-help-picking-a-tabletop-colour-2mki/Hey peeps, I'm gonna buy a motorized standing desk with some award points I got from work. Which colo...Mon, 28 Oct 2019 01:02:36 GMThomeofficehttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/toast-messages-4hhd/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/toast-messages-4hhd/So I made a little toast message demo tonight. It also works with the keyboard if you tab. It will...Thu, 24 Oct 2019 03:45:40 GMTcodepenhtmlhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/you-do-no-need-to-use-the-classnames-package-1bb/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/you-do-no-need-to-use-the-classnames-package-1bb/Do not get me wrong, the classnames package is really handy. It is also quite popular with just over...Wed, 23 Oct 2019 18:27:07 GMTjavascriptreacthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-hacktoberfest-2019-32i2/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-hacktoberfest-2019-32i2/Originally published at iamdeveloper.com Like many of you, I am participating in Hacktoberfest as we...Tue, 15 Oct 2019 01:00:22 GMThacktoberfesthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-shell-aliases-1obk/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-shell-aliases-1obk/Everyone has their favourite aliases for git and the shell. I have written about my git aliases...Fri, 11 Oct 2019 01:45:17 GMTzshclishellhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/update-dependencies-with-dependabot-cypress-and-netlify-3lkf/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/update-dependencies-with-dependabot-cypress-and-netlify-3lkf/To preface things, this post is in the context of a JavaScript project, specifically, my blog...Fri, 16 Aug 2019 02:11:34 GMTtestingautomationcypressnetlifyhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/dev-to-s-frontend-a-brain-dump-in-one-act-7mg/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/dev-to-s-frontend-a-brain-dump-in-one-act-7mg/An explanation to the best of my knowledge on all things front-end in the dev.to codebaseTue, 23 Apr 2019 04:27:39 GMTjavascriptpreactwebpackhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/dev-to-with-a-typescript-or-flow-frontend-codebase-1n33/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/dev-to-with-a-typescript-or-flow-frontend-codebase-1n33/Consider moving dev.to frontend codebase to TypeScript or Flow?Sun, 07 Apr 2019 03:37:54 GMTjavascripttypescriptflowhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/an-a11y-extension-coming-to-a-browser-near-you-1mg2/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/an-a11y-extension-coming-to-a-browser-near-you-1mg2/Last year when I was looking to take on a new role somewhere, one of the places I interviewed at was...Mon, 01 Apr 2019 01:02:21 GMTa11yjavascriptextensionshttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/html-forms-back-to-basics-1mph/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/html-forms-back-to-basics-1mph/Let's forget frameworks and libraries for a moment. Today we’re just going to talk about the <form...Thu, 28 Mar 2019 04:48:20 GMTdomjavascripthtmlbeginnershttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/ink-react-for-clis-2l3b/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/ink-react-for-clis-2l3b/This one is short and sweet. Are you familiar with React? Then you know Ink. I haven't tried this...Sat, 09 Mar 2019 21:34:54 GMTreactclihttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/showcase-your-gatsby-site-266/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/showcase-your-gatsby-site-266/Have you created a Gatsby site that you're proud of? It could be for a client or just your personal s...Thu, 28 Feb 2019 22:02:28 GMTgatsbyopensourcetypescriptjamstackhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/an-enhanced-typescript-playground-49j6/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/an-enhanced-typescript-playground-49j6/The TypeScript playground with enhancementsTue, 26 Feb 2019 03:58:04 GMTtypescripthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/git-history-20nh/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/git-history-20nh/Quickly browse the history of a git repository Wed, 13 Feb 2019 05:05:26 GMTgithttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/typescript-tips-part-ii-declaration-merging-5gba/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/typescript-tips-part-ii-declaration-merging-5gba/Declaration merging has been around for a while now in TypeScript. In a nutshell it lets you merge...Tue, 12 Feb 2019 02:45:09 GMTtypescriptwebdevfrontendhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/dom-chef---build-dom-elements-with-jsx-5fi/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/dom-chef---build-dom-elements-with-jsx-5fi/dom-chef- Build DOM Elements with JSXSat, 02 Feb 2019 23:45:45 GMTwebdevjavascripthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/typescript-tips-part-i-4hhp/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/typescript-tips-part-i-4hhp/We'll start off with the usual shameless plug of another blog post. If you haven't read it yet, check...Fri, 25 Jan 2019 02:13:23 GMTtypescriptjavascriptreacthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/any-contribution-to-open-source-is-valuable-57d3/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/any-contribution-to-open-source-is-valuable-57d3/We hear people say it all the time, but I would like to reiterate it. Any contribution you make to...Tue, 22 Jan 2019 03:24:42 GMTopensourcegatsbyhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/css-mask-property-2d42/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/css-mask-property-2d42/Say you have a background that you want a certain colour, but you only want to show parts of the...Wed, 09 Jan 2019 16:44:39 GMTbeginnerscssuihttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/take-chances-and-standout-because-who-knows-3kh6/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/take-chances-and-standout-because-who-knows-3kh6/This is my first time writing a post about career advice. This kind of advice is definitely not a one...Sat, 05 Jan 2019 18:40:00 GMTcareerinterviewmotivationhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/-webpack-secrets-jg/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/-webpack-secrets-jg/Things you can do 🔨 with webpack 📦 that you might not be aware of.Tue, 01 Jan 2019 14:05:58 GMTwebpackwebdevjavascriptnodehttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/scoped-style--36n3/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/scoped-style--36n3/a tiny CSS in JS librarySun, 30 Dec 2018 23:12:39 GMTjavascriptcsscssinjshttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-2018-year-in-review-2f0k/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-2018-year-in-review-2f0k/So here’s my 2018 Resolutions. 2018 Resolutions Nick...Sat, 29 Dec 2018 10:00:00 GMTyearinreviewhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/can-you-create-the-great-redux-store-4eo1/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/can-you-create-the-great-redux-store-4eo1/Photo courtesy of Flickr user Sarah Gilbert There's a great free video course on Redux from Dan...Sat, 08 Sep 2018 03:46:46 GMTreduxjavascripthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/setting-up-storybook-for-preact-p5a/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/setting-up-storybook-for-preact-p5a/Update 2019/06/30: Storybook now has an option via the CLI to install for Preact. For more info see...Sun, 02 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMTpreactstorybookjavascriptuihttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-git-aliases-5dea/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-git-aliases-5dea/I’m going to provide my list of git aliases and explain what each alias doesSun, 26 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMTgitproductivitydevelopertoolshttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/getting-started-with-react-storybook-9jh/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/getting-started-with-react-storybook-9jh/UPDATE: A lot has changed in Storybook land since this was written. If you are adding Storybook to...Mon, 26 Mar 2018 05:00:00 GMTreactbeginnersstorybookuihttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/probably-another-battleship-board-on-codepenio-coverimage-httpsc1staticflickrcom7609963333175677fc467e409ojpg--4n7m/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/probably-another-battleship-board-on-codepenio-coverimage-httpsc1staticflickrcom7609963333175677fc467e409ojpg--4n7m/A basic Battleship board with some random hits and misses.Fri, 09 Feb 2018 05:01:39 GMTcsscodepenhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/a--notification-code-pen-4o0n/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/a--notification-code-pen-4o0n/A fun notification component.Sat, 27 Jan 2018 07:33:25 GMTcsscodepenhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/handy-js-snippets-352f/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/handy-js-snippets-352f/Quick ES5/ES6 snippets for doing awesome things in Javascript.Tue, 23 Jan 2018 01:07:14 GMTjavascriptshowdevhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/quick-simple-rating-code-pen-3ecp/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/quick-simple-rating-code-pen-3ecp/Cover image care of Flickr user sparkyloe. Continuing along with my 2018 Resolutions to make Code...Fri, 19 Jan 2018 04:12:02 GMTcsscodepenhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/quick-hulk-code-pen-18i1/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/quick-hulk-code-pen-18i1/I give you "Hulk table rage"Sat, 13 Jan 2018 04:37:21 GMTcsscodepenhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-mac-setup-2m05/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-mac-setup-2m05/Maybe I should start a series called “Not just a Gist”, as I’m slowly converting gists of mine to...Fri, 12 Jan 2018 10:00:00 GMTproductivitydevelopertoolswebdevhttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/2018-resolutions-1deo/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/2018-resolutions-1deo/ So like many, I too will make resolutions for 2018. I made myself accountable b...Wed, 03 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMTnewyearbookspersonaldevelopmenthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-visual-studio-code-setup-2ima/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-visual-studio-code-setup-2ima/A small write up on my Visual Studio Code setupSat, 23 Dec 2017 14:11:11 GMTvisualstudiocodedevelopertoolstexteditorvscodehttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/why-you-might-want-to-consider-using-typescript-6j3/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/why-you-might-want-to-consider-using-typescript-6j3/A small write up on the benefits of using TypeScript.Sun, 08 Oct 2017 14:35:45 GMTtypescripthttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-talk-on-react-storybook-at-the-js-montreal-meetup-2598/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/my-talk-on-react-storybook-at-the-js-montreal-meetup-2598/My talk at the June 13th, 2017 js-montreal meetup slides are available at...Tue, 27 Jun 2017 03:00:00 GMTstorybookreacttalkshttps://www.nickyt.co/blog/hi-im-nick-taylor/https://www.nickyt.co/blog/hi-im-nick-taylor/My introduction postSun, 12 Mar 2017 20:22:41 GMTintroduction