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Lessons from A Philosophy of Software Design

Post date January 15, 2025
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In book-review, books, programming, software engineering, web-development

Lessons from A Philosophy of Software Design

Post date January 15, 2025
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In books, programming, softwareengineering, webdev

What I Want My Manager to Know About Performance Feedback: An open letter from an individual contributor to managers everywhere

Post date February 13, 2023
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In career, leadership, management, programming

Hacking the Hackathon

Post date February 2, 2023
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In hackathons, JavaScript, programming, react, software-development

Create Dynamic Code Review Checklists with CodeSee Code Automation

Post date December 5, 2022
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In codequality, codereview, devops, webdev

How to Build a Crowdfunding Web3 Dapp – Let’s Buy Twitter!

Post date July 18, 2022
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In JavaScript, react, web3, webdev

ESLint Warnings Are an Anti-Pattern

Post date July 13, 2022
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In JavaScript, programming, react, webdev

System Design Interview Tips

Post date June 28, 2022
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In interview, programming, software-architecture, software-development, system-design-interview

System Design Interview Tips

Post date June 27, 2022
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In architecture, career, Systems, webdev

My Recurring Existential Crisis as a Software Engineer

Post date May 12, 2022
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In careers, meaning, programming, purpose, software-development

How to Create a Java Project with Maven

Post date April 14, 2022
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In java, maven, programming, software-development, tutorial

What Every Good README Should Contain

Post date March 16, 2022
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In JavaScript, productivity, programming, software-development, web-development

The Principle Behind the Practice: Understanding why we do the things we do

Post date February 7, 2022
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In leadership, productivity, programming, webdev

Backend Engineering Skills Are Emphasized Too Heavily for Principal Engineers

Post date January 17, 2022
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In architecture, career, design, programming

Death to Tribal Knowledge

Post date January 4, 2022
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In documentation, knowledge, productivity, programming, software-development

AI-Assisted Coding with Tabnine

Post date December 6, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In ai, ai-assisted-coding, JavaScript, productivity, programming, react, software engineering, tabnine

100 Programming Advice from the Book Clean Code by Robert Martin

Post date November 29, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In book-reviews, clean code, code quality, java, JavaScript, programming, software engineering, software-development

In Defense of Clean Code

Post date November 29, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In clean code, java, JavaScript, programming, software-development

Why We Micromanage

Post date October 19, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In career-advice, delegation, leadership, management, software-development

Build a Plagiarism Checker Using Machine Learning

Post date October 6, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In JavaScript, machinelearning, python, tutorial

How to Build a Plagiarism Checker Using Machine Learning

Post date October 6, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In artificial-intelligence, machine-learning, natural-language-processing, pinecone, plagiarism-checker, python, similarity-search, tutorial

Software Engineering is a Loser’s Game

Post date September 20, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In JavaScript, programming, software engineering, software-development, thought-leadership

Solving for Software Engineering’s Unforced Errors

Post date September 20, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In career-advice, Continuous Integration, losers-game, programming, software engineering, software-engineering-errors, software-errors, unforced-errors

Software Engineering is a Loser’s Game

Post date September 20, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In beginners, leadership, productivity, programming

Build an Article Recommendation Engine Using Machine Learning

Post date August 18, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In artificial-intelligence, machine-learning, ml, python, python-top-story, python-tutorials, recommendation-algorithm, recommendation-systems

There Will Always Be More Work

Post date August 12, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In burnout, career-advice, software-development, Work, work-life-balance

How to Build a Customer Service Chatbot with Python, Flask, and Pinecone

Post date August 3, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In Chatbot, coding-skills, customer-support-chatbot, flask, machine-learning, pinecone, python, python-tutorials

Delegating Effectively as a Tech Lead

Post date July 19, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In career, leadership, productivity, programming

DevOps Practices for Software Engineers to Learn

Post date June 25, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In armory, cicd, Continuous Integration, continuous-delivery, continuous-deployment, devops, devops-tools, spinnaker

Software Engineers Need to Know DevOps Too, and That Starts with CI/CD

Post date June 24, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In armory, devops, programming, webdev

Bringing Back the 90s with the Wicked Coolkit

Post date June 21, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In heroku, programming, retro, salesforce, software-development

Bringing Back the 90s with the Wicked Coolkit

Post date June 18, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In heroku, nineties, programming, retro, salesforce, software engineering, trading-cards, Web Components

End-to-end Testing using React, Jest, and the TestProject JavaScript OpenSDK

Post date June 13, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In e2e-testing, end-to-end-testing-javascript, JavaScript, Jest, open source, react, testproject, unit-testing

Slack Etiquette: How to use Slack effectively and respectfully at work

Post date June 4, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In career, productivity, programming, watercooler

Test-driven development for building user interfaces

Post date May 31, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In front-end-development, programming, test-driven-development, user-interface, ux design

Understanding the Node.js Event Loop

Post date May 28, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In deep-dive, event loop, heroku, JavaScript, node, nodejs, programming, software engineering

Understanding the Node.js Event Loop

Post date May 17, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In heroku, JavaScript, node, webdev

How to Build a Reddit Clone with React and Dgraph Cloud

Post date May 11, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In build-a-reddit-clone, dgraph, dgraph-cloud, GraphQL, JavaScript, react, reddit, reddit-clone

Step-by-Step Guide to Updating Your npm Dependencies with Yarn

Post date May 11, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In JavaScript, nodejs, programming, software-development, web-development

Build a Reddit Clone with React and Dgraph Cloud

Post date May 3, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In dgraph, GraphQL, JavaScript, react

What Is Remote Pair Programming?

Post date April 29, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In pair-programming, productivity, remote-pairing, remote-work, remote-working-tools, vscode, vscode-extensions, web-development

Remote Pair Programming with Visual Studio Code and Live Share

Post date April 26, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In heroku, productivity, tutorial, vscode

Clean Code with Unit Tests: Tips and tricks for keeping your test suites clean

Post date April 7, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In beginners, JavaScript, react, testing

“We didn’t write tests because we wanted to get our code out faster”

Post date March 18, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In code quality, programming, refactoring, software-development, testing

How to Write Awful Commit Messages

Post date March 8, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In clean code, git, github, programming, software-development

React Clean Code – Simple ways to write better and cleaner code

Post date February 22, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In beginners, JavaScript, react, webdev

Polyfills, Ponyfills, and Transpiling

Post date February 16, 2021
Post author By Tyler Hawkins
Post categories In babel, beginners, JavaScript, webdev

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