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2023 Content Roundup – Year in Review
2023 has blown right on by. Here’s what I was up to this year… Life at Home Unlike last year, travel was greatly slowed down, meaning my family and I spent much more time back home. My son is 2.5 years old now! It’s insane how fast its going and I can’t imagine that part’s …
Automatically Update npm Package Dependencies with Dependabot
Dependabot has historically been on the receiving end of many jokes and memes, from the world’s top Hacktoberfest participant to the occasional onslaught of inboxes when a widely popular package receives a security update. But buried in there was something important and highly useful that can help package maintainers and projects more sanely deal with …
2022 Content Roundup – Year in Review
This has been an interesting year where I’ve been quite productive, but traveling and conferences have made me productive in different ways than I had been the past two years. So here’s what I was up to in 2022, let’s dig in… Life in a casa de Fayock This year we traveled a lot! My …
2021 Content Roundup – Year in Review
This is my second year putting together a content roundup. It’s always fun looking back to see everything I’ve done, often forgetting that I actually did a particular thing this year and not 5 years ago (2021’s been weird). I didn’t quite put out the same amount of content as I did in 2021, but …
Learn Next.js in 10 Tweets
Next.js has taken the web dev world by storm It’s the React framework devs rave about praising its power, flexibility, and dev experience Don’t feel like you’re missing out! Here’s everything you need to know in 10 tweets Let’s dive in 🧵 🐦 View & Share the Tweet Thread 1. Next.js is a React.js framework …
Colbyashi Maru
For a while I’ve sat on this idea of using the name Colbyashi Maru for some kind of fun content series. What the Colbyashi Maru? If you missed the reference, Colbyashi Maru is a play on the Kobayashi Maru from Star Trek, which is a training exercise presenting a “no win” scenario to those taking …
2020 Content Roundup – Year in Review
This year has been hard on pretty much everyone in the world, some more than others. It's led to a boom in content creation as people are forced to move to a digital life in a remote world and new learners looking to find a new career like learning how to code. Through this time, …
Lessons Learned: Building Geeky Ecommerce Product Experiences at ThinkGeek
Working at ThinkGeek was fun, challenging, and rewarding. Those experiences taught me how to be a better person and how to apply those experiences to my work. This post will focus on some of the takeaways from my time working at ThinkGeek. Learning from past experiences It’s about to cross the 4 year mark since …
Lessons Learned: Building My First Ebook 50 Projects for React & the Static Web
The process of writing an ebook provided a lot of value in helping me grow as both a developer and content creator. It’s helped me understand how I can more effectively educate others and reflect on things I already know. While I’ve ultimately now published a second ebook (Jamstack Handbook), this post will focus on …
Building Maps with React Leaflet – Course on egghead.io
If you’ve been following along with my work, I tend to talk about maps every so often. This includes tutorials like how to create a Coronavirus (COVID-19) statistics map or even how to create your own Santa Tracker. tl;dr my new course Building Maps with React Leaflet is now available on egghead.io! Why so much …
