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Written by Andrew Shell, a Senior Web Engineer from Madison, WI.

  1. In 2018, I built a time-tracking demo in React for a job I was applying for. I had spent the years prior working with Angular (via Ionic), but many of the jobs I'd seen asked for React. Since then, it's been dormant while I moved on to other things. I still only do a little React...

  2. Have you ever felt like no matter what you do, the scale just won’t budge? This might be because you're focusing on the wrong type of metric. I've previously written about the differences between lead and lag metrics and why it's important to differentiate between them when...

  3. Many have told us that to achieve our goals, we should focus more on building effective systems rather than setting specific objectives. But this advice skips a crucial first step: setting goals is essential because it guides how we create those systems. Let's look closer at why...

  4. This post is the first of several articles about the technology around Understanding ActivityPub. The first question I had while reading the ActivityPub specification was, "How do I find the different feeds and documents defined by the spec?" One of the first things...