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• CSS anchoring ✨

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  #css Mar 1, 2023
• Create a SPA without a bundler 🚀

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  #engineering Feb 28, 2023
• On Clean Code ✨

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  #engineering Feb 28, 2023
• Using React Context as state management... 🚀

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  #react Feb 28, 2023
• JS Package Manager benchmarks (yarn vs npm vs pnpm) ✨

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  #js Feb 27, 2023
• Learning at Shazam 🚀

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  #soft-skills Feb 27, 2023
• React Side Effects (Redux) 🚀

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  #react Feb 27, 2023
• How to write a basic spell checker from scratch 🚀

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  #engineering Feb 20, 2023
• React State Management 🚀

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  #react Feb 20, 2023
• A guide to when React re-renders ✨

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  #react Feb 18, 2023
• About column order in Postgres 🚀

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  #postgres Feb 18, 2023
• Build your own React from scratch 🚀

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  #react Feb 18, 2023
• Build your own redis (redis from scratch) 🚀

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  #redis Feb 18, 2023
• Chrome plugin: how to write one ✨

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  #chrome Feb 18, 2023
• CSS Performance video ✨

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  #css Feb 18, 2023
• Database Review Guides 🚀

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  #sql Feb 18, 2023
• Declarative Shadow DOM ✨

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  #javascript Feb 18, 2023
• Deep dive into deep cloning in JS 🚀

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  #javascript Feb 18, 2023
• Don't teach during pull request code reviews 🚀

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  #soft-skills Feb 18, 2023
• Ordering Table Columns in Postgres 🚀

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  #postgres Feb 18, 2023
• Postgres tips ✨

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  #react Feb 18, 2023
• React event delegation (changed in React 17) 🚀

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  #react Feb 18, 2023
• React: useDeferredValue 🚀

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  #react Feb 18, 2023
• The tech that runs github search 🚀

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  #case-study Feb 18, 2023
• V8 Array Sort (from 2018) 🚀

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  #javascript Feb 18, 2023
• Virtual DOM overhead 🚀

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  #react Feb 18, 2023
• Art of writing a good changelog 🚀

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  #soft-skills Jan 28, 2023
• Avoid useEffect in React (video) ✨

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  #react Jan 28, 2023
• Fun CSS frameworks ✨

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  #css Jan 28, 2023
• NodeJS fork example (11min tutorial video) ✨

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  #nodejs Jan 28, 2023
• Rendering with Chrome in the terminal 🚀

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  #terminal Jan 28, 2023
• PostgreSQL without a super user 🚀

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  #postgres Jan 27, 2023
• What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today? ✨

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  #stack Jan 27, 2023
• Using hacked emails to verify users ✨

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  #security Jan 20, 2023
• What can be animated in CSS? 🚀

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  #css Jan 20, 2023
• Guide to CSS selector performance ✨

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  #css Jan 18, 2023
• Chrome Extension Guide Book 🚀

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  #browsers Jan 15, 2023
• Ray tracer challenge book ✨

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  #3d Jan 15, 2023
• Databases in 2022 retro ✨

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  #db Jan 2, 2023
• When concepts clicked (HN thread) ✨

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  #soft-skills Jan 2, 2023
• The unintended consequences of blocking IP addresses ✨

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  #cloudflare Dec 30, 2022
• Learn to UseContext() with Hooks in 3 Minutes ✨

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  #react Dec 29, 2022
• Git blame ignore rev 🚀

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  #git Dec 24, 2022
• React Fibre Deep Dive 🚀

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  #react Dec 23, 2022
• Comprehensive 4 day rust course (online) 🚀

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  #rust Dec 22, 2022
• A guide to when React re-renders (2) 🚀

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  #react Dec 18, 2022
• Deciding between useState or useReducer in React ✨

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  #react Dec 18, 2022
• Guide to using ANY in Postgres, instead of IN ✨

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  #postgres Dec 10, 2022
• How to make meetings more inclusive ✨

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  #soft-skills Dec 10, 2022
• Stripe's guide to zero-decimal currencies ✨

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  #stripe Dec 10, 2022
• Uber's Postgres to MySQL (2016) ✨

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  #mysql Dec 10, 2022
• Advanced Vim Tips 🚀

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  #vim Dec 1, 2022
• CSS - px vs rem vs em explained 🚀

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  #css Dec 1, 2022
• How the Figma plugin system was built ✨

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  #engineering Dec 1, 2022
• EM vs REM in CSS ✨

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  #css Nov 19, 2022
• Postgres Log Monitoring Guide ✨

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  #postgres Nov 19, 2022
• Postgres Select For Share guide ✨

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  #postgres Nov 19, 2022
• How to build a Semantic Search Engine in Rust ✨

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  #rust Nov 9, 2022
• Join strategies and performance in Postgresql ✨

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  #postgres Nov 9, 2022
• Oh my git - interactive git game 🚀

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  #git Nov 6, 2022
• Stop requiring only one assertion per unit test: Multiple assertions are fine ✨

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  #testing Nov 6, 2022
• Understanding Controllers and Routes in NestJS ✨

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  #nestjs Nov 6, 2022
• What is the CSS 'ch' Unit? 🚀

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  #css Nov 6, 2022
• A half-hour to learn Rust 🚀

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  #rust Nov 5, 2022
• Docker Compose best practices ✨

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  #docker Nov 5, 2022
• Postgres Insider Terminology ✨

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  #postgres Nov 5, 2022
• Designing data intensive apps ✨

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  #software-engineering Oct 29, 2022
• GraphQL/Apollo Server AST ✨

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  #graphql Oct 29, 2022
• Introduction to online payments ✨

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  #payments Oct 29, 2022
• Postgres Explain/Analyze visualizer ✨

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  #postgres Oct 29, 2022
• The button cheatsheet 🚀

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  #html Oct 15, 2022
• The art of Postgres (book) 🚀

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  #postgres Oct 8, 2022
• Why We Switched to React Query for Managing Server State ✨

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  #react Oct 1, 2022
• Custom CSS Reset ✨

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  #css Sep 17, 2022
• Patterns book ✨

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  #design-patterns Sep 13, 2022
• Cracking the Coding Interview book 🚀

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  #interview-prep Sep 10, 2022
• The book on accessibility 🚀

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  #accessibility Sep 10, 2022
• Stripe Payments History ✨

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  #payments Aug 13, 2022
• React Router 6 ✨

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  #react Jun 11, 2022
• Styled Components (in React) ✨

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  #react Jun 11, 2022
• The Pragmatic Programmer book 🚀

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  #software-engineering Jun 4, 2022
• Guide to CSS Z-index ✨

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  #css Jun 2, 2022
• How we optimized PostgreSQL queries 100x ✨

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  #postgres Jun 2, 2022
• Lint only changed files in a git PR ✨

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  #git Jun 2, 2022
• Docker tutorial for beginners 🚀

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  #docker Apr 16, 2022
• How to read a Postgres EXPLAIN ANALYZE Query Plan ✨

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  #postgres Apr 16, 2022
• Internals of Postgres 🚀

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  #postgres Apr 16, 2022
• GraphQL and MySQL ✨

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  #graphql Mar 19, 2022
• Web accessibility checklist 🚀

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  #accessibility Mar 19, 2022
• Clean code book ✨

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  #software-engineering Feb 5, 2022
• A visual guide to understanding react re-renders 🚀

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  #react Jan 8, 2021