A First Look at Poetry
Learn how Poetry simplifies Python development by consolidating common tools for managing dependencies and environments efficiently.
Blog Posts
A First Look at Dashmate
A beginner friendly tutorial for running a local version of Dash Platform with Dashmate. Includes creating an identity, data contract, and documents.
A First Look at Dash
Dash is a cryptocurrency launched in 2014 that aims to be a convenient, fast, and private digital cash platform that is suitable for everyday transactions.
Autogenerate Show Notes with Whisper.cpp, Llama.cpp, and Node.js
End-to-end scripting workflow to generate automatic show notes with LLMs from audio and video transcripts using Whisper.cpp, Llama.cpp, and Commander.js.
Some Advice for How to Learn ChatGPT
Another AI opinion piece, this time about how someone should approach learning about ChatGPT so they can use it most effectively.
The Implications of ChatGPT for DevRel
An opinion piece about the implications of ChatGPT on the workflows and careers of Developer Advocates and how they can best utilize it.
A First Look at tRPC
tRPC is a TypeScript library for building end-to-end, type-safe APIs. It creates fully typed endpoints on the backend which are queried from a frontend client.
A First Look at SolidStart
SolidStart is a project starter and metaframework for SolidJS that provides a first-class way to build and deploy SolidJS applications.
A First Look at create-t3-app
create-t3-app is a fullstack, typesafe React framework with Next.js, tRPC, Prisma, and Tailwind deployed on Vercel and Fly.
Does Remix Scale?
Zach Leatherman recently put out a provocative benchmark to compare different web frameworks on the speed at which they can generate a static site.
A First Look at IPFS
IPFS is a protocol defining a cryptographic-hashed and content-addressed peer-to-peer filesystem for directories and files.
Storing NFT Information with Fauna
Learn how to create and deploy a Solidity smart contract to an Ethereum testnet, mint an NFT, and store NFT information in a Fauna database.
A First Look at Ethers and Hardhat
This example uses Hardhat and Ethers to compile a smart contract written in Solidity and deploy that contract to an Ethereum test network with Alchemy.
Querying MongoDB with Prisma and Railway
Learn how to deploy and host a MongoDB database with Railway and query data by connecting to the database with Prisma Client.
A First Look at Astro
Astro is a web framework that supports the Islands Architecture and includes integrations for React, Svelte, Vue, Solid, and many more.
What is Partial Hydration?
Hydration converts static HTML into dynamic pages with client-side JS. Partial hydration only hydrates the components of an app that need to be interactive.
How to Display a Custom Daily Greeting
Learn how to use JavaScript to create a custom daily message displaying a different greeting depending on the day of the week.
A First Look at Oak
Oak is a middleware framework for Deno's native HTTP server and Deno Deploy inspired by Koa. In this tutorial we build an Oak REST API deployed on Deno Deploy.
A First Look at Nuxt 3
Nuxt is a Vue metaframework for building performant web applications while maintaining an intuitive developer experience.
Why I'm Hung Up on the Term Fullstack
What is the definition of fullstack? An examination of when it is or isn't appropriate to categorize something as fullstack.
Three Ways to Deploy a Serverless GraphQL API
How to deploy Apollo Server and GraphQL Yoga on serverless functions with Netlify Functions, Serverless Framework, and AWS Amplify.
A First Look at Pulumi
Pulumi provides open source infrastructure as code SDKs for creating, deploying, and managing infrastructure on multiple clouds in multiple languages.
A First Look at GraphQL Helix
GraphQL Helix is a runtime agnostic collection of utility functions that helps you build your own GraphQL API and HTTP server.
Deploy a GraphQL Server with Docker and Fly
Learn how to create a GraphQL server with Node.js and Express, build an image of the server with Docker, and deploy the container to Fly.
A First Look at AWS Fargate
Fargate is an AWS service for dockerizing applications and running containers on ECS without managing servers or clusters of EC2 instances.
Deploy a Docker Container on AWS Lambda
This example uses the Serverless Framework to deploy and query a Node.js server running in a Docker container on AWS Lambda.
A First Look at Serverless Cloud
Serverless Cloud is a new serverless app platform from Serverless, Inc. Unlike the Serverless Framework, it lives on a new hosting service in the cloud.
A First Look at KeystoneJS
KeystoneJS is a CMS for developers that provides a GraphQL API & Management UI for content and data based on your schema.
A First Look at Slinkity
Slinkity is a frontend component framework that uses Vite to bring dynamic, client side interactions to your static Eleventy sites.
A First Look at Fly
Fly is a platform for fullstack applications and databases build with Dockerfiles or Buildpacks that need to run globally.
A First Look at GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions can be used to automate, customize, and execute software development workflows from within a GitHub repository.
A First Look at PostGraphile with Railway
PostGraphile builds a GraphQL API from a PostgreSQL schema that automatically detects information such as tables, columns, indexes, and relationships.
A First Look at Docker
Docker is a set of tools that deliver software in isolated packages called containers that bundle their software, libraries and configuration.
A First Look at Azure Functions
Azure Functions is an event-driven compute platform that manages deploying and maintaining servers and can be used to create serverless API endpoints.
Deploy Node on Digital Ocean with PM2
Learn how to create a backend Node.js server and deploy it on Digital Ocean with a popular Node process manager called PM2.
A First Look at the Serverless Framework
The Serverless Framework consists of an open source CLI and a hosted dashboard. We will create a boilerplate Node Lambda handler and deploy it to AWS.
A First Look at React 18 with Vite and Netlify
Learn how to create a boilerplate React app with Vite, upgrade the application to React 18, and deploy the app to Netlify.
Edge GraphQL with Cloudflare Workers
Learn how to build and deploy a GraphQL server on the edge with Apollo GraphQL, Cloudflare Workers, Webpack, and Wrangler.
A First Look at Architect
Architect is an Infrastructure as Code framework for provisioning build artifacts. It provides a compact syntax that compiles down to CloudFormation.
A First Look at Amplify with Vite
AWS Amplify is a set of tools and services to help frontend web and mobile developers build scalable fullstack applications with AWS infrastructure.
A First Look at Remix
Remix is a React metaframework created by Ryan Florence and Michael Jackson. It primarily uses standard web APIs and is built on React Router.
A First Look at Cloudflare Workers
A Cloudflare Worker runs JavaScript on Cloudflare's edge servers. A Cloudflare Service Worker specifically handles HTTP traffic.
A First Look at AWS SAM
AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) is an open-source framework for building serverless applications with a shorthand syntax for common cloud resources.
A First Look at AWS CDK
AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code and provisioning it through AWS CloudFormation.
Can I Use MongoDB with Prisma Yet?
MongoDB is a database. It does stuff with data and then puts it in a base. Prisma now lets you do that without writing MongoDB stuff.
A First Look at Cloudflare Pages
Cloudflare Pages is a Jamstack platform for frontend developers to collaborate and deploy websites by syncing a GitHub repo and building a static frontend.
How to Query the Rick and Morty GraphQL API
Learn how to use a GraphQL API by querying the Rick and Morty GraphQL API with curl, the Fetch API, graphql-request, and Apollo Client.
TypeScript Generics
A Socratic dialogue about the nature and purpose of TypeScript Generics. Generics are a way to prepare types for the unknown.
Notes on ES Modules with Chantastic
A collection of examples from Michael Chan (Chantastic) demonstrating static and dynamic imports, export lists, and import aliases.
A First Look at Vite
Vite is a frontend build tool and open source project created by Evan You that increases development speed and serves native ES modules with ESBuild & Rollup.
Semantic GitHub
A semantic pull request lets you tell others about changes you've pushed to a branch but in a way that actually means something.
GraphQL Caching
Since the GraphQL specification aims to be as general as possible, caching has been considered out-of-scope for the spec itself.
A First Look at SvelteKit
SvelteKit is a serverless first Svelte metaframework for building web applications with filesystem-based routing and multiple rendering modes.
Why Do So Many Musicians Become Programmers?
Before becoming a web developer, I spent nearly a decade as an aspiring professional musician and music teacher. Does that have anything to do with programming?
Crypto Constitutions
Digital governance is not simply a technical challenge. It is a communicative, sociological, and distinctly human challenge.
The Potential of Web3
An explanation of the goals and ambitions of web3 developers and the potential of web3 technology to create a sustainable structure for open source projects.