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New management. There was a reorg (coup) where tech is actively excluded, yet still the target of blame.

I'm redoing that whole stack, as it was a prototype to get buy-in to "fix" the Webpack API for most cases. For an eslint-style plugin system I'd recommend webpack-blocks.

In Node, I consistently reach for Knex, which is less of an ORM (like Bookshelf) and more like a query builder. This simplifies binding, mapping, and most queries. There have been …

As a hiring manager, I used to want to see a profile that competed with my own (at the time). Now I've learned that (1) burnout is real, (2) work CAN be intellectually stimulating …

As a parent, appropriate is determined by my children's ability to yield the knowledge correctly. Take swears for instance. Until they know better, there's more risk of them using …

What's exciting to me, having tested graph.cool and others, they are fantastic at providing an API in a format that works quite well (GraphQL) and handing the admin for me. I don't…

Outside of work hours, as long as it doesn't compete it's yours.

Once kids are in bed, it's Overwatch time.

I've struggled with helping people out of this rut. On the tech side, people come to me with solutions they want to see live, and spend 10x the time there than describing the root …

If you want a pretty terse way of defining a GraphQL API, Apollo works very well (with mocking, too).

The UX is top notch. Not only is the UI polished, but big details like mentioning someone and an invite link appearing is awesome. Or force-pinging someone on DnD because of an eme…

Release blog post: https://zeit.co/blog/next

Requiring developers to move is what scares me away...

I was able to rebuild a week's worth of Redux work in MobX within a day. And that's having never used it before. What's crazy is how MobX is able to update React child components w…

Each time we make a dashboard, we model it after GitHub's status page. This looks fantastic, simple to implement, and, heck, could be hidden behind a feature flag or auth :) Great …

It's interesting that the author states that the majority of traffic cams from Reddit. When I browse r/javascript, r/react, r/programming, etc. its practically a ghost town: 0 comm…

I agree that this convention is useful. We have dozens of Node projects at my office, and you can tell the age of them by whether the start script is "grunt", "gulp", "npm run dev"…

I'm guilty of this. I was in a 1.5 hour meeting that started out relevant, but then the conversation devolved into tons of specifics on how the reports were gathered and created, a…