This Week In Writing, we discuss whether you should still own a website if you publish on Medium or Substack. — Last week, Shannon posted a question in My Writing Community. She asked, “If you write on Medium, do you also need a WordPress blog?” Over the last few months, my answer to this question has changed. …

In-depth comparison of the 3 most popular API development technologies — REST, GraphQL, and gRPC are the 3 most popular API development technologies in modern web applications. However, choosing one isn’t easy since they all have unique features. In this article, I will compare and contrast the features and usages of REST, GraphQL, and gRPC to help you decide the best…

One of our undergraduate-intern-turned-part-time-employees recently handed in his notice. Probably not a remarkable turn of events given the crazy developer job market — no doubt we’re not the only team that’s lost some talent. …

A compiled tech stack that runs in your browser Bottom line up front: Here’s the template project I used to spin this up. Here’s the code associated with this blog. Here’s the website that shows what comes out the other end. Onto the musing. What’s the tech stack look like? Rust Rust has been touted as the most loved programming language many years in…

Add Flowchart, Sequence Diagram, Code diff, all kinds of high-level Markdown elements into your documentation — We, developers, don’t just code but payback various “tech debts” from time to time, such as writing documentation. …

Last week I finally switched my laptop to Linux (I choose Pop!_OS and I’m very happy with it). After installing all the tools and software I needed for my day to day work I found a repository that listed a lot of modern UNIX tools that are alternatives to common…

tl;dr: ACI is a very immature and unstable product, and I doubt that many customers are using it in production. Just stay away from it. Microsoft Azure is one of the three major global cloud providers, competing against AWS and Google Cloud. It is often convenient to use Azure for…

I’ve had a number of folks recently ask my opinion of the “Pure” CSS framework, as if my answer isn’t obvious given my opinion of ALL front-end frameworks. …

If you’re a DevOps engineer or a web developer, there’s a good chance that you’re already familiar and using the SSH key authentication on a daily basis. Whether it’s for logging into the remote server or when pushing your commit to the remote repository. …