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Oct 23, 2025 · 4 min read

Building a Claude Code Blog Skill: What I Learned Systematizing Content Creation

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I live in the terminal. Like, really live there. As a developer advocate, it’s where I spend most of my time - running commands, testing code, writing docs. Over the past few months, Claude Code...

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Jun 21, 2022 · 5 min read

Databases and DevOps: How to Use SingleStore With GitHub Actions

Databases Dev Tools

Databases are frequently not included when transforming an application and engineering culture toward a DevOps, or continuous deployment engineering organization. And, you could be forgiven for this...

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Nov 2, 2020 · 11 min read

How To Use The MongoDB Visual Studio Code Plugin

Databases Dev Tools

To make developers more productive when working with MongoDB, we built MongoDB for Visual Studio Code, an extension that allows you to quickly connect to MongoDB and MongoDB Atlas and work with your...

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Apr 17, 2020 · 3 min read

A Gentle Introduction to Building Serverless Apps

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Thanks for coming to my talk, A Gentle Introduction to Building Serverless Apps. Here you will find all the resources discussed during the talk. About Do you want to crank out features the business...

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Jan 15, 2020 · 2 min read

Building Your First GraphQL Client in JS

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Thanks for coming to my talk, Building Your First GraphQL Client in JS. Here you will find all the resources discussed during the talk. About RESTful APIs have been around for a while now, but they...

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Apr 1, 2019 · 4 min read

How to Build a React and MongoDB App From Scratch In 10 Minutes

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Are you interested in learning how to build a React and MongoDB App? Like many of you, I have been interested in learning more about MongoDB’s cloud offerings and also not spending a dime. This guide...

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Apr 1, 2019 · 6 min read

How to Build A Spotify Player with React in 15 Minutes

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Have you ever wanted to build a Spotify player for your app or website? Adding personalized music to any application is super easy with the Spotify Developer API. Personally, I have been playing...

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Nov 13, 2018 · 10 min read

Building High Performance React Applications

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Okay, we all know that React was built with performance in mind, but when is React slow? I want to break down for you, dear reader, common bottlenecks in React and when you might be making your...

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Jul 22, 2016 · 7 min read

Complete Guide To Node Client-Server Communication

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After reading High-Performance Browser Networking by Ilya Grigorik, I was inspired to implement all of the client-server communication techniques outlined in his book in Node and JavaScript. This...

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May 15, 2015 · 3 min read

How to pixelate images with HTML5 and JavaScript

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A couple of months ago, I was interested in learning some new HTML5 elements. The more visual flourishes of the canvas class especially caught my eye. The ability to dynamically adjust elements in an...