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Saturday, March 11, 2023

How To Persist Style Changes Through Reloads Using Overrides In Dev Tools

Sidenote This month on Hashnode we have been running the #DebuggingFeb Writeathon. As a software developer at Hashnode, I thought I'd join in. Of course, I won't be eligible for any prizes of course but it's a great opportunity to share knowledge wit...

Wednesday, July 6, 2022

My First Year As a Software Developer Reviewed In 30 Questions!

My first year as a Software Developer at Hashnode recently passed and I want to share it with you. I thought it would a good idea to format this into 30 simple questions and try to offer tips and suggestions for anyone reading that might benefit from...

Monday, August 30, 2021

A month in my developer life: No.2 - June & July 2021

Welcome back to the monthly (or bi-monthly apparently) insight into my life as a recently employed Full Stack Developer in my first full-time role. It's a chance for me to reflect honestly on my progress and to throw out my thoughts on 'paper'. I hop...

Friday, August 6, 2021

HTTP Security Headers and how to set them in Next.js

Security headers are a type of HTTP header there to help us describe our site so we can help protect it against various potential attacks. In this article, I will introduce HTTP headers including various different security headers that you might want...

Friday, July 2, 2021

What the hell is Conformance? Highlighted in Next.js 11

Next.js 11 is the latest update to the popular React framework and it introduced a bunch of new and exciting features. Also included in the update is something known as Conformance, but what the hell is it and why do we need it? Well, you've come to...

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

A month in my developer life: Episode 1 - May 2021

👋 Hi everyone and welcome to a new series here on my blog all about reflecting on my experiences each month as a developer new to the industry. This will mostly be a rambling of my thoughts reflecting on the previous month. If that sounds good to y...

Friday, June 4, 2021

Let's build a serverless Next.js app with Auth0 for authenticating users

Let's explore how we can integrate user authentication in a serverless Next.js app using Auth0 in a really simple way. We will be using a package called @auth0/nextjs-auth0 which was built to support user authentication in Next.js using Auth0 and wil...

Friday, May 21, 2021

Developer portfolio do's & don'ts

So you've now built some projects and you're ready to tackle your developer portfolio, great! Whether you'll need one will depend on your situation but if you're coming from a self-taught background as I was, it's a useful thing to have in your back ...

Friday, May 14, 2021

How the #100DaysOfCode challenge pushed me into landing my dream software development role

Last week I completed my #100DaysOfCode challenge over on Twitter. For those of you that don't already know, it is a commitment to be coding at least a little every day. You share it with others by tweeting about your activities and try to encourage ...

Friday, May 7, 2021

Getting started with Next.js API routes

Next.js is a wonderful production-ready framework built on the JavaScript library React. It's extremely flexible letting us build simple static sites, server-side rendered apps, or a mix of both. One of the cool features of Next.js is how it handles ...