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Twitter (most likely) regrets adding Follow

Fine-tuning OpenAI models

Understanding and avoiding visually ambiguous characters in IDs

Setting up PostgreSQL for running integration tests

Designing one-to-one relationships in PostgreSQL

The case for native assertions in PostgreSQL

How to add Sentry tracing to your Node.js app

What makes great engineering teams?

Testing Rehype Pretty Code

Integrating Fastify with Slonik

Integrating Slonik with Express.js

Attempting Large Code Refactor using LLMs

Detecting unnecessarily mounted React components in a large app

Debugging mysterious traffic from Boardman, OR

Bulk inserting nested data into the database (part II)

How a few lines of code reduced database load by a few million queries

Routing PostgreSQL queries between read-write & read-only instances

Building advanced SQL search from a user text input

Writing composable SQL using JavaScript

Fully qualified names vs a jungle of imports

Rewriting tests from Cypress to Playwright using GPT3

Migrating from Cypress to Playwright using GPT3

Validating PostgreSQL results & inferring query static types

What makes a good commit

CTO vs Head of Engineering

Redesigning Remote Team Culture

How I got my first Node.js job

.gitignore mistake that everyone makes

Onboarding email with 80% response rate

Why Remote Working Is Bad

The Magic of Engineered Serendipity

5 tips for remote job seekers

How to execute effective daily standups using Slack?

Solving social isolation

Stack Overflow is leaking user emails

Mocking PostgreSQL queries in Node.js

Ultimate guide to concurrent logging in Node.js

Using HTTP proxy with Puppeteer

Traveling and working remotely from Japan. 20 oddities

How to terminate a HTTP server in Node.js?

Why IMDb IDs cannot be trusted and why not to use padded IDs

Ensuring healthy Node.js program using watchdog timer

A declarative way to cache PostgreSQL queries using Node.js

Handling unhandled promise rejections in async functions

Detecting a promise that will never resolve/ reject

Stop using package-lock.json or yarn.lock

Mistake that cost thousands (Kubernetes, GKE)

My favorite CSS hack

Dynamically generating SQL queries using Node.js

Logging in Browser

Warming cache

Capturing stdout/ stderr in Node.js using Domain module

Stop using Knex.js

Processing large volumes of data safely and fast using Node.js and PostgreSQL

Lessons learned scaling PostgreSQL database to 1.2bn records/month

The case for Array#replace()

Ensuring good service health by automating thorough integration testing and alerting

I've accessed my email inbox that I have not used for 7 years & found 15,559 emails

Do not protect your website from scraping (part 1, technology barriers)

Compressing GraphQL response

Applaudience ❤ GO2CINEMA

I reduced GraphQL codebase size by 40% and increased type coverage to 90%+

Using DataLoader to batch requests

I have been doing web app error tracking and debugging wrong all these years

Using flow-runtime to enforce strict type constraints at runtime

Roarr! the perfect JSON logger for Node.js and browser

The Twitter effect

Do file sharing and piracy "eat at the roots" of the cinema industry?

Do file sharing and piracy "eat at the roots" of the cinema industry?

Hacking Medium to create a self-hosted blogging platform

Using React v16 to create self-destructing components

The biggest UX mistake in e-commerce: discount code input on the checkout page

Filming sites of the IMDb top 1000 movies

Replacing coordinates with MGRS

Pre-rendering SPA for SEO and improved perceived page loading speed

Making the anchor links work in SPA applications

React application seen as a blank page via "Fetch as Google"

Distributing a self-replicating malicious code using NPM

Stop using CSS in JavaScript for web development

Protecting APIs from the DDoS attacks by signing the resource identifiers

The wheels of open-source

Making docker-in-docker builds x2 faster using Docker "cache-from" option

Parsing absolutely anything in JavaScript using Earley algorithm

Developing isomorphic applications using webpack

The missing CI/CD Kubernetes component: Helm package manager

I am calling for better Git GUI client change staging support

Don't use Babel transpilers when debugging an application

Don't use Babel transpilers when debugging an application

Using DataLoader to batch queries

Using MySQL in Node.js

MySQL SINSERT

Behaviour Driven Development with JavaScript

Pro AngularJS

The Definitive Guide to the ES7 Async Functions

The Definitive Guide to the JavaScript Generators

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: Lo-Dash v3

The Definitive Guide to the JavaScript Generators

Behaviour Driven Development with Javascript