Personal Blog about life, self-development and everything in-betweenhttps://thedeployguy.com/https://thedeployguy.com/2022-06-12-been-a-long-year/https://thedeployguy.com/2022-06-12-been-a-long-year/Where I am working, what am I doing?Sun, 05 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2021-05-09-leaving-walmart/https://thedeployguy.com/2021-05-09-leaving-walmart/Recap my time at WalmartSun, 09 May 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2021-01-05-self-development-goals/https://thedeployguy.com/2021-01-05-self-development-goals/Discussing my Self Development Goals for 2021.Sun, 03 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2020-12-25-2020-year-in-review/https://thedeployguy.com/2020-12-25-2020-year-in-review/How I got on in my Self Development Goals for 2020!Fri, 25 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2020-08-02-git-commands/https://thedeployguy.com/2020-08-02-git-commands/A very short post on all the git commands I have used in two years at my current roleSun, 02 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2020-07-12-web-auth-cheatsheet/https://thedeployguy.com/2020-07-12-web-auth-cheatsheet/A quick reference sheet for Web Authentication and Authorization. Discussing Sessions, JWTs and moreSun, 12 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2020-06-28-ikea-standing-desk-plus-karlby-top/https://thedeployguy.com/2020-06-28-ikea-standing-desk-plus-karlby-top/My perfect Desk, IKEA Standing Desk + Karby Counter TopSun, 28 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2020-06-21-production-ready-webpack/https://thedeployguy.com/2020-06-21-production-ready-webpack/Last part of our exploring webpack tutorial, in this tutorial we will make our webpack config config more production readySun, 21 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2020-06-14-adding-typescript-to-web/https://thedeployguy.com/2020-06-14-adding-typescript-to-web/This is part 2 of exploring the world of webpack, we are going to add typescript and css support, we are also going to learn about webpack pluginsSun, 14 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2020-06-07-getting-to-know-webpack/https://thedeployguy.com/2020-06-07-getting-to-know-webpack/Webpack is a very powerful and complicated tool, developers are often put off from it but today I want to give a beginner friendly look into WebpackSun, 07 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2020-05-31-federated-modules-introduction/https://thedeployguy.com/2020-05-31-federated-modules-introduction/Webpack 5 Introduces Module Federation, going to explain the what, why and howSun, 31 May 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2020-05-10-monorepo-introduction/https://thedeployguy.com/2020-05-10-monorepo-introduction/Monorepo what the hell are they?Sun, 10 May 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2020-04-19-pull-requests-tips/https://thedeployguy.com/2020-04-19-pull-requests-tips/6 tips for better Pull RequestsSun, 19 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2020-03-22-dev-tip-better-sentence-structure/https://thedeployguy.com/2020-03-22-dev-tip-better-sentence-structure/Welcome back, this week I wanted to discuss a quick dev tip. Recently I was reviewing a PR and there was complicated logic around adding 'and' or ', (commas)' i…Sun, 22 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2020-03-15-deploy-static-site-to-azure-blob-storage/https://thedeployguy.com/2020-03-15-deploy-static-site-to-azure-blob-storage/Welcome back, in the last series of posts we discussed migrating a Wordpress blog to Gatsby and then we deployed it to Netlify. Personally, I think Netlify is t…Sun, 15 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2020-03-09-wordpress-to-gatsby-deployment/https://thedeployguy.com/2020-03-09-wordpress-to-gatsby-deployment/Welcome back, this is the third post on migrating a WordPress Site/Blog to Gatsby. I am in the process of migrating my blog to Gatsby so I taught it would be go…Mon, 09 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2020-03-03-wordpress-to-gatsby-export-posts/https://thedeployguy.com/2020-03-03-wordpress-to-gatsby-export-posts/Welcome back, this is the second post on migrating a WordPress Site/Blog to Gatsby. I am in the process of migrating this blog to Gatsby so I taught it would be…Tue, 03 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2020-02-23-wordpress-to-gatsby-gatsby-introduction/https://thedeployguy.com/2020-02-23-wordpress-to-gatsby-gatsby-introduction/Welcome back, today I am going to starting a new series on migrating a WordPress Site/Blog to Gatsby. I am in the process of migrating this blog to Gatsby so I…Sun, 23 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2020-02-02-react-hooks-useContext/https://thedeployguy.com/2020-02-02-react-hooks-useContext/The third post in a new series on React Hooks, this post discusses the useContext hook.Sun, 02 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2020-01-26-react-hooks-useeffect/https://thedeployguy.com/2020-01-26-react-hooks-useeffect/The second post in a new series on React Hooks, this post discusses the useEffect hook.Sun, 26 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2020-01-19-react-hooks-usestate/https://thedeployguy.com/2020-01-19-react-hooks-usestate/The first post in a new series on React Hooks, this post discusses what are hooks, the rules and finally I discuss useState.Sun, 19 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2020-01-12-building-an-offline-web-app-using-service-workers/https://thedeployguy.com/2020-01-12-building-an-offline-web-app-using-service-workers/In this introductory post to Service Worker we will be Building an offline web app called TIL. Discussing installing service workers, caching assets, serving cached assets and making it work offline.Sun, 12 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2020-01-05-2020-self-development-goals/https://thedeployguy.com/2020-01-05-2020-self-development-goals/Discussing my short-term Self Development Goals for 2020.Sun, 05 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2019-12-29-2019-my-year-in-review/https://thedeployguy.com/2019-12-29-2019-my-year-in-review/Discussing my 2019 year in review, what went well and what didn't go well. I also look forward to 2020.Sun, 29 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2019-11-17-accessibility-aria/https://thedeployguy.com/2019-11-17-accessibility-aria/Second post of a series on Web accessibility where I discuss Aria elements. I give examples of what aria elements are and why we should them.Sun, 17 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2019-11-10-accessibility-semantic-html/https://thedeployguy.com/2019-11-10-accessibility-semantic-html/First post of a series on Web accessibility where I discuss Semantic HTML. I give examples of what is and what is not Semantic HTML.Sun, 10 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2019-07-21-typescript-generics/https://thedeployguy.com/2019-07-21-typescript-generics/Discussing Typescript Generics, breaking down what, why and how to use them.Sun, 21 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2019-06-16-a-philosophy-of-software-design-summary-part-2-cp10-end/https://thedeployguy.com/2019-06-16-a-philosophy-of-software-design-summary-part-2-cp10-end/Welcome back, this post is a continuation from last week post summarizing Chapter 1 to Chapter 9 of A Philosophy of Software Design Chapter 10 - Define Errors O…Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2019-06-09-a-philosophy-of-software-design-summary-part-1-cp1-cp9/https://thedeployguy.com/2019-06-09-a-philosophy-of-software-design-summary-part-1-cp1-cp9/As stated in my previous post, this year I want to read a lot of Software related books, this is something I have not done enough and I think there is some much…Sun, 09 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2019-04-13-the-clean-coder-my-takeaways/https://thedeployguy.com/2019-04-13-the-clean-coder-my-takeaways/Welcome back, this week I am going to be discussing a book I recently read 'The Clean Coder' by Robert C. Martin. I am a pretty big fan of Bob Martin 'Clean Cod…Sat, 13 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2019-03-31-wes-bos-advanced-react-review/https://thedeployguy.com/2019-03-31-wes-bos-advanced-react-review/Welcome back guys, today's post is something different, it is a course review. I have never done a course review before but I just recently finished a course an…Sun, 31 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2019-03-24-react-error-boundaries/https://thedeployguy.com/2019-03-24-react-error-boundaries/Welcome, today I am going to be discussing React Error Boundaries and how you can use them to create a very simple App Crash screen. What are Error Boundaries?…Sun, 24 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2019-02-17-reducing-unnecessary-network-requests-using-the-page-visibility-api/https://thedeployguy.com/2019-02-17-reducing-unnecessary-network-requests-using-the-page-visibility-api/Welcome back, this week I have another DevTip. My team had a situation in the past few weeks where we wanted to enable an auto-refresh feature for a dashboard h…Sun, 17 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2019-02-10-til-disabling-form-inputs-using-a-fieldset/https://thedeployguy.com/2019-02-10-til-disabling-form-inputs-using-a-fieldset/Welcome back, this is going to be a short post on a DevTip I recently learned from Wes Bos Advanced React course which is Disabling Form inputs using a fieldset…Sun, 10 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2019-01-13-converting-a-js-react-project-to-typescript-what-i-learned/https://thedeployguy.com/2019-01-13-converting-a-js-react-project-to-typescript-what-i-learned/Welcome, this week I am going to be discussing Typescript and What I learned when I converted one of my projects from just JS to Typescript. What is Typescript?…Sun, 13 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2018-12-30-2018-year-in-review/https://thedeployguy.com/2018-12-30-2018-year-in-review/2018 is coming to an end (as unbelievable as this is to me), as the new year is approaching I try to look at the year passed and discussing what went well and w…Sun, 30 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2018-12-02-i-have-left-ibm/https://thedeployguy.com/2018-12-02-i-have-left-ibm/Welcome back guys, it has been a while since I have posted it has been a very busy three months for me, I am excited to give you guys some news. A few weeks ago…Sun, 02 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2018-08-05-recommended-react-project-structure-my-structure/https://thedeployguy.com/2018-08-05-recommended-react-project-structure-my-structure/Welcome back guys, this week I wanted to discuss Structuring your React Projects. When you first started learning React, the structure doesn't really matter as…Sun, 05 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2018-07-29-react-portals-what-they-are-and-how-to-use-them/https://thedeployguy.com/2018-07-29-react-portals-what-they-are-and-how-to-use-them/Welcome back guys, on our theme of learning React concepts today I wanted to discuss React Portals. What they are, why used them and then I give you examples an…Sun, 29 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2018-07-08-react-16-new-context-api/https://thedeployguy.com/2018-07-08-react-16-new-context-api/Hey Guys, this week I am going to discussing the React 16 Context API. React 16 was a huge release for react and included a bunch of new feature and improvement…Sun, 08 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2018-05-20-niching-down/https://thedeployguy.com/2018-05-20-niching-down/Welcome back, this week I am going to be discussing 'Niching Down', the importance of it, the struggles I have had with trying to come up with a niche and then…Sun, 20 May 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2018-04-22-2018-my-year-so-far-goals-progress-report/https://thedeployguy.com/2018-04-22-2018-my-year-so-far-goals-progress-report/Welcome back guys, we are already approaching the middle of April!. I taught I would give an update on how my year is going so far mostly in relation to my goal…Sun, 22 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2018-04-08-best-programming-podcasts-my-favorites/https://thedeployguy.com/2018-04-08-best-programming-podcasts-my-favorites/Welcome back guys, going on my current theme of learning more out of the limited time you have I taught I would discuss my favorite Programming/Software Enginee…Sun, 08 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2018-02-18-how-to-read-more/https://thedeployguy.com/2018-02-18-how-to-read-more/Welcome back guys, in the last few weeks I have found myself reading a lot more Technical Articles and today I stopped and asked myself why all of a sudden I wa…Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2018-01-28-zerowasteshops-v2-is-released/https://thedeployguy.com/2018-01-28-zerowasteshops-v2-is-released/Welcome back guys, I wrote a few weeks ago about my 12 Weeks Goals for this year, one goal was to release a new more polished version of zerowasteshops.com. Wel…Sun, 28 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2018-01-09-2018-new-year-new-goals/https://thedeployguy.com/2018-01-09-2018-new-year-new-goals/Welcome back guys, as another year starts its time for me to write my Year Goals post. This is the second year I am writing a post about my goals for the year.…Tue, 09 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2018-01-01-2017-my-year-in-review/https://thedeployguy.com/2018-01-01-2017-my-year-in-review/Welcome back guys and I know it has been quite a few weeks since I last posted but been a mad rush towards the end the of the year. This will be the last post o…Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2017-09-25-meetups-why-you-should-attend-them/https://thedeployguy.com/2017-09-25-meetups-why-you-should-attend-them/Welcome back guys, this week wanted to discuss the importance Meetups and why you should attend them. If you have never attended a meetup and wondering what it…Mon, 25 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2017-09-17-importance-of-taking-a-break/https://thedeployguy.com/2017-09-17-importance-of-taking-a-break/Another week, another post. This week I am going to discuss the importance of taking a break and advice on what do before, during and after you leave. Two weeks…Sun, 17 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2017-07-09-vue-js-my-first-impressions/https://thedeployguy.com/2017-07-09-vue-js-my-first-impressions/Welcome back, in my seemly crazy goal of trying every popular JS framework under the sun this week we are going to discuss Vue.js. I was recently put on a new p…Sun, 09 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2017-06-18-switching-teams/https://thedeployguy.com/2017-06-18-switching-teams/Welcome back guys, this week I taught I would write a bit more of a personal post. Over the past few weeks, I have been doing interviews and getting ready to sw…Sun, 18 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2017-06-03-best-visual-studio-code-extensions-my-favorites/https://thedeployguy.com/2017-06-03-best-visual-studio-code-extensions-my-favorites/Welcome back guys, I wrote about recently about Atom vs Visual Studio Code and at the end of that post I said that I switched to VSC because of all it gives you…Sat, 03 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2017-05-07-zerowasteshops-released-my-new-project/https://thedeployguy.com/2017-05-07-zerowasteshops-released-my-new-project/Welcome back guys, this week I wanted to talk about the project I have been working on since the end of February and just released www.zerowasteshops.com. I am…Sun, 07 May 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2017-04-30-atom-vs-visual-studio-code/https://thedeployguy.com/2017-04-30-atom-vs-visual-studio-code/A few weeks ago I published a post for My favourite Atom packages of 2017, a few weeks after this Atom started crashing and becoming slow. After looking around…Sun, 30 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2017-04-16-breaking-your-comfort-zone/https://thedeployguy.com/2017-04-16-breaking-your-comfort-zone/Introduction Welcome back guys, the last few posts has focused on more the technical side but this week will be a bit more personal. I will be discussing the Co…Sun, 16 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2017-04-09-deploy-a-mean-stack-application-to-heroku/https://thedeployguy.com/2017-04-09-deploy-a-mean-stack-application-to-heroku/Last week we discussed Deploying a NodeJS application to Heroku in 5 minutes, the one problem with this tutorial was if your application had a database it would…Sun, 09 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2017-03-26-deploy-a-nodejs-app-to-heroku-in-5-minutes/https://thedeployguy.com/2017-03-26-deploy-a-nodejs-app-to-heroku-in-5-minutes/Welcome back, this week I want to take a sample NodeJS application and deploy it to Heroku. I have heard of people deploying their apps to Heroku but I never to…Sun, 26 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2017-03-19-standing-desks-bekant-ikea-review/https://thedeployguy.com/2017-03-19-standing-desks-bekant-ikea-review/Introduction Welcome back, This week I taught I would take a break from discussing frameworks/tools and bring up the subject of developer health, more specifica…Sun, 19 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2017-02-19-useful-atom-packages-2017/https://thedeployguy.com/2017-02-19-useful-atom-packages-2017/Discussing what are the best atom packages/plugins in my opinion.Sun, 19 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2016-12-24-programmingself-development-goals-for-2017/https://thedeployguy.com/2016-12-24-programmingself-development-goals-for-2017/Discussing my Programming/Self-development Goals for 2017Sat, 24 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2016-12-15-books-i-have-read-in-2016/https://thedeployguy.com/2016-12-15-books-i-have-read-in-2016/Reviewing the books I read in 2016 and going though the lessons they taught me.Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2016-11-27-programming-everyday/https://thedeployguy.com/2016-11-27-programming-everyday/Discussing why you should aim to a bit of programming every day.Sun, 27 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2016-11-12-improving-as-a-programmer-and-feeling-comfortable/https://thedeployguy.com/2016-11-12-improving-as-a-programmer-and-feeling-comfortable/Discussing how to become a better programmer and why feeling too comfortable can be dangerous to your career.Sat, 12 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://thedeployguy.com/2016-09-17-creating-a-jenkins-pipeline-to-deploy-and-test-a-nodejs-application/https://thedeployguy.com/2016-09-17-creating-a-jenkins-pipeline-to-deploy-and-test-a-nodejs-application/Welcome back, this week we are going to look at Jenkins. Jenkins is a "continuous integration" tool that can help a team or organisation continuously test and i…Sat, 17 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT