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Why is Rust being used to replace parts of the JavaScript web ecosystem like minification (Terser), transpilation (Babel), formatting (Prettier), bundling (webpack), linting (ESLint), and more?

A deep-dive on everything I've learned in the past year building style guides, design systems, component libraries, and their best practices.

Manage multiple packages with a shared build, test, and release process using Turborepo, Changesets, Storybook, and more.

Why we're expanding my role from leading our DevRel team to making Developer Experience part of the executive team.

Tools that keep developers in the flow state have a magnetic force. An often unexplainable, invisible pull that attracts and retains them to certain products. This pull is Developer Experience (DX).

How Heroku changed how we build and deploy software.

Learn my personal view of DevRel and how I run our team at Vercel, as well as answers to some frequently asked questions I get.

What can rap beef teach us about using Twitter as a developer?

Learn how to create an image gallery with dynamic content from a PostgreSQL database, with support for content updates without needing to redeploy.

Learn how to start creating videos for developers, including the fundamentals of video production, equipment needed for filming, how to film headshots and screencasts, editing, distributing and more.

From Series A to D at a $2.5B valuation, 30 to 150+ employees, here’s my Vercel story.

Why is Rust being used to replace parts of the JavaScript web ecosystem like minification (Terser), transpilation (Babel), formatting (Prettier), bundling (webpack), linting (ESLint), and more?

Learn how I migrated my Next.js website to use MySQL with PlanetScale, resulting in 10x faster response times for my APIs.

Learn about my overnight success story, ten years in the making.

Learn about how I moved into this role, my plans for the future, and an opportunity to join the team.

Did you know it's possible to use Redis for your entire database? Hashmaps, counters, sorted lists, and even queues. Learn how to deploy a Redis & Next.js app in a few short minutes.

Learn about the history of state management in React and what the preferred solutions are today.

Learn the best practices for high-performance sites using web fonts, updated for 2021.

Learn why I switched my Next.js blog to use Tailwind CSS and how it impacted performance.

Learn how CSS has evolved and explore pros and cons of different styling solutions for React.

Choosing a service to store data can be confusing and overwhelming for a front-end developer. This comprehensive guide is a choose your own adventure dive into creating your backend.

Learn how to authenticate with the Spotify API to fetch your top tracks in a Next.js API route.

Six months ago, I had an idea for an online course. Today, I've taught students all over the world and made over $7,000 teaching online.

The missing documentation for making requests to the Gumroad API from Node.js.

Learn how to build & deploy a static site using Next.js, Prisma, and a SQLite database.

I revamped my personal site, adding a variety of improvements for the ideal Next.js + MDX blogging experience.

Learn how to add a dynamic sitemap to your Next.js project, along with a robots.txt file for optimal SEO.

Learn how to fetch data with SWR, a React Hooks library which improves the developer experience of retrieving data.

Learn how to use Next.js API routes to integrate with the Google Analytics API and retrieve statistics about a site.

Learn how to use Next.js API routes to integrate with the YouTube API and retrieve statistics about a channel.

Learn how to use Next.js API routes to integrate with the Unsplash API and retrieve statistics about a user.

Which is the best for building React applications? Explore the pros and cons for all three options to make the right choice.

Learn how to integrate Next.js and React with Mailchimp to build a newsletter subscription form.

Understand the growth behind JavaScript's hottest web framework and learn why Next.js can help you build web applications faster.

Learn about how we've adopted GraphQL at Hy-Vee to improve developer efficiency and enhance our user experience.

Can GitHub Actions relace CircleCI entirely? Find out why I decided to switch CI/CD providers to GitHub Actions.

Want more accurate page view counts? Learn how to track real-time post views using Firebase and Next.js.

A deep-dive on everything I've learned in the past year building style guides, design systems, component libraries, and their best practices.

Learn how to use Firebase with Next.js and deploy it to Vercel.

Learn how to use iframes to print React components while only printing what's necessary.

Manage multiple packages with a shared build, test, and release process using Turborepo, Changesets, Storybook, and more.

Why is there so much recruiter spam? What can we do to fix technical recruiting?

CSS Modules, Font Loading, Polyfills, Dynamic Imports, MDX, and more!

Learn how to use Mapbox with Next.js to create a non-SSR map component that is free up to 50,000 map views per month.

Creating open-source software makes me happy. It’s an opportunity for me to showcase my programming skills and gain experience with new languages and frameworks.

What decisions go into evaluating software solutions?

How to transform your online presence, drive more traffic to your website, and sell yourself.

Examining the tips and tricks used to make Stripe's website design a notch above the rest.

Building a todo list from start to finish.

Using animation to simulate loading text content.

A quick tutorial for making a logo swirl.

Learn how to create your programming portfolio from the ground up, including tips and tricks I learned building my own.

A simple Python program to retrieve relevant data.

Utilizing Python and PyGame to revive a classic.