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OSS Pull Request Therapy: Learning to Enjoy Code Reviews with npmx

Mar 3 · 13 min read · For years, I thought Open Source Software (OSS) just wasn’t for me. I had no plans to join any OSS communities on top of my existing developer community obligations. Curious about the hype I saw on Bl

Gang of Four Design Patterns in Memes - Creational

Aug 14, 2025 · 2 min read · The Gang of Four (GoF) are Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides. They wrote Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. In it, they documented 23 classic software design patterns. There are five creational ...

State Management in Front-end Web Development: Actions, Dispatch, and Reducers

Jul 12, 2025 · 22 min read · In State Management in Front-end Web Development: State 101, I covered when you need which state management tools and how they're implementations of the observer pattern. This part of the series assumes that you need a state tool that uses the action...

State Management in Front-end Web Development: State 101

Jun 2, 2025 · 8 min read · Learn where to keep your variables to improve your app design, performance, and readability. What is State? In programming, state refers to all the variables within a program. Variables represent data held in memory. Global state refers to variables ...

What the First Rule of ARIA Really Means

Apr 14, 2025 · 12 min read · I am not an accessibility auditor, but I am frequently asked to give feedback on websites. When that happens, the first thing I do is check basic accessibility things. Multiple times, I have suggested an aria-label, and heard "I thought I was never s...