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✨ Working with AI: The Stuff That Actually Matters
Practical playbook for collaborating with AI effectively—from tool choice and linting to planning, reviews, and testing.
Read post🔮 Optimistic Response in Apollo Client
Optimistic response is a way to update the UI before the server responds. This is useful when you want to give the user a feeling of instant feedback. For example, when you want to update the UI before the server responds with the updated data.
Read post🐻 Multiple Stores with Zustand, Persist and Typescript
I could not find a good example of using Zustand with multiple stores, persist and TypeScript. So I decided to create one. I hope it will be useful for someone.
Read post👥 Working with friends as a Software Engineer
In my experience, some of the best software engineers are also some of the best friends
Read post🙈 The advantages of the headless UI pattern in React
In software engineering, the "headless UI" pattern is a popular way to architect frontends. In a nutshell, the headless UI pattern involves decoupling the UI (user interface) from the business logic that powers it. This has a number of advantages, which I'll go into below.
Read post🏛 Going through an Acquisition or Acquihire as a Software Engineer
If you're a Software Engineer, there's a good chance you've been involved in an acquihire at some point in your career. An acquihire is when a larger company buys a smaller company primarily for the talent, rather than the technology or products. In many cases, the small company's employees are offered jobs at the larger company, often with hefty raises.
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