😁 Miss me? Sunny Newsletter is back with an early look at my article
It's been a long time since I've sent one of these. In fact, the last newsletter edition was about WFH Culture back in March at the start of the quarantine....
🏠 WFH Culture
With the COVID-19 crisis, remote work is now the default. Using my experience of exclusively working remotely, I share my thoughts on how traditional company...
🚧 Projects in Progress (PIPs)
Developers love side projects. More specifically, we love starting new projects from an idea emerged a minute ago. Before long, a tech stack is chosen and...
⚡️ Templating repetitive code with Hygen
Adding a new feature to a project typically relies on a repetitive set of steps; create new folders with layouts, components, boilerplates, etc. from...
📝 Origins and ventures of my writing
The earliest that I remember writing creatively is the age of 10, but I published an actual blog around the age of 15. It was a small entertainment website...
🌅A bright update
It’s been four months since the last newsletter. To jog your memory, I used to send emails out every Sunday with a draft of a future article for my blog,...
The Minimum *Value* Product 🤲 🚀
During my time in Tanzania 🇹🇿, I learned something quite interesting in the way that many people use Uber outside the US. When requesting an Uber in places...
Don't launch before traveling abroad 🏖
TLDR; Don’t launch new products or features before a long vacation or break. I’ll be visiting Africa for 2 weeks, with no plans to create content or code...
Being a 10x person
The Twitter world was at peace. Software engineers were happily deploying code to production on a Friday and sharing their weekend plans. That all changed...
Why do I care about code quality? ✅
Clean code gets a bad reputation sometimes. Provide some code improvement tips to a developer, and they might respond with… But my code works! I like how it...
WET your code now, and DRY it up later 💦
There are two fun acronyms that you can use to describe different ways of writing code: WET = Write Everything Twice DRY = Don't Repeat Yourself WET code...
Lessons learned from past projects 😲
With experience comes failure. While I can’t say that I always made the right decisions, I can say that I don’t regret any. This is because I was still able...
A live podcast you say? 🎙
My friend Sergio Mattei, who you’ve seen me feature on my Annoyance as a marketing strategy episode, has invited me on his own show. It’s called The...
Developers, stay humble.
Imposter syndrome is extremely common among developers. Everyone is afraid of not coding "properly". Here's a secret: no one truly knows what they're doing....
Social media experiments 🚀
I recently launched something new called IDC: I Don't Code. It's a series of short one minute videos, each about a coding-related topic or term. You can...
ES6 made me love JavaScript 😍
I consider myself a full stack JavaScript developer, but that wasn’t always the case. PHP used to be my backend programming language of choice and when...
Evergreen Skills 🌲
I recently tweeted some thoughts on the constant moving pace of technology: In the past, I've made the mistake of wanting to learn and implement every cool...
Flavors of React 🍭
You are probably familiar with React, an extremely popular JavaScript library for building websites and web apps in a more productive manner. However,...
Providing value 🤲
In life and especially business, everything is about providing value. We block and ignore advertisements, commercials, and marketing ploys because they are...
Products I use by small creators: Inboxes, captions, and hacks!
As a small creator myself, I understand the challenges in growing a product. I am currently on a journey to build and expand IronMic and what I've come to...
Traditional vs modern web development ⚔️
Modern web development. We all have a love and hate relationship with it because while it revolutionized web development practices, it also greatly...
The value of communities and connections 🤝
If you know me pretty well, then it may come off as a huge surprise that I am quite introverted (if you actually do know me well, then you’ll detect my...
Investing in yourself 👈
The biggest investment you'll ever make in life, is the one you make in yourself. — Robert Herjavec This past week, I had the opportunity of seeing Robert...
Declarative all the things! 🥳
I’m basically the hype person from that “all the things!” meme when it comes to declarative programming, but that recently got me thinking in how common the...
Forging my own path 🔨
🎂 My birthday is tomorrow: March 18, 2019. I will be turning 26, which makes me consider a few life milestones. 💼 Worked 2 years at my current job. 🎓...
My favorite design resources 🎨
While I don’t consider myself a designer, I see design as an extremely important skill to have whether you’re building an app, creating brand assets,...
Personal automation, ditching jQuery, and writing global state? 😲
I've got some developer goodies for you in this newsletter issue, so I hope you enjoy. 💬 Personal automation As with most weeks, I participated in...
Soft skills are hard, but they don't have to be 💬
Coding doesn't matter as much as developers make it seem. Sure, it's a skill that allows apps to get built, but there are so many other skills related to...
Who should you write code for? 🤔
What is code? By definition, it's a set of instructions for a machine to interpret. As a developer, I don't agree with that definition. I don't write code...
Investing in the right technologies to avoid technical debt 😲
There is a common joke in the JavaScript community that a new framework or library gets released every single day. True or not, it's funny because it...
How do I stay productive? 🧐
A frequent comment I get is that I do a lot ‒ podcasts, videos, articles, and side projects. How do I manage it all? Well, I create tasks for myself that are...
Should you be perfect? ✨
In my previous newsletter issue, I talked a lot about personal branding and the importance of being consistent. But I'm sure that some of you might be...
What does a personal brand even mean? 😕
A newsletter issue like this one is a sneak peek at what will probably turn into a published article on my blog. Let me know if you want more of these or...
Let's start off the year right 🎉 - Sharing what I learned from 2018
Entering 2019, I want to make sure that you succeed with your goals. I tweeted a thread of my three goals: Knowing how I can execute upon these goals is key...