PINNED & UPDATED WEEKLY (Last updated Monday, 19th July 2021)

Let’s get real — stories can easily get lost on Medium. That’s why I’ve created this page to help you keep track of all the latest, trending, and throwback articles published right here on HashMap.

Rather than publishing a weekly update (which may get lost in your feed), I’m keeping it to this single page so that you can refer back to it easily — a sort of mock index of stories and any other interesting findings across the web.

Without further ado, here are this week’s stories:

This Week’s Stories So Far…

It is week 10 of my 10-week challenge. I’ve got a few…

Throughout my career as a developer, I’ve exhibited varying degrees of hubris — the good bulk of it at the beginning of my journey. I was the cocky junior dev, filled with over-confidence, and somewhat overly zealous advocation of things I thought I understood.

It happens to all of us — especially in our early days when we think we know it all. In reality, it is just the Dunning Krueger effect doing its glorious cycle on our egos and readjusting us towards reality. This is because when we start out as developers, we’re like children — full of fantasies…

DOCKER

Docker. It’s a little blue whale with a container sitting on its back. We hear about it from various places but it’s usually just left to the DevOps guy to deal with.

Or perhaps you’ve tried to pick it up out of curiosity. So you start with Google and the amount of information returned just feels overwhelming. In this piece, we’re going to go over what Docker is, how it works, and the differences between a Docker container and a virtual machine.

What is Docker?

Docker is a development platform and a virtualization technology that makes it easy for us to develop and…

DEV THOUGHTS

I write a lot. Like, a few thousand words a week kind of a lot. It’s my side gig/hobby. It’s also how I unravel, rearrange my thoughts, and grow.

Sometimes it’s code-related. Sometimes it’s not. Sometimes, I get strange comments on my articles — comments that looks something like this:

The awkward part about this comment is that the article was about JavaScript immutability — nothing to do with Java at all.

Every now and then, people like this crop up in the comment section. Sometimes, it’s obvious that they’ve mistaken the context and intention of the piece. …

GIT

We’ve all done it — deleted a file we shouldn’t have, merged things that aren’t supposed to be on the main branch, accidentally pushed up sensitive information, committing to the wrong branch…

GIT is fantastic when things go as planned — but not so much when it comes to undoing whatever mistake it is you made. In part, it’s because GIT is version control. The point is that you’re not supposed to be making changes to the past once a change has been committed.

But accidents and unintended acts of GIT commits happen. …

CLEAN CODE

We’ve all encountered dev memes at some point. The point of memes is to reflect on reality in some form in a humorous manner. Maybe I’m just overthinking it. Maybe I’ve reached a particular point in my coding career to not find them funny anymore. But there’s one meme that annoys me more than any other.

It’s this one:

IDEAS

So, you’ve got a day job. But you’re starting to feel drained from it. Or perhaps you just feel stuck in your code — unable to learn anything new or feel that spark that you once had.

You also need/want a bit of cash on the side for whatever reason — to escape your 9 to 5, to start investing in crypto, to run away into the world of remote work but don’t have the courage just yet because you want a sense of security.

Whatever your reasons, here are 7 money-making side projects you can do as a developer.

1. Shopify App/Themes

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IDEAS | PRODUCTIVITY

‘Agile development’ are two words that can strike two polarizing feelings in the hearts of developers. In one corner, it’s a sinking feeling of hell no’s with a bubbling sense of internal panic. In the other corner, a group of rogue and new-age devs jump with excitement and glee.

From experience, it’s hard to find a dev that’s in-between.

Why is there so much hate and love for agile? Especially in the software development scene?

In part, it’s because of how agile is executed — and how well the code itself is set up for agile development processes and thinking.

Legacy monoliths are not made for agile

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