If you’ve ever considered pursuing a career in software engineering but thought you were too old or that your education and career path up to this point weren’t a fit, think again! …

CodeSandbox is an awesome online code editor for spinning up and testing out new ideas quickly, sharing demo apps, collaborating, and even for getting larger projects started before moving them over to GitHub or another source control option. Personally, I have used CodeSandbox to write both server-side (Node.js) and…

Why are Hooks so exciting? React Hooks were introduced in the late fall of 2018 and officially made available in a stable release in React 16.8. I watched the React Conf talks introducing React Hooks but must admit that I didn’t “get it” at first. Sure, I understood the basics of hooks but I…

I recently joined the Medium Partner Program and soon after I stumbled upon the “Gift a membership” feature in Medium. I immediately recognized a potential opportunity to give back to Medium readers. For $50, an annual Medium membership can be gifted to a reader. As a point of reference, a…

Background On the Internal Tools team at Circle, we recently modernized a legacy PHP app by introducing React components. Just a handful of months after this initiative began we have close to one-hundred React components in this app! 😲 We recently reached a point where we found ourselves reaching for…

Let’s set the scene: It’s a fall Friday evening and you have just been seated at a restaurant you have been excited to try, The Underfetching Farmhouse. The waiter brings over the menu and you immediately notice that it seems, well…sparse. In the middle of this sheet of white…