3rd-party VS Code extensions can help you become a better software engineer by automating repetitive tasks, improving code quality, enhancing collaboration, and providing learning resources. By using extensions to streamline your workflow, optimize your code, and stay up-to-date with new technologies, you can become a more efficient, productive, and knowledgeable…

One day I watched a YouTube video about a software engineer who worked in FAANG and mentioned how most of his days consisted of meetings, bug fixes, and hardly writing any new code. The more senior you become, the more code you write. I was utterly wrong. Since then, I…

Deploying a WordPress site on Amazon LightSail offers numerous benefits, including easy setup and management with pre-configured templates, automatic backups, and monitoring. With LightSail, users can scale resources effortlessly, ensuring optimal performance and accommodating traffic fluctuations without the complexity of traditional AWS services. It integrates seamlessly with other AWS tools…

The Singleton pattern is a design pattern in object-oriented programming that restricts the instantiation of a class to one object. What the hell does this mean? After reading multiple articles and watching some videos, I understand it enough to explain this concept better. The Singleton pattern is often used in…

For a long time, I have struggled with quickly building a full-stack app that didn’t eat up all-time when configuring the environment it needs to run in. If you are a dev building full-stack side projects and want to impress clients and potential employers, or an enterprise looking for an…

I am studying to get certified as a certified AWS Solutions Architect in my spare time. I’ve worked with AWS on many projects and I noticed many of the engineering bottlenecks were related to access and permissions. …

What is Dependency Injection? Dependency injection is a design pattern in which an object is given its dependencies rather than creating them itself. This means that instead of creating objects inside the object's constructor or method, we inject the dependencies as parameters. This pattern helps to reduce the coupling between objects, which makes it…

Looks like Apple is finally making some needed adjustments in its business. This proves that no one is safe during economic distress. According to a Bloomberg report, Apple is laying off a small number of corporate roles within its retail teams. …

There are 2 things that make software engineering suck. Bad team culture, and technical debt due to poor design. …