Chris Padilla/Blog / Tech

Articles on all things software! You can peruse by programming language, such as JavaScript or Python. Or perhaps domain, such as testing or architecture.

• 05 / 7 / 2025
  Plain Text Journal
  • Notes
  • Tech

• 04 / 15 / 2025
  Software Without Scale
  • Notes
  • Tech

• 04 / 4 / 2025
  Converting Image Sequences to Gifs
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• 04 / 4 / 2025
  Animated Gifs on Android with Expo and React Native
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• 03 / 14 / 2025
  A Beginner's Intro to React Native in One Component
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• 02 / 19 / 2025
  Are Document Databases Schemaless?
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• 02 / 12 / 2025
  Full Page Video Across Devices with React
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• 02 / 6 / 2025
  LangGraph Email Assistant
  • Tech
  • Clippings

• 01 / 29 / 2025
  First Impressions from Native iOS Development
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• 01 / 23 / 2025
  Test Deliverable Outcomes
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• 01 / 22 / 2025
  Three Phase Tests
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  • Clippings

• 01 / 16 / 2025
  Deeply Partial Zod Schemas
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• 01 / 13 / 2025
  Smoother MongoDB ObjectID Handling in Web Applications
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• 01 / 6 / 2025
  Handling Dot Notation in MongoDB
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• 12 / 30 / 2024
  Knowledge Pyramid
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• 12 / 17 / 2024
  Getting Started with LangGraph
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• 11 / 26 / 2024
  Deploying TypeScript to AWS Lambda
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• 11 / 20 / 2024
  The Retrieval-Augmented Generation Pattern for AI Development
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• 11 / 8 / 2024
  Extending Derived Class Methods in Python
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• 10 / 25 / 2024
  TypedDicts in Python
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• 10 / 18 / 2024
  Optimistic UI in Next.js with SWR
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• 10 / 10 / 2024
  3 Types of Software Requirements
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• 09 / 16 / 2024
  Orchestrating Concurrent Tasks in AWS Step Functions
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• 08 / 15 / 2024
  Functional vs. Object Oriented Programming
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• 08 / 5 / 2024
  Application Monitoring with Open Telemetry
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• 07 / 30 / 2024
  Passing State in Python with the Special Dictionary Attribute & the Classmethod decorator
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• 07 / 22 / 2024
  Type Hinting in Python
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• 07 / 13 / 2024
  Vintage Computer Festival Southwest!
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  • Notes

• 07 / 12 / 2024
  Sending Email From a Next.JS App
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• 07 / 5 / 2024
  Generating Back Links For Optimal Digital Gardening
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• 06 / 28 / 2024
  Configuring a CI/CD Pipeline in CircleCI to Deploy a Docker Image to AWS ECS
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• 06 / 19 / 2024
  5 Years of Programming and Leading With Curiosity
  • Notes
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• 06 / 14 / 2024
  Deploying a Docker Image to AWS Elastic Container Service
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• 05 / 17 / 2024
  Layers in a Java Spring Boot API
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• 05 / 10 / 2024
  Polymorphism in Java
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• 05 / 3 / 2024
  Deploying Docker Compose Application to AWS EC2
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• 04 / 26 / 2024
  Blog Post Syntax Highlighting
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• 04 / 12 / 2024
  Comparison Sorting in Python
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• 04 / 12 / 2024
  Filter for the First Match in Python
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• 04 / 5 / 2024
  Abstraction between React Components
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• 03 / 29 / 2024
  Coordinating Multiple Serverless Functions on AWS Lambda
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• 03 / 22 / 2024
  SSL Certifications in Python on Mac
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• 03 / 8 / 2024
  Customizing Title Bar Colors in VS Code
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• 03 / 1 / 2024
  Regex Capture Groups in Node
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• 02 / 23 / 2024
  Triggering Notifications through Github Actions
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• 02 / 9 / 2024
  Development Containers
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• 02 / 2 / 2024
  Understanding Tokens in OAuth Authentication
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• 01 / 26 / 2024
  Collocation in React Server Components
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• 01 / 19 / 2024
  JWTs and Database Sessions from an Architecture Standpoint
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• 01 / 12 / 2024
  Setting Up OAuth and Email Providers for Next Authentication
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• 01 / 4 / 2024
  Automating YouTube Uploads in Python
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• 12 / 20 / 2023
  Generating Post Templates Programmatically with Python
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• 12 / 15 / 2023
  Credentials Authentication in Next.js
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• 12 / 8 / 2023
  Automating Image Uploads to Cloudinary with Python
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• 12 / 1 / 2023
  Next Auth Custom Session Data
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• 11 / 17 / 2023
  Structs in Go
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• 11 / 9 / 2023
  Go Performance
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• 11 / 3 / 2023
  Stateless Sessions With Cookies
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• 10 / 26 / 2023
  Typing — Strong vs Weak and Static vs Dynamic
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• 10 / 19 / 2023
  An Intro to Redis
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• 10 / 13 / 2023
  Goroutines, Structs, and Pointers in Go
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• 10 / 6 / 2023
  Tourist's Guide to Go
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• 09 / 29 / 2023
  Migrating Blog Previews from SSR to SSG in Next
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• 09 / 22 / 2023
  Mitigating Content Layout Shift with Next Image Component
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• 09 / 15 / 2023
  Art Grid in Next.js
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• 08 / 11 / 2023
  New Blog Layout and Pagination
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• 08 / 4 / 2023
  NVM, Next 13, and the "Latest" Package Version, OH MY!
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• 07 / 27 / 2023
  Migrating a React App To TypeScript
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• 07 / 21 / 2023
  Utility Classes in Bootstrap
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• 07 / 15 / 2023
  Data Fetching with React / TanStack Query
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• 07 / 7 / 2023
  From MVC to API Routes in ASP.NET Core
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• 06 / 30 / 2023
  Dependency Injection and Logging in .NET
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• 06 / 23 / 2023
  Testing with Pytest
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• 06 / 16 / 2023
  MVC in ASP.NET Core
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• 06 / 12 / 2023
  My First Website from 2005
  • Tech
  • Notes

• 06 / 9 / 2023
  Database Setup and Migrations for Microsoft SQL Server and ASP.NET Core MVC
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• 06 / 2 / 2023
  Deploy New Projects Before Development (.NET Core & Azure)
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• 05 / 19 / 2023
  Polymorphism Through Abstract Classes in C#
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• 05 / 11 / 2023
  Iterators in C#
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• 05 / 5 / 2023
  Learning Syntax the Fun Way with Toy Problems
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• 04 / 27 / 2023
  TypeScript is Secretly Just C#
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• 04 / 26 / 2023
  Static Methods
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• 04 / 18 / 2023
  How C# Compiles
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• 04 / 14 / 2023
  Connecting SQL with Python
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• 04 / 4 / 2023
  AI as a Synthesis Tool
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• 03 / 29 / 2023
  Ren'Py v Making a Game with React
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• 03 / 28 / 2023
  SQL Cheat Sheet
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• 03 / 27 / 2023
  Generalizing in Software
  • Tech
  • Books

• 03 / 24 / 2023
  Did I help someone today?
  • Tech
  • Notes

• 03 / 17 / 2023
  Backing Up Data
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• 03 / 16 / 2023
  Non-Relational Database is a Misleading Name
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• 03 / 14 / 2023
  Starting a Development Environment from the Command Line
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• 03 / 13 / 2023
  Integration Testing with Redux
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• 03 / 9 / 2023
  Software is Measurably Valuable Creation
  • Tech
  • Notes
  • Books

• 03 / 7 / 2023
  The Gist on Docker
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• 03 / 3 / 2023
  Testing and Implementation Details
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• 03 / 2 / 2023
  Testing Encourages Refactoring
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• 03 / 1 / 2023
  Testing Organizes Code
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• 02 / 28 / 2023
  Generating a Sitemap in NextJS
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• 02 / 24 / 2023
  Hosting Images for chrisdpadilla dot com
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• 02 / 21 / 2023
  What Over-Mocking Looks Like
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• 02 / 16 / 2023
  Testing Data Fetching Components + Other Jest Gotcha's
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• 02 / 15 / 2023
  Spy Functions in Jest
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• 02 / 13 / 2023
  Caught In the ESM Migration
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• 02 / 10 / 2023
  Mocking Packages in Jest
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• 02 / 9 / 2023
  Verifying No Duplicate Routes with Jest
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• 02 / 2 / 2023
  Rerouting Dynamic Routes in Next.js
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• 01 / 24 / 2023
  Making Next.js Links Flexible
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• 01 / 20 / 2023
  Running Cypress in CI with GitHub Actions
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• 01 / 19 / 2023
  Verify Site Links with Cypress
  • Tech

• 01 / 12 / 2023
  Where Does Tailwind Fit In Your App?
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• 01 / 11 / 2023
  What, Why, and How of Design Systems
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• 01 / 6 / 2023
  Blog Tags
  • Tech
  • Notes

• 01 / 5 / 2023
  Setting Up End-to-End Testing with Cypress
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• 01 / 4 / 2023
  Font-Display and CLS
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• 12 / 29 / 2022
  Testing Software for the Same Reason You Write Notes
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• 12 / 16 / 2022
  Hosting an Express Rendered React App on Elastic Beanstalk
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• 12 / 16 / 2022
  Rendering a React App from an Express Server
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• 12 / 15 / 2022
  Hosting a Node Express App on AWS Elastic Beanstalk
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• 12 / 15 / 2022
  Amazon Virtual Private Clouds
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• 12 / 9 / 2022
  My Reading Year, 2022
  • Notes
  • Books
  • Tech

• 12 / 7 / 2022
  The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas
  • Books
  • Tech

• 11 / 30 / 2022
  Excluding Internal Traffic in Analytics
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• 11 / 29 / 2022
  Debouncing in React (& JS Functions as Objects)
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• 11 / 28 / 2022
  Migrating Tag Manager to Google Analytics 4
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• 11 / 17 / 2022
  Creating a Newsletter Form in React
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• 11 / 10 / 2022
  Building a Proxy with AWS Lambda Functions and CORS
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• 10 / 20 / 2022
  The Gist on Authentication
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• 10 / 14 / 2022
  An Overview of Developing Slack Shortcuts
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• 10 / 13 / 2022
  Redux Growing Pains and React Query
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• 10 / 11 / 2022
  Fonts and CLS
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• 10 / 10 / 2022
  Aggregation in MongoDB
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• 10 / 4 / 2022
  Navigating NPM Package Changes
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• 10 / 3 / 2022
  HTML Form Validation is Pretty Good!
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• 09 / 23 / 2022
  Customizing Field State in React Final Form
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• 09 / 22 / 2022
  Keeping it 200 — HTTP Status Codes
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• 09 / 19 / 2022
  Cleaning Local Branches
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• 09 / 14 / 2022
  DIY Analytics & CORS
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• 09 / 12 / 2022
  Storing Keyword Arguments in Python Class Instantiation
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• 09 / 9 / 2022
  Adding Background Music to Websites
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• 09 / 5 / 2022
  Error Tracking
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• 09 / 1 / 2022
  Analytics - Accuracy and Ethics
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• 08 / 29 / 2022
  Git Hygiene
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• 08 / 15 / 2022
  Geeking Out Over Notion
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• 08 / 8 / 2022
  Automatically Saving Spotify Weekly Playlists
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• 07 / 25 / 2022
  Adding RSS Feed to Next.js with SSR
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• 07 / 18 / 2022
  Balancing New and Familiar Tech
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• 07 / 11 / 2022
  SSG vs SSR vs CSR
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• 06 / 25 / 2022
  My New Website! Details and Tech
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• 05 / 30 / 2022
  Symbolic Links
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• 05 / 28 / 2022
  How to Learn Web Development
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• 05 / 19 / 2022
  Parsing Markdown in Node
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• 05 / 13 / 2022
  Compute! Gazette
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• 05 / 13 / 2022
  Building a Full Stack MERN Events App
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• 12 / 13 / 2020
  Building a Message Board with User Authentication in Express
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• 12 / 13 / 2020
  Building a Full Stack Next.JS E-Commerce App
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