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Turning a Blog Into a Book

Writing, Editing and Formatting a Technical Ebook in 2021

A Simpler Way to Azure

Deploying Node and Mongo to Azure Using AZX

Yet Another Fork In The Road

Writing A Book: The Imposter''s Handbook

Writing A Book Is Frustratingly Addictive

Kicking The Tires On This Serverless Thing

Should I Trust Firebase? Of Course Not!

Using Recursion In Elixir To Break Your OO Brain

Recursion, Not Recursion

How To Learn a New Programming Language While Maintaining Your Day Job

Thinking About Function Signatures in Elixir

Learn Elixir The Fun Way

JSONB and PostgreSQL: Work Faster By Ditching Migrations

Red4 Store Part 5: Fun With Phoenix, OTP, and Agents

PostgreSQL Document API Part 2: Full Text Search and Bulk Save

PostgreSQL Document API Part 3: Finding Things

PostgreSQL Document API Part 4: Complex Queries

Hello Elixir. Wow.

Using Elixir's Pattern Matching And Case Statement To Handle Errors

Inserting And Using A New Record In Postgres

It's Time To Get Over That Stored Procedure Aversion You Have

Embracing SQL In Postgres

Document Storage Gymnastics with Postgres

Bringing The Power of Postgres to NodeJS

Membership In a Box with PG-Auth

Designing a PostgreSQL Document API

Being a Nomad for a Year

Pulling Documents From a Relational Query in Postgres

Using Custom Types in Postgres

Staying Hungry, Staying Foolish

Using Entity Framework 6 with PostgreSQL

Repositories On Top UnitOfWork Are Not a Good Idea

A Simple Approach to BDD

Writing a Better Abstract

Your Own Private Heroku with DigitalOcean and Dokku

A Better ID Generator For PostgreSQL

The Subtle Arts of Logging and Testing

Test-driven Development In Action

Meet Playwright

\U0001F916 Does Functional Programming Matter To You?

\U0001F47B Hacking Ghost for Fun and Profit

Surviving the Structured Interview

Explain It Like I'm 5 - Why Are Hashes Irreversible?

\U0001F916 A Real World Approach to Playwright

What Is Your Yeet Threshold?

What Should Be a Plugin vs a Composable vs a Store in Vue?

Trying Something Different: A Real World Tutorial for Frontend Programming

Incoming: Nuxt Walkthrough Preview

Everyone Has a Plan, Until They Get Hit in the Face

How Elixir's Concurrency Changed Me as a Programmer

Seven Simple Steps to Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

Using Constraints to Protect Calendar Data in PostgreSQL

Weird Brazil Date Bug with Jon Skeet

The First Draft of Anything Is Shit

The Importance of Knowing Your Numbers

Data Structures and Algorithms

Handling Dates and Times Properly in Postgres

Striking Gold in My Archives

Fun Geeky Things To Do For the Holidays

The Easiest Postgres Experience You've Ever Seen

Five Things I Learned Building Bigmachine.io Using Nuxt and Firebase

Developing A Potent Voice

Fast and Simple Web Apps with Nitro

Hello PostgreSQL

Get Involved!

People Who Create Tutorials Need to Try Harder

Why Blogs Make Outstanding Books

Losing Yourself

Just Paddle

Creating a Full Text Search Engine in PostgreSQL, 2022

The Fabulous Linked List

What's the Difference Between Vue 2.0 and Vue 3.0?

What's Your Exit Plan?

Importing a CSV Into PostgreSQL Like a Pro

Big O Notation

What’s the Best Hashing Algorithm for Storing Passwords?

Postgres For Those Who Can''t Even, Part 3 - In The Real World

Postgres For Those Who Can’t Even, Part 2 - Working with Node and JSON

PostgreSQL For Those Who Can’t Even, Part 1

Fine Tuning Full Text Search with PostgreSQL 12

Virtual, Computed Columns in PostgreSQL 12

Audiobook Review: Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson

WTF is Big O Notation?

PostgreSQL Tools for the Visually Inclined

Random Travel Hacks

Imposter''s Handbook, Season 2 is Released

Mod and Remainder are not the Same

Transactional Data Operations in PostgreSQL Using Common Table Expressions

Simple Monthly Reports in PostgreSQL Using generate_series

Setting Up a Fast, Comprehensive Search Routine With PostgreSQL

Working Smarter, Not Harder, Part 1

A Pure PostgreSQL Document Database API

The Logical Disaster of Null

Calling Your Own Shots

Interview On .NET Rocks About A Curious Moon

The Modern Dev Team

My New Book About PostgreSQL, Data and Saturn: A Curious Moon

My Writing Process (This Week)

The Imposter''s Handbook, Print Edition Now Available

Dumb CS Problems And Your Next Job

Hooking A Web Page To Firebase With VueJS

Wiring Serverless Routines With Firebase

Thinking In Events With Firebase

Are You Really Doing BDD?

JavaScript Frameworks Are Amazing and Nobody Is Happy

Knowing More Programming Languages Will Make You Smarter

EmberJS Confuses Me

Screencasting Like a Pro: The Demos

Lost at Sea

Screencasting Like a Pro: The Script

Screencasting Like a Pro : Beginning, Middle, and End

Avoiding Messy Situations With KnockoutJS and JavaScript

PostgreSQL Rising

Try It Quiet

Leaving Your Mark

Cleaning Up Deep Callback Nesting With Node's EventEmitter

Something Borrowed, Something New

Someone Save Us From REST

NodeJS Callback Conventions and Your App

How To Backup Your Postgres DB To Amazon Nightly

Massive: 400 Lines of Data Access Happiness

A Dynamic Data Utility for WebMatrix

Marla Singer Didn't Exist

Open ID Is A Nightmare

Creating IN Queries With Linq To Sql