Steven Hicks

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What I learned as a Developer Experience (DX) Engineer

How Camunda Docs Handle Canonicals

How To De-index Your Docs From Google (And Then Fix It)

Matches, Spoons, And The Relationship Between DX and UX

Breaking Problems Down: A Case Study

Automating Pull Requests With Sed And The GitHub CLI

Select The Email For Git Commits Based On The Current Directory

Setting Up A New Dev Environment With Existing Dotfiles (via rcm)

Why I Write A "Year In Review"

On Conviction: Knowing When To Give Up On A Problem

Thoughts On Code Distance

What JavaScript Tests Could Learn From RSpec

Introducing "How Devs Work"

Avoiding Test-Case Permutation Blowout

Syntax Highlighting Diffs In Code

Automating social posts with GitHub actions and Zapier

One thing I wish I'd done as a new tech lead

Cross-Section Of A Redwood App

Setting A Default For A Redwood CheckboxField

PRs For Personal Projects

Rule 4: Warm Up To Get Into Flow State Sooner

Rule 3: Categorize Tasks By Depth, And Work Them At The Right Time

Rule 2: Slice Work Smaller

Rule 1: Dedicate Time. And Schedule It.

Maximizing Productivity During Small Blocks Of Time

Is discipline a muscle?

My nicest self-evaluation ever

Notes are just short articles

Lowering the bar for content creation

Tips For Working With Legacy Code, Courtesy Of My New Kitchen Faucet

Generating Social Sharing Images In Eleventy

Sandwiches, Froyo, and Delivering A Cohesive Message

I Am Slow And That's Okay

Saving Myself One Minute Per Day With Netlify Functions And A Custom Search Engine

Working With Variables In Cypress Tests

On Becoming A Tech Lead

Guidance For THE BIG REFACTOR

Building A Workshop

5 Tips For Writing A Conference Submission

10 Tips For Writing Conference Talks

On Overcoming Rejection

Chekhov's Gun And Better Unit Tests

I'm going to be busy

Mocking ES2015 modules

SSIS Is Annoying

Getting Started With TDD

My TDD Sales Pitch

Back-ends? Where we're going, we don't need...back-ends.....

Maybe I was wrong about React

Ember looks neat

Static Site Generators Are The New WordPress