Dillion Megida is an Internal Developer Advocate at Adyen, creating practical web development courses and tools while focusing on developer experience, automation, CI/CD, and documentation workflows.
104 articles from this blog
A simplified guide explaining common HTTP status codes like 200, 404, and 500, their meanings, and use cases for web developers.
A developer reflects on two years of writing technical articles, sharing lessons learned about consistency, teaching, and personal growth.
A technical guide on using the ImageKit SDK to upload and optimize images in Node.js applications, including frontend integration.
A tutorial on using JavaScript's onerror event to display a default image when an image fails to load on a webpage.
A guide on using Git's prune option and branch delete command to clean up outdated local branches after remote deletion.
A developer shares their experience and step-by-step process for converting a Gatsby.js blog from JavaScript to TypeScript, including setup and common issues.
A tutorial on creating a custom Gatsby source plugin to fetch and integrate data from the Hashnode API into a Gatsby site's GraphQL layer.
A developer reflects on 2020, highlighting career growth in technical writing, launching a blog, and landing a software engineering job.
Explains the security risks of target='_blank' links and how the 'noopener' and 'noreferrer' attributes protect against them.
Explains the differences between JavaScript string methods substr and slice, including syntax and examples.
Explains how DocumentFragment improves DOM manipulation performance by reducing reflows, with code examples.
Explains the Render Props pattern in React for sharing code and functionality between components, including its purpose and implementation.
Explains the difference between the Rest and Spread operators in JavaScript ES6, covering syntax and practical use cases.
A developer shares their first week learning Angular, comparing it to React and building a simple todo app to grasp core concepts.
Explains the differences and purposes of package.json and package-lock.json files in Node.js projects, focusing on dependency management.
Explains JavaScript's prototype-based inheritance and how the prototype chain works for object property and method lookup.
Explains how functions in JavaScript are first-class objects, detailing their properties, constructors, and object-like behavior with examples.
Explains how many common JavaScript features like timers, fetch, and DOM manipulation are actually Browser APIs, not part of the core language.
Explains static site generators (SSGs), their benefits for speed and security, and contrasts them with dynamic websites.
Explains how to use the CSS column-count property to create responsive multi-column layouts, with practical examples.
