Nick Taylor (nickytonline) is a Microsoft MVP, GitHub Star, and Developer Advocate with over 20 years in tech and a decade of open-source contributions. He shares practical insights through blogging, live streaming, and community-driven developer education.
166 articles from this blog
A review and guide for the Raycast Port Manager extension, a tool for web developers to manage and kill processes on local network ports.
Developer shares their new role as a Developer Advocate at Pomerium, a Zero Trust access control platform, and discusses the company's open-source approach.
A guide to building a GitHub Copilot extension powered by Ollama for local AI code assistance, using CodeLlama and Hono.js.
A technical guide on building a custom extension for GitHub Copilot using Hono.js and the preview SDK.
An interview discussing GenAIScript, a project for creating AI-powered, automatable build scripts using a JavaScript runtime designed for generative AI tasks.
Introducing the OpenSauced Pizza GitHub Action, a tool to automate repository management tasks like updating CODEOWNERS within GitHub workflows.
Learn how to use a GitHub Action to automatically update your GitHub profile with an OpenSauced Dev Card showcasing your open source contributions.
Explains multitenant database schemas and demonstrates how to set them up using Turso's database-per-tenant architecture.
Explores the React useRef hook, detailing its use for DOM elements and non-DOM values like API streams, with practical examples.
An introduction to Valibot, a new modular data validation library for JavaScript, exploring its origins and core concepts.
A discussion on the current state and cost of .NET development tooling in 2024, focusing on free options like Visual Studio Community Edition.
A developer shares their essential toolkit for productivity, including VS Code setup, browser extensions, and desktop apps.
A technical guide on generating dynamic Open Graph (OG) images using React, the Satori library, and Netlify Edge Functions.
A web developer recounts a bug where moving a submit button outside its HTML form broke functionality, and how they fixed it using the form attribute.
An introduction to middleware in web frameworks, covering its purpose, common use cases like authentication, and practical examples from JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystems.
A developer defends Tailwind CSS against common criticisms, arguing it's not inline CSS and demonstrating its utility with code comparisons.
A personal review of the Logitech Litra Glow LED streaming light, covering its hardware, software, and value for budget-conscious streamers.
Explains the HTML <dialog> element, its native focus trapping, modal/non-modal usage, and the ::backdrop pseudo-element.
A software engineer's 2023 review, covering work on Netlify's frameworks team, layoffs, burnout, and a new role at OpenSauced.
A guide to migrating a React application's testing suite from Jest to Vitest, covering setup, configuration, and benefits.
