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.
161 articles from this blog
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.
Explains HTML data attributes and the dataset property for managing state in web development, with practical examples.
A technical article explaining how to use TypeScript's type inference to reduce explicit type annotations and improve code maintainability.
A guide to installing and using the GitHub CLI to boost productivity for project maintainers and contributors, covering login and key commands.
How to enforce accessibility props in a TypeScript React ToggleSwitch component, requiring either ariaLabel or ariaLabelledBy.
How maintainers can use GitHub Actions to automate issue management, contributor workflows, and other repository tasks.
