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
A developer shares their excitement about joining the open source platform OpenSauced and contributing from day one.
Explains how to use GitHub's CODEOWNERS file to automate reviewer assignments and enforce branch protection rules for repository maintenance.
A step-by-step guide on setting up Firefox and using its developer tools to debug a browser extension you are building.
Announcing a live stream with a typescript-eslint maintainer to build custom ESLint rules and answer questions about ESLint for JavaScript/TypeScript.
Expert advice for developers to enhance their portfolio websites with automation, testing, accessibility, and custom domains.
A developer shares their favorite online tech communities for connection, learning, and contributing, including Virtual Coffee, OpenSauced, and dev.to.
A developer shares their experience moving from Twitter to Mastodon, discusses the tech community exodus, and provides helpful resources for newcomers.
Developer creates an open-source web app to help users easily export their Revue newsletter issues using the Revue API before the service shuts down.
Twitter is phasing out its Revue newsletter platform, prompting users to migrate their subscribers to alternative services.
A guide to automating pull request creation and auto-merging for content updates using GitHub Actions and the GitHub CLI.
An interview about The Collab Lab, a program providing real-world team collaboration experience for early-career and underrepresented web developers.
An interview about Mitosis, a tool for building UI components that work across multiple web frameworks like React, Vue, and Svelte.
A developer discusses starting a tech podcast by repurposing content from Twitch streams and blogs to maximize reach and efficiency.
A conversation about transitioning to full-time open source work, the challenges of funding, and the personal motivations behind it.
A guide and community resource for preparing for Hacktoberfest 2022, covering open source contributions and tips for newcomers and maintainers.
A developer shares their experience setting up live reloading in Rust using the cargo-watch crate for automatic recompilation and execution.
A discussion on overcoming the challenges of starting in open source, featuring insights from Brian Douglas and an introduction to the Open Sauced platform.
An interview transcript explaining Deno, a modern JavaScript/TypeScript runtime created by Node.js founder Ryan Dahl to address Node's shortcomings.
A curated list of free and paid resources for learning TypeScript, including books, courses, tools, and blogs for beginners and advanced developers.
Developer creates a browser extension, a11y-twitter, to prompt users to add alt text to images before tweeting, improving accessibility.
