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 beginner-friendly guide to common pitfalls and best practices when writing regular expressions, with examples in JavaScript.
Developer announces a new newsletter focused on web development, programming, and tech industry news, with occasional fun content.
A recap of a live pair programming session on DEV Community, focusing on fixing a Liquid tag issue in the Forem codebase.
A developer announces their new weekly Twitch stream dedicated to JavaScript, covering katas, Q&A, and community interaction.
A recap of a live pair programming stream building a Twitch overlay with DEV mascot Sloan and ComfyJS for chat interaction.
A recap of a live coding stream discussing Jamstack, serverless functions, and using Netlify with the DEV API.
A live coding session discussing Cypress for E2E testing, covering its components, test anatomy, and custom commands.
A developer begins a series on learning the Rust programming language, sharing a Microsoft resource and inviting others to join a live stream.
A developer shares his Twitch live coding setup, covering layout creation, video/screen sharing tools, and closed captioning for viewers.
A live coding session where developers debugged an image upload spinner issue in the Forem editor using browser tools.
A developer shares insights from a talk on Storybook, a tool for building and documenting UI components in isolation, including live coding examples.
A live coding session on debugging browser tools and XSS mitigation while fixing an issue to render HTML tags as text.
A live coding session where developers tackled a CSS Flexbox gap compatibility issue in Safari by implementing CSS Grid solutions.
A recap of a live pair programming stream focused on debugging and fixing accessibility issues in a Forem/DEV onboarding process.
A technical guide on testing Preact/React Portals using Testing Library, based on real-world implementation challenges in a Rails app.
A recap of a live coding stream where developers paired with a community member to work on a Twitch liquid tag and podcast validation for the Forem platform.
Recap of a live pair programming stream on DEV Community, focusing on improving the Twitch liquid tag for the Forem platform.
DEV Community members pair program to tackle an accessibility issue in the Forem codebase, live-streaming their progress.
A guide to automating code quality with Git pre-commit hooks using Husky, lint-staged, Prettier, and Stylelint for frontend projects.
A live coding session pairing with a new developer to work on a Ruby on Rails issue, covering fundamentals like Active Record and MVC.
