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 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.
A software developer uses a personal story about walking in high heels to illustrate the importance of seeing the 'big picture' when implementing features.
A developer discusses overcoming the fear of writing about 'obvious' tech topics, arguing that sharing knowledge benefits everyone.
A developer documents a live coding session where a Preact class component was converted to a function component using React hooks like useState and useReducer.
A developer invites others to join live coding pairing sessions on Twitch, focusing on frontend issues for the DEV platform.
A technical changelog detailing the frontend upgrades at DEV, including migration to Preact X and adoption of Testing Library with a11y testing.
